Thread: Lovely Losers 2021 - "Awesome in AUGUST"

Hello everyone,

I am also creeping upwards, not sure if it was from the cream cheese and keto crackers I ate...only 3 of them, or that bite I took out of a num brownie or the late night strawberries I ate... I had such a sweet tooth yesterday it wasn't even funny!! It was bad!! But a creep up no doubt!

Yesterday I had a breakfast sausage patty, two eggs and coffee with hwc. I had albacore tuna for lunch with celery, a small dill pickle and about 5 pickled jalepenos mixed in with dukes mayo, ate about 1/2 the can. for a snack I ate about 3 keto crackers with cream cheese, dinner I had orange roughy fried with and egg wash and dredged in almond flour/pork rind crumbs with green beans and mushrooms, about 9pm had about 5 strawberries and also some lillys chocolate and a bit of a num brownie. I can't remember if I had anything else. I don't typically write it down.

Mrsstrong, we do park & playground construction.

I am up 1.2#s this am, although haven't had a bm since Sunday, but I was pretty cleared out then. Who knows why the uptick. I am eating very little carbs, other then what is naturally found in veggies/fruit. So, now I am .7 above my LIW. I already have a terrible sweet tooth again today. Had an apple to try and calm it and really didn't help so I just had a keto fat bomb... probably not a great choice but man... anything you guys eat in P3 that calms a sweet tooth??

So far today I have had 1 cup of coffee with hwc, an apple, 1 sausage patty, 1 egg and a keto fat bomb! I really have to do better with more water tho.... I do great in P2, but not so much in P3. I am just eating when I am hungry and trying to make good choices but it is tough. P3 is so much harder then P2 for me.

I do feel like my hair falling out has maybe slowed a bit, still coming out but doesn't seem to be as bad as it was last week. "knock on wood". I also plan on doing a lot more exercising which I know can make the scale jump up a bit as well so I am a bit nervous to get started on that. :/ Or at least not when the scale keeps inching up in the wrong direction.

Karen, some sweets:
1. Roasted vegetables. No don’t frown at me. Roasting peppers onions green beans asparagus etc. at over 400° in the oven, or charring them in a skillet brings out the sugar in them. It doesn’t add sugar, it just makes them taste very sweet. Combined with a good protein with your meal, they are a way to have something sweet.
2. More on a treat or dessert side, outshine fruit Popsicles make no sugar added ones, much fruit juice in them but only 25 cal and 2 g I’ve sugar, very low-carb. They have a variety of sweeteners in them and those can be problematic for me as in an upset system, but one a day is plenty and it’s a real popsicle. I love to grab one as I go out the door on my way back to work after lunch & eat one while I drive. Carefully.
3. Now for something really extravagant. Costco has ice cream bars that have the name Keto like a brand name with a capital letter. First ingredient is cream, next ingredient chocolate. They are sweetened with Erythritol, Sucralose, monk fruit and stevia. 2 net carbs. 180 calories—not P2! That erythritol can cause severe … uh Quick Step. But I can have one w no problem. Not 2. Never 2!!

Oh, and they are probably best eaten naked in the middle of the backyard. Lol. Remember when you were a kid and the chocolate on an ice cream bar would just splinter off and hit your clothes everywhere leaving melted chocolate? Well these are very like the original kind. I have to put a dish towel over myself in order to save my clothes, no matter how careful I am!

Hope those help!



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Happy hump day!

For sweets on P3, I stick with a coco crack from the old days-warm up coconut oil, mix with a packet of truvia add vanilla & coco, pour in some kind of container (I use mini ice cube trays) and freeze. Also pretty amazing with almonds crunched up. Or I might buy a bar of the highest dark chocolate I can find and have one square a day (or 2 if its a bad day).
Sweets are quite the trigger for me so I try not to eat them cuz in certain moods I can abuse them! Also, the almond butter with celery that Dubbles likes its an excellent go to.
AFM-well today finally broke my stall with a half a pound so now am on day 10 with a solid 10 gone. Thank goodness. I guess I will be chipping away the next 20 days but thankfully no hunger so all good. Getting ready for a deluge of rain so makes for an extremely stressful ride home later.
Have a great day everyone & stay safe!

Thank you all for the sweet recommendations!! And veggies for sure can be sweet...but my sweet tooth was talking more like a snickers bar or something. I will never forget when I did this diet years ago having some iceburg lettuce and being able to taste the sweetness of it!! Crazy!! I have not been counting calories at all, I will look into that app, thanks gz! Last night I ended up eating about 8 very large blackberries and also had a handful of popcorn.

So today, not sure why but I was down .9#'s. I didn't eat cheese or nuts yesterday so perhaps those are the reason for the uptick, but who knows. I will add those again soon and see. I think the first few days of P3 are always so hard especially since for weeks you have barely anything in your system and then BAM.... a lot more is added. Today is P3 day 5 for me, I am hoping things start to level out soon. Fingers crossed.

Well, I need to get off the computer now and keep my pups quiet while my daughter has a zoom meeting to higher ups at the publishing company she is freelancing for... gotta go.

Have a good day everyone.

152.2 today ((LIW 152.4))

Good to hear your P2 I going well, RK!

Karen, I love Lily’s chocolate for something sweet, as well as Rebel Creamery keto ice cream. So maybe delicious flavors. My P2 smoothy also satisfies my need for something sweet and creamy so I am still making that. That said, like 2many writes: I stay away and when I have something sweet it is in very small amounts. I seem to have a threshold for what I an eat without waking the crab monster. When it wakes, it’s awful. Glad to hear the 1.2 is coming down! Btw, I can’t have mushrooms, and neither can Leez I believe (or maybe it was Coco). Weirdest thing but I figured that one out last P3! Can’t have coconut either.

Yay, on breaking the stall, 2many! Great losses! I hope you stay dry!

See you all in the Sept thread!

Originally Posted by mrsstrong

Good to hear your P2 I going well, RK!

Karen, I love Lily’s chocolate for something sweet, as well as Rebel Creamery keto ice cream. So maybe delicious flavors. My P2 smoothy also satisfies my need for something sweet and creamy so I am still making that. That said, like 2many writes: I stay away and when I have something sweet it is in very small amounts. I seem to have a threshold for what I an eat without waking the crab monster. When it wakes, it’s awful. Glad to hear the 1.2 is coming down! Btw, I can’t have mushrooms, and neither can Leez I believe (or maybe it was Coco). Weirdest thing but I figured that one out last P3! Can’t have coconut either.

Yay, on breaking the sell, 2many! Great losses! I hope you stay dry!

See you all in the Sept thread!

Interesting about the mushrooms! Hmmmm... I did eat a small amount yesterday that was leftover but it was pretty early in the day and not too many. Maybe that could be an issue. I know I can't eat cabbage in P2 so I always avoid it in P3 as well. And I love the Lillys chocolate. I do have a small piece every now and then. I'll have to try the trader joe's one, except our trader joes is in a terrible parking lot here which is a pain in the *** to get in and out of so I don't go there too often. But when I do, I'll get some of that chocolate gz talks about.