I rather liked cottage cheese mixed with tuna.

Okay, I'm not liking this free meal business much. Maybe I just need to keep the freebie lower carb. I had a slice of whole wheat pizza, LC beer and a buddy bought us a couple of shots. By the time I got home, my feet were swollen around my sandals. I think that has to do with walking around in stiffling heat in not-too-supportive sandals, too, but I don't really need extra water retention from junk food. Hmph.

And I seem to have the opposite problem of you ladies: I ate a big meal, and felt like I could keep on packing food away. Not good.

Weight is steady at 141. I'm going to cautiously keep chugging along. I feel really good.

My experience is PSMF is very diuretic. I've had this exact same reaction whenever I eat carbs, I can feel my feet swelling in my shoes. I walk in with my shoes practically flopping off my feet. I leave and they're snug. However, by the end of the next day, that swelling is gone. Its more of an annoyance than anything.



Well, there are those times when I have a free meal, don't over-consume and don't feel guilty and sick, and then I have times when I over do it and I feel a little guilty. He says to stay high protein, eat veggies and then have "other stuff" with your free meal. I could probably do a little better in that regard.

Go back and reread about the free meal. He warns you you will gain weight. Its water. You will see it go away in a day or so. My last refeed I gained 5 pounds. It corresponded with my TOM so that was no help. But the next day I had lost 3.5 pounds, the next day, 1 pound. And hopefully tomorrow morning the last .5 of my refeed will be off. Maybe if I'm very good, another .5 will go with it!

If you ate lots of carbs, like one does with a refeed, you will see a sizeable increase in weight. Its water and as your glycogen store gets used up, it goes away, and probably takes a bit of fat with it.



The jelly with tuna? I was curious if I might like tuna with CC.

I get those Da Vinci/Torani SF syrups and pour a bit on my CC. Sometimes I just put a few raspberries (frozen) on my CC and stir in a packet of splenda.

I can't believe it but I'm becoming fond of cottage cheese. Yes, even NF cottage cheese!

Kristine, I wouldn't call a slice of pizza and a beer a big meal! Alcohol makes me swell big time, at least for a few hours.

i didnt gain any weight, but i look bloaty and gross. i thought (since the scale didnt register a change) that i was just being paranoid but my clothes dont fit as well either.

and yes, my free meal consisted mainly of oatmeal cookies. i know thats not the best way to do it.

i am excited, though, that things seem to be moving along. two more pounds and i will actually be where my little ticker thing says i am. then its on to numbers i havent seen since high school...(fingers crossed)

You ever seen a balloon when it pops? Well, be careful with safety pins and sewing needles......

Good luck with the next few pounds.

LOL! Yes, I know the feeling of guilt. Can't say it is entirely undeserved... you didn't get your protein and veggies!

Don't worry, you should have seen my first refeed... oy.

Hey, I think I actually did get back down to my low-weight today. I just weighed before I... err... eliminated. I think it was my refeed since there just isn't a whole lot to eliminate the rest of the week.

I'm making a new rule for myself. I can only have ice cream once a week, on my mid-week free meal or refeed. That'll keep me from being too piggy. My Sunday free meal is usually breakfast with my parents.

Oh yes, I wanted to mention my new favorite snack. PICKLES! I love them. They're filling and basically free of everything, as long as you get the sugar-free varieties. Probably consumes calories just to digest the danged things.

I imagine regular (aka more tastey) cottage cheese would taste okay with tuna. That fat free cottage cheese I had was very bitter and mixed with bland tuna it really tasted nasty.

I think I am going to be "bad" tomorrow and have potato chips with my fried chicken... I love potato chips, they are really the only thing I've missed while low carb.

Debbie

Woot!

Well, yesterday was a "diet day" after my first day with a free meal. As I said above, I gained 1.5 lbs from the free meal. I was pretty good yesterday. I ate my normal breakfast, for lunch I just had half of the leftover steak (plain) and for dinner I had the other half with a big salad. Granted, I was a bit light on veggies yesterday and the steak was a ribeye so it wasn't lean meat... but this morning I weighed 198.5!! I haven't weighed that low since the first of May Tonight is another free meal so I will be up again tomorrow, but then we will see what the week brings. For those that are interested, here are my weights for the first week:



I am keeping track of what I'm eating in my Journal.

Debbie

Oh, I just wanted to ask those that read in the PSMF forum: Isn't that "optimumacid" kid weird? LoL

Debbie

Boy, I'll say! I take it you found his thread where he reveals his anxieties over using a public restroom. Those are great results! Woo Woo! I lost my 5 pounds from the refeed in time for my free meal today. I'm not too happy about my refeed performance. This coming week the refeed will be a free meal instead. We'll see how that goes.

Nice results!



What a nut job. Over here, we'd probably just ban him, but I find it oddly entertaining to watch people like that get blasted over there.

Some time this week, I'll probably be weaning myself off PSMF and move onto a very clean, Atkins KIS type thing. This is a good temporary butt-kicking, but I'm prone to the starve-vs-binge mentality so this isn't good for me for much longer than a week or two.

Congrats ladies, nice job!
As for me, I have lost another lb, so that's 5 lbs in 5 days.
Like you Kristine, I am switching back to the Atkins Induction (what is KIS by the way?), but I have learned one thing this week: I need to keep track of calories... I am relatively new to Atkins and I went overboard with the 'fat is good for you' thing! I did not even check the cals most of the time, just the carbs. But for this 57 yr young, hypothyroid, menopausal lady, this is just too good to be true. So I will increase cals to 1200 approx. and see how it goes. I won't do it all at once though; I plan to up them by 100 a day. Do you think it's a good idea?

I think those of us who are hypothyroidally challenged do better on a little higher carbs than Atkins induction and we'll definitely have to count calories. When my HypoT symptoms were their worst, I couldn't even lose on 1200 calories.

I'm going to stick for 9 weeks (I'm category 3, 6-12 weeks, I figured I'd split the difference and see where I am). After that I will re-evaluate and see what happens. At the end of the 9 weeks I'm supposed to go on a "diet break" and "eat normally" anyway. For me Atkins is normal. So I will probably do that for the 2 weeks and then decide.

I'm kinda overfull instead of stuffed to busting after this free meal We'll see how far up I go tomorrow. I did eat fried (breaded) chicken and a couple pieces of garlic bread so that is fairly high carbs. Oh yeah, and potato chips

Debbie