Good Morning Beth,
Yes, the rain is attempting to wash us away. I started my ark already.
I have been LCing since September. I to have regained and need to relose and that is a lot of work. I believe with this WOE we can it this time and maintain a healthy WOL. I also have a gym membership at 24hr Fitness. I keep paying the monthly dues even if I don't go because I know one day I will be in there 5 days a week. I can understand not wanting to leave your grandbaby. you will know the right time.
Do you have any tapes at home that you could do? Maybe while he is napping.
Thanks for the tip about See's but I don't know if there is anything is this world that can really replace it
I too have tried the Atkins bars and others. Some of them are pretty good. I did run them through the hidden card counter and found most of them have hidden carbs, also there has been a ton of threads about them and the false labeling. I eat carbolite chocolate bars. The label says it has a couple carbs but the hidden carb counter says between 9 and 10 so when I eat it I just count them in.I found that if we want it and know the carb count we can fir it into our WOE. The carbolite Chocolate bars are 1.69 at Trader Joe's for the large one and 1.29 at Walgreen's for the small one.
My favorite meal? I don't know if I have one. I am not trying to be funny but I don't really know how to explain it. I eat bacon or sausage or side pork before I go to work. Maybe an egg too. At work I drink decaf coffee with cream.
At lunch sometimes I order pizza and eat the top off and throw the crust away, order Togo's hot pastrami sandwich and eat the inside and throw the bread away. At McDonald's I order double cheeseburger's without ketchup and the cheese between the meat so it doesn't stick to the bread and then throw the bun away. Sometimes I just go to the deli and get some meat and cheese and eat it.
At dinner I eat a steak and green beans. Sometimes I cook other meat, pork is good in the slow cooker. I also work in a restaurant a couple nights a week so I take a bowl and put in lettuce, green beans, a piece or roast and blue cheese dressing and that's my dinner.
Sometimes I make sugar free jello and eat it with reddi whip. I know that has sugar but it doesn't make me crave anything and I just count the carbs in for the day. I made the low carb cheesecake, low carb chocolate balls and pumpkin pie. I didn't care for any of them. My kids wouldn't eat them either and teenage boys usually don't care.
I notice that since I have been eating like this I am not hungry and I don't really need a lot of variety so I just stick to the same old things. I also know if you are cooking for children it is harder because they do like variety. My daughter is 14 so if she doesn't like what I am having, she makes something else or ask me to pick something up at the store on my way home. She likes meat so that is never really a problem.
You asked a question and I wrote a book
Have a good day and stay warm.
Kathie36