Chessgirl wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:46 pm
Hope it’s ok to kind of tune into the convo here.
Greetings and salutations, dear Chessgirl!
Nice to hear from you! I loved your post! What a breath of fresh air for me! Thanks for adding your comments.
Chessgirl wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:46 pm
I also used to be on that keto diet you talked about. I called it the paleo diet or cave man diet. Organic meat and veggies.
Another keto/paleo/caveman aficionado, albeit not quite as strict as I am, but few are. I'm fighting for my life, though, and that keeps me honest. I don't do paleo due to no dairy (I ♥ my dairy!!) and the paleo choices of high carb alternatives to sugar (honey, agave, and so on). I also don't do caveman/carnivore due to the fact that any protein eaten is metabolized internally into 45% glucose (sugar) and the carnivore folks eat
mostly proteins while I eat it "moderately". Mostly meat/protein is not my deal at all. My "diet" is eaten to keep my
insulin levels as low as possible by eating
extremely high fat (and only enough to make me "full", NOT stuffed!), not how many calories I ingest.
Over the years I have had to learn what my hunger means and how to recognize it. MD started my decline into weight gain and eventually morbid obesity when I was born "the wrong" gender.
I was shamed and beaten all my life over NOTHING. Bottles of formula were withheld even if I cried for them
if it wasn't done at the scheduled time. I believe that that would have/could have been somewhat CONFUSING to an infant. Then my bottle was PROPPED up and I was never held while being fed so I wouldn't become "spoiled", whatever THAT means. Then she constantly told me how UGLY I was (SO not true!!) and beat me and isolated me and played cruel mind trips on me from then until I married to escape her brutality.
It took a book,
Overcoming Overeating: How to Break the Diet/Binge Cycle and Live a Healthier, More Satisfying Life by Jane Hirschmann, et al (on Amazon), recommended by a visiting social worker in 1977, plus years of work on it to achieve an understanding of what "
Are you hungry?" really meant. In the back of the book was a questionnaire that asked me that specific question...and I had no clue. Then I read another book, "
Love Hunger" (not nearly as racy as it sounds
) by Frank Minirth, Paul Meier, et al. (Amazon), that described
Mouth Hunger vs
Stomach Hunger. And one of these two books set out a way of judging the intensity of hunger on a scale of 1 (INTENSE hunger!!!) to 10 (STUFFED, couldn't even
think of eating another bite!!!), with 5 being perfectly full and satisfied and comfortable. I strive for a level of 5 nowadays, even after a long fast. And I try to never allow myself to get down to a 1 either. I quit fasting if I get down to a 3-4 and I'm experiencing real hunger, which I now recognize, but with the high fat in my diet isn't until hour 20-24 of my fast, so it works out for me.
Chessgirl wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:46 pm
I was on the diet not for weight loss but to treat a fungal disease I have called candida.
Yes, it really does work for so many things! I no longer have Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, no more Athlete's Foot, my gout has decreased to close to being gone, and my arthritis
is gone. Eating no sugar helps anyone with cancer by not "feeding" it since cancer flourishes in a high sugar environment. Sugar is the true enemy. It causes cataracts and worse! But without sugar in my diet even my eyesight is holding steady and not worsening. I watch TV with no glasses anymore since my cataract surgery on my one eye. This WOE is amazing to be sure!
Chessgirl wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:46 pm
I keep saying I’m going to get baxk to tht diet again one day. It was so clean and healthy and yummy.
It is yummy, that's for sure!! I just feel better when I'm on it...with fasting. My DS went to a fast food place and got some food to take to work with him, and just for the heck of it, got a regular soft drink, not even a giant one. He said he'd no sooner drunk it when he got severe stomach pains which lasted about a day. He is "fat adapted" and not used to that much HFCS (sugar!), and he told me, "I'll
never do that again!" I'll bet!
Chessgirl wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:46 pm
Took work though. I literally had to cook everything, no frozen crap to throw in the microwave.
It really is a lifestyle change. I've had to
learn how to cook that way, but there is little to nothing that I can't adapt to keto now. I make my own mayonnaise (TOTALLY YUMMY!! and
without SOYBEAN oil!
) and with some spices/herbs/you name it added to it, I can make
any salad dressing, hamburger topping, etc. I bake my own Keto bread (with a bread machine) for sandwiches and toast, especially Grilled Cheese sandwiches, one of our favorites. That's a pretty quick one, and I have it with Sugar Free Bread and Butter pickles: SO GOOD!! I completely gutted my old kitchen with the cake mixes and Rice-A-Roni, etc. But I have found that baking a cake from scratch is EASY. And I use either almond or coconut flours, sometimes hazelnut flour in my baking. Spiced/"sugared" nuts are a real treat, and I can make muffins, waffles, Chaffles (waffles made with cheese, WAY better than it sounds!!), biscuits, cookies, pies (especially cream pies), CHEESECAKE! Even savory things like fabulous soups, coleslaw, "breaded" chicken wings, "crack slaw" (sauteed cabbage with hamburger - so good it's addictive!), heroin wings (same "addictive" thing with chicken wings), and there's even some REALLY GOOD Sugar Free BBQ sauce and Teriyaki sauce to top meats with. Netrition dot com And lots of these things can be FROZEN for use later. And all of this is online. How to make it. How to do it. I think up something that I'd like to eat, Google it (like "keto biscuits" or whatever [or even Chaffles!]
), and make it - putting one in my mouth and 11 in my freezer for soup or stews made later. Heck, I even have those soups in the freezer in individual frozen 1 cup blocks of soup (Broccoli-Cheese, Cream of Asparagus, Southwestern Chicken, etc.) that I throw into the microwave in a bowl to melt and reconstitute with some butter and extra heavy whipping cream, but it's not "crap". It's wonderful! And it's nearly instant!
But the best, although horribly expensive, is our Rebel ice cream...to die for!!!! My guilty pleasure.
It's still keto, and WAY low in carbs. It's the best we've ever found. It's really good. rebelcreamery dot com They ship it to us in big packages filled with a dry ice slab. It's always rock solid in little pints and then into our freezer it goes. Most of the flavors (and there are a lot of them) have these chocolate chunks in them. OMG, so good!!!
Granted, it is a lifestyle change, but it really can be done. Once I got more organized in my kitchen, it became much easier to do. If a recipe says some "normally odd" ingredient, it's probably in my kitchen!
Erythritol or stevia or monk fruit instead of sugar is my new normal.
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Let's see if this works. It has a good rating:
Low Carb Baked Chicken Tenders
4.1 stars from 186 votes
These baked chicken tenders are coated in a deliciously savory crust, yet have zero breading, which makes for an awesomely low carb meal!
• 2 lbs. chicken tenders
• 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 2 tablespoons parsley minced
• 1 tablespoon dried oregano
• 1 tablespoon paprika
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• Pinch of cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 cup butter
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Combine all dry ingredients in a mixing bowl and set aside.
3. Line rimmed baking sheet with foil.
4. Melt butter in a shallow dish.
5. Dip each chicken tender in butter then roll in seasoning mixture and place on prepared baking sheet.
6. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.
If you're having trouble getting your chicken tenders to crisp up, try placing a cooling rack over the top of the prepared baking sheet and placing the chicken tenders on top of the rack. You can also broil the chicken tenders for a few minutes after they're done baking.
Variations:
• Add ¼-½ c. Keto “Panko” crumbs and/or Hidden Valley seasoning to seasoning mixture.
• Deep fry or air fry.
Servings: 4 NET CARBS: 2 per serving (½ lb.)
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Wow! It does!! This is one of my actual cookbook pages! I added the variations and there is a picture at the top of my page, but other than that, this is it. I was looking around at "heroin wings" and such on google, saw this, and made one of my pages (for my Meat Cookbook) out of it. Credit is given to the author and website. There are no tricky ingredients. If you want it, it's yours. If you want the Panko crumbs recipe, I've got that, too. It's really just pork rinds and seasonings ground up in my food processor, but it's great as a breading or a binder in meat loaf. I make a big batch of it and store it in a ½ gallon Mason jar in my fridge. Most seasonings are ZERO carbs, but do check first.
I just got back in from the yard. SO NICE out there! Feels like Spring.
I walked out my peppers into the sunlight, and then I walked over to check on my often-neglected pear trees (planted together in a plastic ½ barrel
for shame!). One is blooming and the other is still alive with leaves emerging from tiny buds. I'm just glad they are still alive! Then I walked over to my
FOUR tall strawberry planters that were COVERED in weeds with little strawberry leaves and blossoms peeking out here and there. What a mess! I tugged (HARD!) on one weed...!! And finally out it came, roots and all! So I pulled on the next one...and the next...and the next until it was all done but one last weed that I'm going to need my actual weed puller/digger on. But otherwise it's all done. I am most pleased with myself.
Now I need to clean out ONE box of papers and do one load of "donation" laundry. I could also sort out a box or two of kitchen "donation" stuff. Funny, as I tidy up the house, DS is following suit in his own room. Amazing! And when I told him that I needed him out there in the yard with the new chain saw (currently in the front room in its box), he didn't sort of complain about it; he just said, "Sure!"
I really liked that! Neither of us has ever used a chain saw, but I really need it to prune certain trees. So we'll both go to some YouTube videos to find out how to use one. Tonight I also need to find the video on planting peppers and how to transplant them into larger containers. I'll bet I'll sleep well tonight!
I also opened up the FOUR Chewy boxes FULL of happy puppy toys/training treats/crate + accessories/bones and other teething treats - OMG! What fun! I'm hoping that if DS can SEE all of that set out in the front room then he'll set up the crate for me. I have but 2 weeks to get this place together for the pups arrival. I have much to prepare for them. I wish you could see them! They're black and tan with white paws, and they're full of prunes! If those two don't lighten my spirit, I don't know what will. Little rascals, the two of them! The breeder has sent me videos of them. All I can say is,"Awwwww!!" I fully plan to spoil them rotten!!!
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On for today: Clearing and weedeating an area out there in the garden, spreading a bale or so of straw on the ground (for weed control), and moving pots and refurbishing/refreshing the soil in them for planting. Right now I'm on hold with gardeners dot com because I'm having trouble making my order for those cloches so I can cover my precious seedlings that I've been carefully raising inside since Dec. from seed. To lose them at this late date and after all the hard work I've put in would break my heart. Something out there is destroying all my pepper seedlings...
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WOWEE! I need to get my butt in gear!!! I haven't mentioned this, but my Social Security has been in limbo for the past several months. I didn't do anything wrong, but my former company did. They "forgot" to file paperwork with SSA when the company was set up WAY back in the 1970s. They took money out of all of our checks over the years even though no one voted for that to happen. It was SO DUMB, but they were asking all of us to vote on it now. They seemed to take pleasure in frightening us half to death by sending
REPEATED letters to all of us by saying that our SS checks may or may not continue if the vote to hook up with SSA was unsuccessful!!
But today I got a letter saying that "the (Union) groups overwhelmingly approved the...Agreement referendum. Your Social Security benefits will continue; there is NO interruption!" They also said that it'll take up to a year to "validate and certify" that which our Union has now voted on. Figures.
But as long as they haven't screwed up my income, so be it.
Add up all this PLUS poor little Dot dying PLUS living through a pandemic PLUS watching all the "cheery" TV news...and so on and so on, I've made a decision. I need to watch MUCH less news/movies/etc. and get into what's going on RIGHT NOW in my home!!! Everything here is so cheerful and loaded with promise! SPRING IS HERE! How can I be down and depressed? I wish I could
show you Boots and Mittens, my matched set of tiny, playful Rat Terrier pups. Breeder CD sends me little clips of videos with them bounding around and being almost painfully cute. Boots is the more aggressive, but I like that a LOT! As DS puts it, "THERE'S our hunter!"
But they are a matched set, like a little train of tuxedoed Ratties, and Mittens is the caboose, so I hope that she'll follow me around the yard as I work on my veggies and the garden. I miss Dot so much!!
You should see all the toys I've bought them already! I'm trying a few out on poor ol' Spot, like the "slow-eat" bowl where they'll have to sort of dig around a bunch of protruding plastic pieces to get at the kibble. Spot loves it! It gives her something to do!! I got the pups the same kibble as they're used to, too, and it's already here. I'm trying Spot out on that food next. She's been staying in my room with me. I swear that dog is in mourning...still! But with her advanced age and her periodically unsteady gait, she gets excited, even giddy, and oftentimes just runs like she used to, play stance and all! She's eating again (she LOVES that crazy new bowl that makes her work for her kibble/treats). So Spot may be here for a while longer! I hope that those pups aren't too much for her. In people years, she'd be 110 yrs. old! We'll see how that goes. This is so much healthier to dwell on than mass shootings and border and political crises.
I'm also selecting a number of plants online. Some are really weird, but I like weird a LOT. Check out the Desert Rose (Adenium obesum). Very weird, tubular flowers, loved by the hummers, gnarly root system - right up my alley. It IS poisonous, but
LOVES the 100ºF heat we get here in the summertime, the hotter the better, so I'll keep it UP UP UP and away from my curious pups, but right up near that back fence for the hummers. The killer hot heat even makes it bloom
more. I'll have to baby it a bit in the wintertime, but no worries. I'll initially plant it in a very small pot (which is necessary for this plant) and when winter comes, I'll put it on the top shelf of my grow lights where I can "ignore" it. It can't take too much intensive care-taking, so it should do great there. I'm also getting some Blue Tomatoes! Two different kinds, just to play around with. And tomorrow I'm planting my bush beans because it's supposed to be in the 70s for the foreseeable future. YAY!! And I got a new apple tree to pollinate my Fuji.
Oh! And I ordered my cloches, too. They should be here soon, so I can FINALLY plant my peppers without fear of losing them. They emailed me that they've been shipped already. I've also got my eye on some raised beds from Australia. They're made by a company called Birdie's and are made of stainless steel with a zinc coating. GORGEOUS! But although they're just now being offered here in the US, they are very expensive and I will have to wait...for a while. I want the TALL ones so I don't have to stoop and bend over to reach my raised beds. The cheap cedar ones I have now are falling apart. I just finished paying off my freeze dryer, so I need to wait for a bit, but these beauties are on my list! I want the 8-in-1 TALL. I can make it into any shape and size that I want.
AND THEY WILL LAST! It's time for bed now. SO tired, and it's only 6pm. Lots to do tomorrow!!
Honeybera