Kathy's Sommersize Journal

[spikesmom]

Sommersizing (SS) is not for people who do not like to cook, to be totally "legal" you need to make most everything from scratch- salad dressing, ketchup, bbq sauce, dips, etc. And remember- NO SUGAR. But I like to cook and this WOE does work for me. I started out at 172 last week and now am down to 167.5 today. I drink ALOT of water and eat most of my carbos from veggies.
Yesterday: B : pro/fats sugar free hotdog with american cheese and mustard ( I know, but that is all we had and I did want to stay legal) Lro/fats:Homemade Egg salad with celery sticks. D (pro/fats): Out to eat at "Fire and Ice" grilled chicken and veggies plus grilled shrimp and scallops with soy sauce.
Today's plans(Thanksgiving) B pro/fats:scrambled eggs w/ chives and cheese, L/Dpro/fats:Turkey, SS stuffing (mostly mushrooms w/ seasonings) SS gravy, Green bean casserole( w/legal fried onions), creamed onions, mashed turnip, mashed faux potatoes, faux pumkin pie w/ real whipped cream (made with sugar sub), celery w/ cream cheese, raw veggies w/legal homemade dip, deviled eggs. I hope I can avoid the rolls!

 

[spikesmom]

Well...
After tasting a little potato and some real stuffing, whoops!(not legal), I did not eat anything until Thanksgiving Lunch/dinner. I had roasted turkey (from our farm),deviled eggs,veggies and dip, mashed faux potato(cauliflower), faux stuffing(minced mushroomsw/turkey sausage), mashed turnip and reduced turkey drippings as gravy. For dessert I had faux pumpikn pie(a custard with spagetti squash and pumpkin pie spices) and homemade whipped cream sweetened with Splenda. All in all, pretty good except a lot of extra work making this as well as the family dinner, I'm alittle tired. Kept up with my water as well.
Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[spikesmom]

OK!
Yesterday I had my leftovers from Thanksgiving, B: deviled eggs
L: Veggies with dip, tukey and mayo, faux pumpkin pie and whipped cream, D: Veggies and dip, deviled eggs and turkey (again!) Tons of water
Today I weighed 166.75 from 168! I had B: scrambled eggs (from our chickens) with chives L: Leftover faux mushroom stuffing w/ turkey drippings, veggies and dip. Snack : pumpkin pie w/cream D: I'm not sure, I have some frozen swordfish or shrimp (from Trader Joe's) in freezer that might be good...and Water!
It just started to flurry here, I HATE SNOW
That being said, take care all!

 

[spikesmom]

Saturday I cannot remember too well, short term memory problems, B: scrambled eggs, L: veggie sticks/dip and turkey and for Dinner---a turkey SANDWICH, my Saturday night fling!
Sunday my DH and I went to Friendly's for breakfast and had a Garden Vegatable omlet (no potatoes or toast). L: Ruben casserole (sauerkraut,lean corned beef, swiss cheese and homemade Thousand Island dressing) plus veggies. Dinner was Steakburger w/ cheese (I got talking on the phone and did not finish, but was full anyway)and water I am awash in water

 

[spikesmom]

Well the past few days have been pretty good, my DH is trying to what he calls "lo-carbit" too so this makes things easier for me. We have some form of eggs (yesterday was a frittata with red onion and green pepper with cheese) , lunch is usually some sort of salad with tuna, chicken or turkey. Dinner last night was baked bbq chicken (homemade sugar free sauce) baked zuchinni sticks (covered with parm cheese and spices)sauteed mushrooms and salad. This morning was scrambled eggs mixed with sausage and cheese. We've found a Starbucks decaf that is tolerable and have been drinking that. Tonoght we will be out at a school function, so we may go to Fudrukkers for dinner-no buns or fries but good hambugers!
Oh and water....

 

[LAinSEA]

My sister has been "summersizing" for over a year now, she really likes the program and is at what she considers a healthy weight for her and uses it to maintain her weight.

My DH is very supportive and my chef - he loves to cook. Everyday he packs my cooler for work - I don't know how I'd be able to stay on any kind of program without it (we are doing Atkins).

Best of luck to the both of you!

-Laurie

 

[spikesmom]

Dear Laurie

How nice your DH packs your cooler, it must make staying on track that much easier! My DH needless to say is not a great cook, he can do eggs but give him a piece of meat and he KILLS it,
so I gladly volunteer to do our meals. He is losing a lot faster than me, but he also has a lot more to lose!
Our son (who is an elite wrestler) needs to watch his weight now that the wrestling season is here, I am trying to gently introduce SS meals to help him make weight.

Thanks for the encouragement and bring on the WATER!

Kathy

 

[DoeWDW]

Kathy, you seem to be doing very well! Somersizing looks too complicated to me, but I'm glad it's working for you! Isn't it interesting how we each find what works for us, our bodies and our lifestyles?

Your dedication to making all your own food, sauces, etc. is inspiring. I so often get lazy!

Keep up the great work, Kathy!!

 

[LAinSEA]

I used to manage the television department at a throughbred racing facility. Our studio/control room was right next to the jockey's room and they loved to come in a spend their off time with us. I always though that if anyone knew how to keep weight off it would be the jockeys!

Unfortunately most of them would "flip" - cause themselves to throw up after eating "normally" - and many of them learned this from their wrestling coaches in high school and reinforced it from being around each other. Not a healthy way to maintain weight!

One retired jockey who was working with me had a son that was currently riding at the time at 5'9" (way too tall for a jockey). They hired a nutritionist to work with him so that he wouldn't do unhealthy things to lose or maintain weight while he was riding. The nutritionist basically put him on a low-carb diet. (It was the reason my DH and I tried Atkins in 1999 the first time.) The nutritionist wanted the young jockey to eat low-carb, high-protein all the time unless he was going to be running or playing basketball, then he wanted him to eat more whole-grain carbs when he was more active for energy. The idea was that whole-grain carbs in even a small amount would be for quick-release energy - the high-protein diet would keep him from losing muscle for energy.

It was the only time I heard a trained nutritionist advocate a low-carb lifestyle.

Best of luck to your family - and especially to your son. Being a student athlete is tough but well worth it. I hope he continues it throughout college too!

-Laurie

 

[spikesmom]

Thanks to both of you for your encouragement, living with a wrestler is not easy (I should have picked this up the first time around when my husband was making weight in college! ) Doreen ,where do you live in PA, we travel there about once a month to go to wrestling tournaments, PA has the best wrestling! I like it there very much and the people are so nice (I like Nazareth area are alot) We have friends who have moved there just to wrestle in your schools! My son goes to private school here in NE but goes to PA every opportunity he can.
my DH is looking good....., I have a ways to go, but this works for me and I feel less sluggish!
Laurie, I will pass your info on to my husband (coach aka trainer to DS) he will be most interested. It is hard to put a teenager on a low carb diet, so I'm just cooking good healthy (whisper lo-carb) food for him and he likes it so...

Take care all, water yep the water


Kathy