Yeah, there's a subway near me, and I can do the salad bowls (basically a sammich without bread). I already eat my subs with spicy brown mustard, and I don't care for potato chips, so there'd be almost no carbs in the meal.
Yeah, I got your notice about the fitbit. Now all I have to do is FIND mine and I can start using it again.
The other issue of course being that tbsp is such a horrible unit of measure to attempt to standardize. A tbsp of sugar weighs 15g, a tbsp of cornstarch weighs 12g (actually somewhere between 11 and 12, since the cannister lists 12g as the serving size by weight but only 11g of carb per serving) - how much did the tbsp of cheese sauce weigh? Ever since I started getting more into baking, these imprecise measurements - along with all of the horribly loosely defined terms in most cookbooks and recipes these days - makes me seriously consider taking @Squidleybits ' advice and writing my own cookbook.
I hate baking recipe books that don't include by-weight. It's just asking for a beginner to have issues.
I'd buy it!
Baking For All Occasions is a very good book. I don't have a copy of it myself, but one of my mothers-in-law does and I've perused it on occasion. The ones I have my eyes on first, though, are a couple of professional baking textbooks that my father has copies of, but they're textbook priced instead of home cookbook priced, so they're a bit of an investment right now.I hate baking recipe books that don't include by-weight. It's just asking for a beginner to have issues.
OTOH this book is excellent: Amazon product
You can probably find the USA amazon easily, but this is what came up for me.
It's a great book. 100% of the recipes we've made out of it came out great, and EVERYTHING has weight measurements. Highly recommend.
One warning: not for 100% beginners. You don't need to "know" anything in particular, but if you're not sure what the difference between a liquid and dry measure is, I'd say get something else first, then go into this. The recipes go from basic (I did NOT say beginner!) to advanced, but there are clear instructions even for the ones with "lots of technique" involved.
For example, I made this rolled cake from instructions there for @Dirona's birthday. I'd never done it before, and it worked first time:
View attachment 25211It was super-delicious.
I would have posted an image with candles and such, but they all had @Dirona in them, and she'd kill me for posting that.
Smaller portions, less frequently. Make sacrifices elsewhere, or find a couple extra trips around the block, and save things you're really passionate about (or things you want to experiment with) for special occasions. Tuesday, November 27, 2014 my highest blood sugar was at 472 after getting home and having to call an ambulance on the way home due to a panic attack. I bake quite a lot really, for a diabetic. My wife is on 500mg of Metformin a day and I'm on 1,000mg; and with a little more exercise, we could probably both eliminate those needs. You can do it. You're a smart guy. You're listening to your doctor. You've started making changes. You understood the link I posted earlier, but are following your doctor's instructions (which I'm 100% in support of, btw). With amazingly few exceptions, you do not have to give up anything you like to do now - not even your mead. The American Diabetes Association "recognizes" that up to 2 alcoholic beverages per day for an adult male (or 1 to 2 for an adult female) can help reduce blood sugar spikes by interacting with the liver. That doesn't mean that you can save up all week and get plastered on the weekend.you guys are cruel
I've never been a great baker, so I got the King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion a couple of weeks ago to help me step up my baking game.
And now, I'll probably never use it
Yup..I agree with everything you've said. But, everything in that cookbook is soooooo carb heavy. Like 33 carbs a cookie heavy. 47 carbs a slice of bread heavy. (the book lists carb load for every recipe)..it's depressing
I went off of soda at the beginning of the year, not for any medical reasons, but more of a "screw you, soda!" thing. So now I tear through can after can of lemon La Croix. I'd have 16oz bottles of Perrier at work. It was actually quite refreshing. Might want to ask your doctor if sparkling water is okay. Make doubly sure that flavored ones are also okay.
I love my Zombies, Run! app, it makes cardio less mind numbingly boring.Picked up Zombies, Run! to spice up my walks. So far, it seems to make the walking a bit more enjoyable and go by faster. One of the voice actors sounds a lot like Claudia Black, but it's not her. But kept expecting her to say "John Chrichton" at any minute.
Hey now, one pound/week is supposed to be the gold standard for weight loss. Slow, steady, etc. Keep in mind that one pound of fat is 3500 calories, so that means consistently being 500 cal under your burn rate every single day will only juuuuuuust hit that target.
100 pushups, 100 situps, 100 squats, and a 10K run. Every day.
100 pushups, 100 situps, 100 squats, and a 10K run. Every day.
You found you could eat everything else?
Pretty much. I ate a lot on that trip. Gator was good but it tasted more like spices than anything. The bold flavor completely masked the taste of the meat.You found you could eat everything else?
I was a bit more excited in that first pic.
Well in that first pic it does look like you've been polishing it more.I was a bit more excited in that first pic.
