Weekly Low Carb Wrap Up - Week Ten

This should actually be week thirteen but I've been bad and not done a weekly wrap up for four weeks now! But I'm going to get better because as you can see from my previous post I'm killing my Sugar Crush addiction and focusing more on blogging and napping! My two favorite things!

But...just because I have not been posting a weekly wrap up does not mean I've gone off the low-carb wagon! Oh no...I've been doing good, well maybe not good but I've been trying.

I've always been a believer in only weighing in once a week on Friday mornings. For the past couple of months every single Friday I have weighed exactly the same! I was getting so frustrated because no matter what I did I wasn't losing weight!!!

So two weeks ago I decided I was going to weigh myself every day to see if I could detect a pattern...see how scientific I am? What I found out is that I was defeating myself. On Friday's I would weigh myself and then that evening I would go out an eat just a few chips with salsa (ok, maybe a whole bowl).  Then on Saturday I would go out shopping with my mom and I might eat a few more chips and salsa, maybe a frozen strawberry margarita, then Sunday I usually make a nice meal for my mom and my kids and I might have just a smidgen of mashed potatoes or some Doritos casserole.

I found that all those little cheats made me add 3 to 4 pounds by Tuesday and then even though I was good and ate low carb the whole week all I was really doing was losing the weight I gained over the weekend and therefore by Friday when I weighed in I was still at the same weight! Silly me! Defeating my own self! Grrrr!

So this weekend I have stayed true to my low carb plan and have not partaken of any carbs! At least not more than the 20 to 25 allotted during the induction phase of Atkins. This weekend we have had a heatwave, so yesterday morning, before it got too hot I made some tuna salad, some chicken salad, some guacamole and some turkey, cream cheese and pickle roll-ups  Plus I made some detox water. 

Turkey, Cream Cheese and Dill Pickle Rollups, Guacamole and red pepper strips for dipping! Recipe for the roll ups can be found at http://www.kalynskitchen.com/2011/02/easy-recipe-for-ham-and-dill-pickle.html

My son found this wonderful video for me, three ways to cook eggs in the microwave, here's a picture of the ones I made and the video is posted below.

Scrambled Egg in a Cup in the Microwave

I also mentioned that I made Lemon Detox Water yesterday and I've been faithfully drinking it today. It's so simple to make, just slice lemons into a pitcher and fill with water then let sit in the fridge overnight. I also added a lime and I wanted to add cucumbers and fresh mint, but I didn't have any. I found information on detox water at fitsugar, but I've seen it all over pinterest too! 

Again this morning before it got too warm I made a turkey roast tenderloin and a pork roast tenderloin. I buy the Jennie-O Turkey Roast Tenderloin, the Savory Roast flavor is below, they have several different flavors, the one I made today was Island Marinade and it had a sweetness to it that was excellent!

I cook it exactly as I do the roast tenderloin, you can go HERE to see how I do it. 

I hope that my detox water and careful planning of food and snacks for this weekend helps me to finally start showing some results! 

If you have any good low carb meals you make feel free to share them with me. I'm always looking for new things to cook. Have a great week everyone!

      

Mosaic Monday - Turkey Photo Shoot

I've been wanting to share a thrift store find with everyone but because they were Thanksgiving Day decor I wanted to wait until it was closer to Thanksgiving and I actually had my few Thanksgiving decorations up. I'm joining in two separate sharing parties this week with this post.

The first is Mosaic Monday at Little Red House and then on Thrift Store Thursday with Homebody Holly.

Almost a month ago I went to one of my favorite thrift stores, the American Cancer Society Discovery Store. It was during our "Sister Friday Night" when my sis and I get together and have dinner, do some shopping or something else fun.

I was lucky enough to find three turkeys amongst all the Halloween decorations and today I spent time re-doing my fall decorations to include them. I hope you enjoy the following mosaics.

What I love best about these is the tail shot because I love the way that they included some Thanksgiving harvest items right below their little turkey butts! Isn't that cute? I love the attention to detail.

In this first one, the one at the bottom right is a different metal turkey, the other three shots are ceramic.

In this mosaic, I put that same metal shot in the top left. I love this little metal guy. I didn't take a picture of the back of him because there's a candle holder back there that would be impossible to use unless you bent the turkey forward and I think he would break then. I also included a shot of my cloche with a little pumpkin in it. These are all on my mantle.

And this plate collage was a gift from my daughter April. I had seen this at Bed, Bath and Beyond a long time ago and even took a picture of it with my cell phone hoping to find similar plates and put them in this same shape and design.

Then my daughter surprised me with these. This is how they are described on the Bed, Bath and Beyond website:

Plate Collage Wall Plaque This eclectic artwork featuring the rich look of embossed ceramic is sure to transform the aesthetic of any room. The array of colors ranging from golden amber to robin's egg blue will bring a feeling of warmth to its surroundings. Its glossy finish with exciting textures and designs makes this artful collection of plates complete. Equipped to hang either vertically or horizontally. Constructed of metal. Measures 25" x 46".

For now they are hanging over my stove in the kitchen, but that's not going to be their final home. I really want to put them behind the TV in the living room but just haven't had time to get my drill out and put up a sturdy hanger. Maybe after the holidays, but for now they add a lot of color to that white wall behind the stove.

Hope you enjoyed those and I want to be helpful to all the wonderful cooks and new cooks out there that will be preparing Thanksgiving Dinner. I want to share with you my seventeen steps to making a Turkey Dinner.

17 Steps To Cook A Turkey

1. Go buy a turkey
2. Take a drink of whiskey
   
3. Put turkey in the oven
4. Take another 2 drinks of whisky
5. Set the degree at 375 ovens
6. Take 3 more whiskys of drink
7. Turk the bastey
8. Whisky another bottle of get
9. Ponder the meat thermometer
10. Glass yourself a pour of whisky
11. Bake the whisky for 4 hours
12. Take the oven out of the turkey
13. Floor the turkey up off of the pick
14. Turk the carvey
15. Get yourself another scottle of botch
16. Tet the sable and pour yourself a glass of turkey
17. Bless the dinner and pass out