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I am really having trouble getting back on track. I can't remember if it was this hard last year after the holidays or not. I'm struggling with total calorie count, but even more, I'm struggling with swearing off wheat flour baked goods again. Wheat flour makes me sick. Really sick. But you know what? -- until you have given up real baked goods completely, you just don't appreciate how much you miss that deliciousness. I have all kinds of substitutes I use, but I avoid a lot of things made with gluten-free flour, because the rice flour and tapioca flour stuff is way high glycemic. That's why so many gluten-free recipe taste too sweet -- you have to cut way back on sugar in these recipes if they use rice or tapioca flour because the flours taste so sweet.
My point is, once you go without all the good stuff for a long time, you DO NOT just get used to it. Yes, it's true that crappy baked goods really taste disgusting after you have given all this stuff up. But good baked goods, really good ones, taste and smell so delicious you can hardly stand it. And that's my problem: Over the holidays, it's not like I ate bad stuff every day, but I ate delicious bread and cake several times, and now I am having trouble getting myself to give it all up again.
I'm just whining, really. I'm sure I'll be OK. But you know something: I am really ANGRY that I will never again be able to enjoy a great piece of chocolate cake with coffee ice cream without getting really really sick. It's very upsetting and it is not fair. Of course, this is really stupid because there are much worse things that could be wrong with me and so I sound like a big baby complaining about IBS. But I'm still angry. I just have to get over it.
Diet Calendar Entry for 15 January 2017:
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1568 kcal
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Fat: 73.08g | Prot: 102.19g | Carb: 135.59g.
Breakfast: Whole Foods Market Turbinado Raw Sugar, Blueberries, Sausages By Amylu breakfast time chicken mini-links, Dr. Praeger's Spinach Cakes. Lunch: Cream Cheese, Frieda's Cara Cara Oranges, Kroger Texas Red Grapefruit, Acme Smoked Nova Salmon, Denny's Sliced Tomatoes (3 Slices), Chop't Red Onion, Le Pain des Fleurs Buckwheat Crispbread. Dinner: Coleslaw, Cooked Fennel Bulb (Fat Not Added in Cooking), Stop & Shop Baby Carrots, Cooked Summer Squash (from Fresh), Parmesan Cheese (Grated), Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Whole Foods Market Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon Fillets. Snacks/Other: Ghirardelli Dark & Sea Salt Caramel Squares, Nature's Promise Organic Grape Tomatoes, Krave Pure Foods artisanal five peppercorn beef jerky, Chocolate Chip Cookie. more...
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I am sorry you got so sick over the holidays. I enjoy homemade baked goods but most of what you get in a store is just crap. Not worth it, is it? I am on the search for a good Paleo bread. I don't know that the seedy breads are good for my IBS either. Might be too much roughage. It still worth a shot trying to find a good substitute though. I love the smell of homemade bread baking, too. I make it in a breadmaker for my mom and hubby every other week. Usually I make a raisin bread. I made the gluten free bread only to discover it was very high in carbs, as you said ... too much sugar.
15 Jan 17 by member: Mom2Boxers
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Thanks Mom for your sympathy, but I ate stuff knowing full well it was going to make me sick, so I can't really complain. I've pretty much given up on bread. I keep a loaf of Essential Baking Company's superseeded gluten-free bread in the freezer -- I get it at Costco -- and use it very infrequently for two applications: 1) When I get a craving for grilled cheese and 2) When I want French toast. I also make oat flour muffins and again, very occasionally, oat flour banana bread. But the rest of the time, I just go without bread. I found this Pain des Fleurs Crispbread, which comes in buckwheat and quinoa, so that's what I use instead of bread, or I just avoid it altogether. But every so often, I just can't stand it anymore and I go eat a donut or something and hope I'm not too sick...
15 Jan 17 by member: Hermiones Mom
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I'm trying to get on paleo again. I've been checking out paleo bread recipes but I've not had the energy to try one yet. I'm able to use Amazon's free readers which is great since it doesn't cost. I miss my toast!!
15 Jan 17 by member: Tigerlilylady
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You are on track NOW... at this moment.... That is what matters. Yesterday is gone. Don't beat yourself up over it. You are on track NOW. Now let's go forward :)
15 Jan 17 by member: PicklesPickles
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I know what you mean I ate things over the holidays that gave me a tummy ache and caught myself thinking is this going to be good enough to be worth it and as crazy as it sounds sometimes I would tell myself yes. The one thing I still really crave is homemade coconut cake the kind that coconut milk soaks into and has 7 minute icing on it. I used to make it at Christmas and it's a really big cake but there's only 2 of us and I would really suffer so I haven't made it in a long time. Sometimes things just aren't fair.
15 Jan 17 by member: Addie Aline
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I understand - it is sometimes so very hard
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15 Jan 17 by member: Hermiones Mom
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Me, too. The poison is addictive.
19 Jan 17 by member: LadyinDenim
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Me three.....didn't think life was possible. How can you say "Let them eat cake......if there is no cake?" We can overcome.....try this.....
http://www.swervesweetener.com/recipes/chocolate-layer-cake-with-whipped-chocolate-ganache-frosting/
19 Jan 17 by member: rontravis
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Draglist, make sure you make a LOT of noise when you get that chocolate cake recipe tested. I don't want to miss it!
19 Jan 17 by member: LadyinDenim
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