I'd love to celebrate with a drink and some sushi, but since I can't, maybe someone can have some for me.

No low carb diet. EVER. No way, no how. I love bread too much. And potatoes. And pasta. And Dr Pepper. Take away carbs, you take away all the pleasure of eating, AFAIC.

Susan, is WW still using the points system? Is it still largely based on how nutritionally dense foods are?

Part of the problem is that I haven't really been shopping right. For awhile there I kept buying nutritious snacks and not eating them, so I'd have apples gradually rotting in their basket atop the fridge, wheat bread growing mold, etc. So I stopped buying it because it was just a waste of money, and ended up with two things in the house--junk food, and ingredients for actual meals. I'm amazed I was able to find an apple and a cereal bar to tide me over until I got to the ballpark last night. I need to figure out what I'm really willing to eat, and shop accordingly.

Lobo. Lobo Marunga.

BWAHahahaha! Hee. Vvrroom.

I've found I'm at the mercy of my blood sugar as well, and that no sugars and no simple carbs keep me on a much more even keel. I'm sure I probably had hormone rages and fluctuations, but I don't remember them, nor does my family. All my PMS was physical. What's affected my moods far more has been the blood sugar fluctuation, and it's been a relief to find a strategy that works to prevent "going feral". That's a distinctly unpleasant feeling.

how do you combat the low blood sugar drops - eat more often.

I do best when I eat 5-7 times a day. all meals are small - there is very little snacking ( meaning junk food) because i eat as often as I do - i don't get starving so I have to plan to get all my veggies in - so they become part of my snack meals. It is harder with a family. but say at 4pm you had a slice of bread with peanut butte. - at dinner I'll skip the rice or potatos and eat the meat and the veggie. If I am hungry at 8, i eat.

I am guessing that you are one of the people built efficently , ita. DH is pretty good that way too. He gets hunrgy - but that's what it is. There are some people , it sounds like juilanna and suasn are two of them, that get drops - probbably fairly sudden. I had a roomate in college like that -- those are the people that eat something and get a quick obvious burst of energy from that - and also the people that crash ( this is obseved phenomon- not a medical fact) . then there are those of us with diabetes. We get the highs and lows of blood sugar. POhisically eating too much of the wrong thing makes me sleepy. I don't get a sugar rush. If I get low - I might not feel the symptoms of hunger, but i get cranky and bitchy. ( not a normal mood for me) anyway - that's where I can start to explain.

BWAHahahaha! Hee. Vvrroom.

Bev and I obviously watch the same movies.

Stephanie, that's awesome! Yay! Good luck studying for the bar exam.

Congrats, Stephanie!!!

I've found I do a lot better, blood sugar wise, when I keep my carbs low. Not to start another thread diet war--it works best for me and I'll defend anyone else's right to live on chocolate covered bananas, should that suit them.

But sometimes emotional stuff is more important than physical stuff. I was so glad to live on turkey pot pies and Ben & Jerry's last week--my blood sugar fluctuated (putting me on a rollercoaster ride of "wheeeee--energy!" and "OMGsoTired!") but my emotional level stayed on a fairly even keel.

Yay Stephanie!!!!

Bev, you're right. I have to watch what I eat at night, because protein (specifically animal protein) too late in the evening will keep me up past my bedtime. Fucked up, yo.

Did we know that Paris Hilton is dating a boy named Paris? That's just gotta be odd, and is making me think of punny/porny jokes.

I'm a lot hungrier since I've been eating more carbs. It's difficult to watch them. OK, it's not so difficult to watch them go inside my mouth.

I'm learning to make my sandwiches with one slice of bread, cut in half. But I don't know what to do with the pan of shells & cheese that are left over from lunch besides eat them.

No low carb diet. EVER. No way, no how. I love bread too much. And potatoes. And pasta. And Dr Pepper. Take away carbs, you take away all the pleasure of eating, AFAIC.

Susan, insent.

And Stephanie! Congratulations!

I know diabetics that go atkins and it works well. I can't do it. Because than I seriously need to eat every 3 hours. that's a pain. For me it is a matter of balance. the right amount of carbs to the right amount of protien and fat and try and keep things high fiber. the higher the fiber the slower and more controled the realese of carbohydrates into the blood stream. so - no bread with less than 3 grams of fiber per slice. steel cut oats instead of rolled oats for breakfas.t cearls with over 5 grams of fiber per serving.