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Well, thanks to my horrible IBS week I'm sorry. , I am down 3lbs to 135lbs again! but at least this news is great!! My pants already fit a whole lot better so I'm pleased, even if I would have prefered to go a different route in order to lose those 3lbs. I know, I hate it when you have to get sick to loose weight.

And I am now an official Yoga junkie. me too!! I love my class! That's fantastic... It's funny because I had to miss a couple classes at school this week and yesterday, I was so determined to feel better so I could go to my yoga class becuase I didn't want to miss it! I love how it makes me feel so much better afterwards. It REALLY does!! And my teacher is great too - she even went and researched specific yoga poses that will help my stomach. A good one is like that. Mine even told me last week she read where yoga was good for Celiac as she knows I'm GF AND have IBS. In class, she'll specifically say which ones will help our digestive systems for me. I'm now an addict and don't think I could go back to being a couch potato. Stick with it...it can ONLY DO us GOOD. Funny thing is, I got to talking to another gal in my class who always sets up next to the door. She said it was because she had "tummy trouble" and I was just about to say "IBS?" when we both came out with the words at the same time!! Since then we've become great buds even though I hate her cause she's so flexible (j/k)..anyway, I've just about got her convinced to eat Heather's way and told her to join us here on the message boards. I've since gotten her off coffee and on peppermint tea and caps, and fennel. Just haven't gotten her off dairy yet..(that's coming). She actually takes SFS but didn't know about all the different kinds. She's so cute, and now feels like she can talk to me about anything. It's almost comforting to her to know she's not the only one in the class with a bad gut. (How'd I get off on this tangent?)

Anyhoo - I'll start reporting again when my IBS calms down. Oh Jen, take all the time you need..I think your IBS is stress induced..when you find a place to live things will be better I'm sure. Get your rest...Kandee

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Now that I'm mostly over my binge of depression where all I did was eat and mope , I feel like I can report again. So...

Breakfast: oatmeal w/ brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, Did you add the PP spice to your oatmeal? and chopped canned peaches
Lunch: luna bar & a banana
Snacks: homemade bread, chocolate-applesauce bread, Chocolate? Did you say Chocolate? Wanna share the link? UFO
Dinner: chicken stew over mashed potatoes Yumm, one of my fav meals is creamed tuna w/peas over mashed potatoes. I grew up on that stuff. Who'd ever thought that now I HAVE to eat that way?

Food & drinks total: 1630
Fruits & veggies: peaches, banana, potatoes x2, mixed veggies in the stew

Activity:
shoveled 18"+ of heavy wet snow for AN HOUR = -400 Oh yuck...but I'd say that was exercise ENOUGH!!

Good going Casey...you really do get your fruits and veggies in there.
Kandee

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Yep! The pumpkin pie spice goes right in the oatmeal... a generous dash of it. It has a little more zip than just plain cinnamon. That's really being creative. I'm going to try it!!

The chocolate-applesauce bread is in Eating for IBS... if you don't have it, let me know, and I'll email you the recipe. I wouldn't feel quite right posting it. Oh I have the book, thank you. Have had it for 2 1/2 years, but haven't tried as many things in there as I would like. I'm a lazy cook and often just throw together whatever is handy. Besides, I have to cook two differnt meals and hubby's comes first (old school you know) so mine is usually "whatever".

The chicken stew was really good. But creamed tuna! That was one of my all-time favorites growing up. Mom would make it with a little bit of browned onion & some diced hard-boiled egg thrown in, and we'd have it over toast. YUM. I never thought to have it on mashed potatoes! Give it a try. Anything creamy or stew-y is good over mashed potatoes (or rice). Kandee

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How do you make creamed tuna? What is the creamed part? Do you cooke the peas separate and eat the tuna and peas over the mashed potatoes?

Sounds yummy and easy! Right up my alley!

I probably can't help you much with specifics since I cook "by the seat of my pants" so to speak. What I have done is take some rice or nut milk and thickened it with corn starch, and added spices like salt/pepper/parsley/a little onion powder/a pinch or so of dry mustard. When hot and thick I dump in a can of drained tuna or pouch tuna (which I like better) and a handful or so of frozen peas. No need to precook the peas. Heat it up a little more and put over mashed potatoes. I use Barbara's Bakery brand potato flakes since there is NOTHING in them except potatoes. To make those I just heat some alt milk and add salt and the potatoes. It probably seems blah to most people but it always sets well with me when I don't want anything to spicy, and VERY low fat. I just got some of Vance's Dairy Free (thanks to Shell telling me about it when I was looking for a non-soy dry milk alternative) which is a dry potato based milk alt and I'm anxious to try that. Hubby already used it as a creamer in his coffee and said it was good. I made some up as a milk just to drink and it was NOT sweet in any way, so I think it will be good for cooking, plus you can make it as creamy as you want by adding more of the powder. I've never seen it in a HFS but it is easy to mail order it, and it comes fast!

I've tried the Better Than Milk-Rice and I think it is horrid. The soy may be better though if you do soy.

BTW, the peas are optional...LOL

Hope this helps, if just a little.

Kandee

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