Thanks for the congrats, everyone!! Oh and the song, ClassyLady.
TooCute, I'm going to PM you for those food suggestions...
BTW, yesterday on "Weekend Today", this woman was on touting her
500 Low-Carb Recipes book. She even made some of the recipes from the book: pancakes (the batter was weird), a shrimp dish, and a pumpkin (and something else) cheesecake. I would definitely buy the book for the dessert/snack section alone.
My weakness is snacking, so when I was on Atkins my goal was to find snacks that I could munch with little or no guilt. Here's my list: CHEESECAKE (no crust, you can make your own and use Splenda instead of sugar), Hot n' Spicey Pork Rinds (no carbs in pork rinds), walnuts, macadamia nuts w/ chocolate whip cream (sometimes I'd just eat the whip cream alone straight from the can and pretend it was ice cream
), Diet Barq's root beer with 2 teaspoons of heavy cream (tastes like a float, Coke is good to use too), Blue Bunny sugar-free treats (varies from 5-10 carbs each), cold cut roll-ups (ham, swiss and lettuce w/ dijon mustard or homemade guacamole), Musselmans Lite apple sauce (10 carbs each)... If I think of any more that I left out, I'll post them.
I also tried to find ways to make low carb versions of my favorite foods. I LOVE mexican food, so I'd make my own taco/fajita salad. I'd load my plate with crisp, crunchy lettuce and pile on the meat (beef or chicken) and all my favorite toppings like cheese, sour cream, guacamole, salsa, etc. Tastes so good and I didn't miss the tortilla or taco shell because the salad provided some crunch.