I worked last night and came home exhausted. This morning at work and on the way home I was so tempted again to grab my hubby and go get breakfast. I wanted hashbrowns and biscuits and gravy. I kept waffling back and forth all the way home. Reminded myself once I got there that I read cravings only last ten minutes and were worse when tired. I was slightly hungry and should have ate SOMETHING but the tired won out so I just went to bed, figuring the craving would be gone or it wouldn't matter because you can't get breakfast after 11am anywhere in my town, lol. Hashbrowns and biscuits and gravy....always comes down to those, lol.

Only thing I'm worried about is when I start getting cravings I just keep having incidents of them until I end up cheating. And honestly what's one meal but after the way I felt physically after I really don't want to do that. I thought about making some low carb biscuits and making sausage gravy with thicken/not starch but probably wouldn't come out that great. Also the way I've felt everytime I've tried to make some bread substitute this week I think I need to get back to basics if only for this week. Aching from head to toe is not fun.

I felt so sick yesterday evening like my lunch was still sitting there and I didn't even take my byetta pen so thats not what did it. Ended up drinking an atkins shake on the way to work and taking some immodium, lol. Something did not agree with me. And I have been SO THIRSTY the past 3 days. I've been really good about drinking water anyway but I get desperate f or some and drink a whole bottle. I'm usually lucky to drink half a gallon a day and yesterday I drank a whole gallon and kept going. Glad I'm drinkin more water but this has me a bit concerned.

Anyway I'm super stressed but I feel alot better after getting some major sleep today. I was having bad allergies so taking a benadryl helped with that and the sleep too. Got on the scale today after I woke up and I'm down another pound 327.6!!!! Can't wait to get out of the 320's though.

Oopsie rolls with lots of sausage in a thickened-by-reduction cream-based gravy? Wouldn't be nearly as thick as traditional sausage gravy, but it would have the right flavor.

Oh thank you, great idea. I've had the oopsie roll recipe sitting here and it's the only thing of my recipes I haven't tried yet. I had made another eggy protein bread that was ok so I guess I've been putting off the oopsie rolls fearing they wouldn't be good. But on that note there's nothing in them that would make me feel like crap. So you think the gravy would mask any taste from the oopsie rolls not being regular biscuits?

Now if I could just find a sub for hashbrowns. I tried turnips for mashpotatoes and it was disgusting...probably didn't do it right but couldn't get over the texture. Thought about trying them again for hashbrowns and also saw somebody mention using radishes? But radishes have such a different flavor I wondered if they meant turnips...don't know. Also saw zuchini which I bet would be good but not an actual sub for hashbrowns from potatoes and I definitely wouldn't but gravy on them, lol.

Oh and if anyone reads this and has a good yeast bread recipe without the bleached flour and sugar please let me know...I'm still on my mission to find some decent sandwhich bread, lol.

I've never done oopsie rolls myself, but enough sausage and black pepper would mask just about anything.

Hmm, hash browns. Cauliflower is supposed to be a decent substitute for mashed potatoes. This recipe uses cauliflower to make pizza crust, so I think trying it as hash browns might be workable. I actually think a latke recipe (so with a binder) will give you better flavor than traditional hash browns would. Egg, onion, maybe some garlic powder?

Homemade bread is a tricky thing even before you start tinkering to get the carbs out. I've got a really good recipe with flax and whole wheat flour and molasses, but it's still got 9 net carbs per 64-calorie slice, and it's got enough personality that it's really bread-and-butter bread, not sandwich bread. Lettuce seems to be a popular "hold your sandwich fillings together" thing, but I agree that it doesn't really serve the same purpose in any other regard.

Thanks Allyphoe, soon as we get moved I'll have to start experimenting with those ideas. Also I checked out the low-carb forum you linked and I'm not really posting there but there was alot of great info, including a p.c.o.s. thread so that really is going to be useful. I figure I can just lurk around there for info, lol. Thanks again!

Cauliflower does make a lovely mash, but for a hashbrown? I'd love to hear about how that goes!

Google says: Fauxtatoes (Low Carb) Recipe
from Debbie Cusick

1 head cauliflower, chopped, cooked very soft
3 oz. cream cheese
1 tbsp. butter
Salt and pepper to taste

Mash, whip with a mixer, or blend in food processor. I've sometimes used a bag of frozen cauliflower, but I think a head of fresh cauliflower gives much better texture. I simmer the cauliflower with a chopped clove of garlic to cover the mild "cabbagey" taste.

Oh man, that sounds kind of gross. "Fauxtatoes!"

congrats on losing weight! You'll be out of the 320's before you know it! Drinking a lot of water will help you lose weight, and help with cravings too. keep up your great work!

Thanks pancake batter, I'd read a bunch of recipes for cauliflower but I wasn't sure about the aftertaste so I haven't tried any yet. You're tip for using the garlic to cover that is great, thanks again for posting it.

So my cravings for hashbrowns and gravy aren't getting better. Being as I've never made sausage gravy before I'm going to have to experiment. I've seen tons of recipes for turnips, radishes, etc. but while skimming through several people said don't expect them to taste like the potato version. So having said all this, everytime I get the craving I think at that time that whatever I make isn't going to be what I want. Fortunately stuff keeps preventing me from cheating.

Like this morning I was sick of wanting it the last 4 days and thinking ok already I'm just going to go have it so I can get on with my life and my diet. But as luck would have it my husband refused to get out of bed and you can't get breakfast after 11am. The fact that I got on the scale and am now down to 327 even made me hesitate as well.

I think I'm going to try making the sausage gravy and some carbquick biscuits and at least try that before giving in completely...throw in some shredded zuchini hashbrowns on the side...some eggs...maybe I'll hit on something that will satisfy.

I'll tell you one thing though...once I've gotten stuff to the point I can have potatoes once or twice a week I'm not going to waste it on mashed or baked...it's gonna be hashbrowns all the way! lol

You should be proud of being able to side track your cravings. And you have incredible self control it seems. Great job! I love potatoes... its hard to not eat so much of them. lol.

Yea I'm good at postponing but I'm still working on figuring how to get around the strong ones altogether. I made some sausage gravy like allyphoe suggested and added some thicken thin not starch and it came out awesome. I was very hungry so didn't take the time to make any carbquick bisquits or try the oopsie rolls but I will next time. I used some of those crappy dixie carb counters left over rolls and it wasn't the best solution but with enough gravy on them I got by. I knew hubby wasn't gonna eat that so I made a ham steak and eggs as well and also tried making the zuchini hashbrowns. We ended up not eating those because they came out soggy/mushy. Maybe the grease wasn't hot enough. Pitfalls of cooking while starving, I hurried stuff up and they didn't turn out.

But end result that sausage gravy really hit the spot and now that I know I can make it the biscuit/roll under won't be that hard. I doubt I'll ever find a pototo substitute for hashbrowns but after this morning I think it was the sausage gravy I wanted all along anyway. So we'll see...I may have just successfully and for the first time ever not only subverted a craving but got around it completely without feeling like I undid all my hard work.

Next time, try grating, then salting to draw off the moisture (salt, stir, plop in colander, drain for 30 min or so, squeeze dry in tea towels) before cooking. Should limit the sog factor.

I never think of that kind of thing when I'm cooking, myself. (Ooh, I've had some *bad* outcomes!)

Yea I grated, threw in the pan of not hot enough olive oil and then salted, lol. I guess it ended well anyway because I forgot I'm not supposed to eat fried foods this week as part of our bonus challenge for the accountability challenge.

But I will definitely will do what you said next time. I had the same problem with turnips when I tried to do fake mash potatoes...too wet and the texture was slimy. But I didn't try again because I wasn't sure we'd get past the odd taste regardless. I love zuchini so I won't have to get past the taste if I can get it to come out right.

I really appreciate everyone's help on this though because if not for posting about it and then getting feedback I probably would have been eating regular breakfasts the last 3 mornings, followed by DQ blizzards at noon and god knows what else, lol. Uh oh.....mmmmm.....bliiiiizzzzards.....

Keeeeeeeeep MOVING woman!!! YOU can DO THIS!!!

WE all get weak HERE and THERE....but THERE is a WARRIOR inside of ALL OF US....now IT"s JUST about DUSTING him/her OFF!!!

I'm PROUD of you FOR POSTING alot!!!

oh Hey alta!! yay you came by thanks for the support and encouragement, your new avatar pic is gorgeous btw