Wednesday 8/17 and nothing!

Ok, I'm getting a bit frustrated now.  I weighed in today and again lost nothing!!  The good news is that I didn't gain, but come on!   I've tracked my food all week with the Fitness Pal food tracker that Dawn talked about (which I really like) so I know I've never gone over 2 servings of carbs at a meal, in fact kept my carb servings to usually only 4 or 5 a day, and my sugars have never gone over like 8 per day!  Plus, my fiber has been way up all week, usually 25fibers or over per week.  I'm at a loss here.  Must I exercise daily to lose anymore pounds?!  Maybe I should get one of those scales that weighs the half pounds and stuff to see if I'm at least losing a little bit.  I really want to get out of the 170's and back into the 160's.  To get to my goal weight of 150lbs I still have 25lbs to go, so its not like I'm close or anything.  Ok, enough ranting.   I'll keep on going and hopefully all of a sudden there will be a huge drop.  I remember I was stuck in the 180's for awhile too, so maybe this is how my body works: stuck, stuck, lose!
In other news, now I see why you guys blog more often than once a week.  It's a lot easier to answer people that way.  Cuddlefish asked about the flavor of the BBQ sauce.  I used to make the same sauce when I wasn't on the BFC except I used brown sugar and molassess.  Without those two ingredients it has a bit more of a vinegary taste because it's not as dark and sweet as it was. I still think it has more of a sweet and spicy taste, than vinegary, I use smoker bags to cook my meat and when you combine the sauce with the smokiness of the meat it makes the whole thing sweet, spicy and smokey.    I'll tell you one thing, the ketchup you make first does not taste like your usual ketchup and I wouldn't use it for a ketchup replacement except in recipes that like this.  It's only good in the BBQ sauce.

Today is my youngest son Kyle's 16th birthday!  When my husband and I started this diet he said he wanted to cut out sugar too.  He does it somewhat.  So, for Kyle's birthday I made him the chocolate cake that Cuddlefish had on her blog.  It's sugar free and flour free, plus has small amount of sugar free icing.  I'm also making the stevia vanilla ice cream to go with it.  Even though it should be BFC friendly I'm only going to try a small sliver of the cake to see how it turned out.  I'll report back!  We are heading off to a small water park for the day.  I ordered some Natures Hollow Raspberry Jam (too pricey!) and am using Smuckers natural peanut butter for a PB&J sandwich to take along.   Wish I could find some of the BFC products around me!  Does anyone know of any good stores on the East Coast?   Well, must get moving, maybe the swimming today will get a pound off!!

Here are my three youngest boys being goofy at the beach -brothers are like that when they are together! The birthday boy, Kyle, is on the left!