Halloween make up and Adora pregnant pictures

2006 we were invited to a small Halloween cake party.
Since I have always painted something on my belly a couple of days before I think it's time for delivery this came in handy.
The BIG belly made a perfect pumpkin :)

Little prince TeeBee inside was born 3'd of November 2006, 2 days after the picture was made.
I had gained 22 kilos on this picture!! Whoa! Some scary Halloween!

It's not easy painting on your belly without a mirror and the belly so huge you can't see beneath the "waist".
This is what I painted on my belly before Synthia was born:

Princess Synthia inside, 2 days before delivery as well. I only gaind 13 kilos since she came 2 months too early weighing only 1,8 kilos. She was born with a catastrophic caesarean section 2 days after this picture was made, on the 9'th of August 2003.

And before Fairlight:

Princess no 2; Fairlight got a pink kitten. She was born 7 days after the picture was made. The 11'th of April 2005. I gained 20 kilos with her.

It's truely a wonder I got back to my skinny self watching these pictures - but I did!

And you know I did it using the Montignac Method only (and after the breast feeding was done with).

Question time

I got a question from Krista Stewart on Facebook:



Question
"i was wondering if you were able to do the Montignac Method lifestyle while you were pregnant?? Thanks"
Answer:
Noooooo.... I was sick for all 9 months and puked when ever I smelled food. The only things I could eat was tasteless white bread, Danish pastry's and crackers. Everything else made me cry because I felt like puking. And that's how I gained 22 kilos in 9 months...
And I ain't joking. This is the total truth.

Adora's 30 day challenge - stairs

I'm already eating healthy (Montignac Method) most of the time, but I hate to break a sweat.
Sure, I'm skinny enough, but I think my body would be even happier if I was in a tad better condition.
I will totally diss the elevator the next 30 days (for me that is at least 8 times every day) and run the 4 floors to out flat.
I'll race the kids!

Join me for a hell month (health month). If you have no stairs to run, run the first part to your work/school - just to get that blood pumping *yummie*
Goths around the world - join in for a hell month!
Let's be healthy just to spite everyone else and out-live them! 

Need to buy that perfect Bat Brooch I'm wearing? Here's Pinkabsinthe's etsy.
She's got many unique things, enough to make a horde of goths to droole.

Recipe: Guacamole (Montignac)

The story says vampires are afraid of garlic, well, it might have been true in the early decades when we travelled the world and tryed to act all aristocrat and smell like roses and champagne and we were to stuck up to be near those stinkers....
..but hey, life evolved and almost every person smells like garlic nowadays so we just had to adapt.

If you can't beat them, join them.

Being a total snob is good too, but eating always tops.
So, over the years I have become a garlic snob instead, and impress by my fantastic skills in different garlic dishes. Here's my version of the Mexican dish.

Vampire Guacamole, 4 persons

1 avocado

1 tablespoon of onion

1 big garlic clove

2 tablespoons of sour cream (for Montignac Phase 1 - NO!)

½ fresh squeezed lime/lemon juice
½ teaspoon (or more) sambal oelek
salt
black pepper

Bring out your blender and chop that onion until you can't recognice it anymore (as you would if you were a potential serial killer trying to get rid of some victim parts). Use the garlic press and add the garlic to it. Then go completely wild and just toss everything else in there.
Put it on.
Walk away.
Fix your make up a bit.
Go back.
Turn it off.
Put it in a sweet little bowl, preferably in clear glass for everyone to enjoy that sweet moss green color. Store cold until it's time to enjoy it "with" your friends ;)

Montignac Method - fruit in advance

Just gotta love that still picture. *hahaha*
So this is what I would look like if I got a stroke?

On my balcony having my pre-breakfast fruit, just as Mr Montignac ordered.

I do this before EVERY single meal. My fruit of choice is Fuji apples.
I recommend apple, pear, orange and berries to kickstart your gorgeous self.

On Phase 1 again

Finally April is coming to an end! There have been no end to the birthday partys and invitations this month. Usually I eat Montinac 80% of the time and then other things 20% of the time.
But this crazy eating feast hidden inside the Easter made me do the opposite and NOW I have to pay the price! 2 kilos up.
I hate loosing weight over a long period of time so I just went straight for Phase 1 today.

Many have asked how one eat at Phase 1, so here's what I had today.
Remember - you should always eat so you feel full, never go hungry!

Breakfast: ½ an apple 20 minutes before, then water and 2 ryebread with nothing but smoked ham and tomatoes on
(fruit before is to avoid that bloodsugar fall after you have eaten)
Break: fruit salad (apple/pear/orange)

Lunch: ½ an apple 20 minute before. Fried high meat sausage, red onion, mushrooms and 2 fried eggs, water.

Break: tea and a rye bread
Dinner: ½ an apple 20 minutes before. Basmati rice, smoked pork loin, paprika, red onions, fresh salad, green beans, water.
Evening snack: rye bread with raw spiced salmon and fresh white pepper and dill, water.

I often go for the same breakfast, mostly because I'm lazy and don't care that much in the mornings.
Rye breads with sliced egg/ham/avocado or wholegrain porridge with fresh berries in Phase 1.

Montignac examples

According to the Monticnac Method the lunch should be the days fattest meal. Eat as much as you want. Here's a few examples:

Minced meat beefs, fresh spinach with grilled pears and crumbled blue cheese

Boiled and fried cauliflower with tomato, cummin, chili and curry, mushrooms, ruccola and hot sausage with high meat content.

Ruccola, green olives, cucumber, fried sausage and red onion. Rye bread with philadelphia and fried egg.

Friday lunch: oven baked paprika, onion, mushroom and pear, fillet of beef with black pepper, cream sauce with gorgonzola served with ruccola (and wine).

Montignac bread

Today I baked an easy bread, a bread you can eat when at Phase 2 (and even in Phase 1 if you've got not so much extra weight) in Montignac.

Don't be square bread
50 g yeast
7 dl water or milk
2 tablespoons of oil

5 dl fibre enriched oatmeal
2 dl rye flour
1 dl crushed rye
1 dl linseed or sunflower seed
2 teaspoons of salt
5 dl sifted rye flour
3 dl graham flour

Heat up the milk/water to 37 degrees Celcius. Add oil and yeast.

Mix all the dry ingredients in a kitchen aid and add the yeast mix. Let the machine work for about 5 minutes, then put the dough in a hot spot with a towel on top to yeast for 30 minutes.

Flatten it out to about 30x40 cm in a pan. Mark up 16 pieces with a knife.
Stab every bit with a fork. (Paint with water and stick some extra oatmeal on top.)
Let yeast in a hot spot another 30 minutes before you throw it into a 225 degrees Celcius hot oven. In the middle for about 20-25 minutes. BE AWARE - if it's in for too long it will be a bit to hard.

Break in pieces and eat with Philadelphia, ham, cheese and tomatoes/fried egg, tomatoes, leek...

Montignac answer

Imagica Vasia said...Adora,vegetables contain carbohydrate,I guess ;s Can I eat them combined with meat or egges?
Can you please tell us what food should not combine? (:

Yes, in Phase 1 you can eat anything with a carbohydrate less then 30. And you can combine it with meat and eggs. Perfect! You got it right.

Here's a table with what's under 30. From the Montignac site.

Sometimes people says to me "You can't stop eating carbohydrates, your body needs it".

The answer is: everything but water contain some carbohydrates, so I can't eat 0. The thing is I just don't add those reffined carbohydrates that's speeding the body, just to get a real dip afterwards.

But if you, at Phase 1, eats things above carboh. 30 you shouldn't mix it with fat (meat, sausage, cream..).

Montignac Method lunch

According to Mr Montignac lunch should be the days fattest meal (but you should still be moderate in Phase 1).
Here's an example of a Phase 1 lunch (don't forget to have a fruit 20 minutes before):
and again - as much as you want

• sausage with a meet percentage above 80%
• red onion
• mushrooms
• ruccola
• cucumber
• green olives
• sun dried tomatoes

• crisp bread served with
• philadelphia
• fried egg

If you rather want to have beans/peas/lentils/fullgrain pasta or bulgur in this meal you have to remove the sausage and philadelphia.

This dish can be changed for eternity.

Fat + fibres are ok (sausage, Philadephia + veggies, egg, crisp bread, mushrooms) or

Carbohydrates + fibres are ok (beans, peas, fullgrain pasta and so on + veggies, egg, crisp bread, mushrooms).

The no-no is: Fat + carbohydrates.

Montignac Method vs anorexia nervosa

Forgot to mention - I'm not on the Montignac Method to loose weight. I am skinny enough.
But I used the Phase 1 every time to loose my weight after the pregnancies, and by this method alone (no additional training) I've lost a total of (are you ready?) 56 kilos! That is more than my weight today! I've lost a whole me by just changing my diet! 13+21+22=56 kilos.
(And for those who wonders: No, my kids don't eat according to Montignac)

First when I started out 10 years ago it was because I got an gastric catarrh and needed to stop eating crazy amounts of crisps and potatoe gratins flowing over with cream all day long (and I wanted my husband to be that skinny bitch he was when we met).
I was for real a crisp junkie. I had my stashes all over the place. And this is no joke!

I needed to find a way to still be able to eat like the horse my friends thinks I am (I don't know how, but I can eat more than a grown man - easily!) and get rid of that catarrh at the same time. And, ta-daa, my friend Mr N introduced us to the father of all GI-diets -Mr Montignac.

I like to look like an anorexic - without being one. <------Very important!
I'm totally honest, the skinny, on the verge to anorexic (not skin over skeleton) is a look that appeals to me (we all have different preferences, that's mine). But I would NEVER stop eating! And, I am naturally slim, so are both my parents.
Many girls wants to be skinnier (for whatever the reason) and I sure as hell rather see them loose their weight with the Montignac Method eating healthy than to stop eating and develop anorexia. You can thank me later, moms.
I'm a living (healthier) proof to that you still can be skinny without stop eating.

I've seen my pictures on "thinspiration"-sites and videos, and that's a bit scary, I can only just hope that people know I'm skinny because I eat, not because I don't.

Being an anorexic is a horrible, horrible desease that slowly kills you, and if you survive back you have damaged your inner organs and brain in ways that might not show until later in life.
You can become "sober", but unlike an alcoholic that just have to stay away from alcohol the rest of their life, you can't stay away from food. You will have to live with your disease everytime you eat.

I know an elderly lady that starved herself in the youth (because she was living a glitterati lifestyle as a dancer) and she's got permanent back pain (because of osteoporosis) causing her to bend foward as she walks, a tummy that can't hold her food causing either constipation or diarrea (yes, girls, that's the future. Like wearing diapers?) and damage on her short time memory. According to her doctor because of the many years of anorexia.
I can't tell you enough how many times she'd told me that if she could turn back time she wouldn't starved herself in the youth knowing this would be the future...she is very sad about this.

I can't tell you not to loose weight, because if you want to you will only do it another way so I will give you what I consider a good method.
A lot more can be said about anorexia, but I'll leave it like this for now.

I know I'm very controversial saying I like to look anorexic, but I can only just hope I'm allowed to tell the truth on how my mind works (I will be sooo whipped because of this...). Oh well...

Montignac Method basics

(I've copied parts of one of my earlier inlays.)
There is

• Phase 1 - the weightloss phase, and
• Phase 2 - the stabilisation phase

At Phase 1 (and always) you should start every meal with about ½-1 apple/pear or some berries etc. Why? To prevent the blood sugar fall you get after a dinner when your body concentrates on to take care of the new food. This causes you to want some sugar since your body starts feeling slow. By adding a bit of a sugar-rush in advance, you won't get that craving.

The big nono's are:

• potatoes
• white rice and pasta, couscous
• boiled carrots
• corn
• (grapes, water melon)
• everything containing wheat flour
• NO sugar OR sweetener (candy, soda, juice, cakes, bread, honey, glucose....)
• alcohol
• light products (better use the real thing - if you must)
• coffee/tea (or at least less)
• nothing with carbohydrate over 30 in Phase 1 (or 50 in Phase 2). I usually go by 30, because I'm done with it quicker and can get back to eating those cream sauces I like in Phase 2 :)
• (no extra fat at Phase 1 except for lunch)

And. as I said, no counting. If you want to eat 11 beef steakes with broccoli - go for it. The point is to eat until you feel full.

I keep the fat level down in Phase 1, so a normal dinner can be homemade beef, tomatosauce made from ovenbaked tomatoes with red paprika and red onions with a pinch of garlic and fresh basil that's been mixed to a sauce, served with boiled broccoli and mixed fresh salad (if in Phase 2 I add a dijon cream sauce).

According to Mr. Montignac lunch should be the days fattest meal. So an omelette with tomatoes, spring onion, muschrooms, ruccola and cheese is a good lunch, or crisp bread with philadelphia, ham, eggs, tomatoe or something like that - as many as you need to feel full.

Important: your brain needs fat, so by eating "no" fat in Phase 1 that's not really true. Meat contains fat, and you can eat plain cream or creme fraiche sauce (moderatly in Phase 1) if you want. As long as you don't mix fat with carbohydrates you're fine.

We wanna loose weight, not become stupid.

7-8 months after my second pregnancy

I mostly eat fat and fibres (you can also eat fibres and carbohydrates - but absolutley NO fat (meat, cream) to that). And since I'm at Phase 2 I can slip in a cupcake/applepie slice/chocolate truffles every now and then without getting bigger. Phase 2 is for life so to speak :)

Montignac Method rules

There are a few technical details I leave out because it will make my writing like a whole damn book otherwise. I just give you the contents, and some small explanations.

1. Always eat a fresh fruit 20 minutes before every meal (again - as much as you like). I have a 1/4 of a Fuji apple (they are BIG). Example: apple, pear, orange, kiwi, mango, most berries etc.
   This is for every breakfast, lunch and dinner.
   
   WHY? If you eat the fruit before food you will avoid getting that low blood sugar you get when your body is all focused on processing the new food after eating, and will not give you the urge to have something sweet afterwards. Know the feeling? A very smart idea if you easy get headaches because of low blood sugar.

And yes, I only eat them because they are pink :)

Montignac Method basics

This upcoming week is my interpretation of the Montignac Method. I started it 10 years ago, so it might be that this method changed slightly over the years.

The method is a low glycemic index (low GI) way of eating, devided into Phase 1 (the weight losing phase) and Phase 2 (stabilisizing the weight. This is where I am now).

It sounds more complicated than it is, I can assure you!

A few things you must buy home to succeed smoothly:

• dark chocolate with >70% cacao
• plain nuts (peanuts, almonds, pistachio, hazelnut)
• headache pills

Why this? When your body all of a sudden gets off the drug (sugar/carbohydrates) your body will get abstinence and react with headache. And the chocolate and nuts is if you used to be a middle-in-the-night-snacker. Then you will at least have something better to eat if you must.

The Montignac concept from his page.

In Phase 1 you will eat things with GI under 35 (I'll guide you through it the best I can).
The Montignac page have a quicky where you can write in the product and you will get the GI at once. Here.

You do NOT have to change your ordinary coocking that much, just adjust it a bit. You are allowed to eat as much as you please and you will loose weight while eating.

As an example: I like to eat spaghetti and mincemeat sauce. In Phase 1 I changed the spaghetti to broccoli/green salad and that was it! My mincedmeat sauce already was "Montignac-safe" containing only minced meat, chopped onions, crushed tomatoes, salt and pepper.
As I reached my weight I simply added some fullgrain spaghetti to the equation and kept the broccoli with the sause.

You should eat (according to Montignac):
fat and fibres
OR
carbohydrates and fibres
NEVER
carbohydrates and fat together. Not so difficult.

Montignac Method part 1

START-UP
If you will be successfull loosing weight you need The shame-factor.

After every pregnancy when I had about 22 kilos extra I had my weight loss published every week on a swedish forum where I had many followers. It made me think everytime I wanted to "cheat" that I would be so embarassed...

1. Choose a Shame-factor. You can leave a weight loss table at work/publish it at Facebook or here. It must be really embarrassing if you fail.
2. Make a table containing: your current stats on top, date/week count, current weight, total weight lost, this weeks weight loss, (kilos left)
3. Next Tuesday morning, the 15'th), before breakfast you will weigh yourself. (You might also measure your waist and thighs)
4. Every Friday before breakfast you make a new weight - ONLY on Fridays.

This is mine from when I lost weight after TeeBee:
Adora info:
Height: 177 cm
Goal : 53,3 kg (the weight I had before my pregnancy)
Start weight: 75,2 kg (+21,9 kg)
(This was after a pregnancy, that's why there was this flying start)

1 weeks: 66,5 kg (-8,7 kg)
2 weeks: 66,0 kg (-9,2 kg)
3 weeks: 65,3 (-9,9 kg)
4 weeks: 65,4 (-9,8 kg) What the hell!
5 weeks: 65,2 (-10 kg)
6 weeks: 64,4 (-10,8 kg)
Christmas!!!
8 weeks: 64,8 (-10,4 kg) +0,4 kg
9 weeks: 64.4 (-10,8 kg again...) -400 g
10 weeks: 63,0 kg (-12,2 kg) -1,4 kg
11 weeks: 62,4 kg (-12,8 kg) -600 g
12 weeks: 61,2 kg (-14,0 kg) -1,2 kg
snip snip
35 weeks: 53,0 kg (-22,2 kg) - 1,0 kg DONE!!

Now we have covered the first step.

Wanna loose weight?

Next Tuesday I'm gonna start you up on the Montignac Method (good to loose weight, but also good for already satisfied bodytypes since it's a healthy way to eat).

I've eaten according to Montignac for about 10 years, and I didn't start it to loose weight, but because I got a gastric catarrh and needed to change my way of eating.
I was a crisp-o-holic and ate 300 grams of crisps every weekend for about a year. I was in it bad, I was one needle away to go down the gutter and be a real crisp-druggie. After that torture my stomach said - no more of this shit and self-cutted.
Also...I though my husband was a bit too...ehh..large? I only like skinny bitches so for me to keep loving him he needed to ditch that extra weight faster then a bra in the wrong bedroom.
But I can't blame him on adding a few kilos - it was my cooking that put him there... me and my potatoe gratin overflowing with cream. So I needed to be punished as well.

It was our friend Mr N that told us about this method all of the nerds at his computer company did, loosing weight while sitting on their asses. Suited me just fine since I hate moving around for nothing.
Bought the book, changed my way to cook.

I will try to guide you as good as I can. Join me!

This is so crazy - I stopped eating my 22:00 snack 2 days ago and already it payed off! I can't believe it - but I lost 1 kilo in just 2 days! This makes me wonder what the hell I ate before???
I changed nothing but that last meal. So dinner at 16:00 and then something small at 18:00 and then stop. And believe me, I do NOT go to bed hungry. I'm guessing I will not loose weight in that same rate now, but that's good, you should never loose weight too fast. AND never diet, just change to better eating (like the Montignac method). And I can also say that my ulcer seems gone :) Wohooo!

Montignac Diet

As I'm sitting here eating brie, blue cheeze and finn crisp I came to think about the "safe" evening snacks at Phase 1.

What you always needs to have at home while in the first phase is >70% chocolate. Since you cut out all the sugar and sweetening you 'll need something if you get a craving - just a small piece though...

At evenings if I'm in the mood for something to eat, more luxurious, here's some tips:
* different cheese (brie, white/blue cheese) and finn crisp (or other fiber cracker with no sweetening)
* whipped cream, fresh berrys (straw-, rasp-, blue-berries) perhaps with some >70% chocolate splinter
* sliced apple with cinnamon in the micro until warm and mushy, served with lightly whipped cream and chopped almonds
* fruit salad (apple, pear, orange), whipped cream
* a handfull of nuts

Montignac diet

I eat according to his first book (not sure about it's english name, but the swedish could be translated to "I eat - therefore I get thin").

There is a Phase 1 - the weightloss phase, and Phase 2 - the stabile phase.

At Phase 1 (and always) you should start every meal with about ½ an apple/pear or some berries. Why? To prevent the blood sugar fall you get after a dinner when your body concentrates on to take care of the new food. This causes you to want some sugar since your body starts feeling slow. By adding a bit of a sugar-rush in advance, you won't get that craving.

Then the big nono's is: potatoes, white rice and pasta, couscous, boiled carrots, corn, grapes, water melon, everything containing wheat flour, NO sugar OR sweetener (candy, soda, juice, cakes, bread, honey, glucose....), no alcohol, no light products, coffee/tea, nothing with carbohydrate over 50 (or 30 dependig on how hard you want to go). I usually go by 30, because I'm done with it quicker and can get back to eating those cream sauces I like in Phase 2 :)

And as I said, no counting. If you want to eat 11 beef steakes with broccoli - go for it. The point is to eat until you feel full.

I keep the fat level down in Phase 1, so a normal dinner can be homemade beef, tomatosauce made from ovenbaked tomatoes with red paprika and red onions with a pinch of garlic and fresh basil that's been mixed to a sauce, served with boiled broccoli and mixed fresh salad (if in Phase 2 I add a dijon cream sause).

According to Mr. Montignac lunch should be the days fattest meal. So an omelette with tomatoes, spring onion, muschrooms and cheese is a good lunch.

Important: your brain needs fat, so by eating "no" fat in Phase 1 that's not really true. Meat contains fat, and you can eat plain cream or creme fraiche sauce if you want. As long as you don't mix fat with carbohydrates you're fine.

I eat fat and fibres (you can also eat fibres and carbohydrates - but absolutley NO fat (meat, cream) to that).

I'll write down what you can eat if you want something for an evening snack tomorrow!

Montignac diet

Many people reacted about my Montignac diet.
To tell off the ones saying I'm anorexic - let me explaine:
Many years ago I ate lots of crisps and a bit too much sugar (like in pie/tarts/desserts. Never been a big fan of candy or ice cream), but still homely cooking.

By cutting out the sugar and most of the fast carbohydrates you get headache and feel tired - it's an abstinence result from my body wanting the drug: sugar (also carbohydrates transforms to glucose/blood sugar).

I then developed a painfun gastric catarrh, and was advised to change diet since I ate too much fat.

I started the Montignac diet about 10 years ago and it solved my problem and still let me eat as much as I like without causing me tummy problems. Around friends I'm known to eat humungous amounts of food (but I also poo a lot)! I know it's hard to believe, but according to studies fat people tend to eat less then 3 meals a day - I eat 6.

1. Montignac diet is a lifestyle, not a crash diet.
2. I hate complicated diets. Now I change the potatoes for broccoli and that's it.
3. By eating 6 times a day I never get hungry to the point I'd eat anything in reach.

I have been eating "non-Montignac" - a bit too much cookies and crisps lately (the easter holiday...), so I have not only gained a little weight (about 1½ kilo) but also my gastric problems are occurring again. And instead of eating medine I change my way of eating to a better way. Well, I have to start off by eating a few tabletts to help little tummy get started. Changing diet is to decrease, instead of increase, the gastric problem.

Situps is a must for me since I suffer from backproblems as most tall people, and that my pregnancys killed what was left of it. 100 a day, a few back work outs and a movement to lift the butt (THIS is only for looks - I AM 37 you know....)

I hope "Anonoymous" gets a better picture of me now.
But sure - I like to LOOK anorexic, but being is not healthy - so yes, I hope people who likes to be skinny takes after me and eat healthy, lots and still gets skinny. I think that is a much better idea then to eat orange-jucie dipped cotton to swallow, to make your tummy feel full so you can stop the hunger, as I know many high fashion models do. What those stupid girls don't know is that you have to surgically remove the cotton later. My broccoli, meat and cream sauce goes out the normal way.

I will explain more about the Montignac diet later.
But I like when people are critic and not just accepting, so I welcome those anonymous :)