MY CURRENT NUTRITIONAL GOALS:

FAT GOAL: = At least 65% of total calories, but more works better for me!

CARB GOAL: NET = < 30gm but I don't worry if I go up to 40 net occasionally.

PROTEIN GOAL: 120 gm (this is based on my LBM of 142 lbs as well as my activity level)

CALORIES: I keep track but I do not actively restrict them.

** Your goals may need to be different  but these are mine. ATM (at the moment) **

November 1, 2000 Wednesday

BREAKFAST 7am Coffee with half and half cream, 2 egg omelette with sharp cheddar and ham and turkey, 1 slice toasted Oroweat with 2 tsp. butter

LUNCH: in the car 1:45, 1 Atkins bar

SNACK: 5p 1 oz mixed nuts

DINNER: 6p Mountain oat bread wrap with 1cup chicken salad. 2 oz. sharp cheddar

WATER: 2 liters - if I am lucky.

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

EXERCISE: Off day

CALORIES: 2036

FAT: 151 Gm, 69% (46 saturated fat gm, 21 %)

CARBS: 50 gm (20 fiber) 30 net 6%

PROTEIN: 120 gm, 25%

Morning after notes: I was positive I would be down, but so much for what I know  up half a pound L Could be because I only spent 5 hours in bed and didn't drink squat for water. In fact, I know that's it. Without proper sleep and enough water, nothing else matters.

There is SNOW on the ground, yippee! I don't mind driving in it if I can ski in it, and I can't wait to ski this year with my new muscles! 16 days till Vail opensopenopenOPEN already.

November 2, 2000 Thursday

BREAKFAST 7am Coffee with half and half cream, O'SoLo peanut butter muffin

LUNCH: 2 fried eggs with bacon and 1 slice toasted buttered Oroweat lite

SNACK: 4p 1 oz mixed nuts

DINNER: 6p Beef brisket, a little bit of salad, Keto Pasta with butter, parmesan, and sour cream

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

EXERCISE: No time!

CALORIES: 1751

FAT: 113 Gm, 60% (28 saturated fat gm, 15 %)

CARBS: 47 gm (14 fiber) 34 net 8%

PROTEIN: 136 gm, 32%

Morning after notes: No change.

November 3, 2000 Friday

BREAKFAST 7am Coffee with half and half cream, 1 wasa fiber rye with 1/3 cup chicken salad and 1 oz sharp cheddar

LUNCH: Salad with romaine, tomato, feta and tlc creamy italian parmesan

SNACK: 1 oz peanuts

DINNER: 3 oz. summer sausage, 1.5 oz. sharp cheddar on 1 wasa with jalapeno mustard, 1 oz. maui onion macs, 2 diet rite colas with 4 oz. barcardi light rum

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

EXERCISE: No time!

CALORIES: 2098

FAT: 158 Gm, 79% (55 saturated fat gm, 27 %)

CARBS: 35 gm (14 fiber) 21 net 5%

PROTEIN: 72 gm, 16%

Morning after notes: Down a whole pound! Yippee. Saw the doctor, who scheduled me for a Doppler scan of my leg in a couple weeks with a vein specialist. Since it finally started to heal but only with the use of a support stocking, it seems clear that there is venous involvement. That part is not good, but it is better to know something like that than to not know, and it sure isn't a visible problem, if not for this infection in that area we might not have found out for a long time that I even had a problem.

November 4, 2000 Saturday

BREAKFAST 7am Coffee with half and half cream, 6 slices bacon

LUNCH: Fried egg sandwich! Sliced 1 piece of Alvarado St sprouted multi grain bread into 2 very thin pieces then toasted them, with 2 fried eggs and 1.5 oz cheddar cheese and 2 Tb mayo in between.

SNACK: Lean protein chips and pork rinds dipped in fresh picante (salsa)

DINNER: 2.5 Mexican wraps: Ground beef and black soy beans seasoned with Ancho Chili paste, and shredded cheddar, wrapped up in mountain bread and baked till crispy, then topped with sour cream and loads of fresh salsa. Followed by 2 TLC Almond Nirvana bars - OMG was THAT good!

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

EXERCISE: None

CALORIES: 2362

FAT: 179 Gm, 72% (69 saturated fat gm, 27 %)

CARBS: 61 gm (21 fiber) 40 net 7%

PROTEIN: 118 gm, 21%

Morning after notes: More snow out there, YAHOO. Up a pound and a half! Yikes. But worth itI overdid the salsa and the wraps, it had been so long since I ate anything so resembling real Mexican food. I may have to think twice about the guacamole and salsa and SF margaritas I had planned for gametime today, however. Although I already bought all the limes and avocadoes, and it would be a real shame to let them go bad perhaps I could say this whole weekend was a mini-vacation, in celebration of the book? We shall see how I feel this afternoon, but I just may GO FOR IT. I feel worthy.

November 5, 2000 Sunday

BREAKFAST 830am Coffee with half and half cream, 1 srv. leftover Keto Pasta Parmesan

LUNCH: 1pm Nachos!! TLC Guacamole, lean protein chips, cheddar, picante sauce And 2 PERFECT MARGARITAS: Over ice, in a cocktail shaker: 4 parts Baja Bob's SF sweet and sour mix, 2 parts Cuervo 1800 Anejo tequila, 1 part Grand Marnier, 1 part Triple Sec, 1 part fresh lime juice. Strain out into salted glasses.

SNACK: 3 almond nirvana bars

DINNER: Thought I'd better skip it after yesterday's gain and today's indulgence.

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

EXERCISE: Never on Sunday  did do some screaming during that Denver-Jets game though!!

CALORIES: 1770

FAT: 127 Gm, 66% (53 saturated fat gm, 28 %)

CARBS: 53 gm (18 fiber) 35 net 8%

PROTEIN: 112 gm, 26%

Morning after notes: Back down the full pound and a half! Yippee, I am glad I decided to still indulge in guacamole and margaritas!!

November 6, 2000 Monday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with half and half cream, 1 Atkins bar

LUNCH: 245pm  by the time I finished getting the weekend's shipments out! 1 Mexican wrap with ground beef, black soy beans Ancho chili paste, and cheddar cheese, in a Mountain bread wrap covered with guacamole

SNACK: none

DINNER: GF'd chicken breasts over romaine with red onion, red pepper, tomato, cucumber, cheese and TLC ranch

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

EXERCISE: 300 crunches: 150 fetal with weights, 150 obliques, also lifted weights. I didn't feel the margaritas at all until I started working out, then I could tell my butt was dragging!!

CALORIES: 1880

FAT: 131 Gm, 67% (48 saturated fat gm, 24 %)

CARBS: 52 gm (25 fiber) 27 net 6%

PROTEIN: 117 gm, 27%

Morning after notes: Lost a half pound, at a new all-time low.

November 7, 2000 Tuesday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with cream, 1 O'SoLo peanut butter muffin

LUNCH: 115p  2 ground chicken patties covered with the last of the guacamole and 1.5 oz. cheddar cheese

SNACK: almond nirvana

DINNER: New York strip steak, later I made french vanilla OIAB

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

EXERCISE: off day

CALORIES: 2346

FAT: 180 Gm, 70% (78 saturated fat gm, 30 %)

CARBS: 37 gm (13 fiber) 24 net 4%

PROTEIN: 152 gm, 26%

Morning after notes: Down another half pound!

November 8, 2000 Wednesday (the day after the election without a president)

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 1 wasa cracker spread with 1/3 cup chicken salad

LUNCH: 130p  Salad with romaine (1 cup), red pepper (15 g), red onion(20 g), chicken breast (4 oz) cheddar cheese (1 oz) and TLC ranch (2 Tb)

SNACK: 1 oz pistachios

DINNER: 7 oz. braised pork with 1.5 cups sauerkraut

WATER: 2 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

EXERCISE: Sheesh  I actually forgot until 9pm that it was my day to exercise *shaking my head*

CALORIES: 2208

FAT: 153 Gm, 68% (67 saturated fat gm, 30 %)

CARBS: 47 gm (17 fiber) 30 net 6%

PROTEIN: 130 gm, 26%

Morning after notes: Down another half pound - wish I could do this EVERY day! But as long as it lasts, I am enjoying it  fully!!

November 9, 2000 Thursday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 6 slices bacon, 2 fried eggs, 1 toasted Oroweat Lite with butter

LUNCH: 1p  7 oz. braised pork with 1.75 cups sauerkraut

SNACK: 4p -1 oz pistachios

DINNER: Salad with romaine (2 cups), red pepper (15 g), red onion(20 g), chicken breast (6 oz) cheddar cheese (1 oz) feta (1 Tb) sunflower kernels (1 Tb) and TLC ranch (3 Tb) with 2 vodka and diet Squirts, then 1 almond nirvana and half a CarboLite chocolate bar

WATER: 2.5 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

EXERCISE: Nope, worked straight through the day AGAIN, darn it

CALORIES: 2401

FAT: 163 Gm, 65% (55 saturated fat gm, 22 %)

CARBS: 54 gm (22 fiber) 32 net 6%

PROTEIN: 164 gm, 29%

Morning after notes: Up a half pound  the price I pay for having 2 cocktails with aspertame soda mixers, and then eating dessert too. Oh, well.

November 10, 2000 Friday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, and 10am: a peanut butter and bacon sandwich!! on 2 thin slices of toasted LC bread. Yum.

LUNCH: 1p Salad with 4 oz. chicken, 1 cup Romaine, 1 oz. shredded cheddar, and 2 Tb. TLC ranch

SNACK: Pure Delight SF chocolate bar with almonds, half serving of Just the Cheese jalapeno flavor (the UPS man came today with my netrition order!!)

DINNER: Here's where I really screw up. I started off with 2 Perfect Margaritas, followed by (this is all a guess from here!) 1 oz of Maui onion macs, 3 oz of mixed nuts, 3 oz summer sausage and 2 oz sharp cheddar on 1.5 wasa crackers with jalapeno mustard. Then later because I still had the munchies (from the alcohol! Beware) I went and made a bowl of OIAB with 4 oz cream cheese, a little bit of whipped cream, peanut butter and cocoa, and chocolate Davinci syrup, and ate the whole thing.

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

CALORIES: 3552!!

FAT: 283 Gm, 74% (114 saturated fat gm, 30 %)

CARBS: 91 gm (27 fiber) 64 net 7%

PROTEIN: 159 gm, 18%

Morning after notes: Up two more pounds!! OMG. Consider me "on the wagon" for a while, I don't care how many fresh limes I have in the house  no more Margaritas!! My fingers look like little sausages and my rings are so tight (I moved them all up a finger and they fit just right- usually!) that they hurt. I woke up at 5:55am too, and it's Saturday  sheesh! The one bright note is that it is STILL SNOWING, we have oh, maybe six inches on the ground right here, Vail mountain was due to get at least 18 from this storm, and they had already moved opening day up to next Wednesday, before this storm even started. Ya-hooooooo, I can't wait to *ski* these extra pounds off. Beats walking them off, any day.

November 11, 2000 Saturday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, and 2 fried eggs, 1 oz bacon

LUNCH: 2p  went out with my girlfriend! Salad with ranch, the guts from a Philly cheese steak sandwich, and 2 chicken wing pieces. 1 Miller Lite

SNACK: None, I was really good today

DINNER: 1 burger made from ground moose and bacon topped with 1 thin slice cheddar

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

CALORIES: 1554

FAT: 104 Gm, 65% (29 saturated fat gm, 18 %)

CARBS: 23 gm (2 fiber) 21 net 6%

PROTEIN: 104 gm, 29%

Morning after notes: I expected to dump the excess 2.5 pounds, at least half of it, but am only down half a pound, and still up 2! Dang.

November 12, 2000 Sunday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, atkins bar

10am  half an Aspen Ice Cream LC bagel  I THINK!! It was so darn good and the texture so chewy I wonder if if was actually a "normal" one. The plain ones are better than the onion ones, texture wise!

LUNCH: 12p  pepperoni, a cheese crisp, 2 Diet Rites, and some Maui onion macs

DINNER: None - I went to sleep at 3:30 and stayed that way. Guess I am caught up now.

WATER: 2 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

CALORIES: 1476

FAT: 120 Gm, 78% (60 saturated fat gm, 39 %)

CARBS: 23 gm (6 fiber) 17 net 5%

PROTEIN: 58 gm, 17%

Morning after notes: Am only down 1 pound, and still up 1! Will work out today and hope it finally goes away.

November 13, 2000 Monday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 3 fried eggs, 1 oz. cooked bacon, half a LC bagel with butter

LUNCH: 12p 1 small chicken breast tender and 1 Tyson ground chicken patty

SNACK: half a serving of TLC Pineapple Upside Down Cake!!! Mmmmmmm. Another one for TLC Cooking Volume II. Also ate 1.5 TLC Vanilla Nut muffins.

DINNER: Pro-Slim tagilatelle pasta (YUCCCK! Keto Pasta is MUCH better) with TLC marinara and cooked ground moose meat over the top, Salad: 1 cup Romaine, 2 cherry tomatoes and 2 Tb. TLC ranch, 1 Diet Rite

WATER: 2 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

CALORIES: 1849

FAT: 109 Gm, 55% (32 saturated fat gm, 16 %)

CARBS: 45 gm (8 fiber) 37 net 8%

PROTEIN: 167 gm, 37%

Morning after notes: Went up ANOTHER &^$%^* pound. That's 3 days in a row with calories between 1500 and 1900 and I still can't seem to get my losin' groove back. Grrrrrrrrr! I am now 2 lbs. over my all time low. But it could be worse, I guess.

November 14, 2000 Tuesday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 2 TLC Vanilla Nut muffins

LUNCH: 12p 1 small can tuna mixed with 1.5 Tb mayo, on a Mtn. bread wrap

SNACK: 1 oz Maui onion macs

DINNER: Cooked a huge box of jumbo butterflied shrimp from Sam's Club. 10 minutes in the oven, what could be easier?! It was fat free till I started dipping them into real melted garlic butter  YUMMMM. No sides needed. Did eat 2 Nirvana bars afterward from the fresh batch I made.

WATER: 2 liters  I am really down on my consumption lately! Gotta work on that.

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

CALORIES: 1850

FAT: 131 Gm, 66% (46 saturated fat gm, 23 %)

CARBS: 32 gm (12 fiber) 20 net 5%

PROTEIN: 133 gm, 30%

Morning after notes: Finally dropped ONE pound of the hangers-on, but am still up one, with TOM approaching in about 3 days. Not a pretty picture.

November 15, 2000 Wednesday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 2 TLC Vanilla Nut muffins

LUNCH: Chicken fajita salad with salsa and sour cream as dressings, in a restaurant  ate around the stuff I was wary of, sent back the shell, and requested sour cream and salsa to dress it with.

SNACK: Carb Solutions bar

DINNER: Braised pork loin, about 6 oz, and 1 cup sauerkraut. Not one potato dumpling that I made for the kids, though it about killed me. Haven't been tempted in a long time, not like that. I wasted a bunch of LC ingredients with my 2nd failed attempt at a LC version of these. Think I should give up, some things just require white flour to work Also ate 1 Peanut Nirvana after dinner.

WATER: 3 liters  slightly better

SUPPLEMENTS: I think I forgot.

CALORIES: 1647

FAT: 97 Gm, 56% (45 saturated fat gm, 26 %)

CARBS: 33 gm (10 fiber) 23 net 6%

PROTEIN: 148 gm, 38%

Morning after notes: In spite of the fact that TOM showed up at 11 am, 3 days early, I am down half a pound today. This is a first! I always GAIN at TOM time. Guess it is just as well that I was not skiing at the time, like I was supposed to be! At this rate, I may be ready to ski with the kids on Saturday instead.

November 16, 2000 Thursday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 6 slices bacon, 2 fried eggs, 1 toasted Oroweat Lite with butter

LUNCH: LC tuna melt (I latortilla topped with 4 oz tuna, 1 Tb mayo, and ¼ c. shredded cheddar, then broiled)

SNACK: 2 pain pills! Actually took 4 during the course of the day

DINNER: well I wouldn't call it DINNER, really, and I can blame TOM  a Carbolite dark and 1 oz maui onion macs, then 2 nirvana during the evening hours

WATER: 3.5 liters plus 2 Diet Rites

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

CALORIES: 2053

FAT: 151 Gm, 72% (58 saturated fat gm, 27%)

CARBS: 43 gm (19 fiber) 24 net 5%

PROTEIN: 109 gm, 23%

Morning after notes: Up "just" half a pound  so far.

November 17, 2000 Friday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 1 Designer Protein bar (not terrible but I will never buy them again)

LUNCH: Tyson pre-grilled chicken strips, about 5 oz covered with sour cream and green Tabasco, also 1 cup Romaine with ranch

SNACK: 5pm 1 oz maui onion macs

DINNER: went out! Had a salad with ranch and a 10 oz sirloin steak and one bite of green beans that was DRENCHED with honey. OMG> What won't people sweeten these days? For the cost of our meal I could have bought a week's worth of steak at Sam's Club, too. But we were celebrating  Mitch passed his Master Electrician's License exam the night before and Roxanne made the JV basketball team, as a freshman, not an easy thing to do and something she worked very hard at. And Matthew came home from school with a certificate of accelerated reading. And I got my FEIN (whoopie). So, out we went, and cured we are. And after we got home I made a big bowl of instant OIAB. (I have one of these whip cream machines that use co2 so I can make individual servings easily. One tip  don't ever put davinci syrup or vanilla extract into the machine, the cream then "burns" your tongue and tastes awful! But the machines are WAY cool, like Redi-whip but you can make it with Splenda and real cream.)

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

CALORIES: 2446

FAT: 164 Gm, 64% (71 saturated fat gm, 28%)

CARBS: 39 gm (6 fiber) 33 net 6%

PROTEIN: 162 gm, 29%

Morning after notes: Ate MORE calories, MORE fat, MORE protein, and MORE carbs, and went back DOWN the half pound. Weird. But I'll take it! 

November 18, 2000 Saturday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 2 fried eggs, 1 slice toasted Oroweat Lite

LUNCH: 2 Boca soy burgers with American cheese

SNACK: at the movies: 1 Carbolite dark, 1 bag Just the Cheese, 6 meringue buttons, 1 mouthful popcorn

DINNER: 2 venison brauts, .75 cup sauerkraut, 2 oz. swiss cheese, 1 srv. OIAB

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

CALORIES: 2484

FAT: 180 Gm, 72% (94 saturated fat gm, 38%)

CARBS: 52 gm (20 fiber) 32 net 6%

PROTEIN: 127 gm, 23%

Morning after notes: Up 1.5 pounds  every time we eat these venison brats, we gain  DH is up 3 lbs. They MUST have sugar in them  Ganette! Thanks, but next time, keep 'em. :) We appreciate the thought, and the taste, but not the effect.

November 19, 2000 Sunday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 1 Atkins mocha crunch bar

LUNCH: 1 laTortilla filled with 4 oz grilled Tyson chicken strips, 3 Tb. shredded cheddar, 2 Tb. sour cream and green Tabasco

SNACK: mixed nuts

DINNER: Roasted chicken, later a bunch of OIAB

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

CALORIES: 2123

FAT: 167 Gm, 72% (89 saturated fat gm, 38%)

CARBS: 38 gm (3 fiber) 35 net 5%

PROTEIN: 123 gm, 24%

Morning after notes: Down a half pound. Hopefully I can dump the rest today, TOM is OVER, yahoooooo.

November 20, 2000 Monday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, half a LC bagel with cream cheese

LUNCH: Took a protein shake with me but I added too much Davinci, or the wrong flavor  it was awful and I couldn't drink it. At 3:30 I ate 1laTortilla filled with 4 oz grilled Tyson chicken strips, 2 Tb. shredded cheddar, and green Tabasco  after shopping, by that time I was ravenous, just ask my kids what kind of mood Mommy was in

DINNER: Leftover roasted chicken, maybe 3 oz., with a really nice salad with mixed baby greens, red pepper, grape tomaotes, feta, shredded cheddar, and TLC Ranch. Later: 1 srv. Rocky Road and ½ a Darrel Lea chocolate bar

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

CALORIES: 1368

FAT: 88 Gm, 63% (28 saturated fat gm, 20%)

CARBS: 33 gm (13 fiber) 20 net 6%

PROTEIN: 99 gm, 31%

Morning after notes: Down another pound, just up half a pound over my all-time low now, soon I will be losing new poundage again. Like Wed. when I ski all day - Just in time to gain on Thursday  oh well, what are you gonna do?

November 21, 2000 Tuesday

Got really busy preparing for Thanksgiving and stopped recording everything in Lifeform.

I went to the vein doctor this day for a Doppler Scan. He found no indication that I will suffer from varicose veins like my mother but he did find a "perforator" vein under the scar. Said he can't tell if it is "leaking" but since I am healing, to proceed on the assumption that all is well, and if the area breaks down again, then it must be leaking and he will do surgery to "tie it off". For now I must keep wearing the support stocking :( especially when exercising, standing for long periods, etc. Prepared smothered mexican wraps for dinner, and fresh salsa, ate too much and gained a pound.

Wed. the 22nd  skiied all day and skiied my totally thin friend, who has been going to the gym three times a week regularly, since last spring, into the ****ing GROUND. As usual, I could do that even when I was fat fat fat, but this time she didn't expect it since she is in better shape then she has ever been. I KNEW it would be that way, since I have been exercising all along, myself, as well, and could always do it  hehehehe. I am happy to report that once again I can ski from the tippy top of Vail Mtn down to the very bottom without ever stopping even ONCE. Whooo Hoooo. Been 15 years since I could say that. Karen, the virtual blur on skis, is back. Watch out. (I even caught some air about 5 times!! And have no broken bones.)

Thursday the 23rd, Thanksgiving Day  I was good, but not good enough For breakfast I ate 3 fried eggs and some bacon. Never had lunch, just sort of grazed on the LC appetizers  which included Spicy Nut Mix and Sweet Nut Crunch, shrimp with cocktail sauce, fresh salsa and pork rinds (tortilla chips for them), fresh veggies with TLC ranch and bleu cheese dips, beef summer sausage, pepper jack and sharp cheddar cheeses with jalapeno mustard, and crackers. Dinner included turkey, LC stuffing prepared with my own dried LC bread and a loaf of Oroweat lite too, "regular stuffing" for them, gravy made with ThickenThin and Keto-milk for all (no one could tell the difference!) mashed potatoes for "them", LC cranberry sauce (served "regular" as well) green bean casserole with a minimal amount of Durkee onions in it and none on the top, a big smoked ham, and SF orange jello with real orange pieces in it. Although I ate more than I usually would other years, I did NOT feel stuffed and lethargic afterwards, in fact I jumped up to clear and do the dishes pretty quickly. Dessert included one bite of my daughter's very first homemade pie (apple) one piece of my own LC lemon meringue pie, and coffee with DaVinci syrup  macadamia nut, my new favorite flavor. This morning, I am up FIVE pounds. Can you imagine what would happen if I ever ate a CAD "reward meal"????!!!! I probably had 8- carbs over the course of the day  at the absolute max. *sigh* Won't do this again anytime soon, and hope it goes away quickly. Will be very good the rest of the weekend and as soon as the pass restrictions are lifted I will ski again, and that will help for sure. There will never be a more fun way to exercise than skiing hard, of that I am convinced. And re: this holiday - I have no regrets, as I did nothing "bad", it is just that I am so sensitive to carbs compared to some people So I am up 6 pounds, altogether. SO WHAT. I lost them once and I will lose them again. Starting right now! :)

FRIDAY THE 24th  I was very good and kept my carbs very low and dumped 3 pounds. But I didn't enter anything in Lifeform and I have no intention of going back to try to recreate it I sort of enjoyed the break!~

November 25, 2000 Saturday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, at 11am I ate 2 fried eggs and 1 oz. pre-cooked bacon

LUNCH: 2pm  1 latortilla filled with turkey, cheddar, the leftover guacamole and a scoop of salsa. Mmmmm.

SNACK: Made vanilla muffins and ate 2

DINNER: No more leftovers tonight! Prime rib with a nice salad and 1.5 buttermilk biscuits

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

CALORIES: 2641

FAT: 188 Gm, 68% (73 saturated fat gm, 25%)

CARBS: 53 gm (19 fiber) 34 net 5%

PROTEIN: 188 gm, 29%

Morning after notes: No change, I am still up 3 total pounds, but that's hardly a surprise given my meals yesterday! Making green chili with the turkey carcass today, will try to keep my calories AND carbs low, as I have noticed that after a high fat, high calorie day like yesterday, a day with minimal eating but plenty of protein can really shake things up. Would like to start the week off back to where I was, at least! But I will be there soon, I am sure.

November 26, 2000 Sunday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 2 TLC muffins

LUNCH: 11am 3 scrambled eggs with American and pepper jack cheese and ½ oz. of crumbled bacon, also half of a LC bagel with cream cheese and TLC cran-raspberry jam (my best yet - and never mind that it started out life as a proposed cranberry sauce, either!)

SNACK: 2pm  handful TLC Spicy Nut mix, 1 Miller Lite, and Davinci variation of OIAB

DINNER: turkey soup, and 2 TLC buttermilk biscuits, later another TLC muffin

WATER: every drop of 4.5 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C

CALORIES: 2797

FAT: 218 Gm, 71% (101 saturated fat gm, 33%)

CARBS: 49 gm (10 fiber) 39 net 6%

PROTEIN: 162 gm, 23%

Morning after notes: This day just goes to show why I need to stick with Lifeform, religiously, even after all this time. I was sure I ate very few carbs yesterday, yet my net was way more than I thought once I input everything this morning. And the scale reflected that with a 1.5 pound gain. Had I stayed away from the baked goods, and **actually** eaten low carbs, in combination with this kind of fat, I feel sure I would have lost. Now I am up almost 5 pounds, total, and I am far from pleased. I vow to run to the computer and input every single thing I even THINK about eating, BEFORE I do it, for the rest of the week, and I am sure that will get me back on track! Something has to! AT LEAST MY BRONCOS WON. (Sorry Bonnie! What a nail-biter!!!)

November 27, 2000 Monday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 2 TLC muffins

LUNCH: 2pm  after my workout  Salad: 1 cup Romaine, 6 grape tomatoes, 2 rings red pepper, 1 Tb. feta, 1.5 Tb sunflower kernels, 2 Tb. TLC Ranch

SNACK: 4pm  half a Carbolite dark bar

DINNER: turkey soup, and 3.5 oz. leftover prime rib

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: 300 advanced position fetal crunches with 10 lb. leg wts, and 100 oblique crunches, also *my* full weight lifting routine, Felt really good, don't know why I took so long off from doing it, but I vow to get back to it regularly! Wish I could afford a treadmill, but I need to sell hundreds more books to break even and then give myself a paycheck to buy that with. Maybe by my birthday in February

CALORIES: 1226

FAT: 83 Gm, 66% (34 saturated fat gm, 27%)

CARBS: 23 gm (7 fiber, 7 sugars) 16 net 6%

PROTEIN: 81 gm, 29%

Morning after notes: OKAY. Down 3.5 pounds after this day of getting serious! Guess that weight WAS mostly water, as I am within 1 pound of my all-time low and I expect to be back there tomorrow. And then the next day I will ski and hopefully dump some new loss, it has been WAY too long since I changed my flasher!

November 28, 2000 Tuesday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 1 TLC muffin, half oz. cooked bacon

LUNCH: Fajita salad: 1 cup Romaine, 4 oz. grilled chicken, half cup my picante, 2 Tb. sour cream

DINNER: Pork loin, 6 oz, and MockaRoni, then 2 pieces Macadamia Nirvana

WATER: 2 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: Off-Day

CALORIES: 2012

FAT: 153 Gm, 69% (64 saturated fat gm, 29%)

CARBS: 29 gm (9 fiber, 9 sugars) 20 net 4%

PROTEIN: 134 gm, 27%

Morning after notes: These numbers look great, yet I am UP a half poundmaybe I just need to go to the bathroom! What is a measly half pound, anyway (trying to talk myself out of feeling upset) Since I can't ski today like I planned, especially  sick kid, on Day 2 home from school. Whaaaaaaaa.

November 29, 2000 Wednesday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, at 11am, I ate scrambled eggs (1 egg and 1.5 whites) with a slice of Am. Chz melted in and 1 slice toasted Oroweat Lite with butter

LUNCH: too excited, but did eat an Atkins mocha crunch bar

SNACK: not too excited to eat 6 Maui Onion macadamias and 1 piece Macadamia Nirvana

DINNER: Celebration: 1 6 oz. New York strip steak, broiled, a nice salad with romaine, spinach, red pepper, a tad of onion, and TLC Ranch, also a pile of stir fried zucchini, red pepper, onion and Anaheim chili. And a WHOLE BOTTLE of Chardonnay!!!

WATER: 2 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: 250 crunches plus weight lifting  and I skipped the weights and fetal position, I am STILL sore from Monday!

CALORIES: 2181

FAT: 114, 67%(45 saturated fat gm, 27%)

CARBS: 41 gm (10 fiber, 15 sugars) 31 net 8%

PROTEIN: 96 gm, 45%

Morning after notes: It could just be dehydration from the alcohol, but I am down 1.5 pounds and back to my posted weight! Yee-haw! And now to explain all the excitement references:

I got the surprise of my life this morning.

Each morning I log in to the internet early in the AM and check my email first, hoping to see lots of Paypal book payments. Yesterday was the first weekday since I started taking orders that I did not get even one, neither in my mailbox or via Paypal. Bummer!!! I sighed, switched identities, and checked my personal email address next. Surprise, surprise...

I had been wanting to find a way to make money from my cooking and writing abilities for a long time now. Last year at this same time, I thought I figured it out! I started writing a free-lance column (gratis) for the local Women's Newspaper that I was helping out with. I thought, hey! there are SO MANY people out there that do not know how to make cakes and cookies come out well at high altitudes, that they would surely like to have someone give them the recipe already converted for our altitude. So I came up with the name "Mountain Fare" and I did a bunch of columns and sent them to newspaper editors all over the Rocky Mountain region, from here to Tahoe to Utah...

The response was disappointing: We love your writing style, and the recipes look wonderful, but we do not have any money in our budget for "things like this". (Apparently "housewives/cooks" do not merit a lot of attention ($) in journalistic enterprises!)

Well, in late January I started LC and I stopped trying to promote the high altitude baking column. That's when I started formulating LC recipes and sharing them on the internet. People started telling me right and left that I should write my own LC cookbook, and after thinking about it, I went ahead and did so... the rest, as they say, is history....

Well, this morning, I found this message in my inbox:

Are you still doing a high country cooking column? If so, what would you charge for a 10,000 circ daily? We have food pages every Wednesday.

Thanks

---------------------------------------

Alex Miller

Editor

Summit Daily News

So I wrote back to say, hey, make me an offer, and he is now offering me $20 a column?! That is practically slave wages, since I pour my heart and soul into everything I do, and I bet I have 5 hours into each column for just the writing, not to mention the research - but the exposure would be wonderful. So I told him $25 each and I want to list my website URL in the bio-blurb about me, next to my picture. I have 6 columns already done, after all, might as well make some money from them, even if it is a pittance - the free publicity for TLC could be worth much more than that...

When one door closes .......

WOW-WEEEEE!

I am now OFFICIALLY a free lance cooking columnist for the Summit Daily!! (to start with)

Check out this reply I got:

Karen,

Sure, I can do $25. One thing you have to realize when you get into this

is that even well-known syndicated columnists run only $5-$10 or so per

week for a paper our size, so when you go out to sell a column, that's

what you're up against! On the other hand, I've never seen a high-altitude

cooking column anywhere, thus my interest. You're correct in that you'll

have a lot more luck selling your column once you can show it's being run

in a reputable paper. We might be able to help within our group, since we

also own papers in Vail, Aspen, Glenwood Springs, Eagle and the Lake Tahoe

area. If you can get a dozen or so papers going, it works out to pretty

decent change on a monthly basis.

Here's the deal:

-We'll start Dec. 6, running the column in our weekly (every Wednesday)

Food For Thought section.

-You will need to have the column to us by 5 p.m. Monday each week. E-mail

is the preferred method of delivery, and you should send it to **

-Your column should be no more than 500 words. The samples you gave me

appear to be a good deal above that, so you'll have to learn to be more

economical with your writing. This count includes your bio/blurb at the

end. If you have something that warrants more room (like for holiday

season or something), contact ** or **and get it cleared first.

-We'll need a mugshot of you. If you have one, you can drop it in the mail

or e-mail it. If not, perhaps you could stop by the Vail Daily and I can have one of their photogs take a picture.

-Payment occurs at the beginning of the month. What you need to do is

submit an invoice at the end of each month via e-mail to **

-Do you want to stick with the "Mountain Fare" title? It sounds OK to me.

Let me know if you have any questions, otherwise we'll expect to see your first column e-mailed to us by Monday. I look forward to working with you. I think you write a good column!

Alex

Can you even believe it? I am on top of the WORLD. He is paying me 2.5 to 5 times as much as he pays nationally syndicated columnists, and I think that says a LOT!!! Added to fact that he contacted ME after a whole year  it WAS a good idea! I KNEW IT!!

And since I obviously have some discretion as to what I write, I can at least make all my published recipes low-carb friendly, with LC conversions included, to start with. A little at a time, I am going to try to convert EVERYONE to LC, hehehehehe. But as I formulate new high-carb recipes, I may have to taste them. One bite a week won't de-rail my LC diet TOO bad, I hope and my kids are gonna be REALLY happy to see me baking for THEM again! ;^)

NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS. When you least expect it, they can all some true. I have wanted to be a "free-lance journalist" since I was 8 years old and now I am one!!! I have always wanted to write novels in the tradition of Stephen King and Peter Straub, too  better watch out! I'll be invading your nightmares next, 'cuz nothing is impossible!!!!!!!!

November 30, 2000 Thursday

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 1.25 servings leftover Mockaroni

LUNCH: At the mall killing itme while my truck was worked on, I had a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich without bun, and a tiny little lettuce salad with Ranch dressing

SNACK: none

DINNER: 1.5 hamburgers (pre-pressed ones from Sams Club, which cook great on George) with 3 oz. Swiss chz, later I ate 3 pc. Macadamia Nirvana

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: walked a good mile and a half between the repair shop and the mall, I'd guess

CALORIES: 2370

FAT: 183, 70%(79 saturated fat gm, 30%)

CARBS: 38 gm (8 fiber, 9 sugars) 30 net 5%

PROTEIN: 147 gm, 25%

Morning after notes: Down a half pound, to a new all-time low. Whoo-Hooooo! Not to mention, while at the mall I discovered that I am a SIZE SIXTEEN. I figured I would be able to pull them up over my ass, I just never imagine that they would FIT at this point. They are not even all that tight, they look ..GOOD! Bawled my eyes out in that K-Mart dressing room and left with a new pair of sz. 16 Lee Riders. OMG!!!! I LOVE LOW CARB!!!! Bring on the holly-days, cuz I can take them.

December 2000

DECEMBER 1, 2000 FRIDAY

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, an O'SoLo banana muffin

LUNCH: Leftover mockaroni and 2 oz leftover pork chop

SNACK: none

DINNER: TLC Chicken Alfredo and Hot and Sour Soup (skipped the pork in the soup and added bean sprouts instead) 1 Mac Nirvana for dessert

WATER: 2.5 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: meant to, but never got it done 

CALORIES: 1920

FAT: 146, 68%(65 saturated fat gm, 30%)

CARBS: 27 gm (7 fiber, 5 sugars) 20 net 4%

PROTEIN: 131 gm, 27%

MORNING AFTER NOTES: Down again, a half pound more, a brand new low. Yee-haw. I get to change my flasher again, FINALLY.

DECEMBER 2, 2000 SATURDAY

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, an O'SoLo banana muffin, 3 oz. Jimmy Dean hot sausage, 2 scrambled eggs, 1 slice Oroweat lite, toasted with butter (I was HUNGRY and headed up skiiing so I went ahead and loaded up  still working on 'listening to my body'  now that it doesn't scream for carbs all the time I have discovered that my body is a pretty good judge of what it needs!)

LUNCH: Took it with: Ate a can of drained tuna with 2 Tb. mayo, on 2 LaTortillas with Romaine lettuce, 2 cheddar string cheeses, 1 oz. peanuts, and 1 Atkins mocha crunch bar (the bar was unplanned - I was still starving for some reason and I always carry one with me, just in case.)

SNACK: when I got home, I grabbed 1 piece Mac Nirvana and ¼ cup almonds

DINNER: Went to a steak house and enjoyed a salad with mystery Ranch dressing (I always wonder what they are serving me, when I am out, and much prefer to cook for myself these days!) and a 10 oz. Ribeye with 6 grilled shrimp. Asked for steam,ed veggies instead of the starch, but only picked at them, as they were cold and unseasoned. Drank 3 Miller Lites!!! Oh, well.

WATER: at least 5 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: Skiied Vail Mountain with my kids, for 6 hours. Lifeform says 1600 calories burned. I would guess, with my kids I burned 1200 and when skiiing with myself, 2400 calories! LOL Both kids snowboard now, but I will stick with my twin boards, thank you very much.

CALORIES: 3614

FAT: 244, 67%(93 saturated fat gm, 25%)

CARBS: 87 gm (34 fiber, 12 sugars) 53 net 6%

PROTEIN: 222 gm, 27%

MORNING AFTER NOTES: I am up 2 pounds. Which really ticked me off at first and made me inclined to blame the restaurant, but now that I have input everything into Lifeform, honestly, I am okay with it. With all that fiber, (and all the exercise) I am bound to hold onto some water  fiber hangs onto water "all the way through" if you know what I mean! And I did eat like a horse. I also exercised a ton, and I think the 2 will balance each other out, given a couple days. I know I made good choices  look at the sugar count!  and in the end, I still wore my size 16s to dinner, I ate a ton, and I felt NO NEED to unbutton them under my sweater when I finished, LOL!!!

DECEMBER 3, 2000 SUNDAY

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, ¼ cup almonds, 1.5 TLC Chocolate Muffins

LUNCH: Last serving of leftover Mockaroni, 2 Mac Nirvana, 1 Diet Ice Botanical

SNACK: 2.5 Deep Fried Cheese Stix w/ 2Tb. marinara

DINNER: Scallop Medallion Scampi, small salad, later a little cream cheese nuked with Macadamia Nut SF DaVinci

WATER: at least 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: Nope

CALORIES: 2507

FAT: 210, 75%(88 saturated fat gm, 31%)

CARBS: 47 gm (14 fiber, 12 sugars) 33 net 5%

PROTEIN: 122 gm, 19%

MORNING AFTER NOTES: I am up another half pound!! ~sigh~

DECEMBER 4, 2000 MONDAY

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 1 Atkins mocha bar

LUNCH: Salad  spinach and romaine, mixed, with 4 oz. Tyson grilled chicken breast, feta, and TLC ranch

SNACK: 1 oz peanuts and ½ a string cheese

DINNER: Mountian wrap quesedilla, a swiss cheese crisp, and later 2 oz cream cheese nuked with ½ a Carbolite dark bar (instant chocolate cheesecake!)

WATER: at least 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: 400 crunches: 50 standard, 250 fetals w/ wts, 100 obliques, also did my weight lifting thing

CALORIES: 1728

FAT: 126, 71%(60 saturated fat gm, 33%)

CARBS: 38 gm (14 fiber, 11 sugars) 24 net 6%

PROTEIN: 95 gm, 24%

MORNING AFTER NOTES: Down just a half pound  but it beats another gain, I guess! Roxanne's freshman basketball team won their first game, again their arch rivals from the Vail end of the valley, "Battle Mtn", 41-12!!!

DECEMBER 5, 2000 TUESDAY

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 2 TLC muffins toasted with 1 oz cream cheese and 1.4 Tb crabnraspberry TLC jam on them  Can I just say YUMMMM.

LUNCH: Salad: mixed romaine and spinach with 3 oz tuna, 2 Tb feta, and 3 Tb TLC Ranch

SNACK: 1 Mac Nirvana and 12 hazelnuts

DINNER: Bacon and scrambled eggs, TLC chocolate chip scones, more coffee!

WATER: at least 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: Nope, off day

CALORIES: 2494

FAT: 201, 75%(71 saturated fat gm, 27%)

CARBS: 40 gm (11 fiber, 12 sugars) 29 net 5%

PROTEIN: 122 gm, 20%

MORNING AFTER NOTES: I am down another half pound  still up 1.5 total, from my all-time low on Saturday must try to be really really good today, and work out extra hard too.

DECEMBER 6, 2000 WEDNESDAY

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 1 Osolo muffin

LUNCH: ¼ cup almonds, 1 Bran-a-crisp with 1 Tb. SF pnut butter, and some pepperoni

SNACK: instant OIAB

DINNER: More coffee, some nuked pepperoni chip and cheddar cheese, also a latortilla wrap with tuna salad and romaine

WATER: at least 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: FIVE HUNDRED crunches! A new record for me. Did them in sets of fifty, started and ended with "regular" crunches, interspersed with 50 rep sets of fetal crunches w/ leg wts and obliques, did 200 combos w/ wts and 200 obliques. Also my full weightlifting routine.

CALORIES: 2049

FAT: 165, 74%(71 saturated fat gm, 32%)

CARBS: 49 gm (18 fiber, 9 sugars) 31 net 6%

PROTEIN: 101 gm, 20%

MORNING AFTER NOTES: I am down a whole pound!

DECEMBER 7, 2000 THURSDAY

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, bacon and 2 fried eggs, 1 slice toasted Oroweat lite with butter

LUNCH: TLC Spicy Nut mix, pepperoni, extra sharp cheddar

SNACK: Swiss Miss diet cocoa and 1 Keto Bar

DINNER: More coffee, Creamed Cod (I ate a whole POUND!) and half a 10 oz. bag of chopped broccoli, Also had instant OIAB

WATER: 5 liters, easy!

SUPPLEMENTS: FORGOT!

EXERCISE: Skiied my butt off on Vail Mtn all day  Lifeform says just 5.5 hours are worth more than 1600 calories burned!

CALORIES: 3214

FAT: 236, 68% (93 saturated fat gm, 27%)

CARBS: 64 gm (22 fiber, 20 sugars) 42 net 5%

PROTEIN: 205 gm, 26%

MORNING AFTER NOTES: I am up a pound and a half! I am not really pleased about that, given all the really hard exercise I got, the extra calories and carbs I ate should have been NO PROBLEM. Sheesh! Everytime I get down to my lowest weight, something screws it up, it seems like the world does not want me to ever get to 60 pounds lost. *big sigh* And I really wanted a SF margarita last night, but held off thinking I'd get a new low weight - now I wish I had drank TWO of them instead! (Not really, I can just imagine what the scale would have said THEN! It would probably be floating down to the bottom of Gypsum Creek about now, too)

DECEMBER 8, 2000 FRIDAY

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 3 scrambled eggs and ½ a LC bagel with butter

LUNCH: 1 chicken breast and 2/3 cup cole slaw

SNACK: skipped it!

DINNER: Pork chops, boneless, braised, 1 cup green beans, 1/3 cup cole slaw

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: Off Day

CALORIES: 1716

FAT: 132, 71% (37 saturated fat gm, 20%)

CARBS: 25 gm (4 fiber, 9 sugars) 21 net 5%

PROTEIN: 99 gm, 24%

MORNING AFTER NOTES: Down just a lousy half pound, which REALLY PISSES ME OFF! I have been at this weight for a whole month now and cannot seem to break the 215 mark except for momentary glimpses which are snatched away from me immediately and for no apparent reason. It is not possible for me to exercise any more than I have been, and I skipped all cheese and nuts completely yesterday. I skipped the second helping of coffee I have been enjoying later in the day.I skipped the bacon with my eggs. All for naught, apparently, as I am STILL up a pound and a half. (from my lowest point). WHY? WHY? WHY? *stomps foot and tosses head*

DECEMBER 9, 2000 SATURDAY

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 1 Atkins bar, 1/4 cup nuts

LUNCH: 1 chicken breast over 1 cup Romaine with 3 Tb TLC ranch, 1 Miller Lite

SNACK: 2 TLC Adamo muffins (chocolate raspberry flavored)

DINNER: Went to a party (at the Adamo residence, guess why I named the muffins that?! Yup, hostess gift), ate 1 oz pepperoni and 1.5 oz sharp cheddar before we left. Ate 2 oz roasted turkey at the party, drank one small glass wine. (I expected more LC foods there, since the hostess is LC, but the caterer wasn't, apparently  next time she should hire ME! LOL) When we got home I drank 2 Miller Lites and a bunch of water.

WATER: 3 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: Off Day

CALORIES: 2186

FAT: 140, 69% (49 saturated fat gm, 24%)

CARBS: 40 gm (8 fiber, 8 sugars) 32 net 7%

PROTEIN: 111 gm, 24%

MORNING AFTER NOTES: Down a half pound again. Still a full pound over my low weight. Still pissed about it.

DECEMBER 10, 2000 SUNDAY

BREAKFAST 9am Coffee with heavy cream, 1 TLC Adamo muffin

LUNCH: 2pm  5 oz. leftover pork chops and ¼ cup nuts

SNACK: None!

DINNER: 545 pm Omelette made with chicken, bacon, onion, red pepper, & extra sharp cheddar, and a half a LC bagel with cream cheese and TLC Cran-raspberry jelly. Later I drank one cup Orange Mandarin tea with a shot of SF DaVinci orange syrup in it  that orange syrup smells and tastes WONNDERFUL  I am thinking about salad dressings and all sorts of other things to use it in!

WATER: barely 2 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: Did some screaming at the TV during that Broncos game  oh well  the 'W' column is what matters and..

HO HO HO,

SIX IN A ROW,

IT'S THE PLAY-OFFS NOW, I KNOW.

SO GO, DONKEYS, GO!

CALORIES: 1443

FAT: 110, 69% (38 saturated fat gm, 23%)

CARBS: 28 gm (4 fiber, 7 sugars) 24 net 7%

PROTEIN: 89 gm, 25%

MORNING AFTER NOTES: Down a pound and at my all-time low weight again. PLEASE let me break it by tomorrow, I want to change my flasher!! And I am sick of being so damn good with nothing to show for it! TOM is approaching, so I only have a day or two to improve my low weight before I am doomed to gain. Come on, Whooshie! Come and visit. I have stayed away from the LC margaritas that I craved ALL WEEK LONG. I deserve your attention. Come on, come on .

DECEMBER 11, 2000 MONDAY

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream, 1 Adamo muffin

SNACK: 11am 2 oz. Swiss cheese

LUNCH: 130p Made a variation of Impossible Pie in a 13x9 pan with cauliflower instead of spinach, skipped the cottage cheese, changed the proportions and the cheeses  Heck, I guess it is a whole new dish! 4 carbs per 1/12 of the big pan. Ended up eating 2 full servings.

DINNER: 615p 1 more small serving of my Impossible Casserole.

WATER: just 2 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EAS Essential Fatty Acid Complex *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: Completely spaced it out!

CALORIES: 1983

FAT: 156, 71% (100 saturated fat gm, 45%)

CARBS: 22 gm (2 fiber, 11 sugars) 20 net 5%

PROTEIN: 119 gm, 24%

MORNING AFTER NOTES: For one brief moment I was down a half pound and at a new low weight. The next time I stepped on the scale, TOM was here and the low weight was gone, but I am still counting it! Because I saw it, and if I saw it on a TOM day, I KNOW it is real and will return again soon.

DECEMBER 12, 2000 TUESDAY

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream

SNACK: 1230pm  Oops! 1 Atkins bar from the depths of my purse, while running errands

LUNCH: 230  Impossible Casserole, instant OIAB

DINNER: 630  Pot roast wth gravy and mashed turnips. After dinner I broke down and made my Perfect SF Margarita and added a Vicodin. I know, BAD BAD thing to mix them, and I learned my lesson - Amazing how buzzed you can be and yet still be capable of feeling ALL THAT PAIN ^%&$&*(W%^Y*$^*)(@_)^* Along with the buzz came incredible hunger (cravings) and I then made 2 big bowls of instant OIAB - I am talking more than 5 oz. of cream cheese alone. OMG!

WATER: just 2 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EPA Pro Fish Oil *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: TOM is here, need I say more?

CALORIES: 1986

FAT: 150, 70% (90 saturated fat gm, 43%)

CARBS: 31 gm (5 fiber, 13 sugars) 26 net 5%

PROTEIN: 119 gm, 25%

MORNING AFTER NOTES: The really amazing thing is that even with the lime juice, all the alcohol, including Grand Marnier whose carb count I am blissfully unaware of (unless its zero please don't anyone enlighten me either!), and all that cream and cream cheese, AND the arrival of TOM, I gained NOTHING. Thank you, God! I consider this one of those "small favors" we are always speaking of.

DECEMBER 13, 2000 WEDNESDAY

BREAKFAST 8am Coffee with heavy cream

SNACK: 1030am  Impossible Casserole topped with 2 fried eggs  OMG! This was heaven! And very filling.

LUNCH: 230  realized it was time to eat, but not real hungry. I ate a Carbolite white chocolate bar over the course of the afternoon. About 4pm I ate 2 bran-a-crisps with 4 oz. of that squeeze cheese on them.

DINNER: 730  finally felt a little hungry so I nuked 3 oz deli turkey with 2 oz extra charp cheddar

WATER: 3.5 liters

SUPPLEMENTS: *1 Twin Lab Dual Sustained Release Tab *2 99mg Potassium *1 Microhydrin antioxidants *1 EPA Pro Fish Oil *500mg extra C *750 mg Calcium Pyruvate

EXERCISE: TOM is here, need I say more?

CALORIES: 1738

FAT: 127, 71% (69 saturated fat gm, 39%)

CARBS: 25 gm (4 fiber, 8 sugars) 21 net 5%

PROTEIN: 95 gm, 24%

MORNING AFTER NOTES: OMG! For the VERY first time ever, I lost something during TOM!! I AM DOWN A WHOLE POUND. Miracles never cease, because I have eaten less than this and gained during TOM before. Happy Days!!!!! :)

Will have to remember this day next time I am ragging about gaining for no reason.

NOTICE: I am preparing to leave town till Christmas and I may just suspend all journal entries until Xmas is here, I am very very busy just now and to tell the truth, I am looking forward to taking a break from all the analyzing! It has been months since I ate something without broadcasting it all over the net, and although I have no intention of doing anything different as far as how I eat, it will be nice to just forget about the recording and the computer an entire week. I wouldn't bother checking back here for an update between before the 26th or so.

Happy Holidays, everybody!!!!!

DECEMBER 26, 2000, Tuesday:

I was really pretty good on my trip away, and I weighed exactly the same upon my return. However on the 23rd I woke up, up 2.5 pounds, for absolutely no reason that I could think of. Needless to say, I was less than pleased because I had been thinking of actually eating a homemade cinnamon roll on Xmas morning! As it was hard to stay motivated to be good after that, I ate too many nuts and too much cheese and a couple too many Nirvana bars and gained another 2 pounds on the 24th. Xmas day included raspberry dacquiris made with DaVinci syrup and frozen raspberries and vodka, prime rib, mashed turnips, gravy, and broccoli with Easy Cheese  you know, that squeeze stuff! And I almost burned the house down  blame the dacquiris I guess we had Decadent Crabbies for appetizers and the second batch stayed in the broiler WAY TOO LONG  suddenly the alarm on my stove went off and when I opened the oven door the whole pan was in flames! STAY CALM, I told myself as I loudly yet calmly asked someone to "open the door, please". I grabbed the flaming broiler pan with oven mitts and headed for the door. As soon as I stepped onto the deck (in my slippers) I hit a large patch of ice and went down Thanks to my years of cocktail and banquet waitressing, I managed to hold and balance the flaming tray with all the loose grease balanced, level, and above my head, and as I finished my descent I gracefully slid it onto the glass-top table that sits on the deck and was covered with a couple inches of snow. When the grease hit the snow, there was a whole new eruption of flames, of course, those were a good 16 inches high! Now, had I had tilted that broiler pan at all as I fell, I would likely have been scarred for life! And I could have burnt down the house, to boot. Thanks, God. Sorry about the dacquiris. Happy about the waitressing experience. That day was only an additional 1.5 pounds, bringing me up to 6 pounds over my low weight as of the morning of the 26th

B: Coffee with heavy whipping cream, and an Atkins mocha crunch bar in the way to the big 50% off sale at Wal-Mart  need some new lights! And bought a ton of other stuff that I DID'NT need, so of course the amount that I actually saved is questionable!

L: 2 TLC Blueberry flax muffins (came up with a new muffin recipe over the break, fantistico!)

D: Leftover 7 oz. slice of prime rib, 3/4 cup mashed turnips and ½ cup gravy (made with notstarch, of course), later 2 Nirvana bars

WATER: just 2 liters

EXERCISE: nope

CALORIES: 1569

FAT: 112 gm  66% (Saturated: 47g, 28%)

CARBS: 31g - 6% (Fiber: 9g) NET=22

PROTEIN: 106g  28%

RESULTS: WHOOOOOOSH. Down 4 pounds of the 6 total that I had gained back. Wha-Hoooo. :)

DECEMBER 27, 2000, Wednesday

B: Coffee with heavy whipping cream, 1 Blueberry Flax muffin

SN: 12pm, at the store, 1 oz. salted peanuts

L: 2:20p  2 fried eggs, 4 thin slices bacon, 1 slice toasted Oroweat Lite bread w/ butter

D: Keto-Pasta with TLC Lemon Meatballs & Ragu traditional spaghetti sauce (just 6 net carbs per half-cup) also ate 1.5 melba toasts with peanut butter & later I ate 2 Nirvana bars

WATER: just 2 liters

EXERCISE: 400 ab crunches!

CALORIES: 2708

FAT: 215 gm  72% (Saturated: 60 g, 20%)

CARBS: 67 g - 7% (Fiber: 21 g) NET=46

PROTEIN: 138 g  21%

RESULTS: I am shocked at the total carbs! I still need Lifeform, myself, after all of these months of using it I still underestimate my own intake. Shocked!!And even more so that I lost half another half pound eating all of them. :)

DECEMBER 28, 2000, Thursday

B: 8AM Coffee with heavy whipping cream, 9AM 1 Atkins mocha crunch bar

L: 1PM Salad made with 1 cup Romaine, 2/3 cup homemade chicken salad, a little red pepper and 1 HB egg, drizzle TLC seasoned vinegar, also ate another Atkins bar ** Found Hollywood safflower mayo in my little store. It contains "dehydrated cane solids" as well as HONEY, but they are at the very end of the ingredient list, and it is so much lower in saturated fat than the other kinds that I am willing to chance it, and I will be using it from now on instead of Kraft or Best Foods, in an effort to help my rising LDL cholesterol.

SN: 430PM 1/2 cup mixed roasted walnuts and hazelnuts (from theNutFactory.com, MAN OH MAN, are their nuts good!!

D: 615PM Tacos! Ate 1 taco in the shell (did you know that the "store brand" taco shells have only 5 carbs each??) then made a taco salad over Romaine with seasoned meat, shredded cheese, minced onion, sour cream, tomatoes and salsa ... I ate the taco first thing, and then as I started to eat the salad I realized that while I did in fact enjoy the taco shell, had I started with the taco salad I would have been perfectly content to eat just that!! Next time, salad only! I also had 3 small flutes of Chardonnay, about 9 oz, then got the MAJOR MUNCHIES. Made OIAB with DaVinci (no Splenda) and ended up eating THREE SERVINGS. Ouch.

WATER: just 2 liters

EXERCISE: not really, I took Matt and a friend sledding but there wasn't an extra sled for me so I mostly just watched :(

CALORIES: 3159

FAT: 243 gm  75% (Saturated: 60 g, 20%)

CARBS: 60 g - 6% (Fiber: 19 g) NET=41

PROTEIN: 137 g  19%

RESULTS: NO GAIN, which is surprising to me, I expected at least 2 pounds, to tell the truth. That's 2 days in a row with the recommended amount of fiber, too, so good for me!

DECEMBER 29, 2000, Friday

B: 8AM Coffee with heavy whipping cream

L: 1130AM Leftover Ketp pasta, lemon meatballs and Ragu sauce.

SN: 1 cheddar flavored string cheese

D: Small salad with romaine, taco meat, cheese, and ranch

WATER: 3 liters

EXERCISE: skipped it

CALORIES: 1964

FAT: 160 gm  74% (Saturated: 54 g, 25%)

CARBS: 36 g - 5% (Fiber: 10 g) NET=26

PROTEIN: 99 g  20%

RESULTS: Down the last 2 pounds of gain-back and ready to break the Big Six-Oh!

DECEMBER 30, 2000, Saturday

B: 9AM Coffee with heavy whipping cream, 1 oz bacon, 2 fried eggs and 1 slice toasted buttered Oroweat Lite bread

L: 225PM  Impossibly Easy Casserole from the freezer

SN: 430PM .4 cups mixed roasted walnuts and hazelnuts, 2 Diet Rites

D: 615PM TLC Chicken Alfredo served over my new TLC Hot Slaw. After dinner, I made TLC Almond Drop cookies and ate  count em  FOUR COOKIES @ 3 net carbs EACH. Oh, dear, and I was doing SO WELL up to that point

WATER: 3 liters

CALORIES: 3089

FAT: 258 gm  75% (Saturated: 83 g, 24%)

CARBS: 65 g - 6% (Fiber: 21 g) NET=44

PROTEIN: 147 g  19%

RESULTS: Gained back 1.5 pounds, to no one's surprise, I'll bet. Grrrr. WHY did I make cookies? I wanted so badly to break 60 lbs. THIS YEAR - and now it is too late. Oh well. Tomorrow is another day, hell, TODAY is another day, and eventually I'll break 60, and then 80! And then 90.. in good time, as they say, in good time. MEANWHILE,,, life goes on. :)

HAPPY MILLENIUM!

DECEMBER 31, 2000, Sunday

B: 9AM Coffee with heavy whipping cream, 1 oz bacon, 2 fried eggs and 1 slice toasted buttered Oroweat Lite bread

L: 2PM  Salad with 3 oz. flash fried sliced roast beef, ¼ cup shredded cheese, 1HB egg, tomato, red pepper, romaine, TLC ranch

D: 6PM A killer ribeye steak and 1 cup TLC coleslaw. Then about 2 liters of cheap white wine. I didn't even make it till midnight before I passed out. Oh, well. I do remember having lots of fun and playing a lot of pool with the kids but everything caught up with me all at once about 10:30. I think this is the very first New Year I slept through since I was a baby.

WATER: 3 liters

CALORIES: .3112

FAT: 194 gm  72% (Saturated: 49 g, 18%)

CARBS: 40 g - 5% (Fiber: 9 g) NET=31

PROTEIN: 136 g  23%

RESULTS: I may never drink again! I really can't remember a hangover like this not for decades! OMG. Whether it was due to dehydration or what, I lost 3 pounds overnight and FINALLY BROKE THAT 60 POUND MARK! I would take the 3 pounds back just to feel human again, however. Facing that monstrous 22-pound raw turkey this morning was an almost superhuman feat. Will I never learn? LOL