MY DAILY SUPPLEMENTS:    

Nutrilite XX Daily Supplements: 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze 

2 99mg Potassium

1 99 mg magnesium

1 EAS Structured EFA (Essential Fatty Acids)  

1 - Nutrilite Primrose Plus (other efa's)

WATER: I average 3 liters (ice cold). Cold water is purported to raise metabolism, and I much prefer it.

I am starting my journal again, because I have managed to pack on 14 pounds in gain back. I haven't eaten anything off-plan, but I have eaten lots of good food, perhaps too much, and I stopped exercising. I think my food intake would have been fine IF I had continued with the exercise program. Regardless, I am back after it in a serious manner and I am ready to get back down to my lowest weight, at least, and maybe I can even go lower, finally....

 

 

NOVEMBER 26

Br: coffee/crm, orange creme TA bar
L: latortilla w/ 3 oz turkey, 2 Tb? mayo (it was likely less but I'd always rather overestimate)
Sn: 2 homemade sausage patties w/ 1 sl. am chz melted over tops
D: Chicken Fajita Salad w/ ranch

Water: not enough, 2.5 liters probably
Supps: Yes
Ex: No but tom. for sure -- On Mondays I "Rise and Whine", you know......

Cal 1844
Fat 116g (sat 36)
Carb 36- 13f = 23 net
Protein 136g

NOVEMBER 27

Down 2.5 to start the day  

Br: coffee/cream, choco mint TA bar
l: roast beef with melted cheese
d: pork tenderloin, broccoli w/ butter, salad w/ tlc ranch
sn: instant OIAB

ex: YES! 200 crunches and 30 min. @ 5% incline and alternating between 3 and 3.5 mph
supps: yes - plus Microhydrin to combat the lactic acid build-up - it worked, I am not very sore at all
water: made my 3 liters!

Cals 1594
Fat 104g (64%) sat 50g
Carb 26g less 6g fiber = 20 net (5%)
Protein 115g (31%)

Only down 1 pound this next AM, probably due to the exercise water gain, but that's okay, works for me!

 

NOVEMBER 28

I made the best jelly today, it is FANTASTIC, I kid you not .... I am so pleased with it. That'll be another one for Volume 2.... Yippee!  I also made pumpkin-carrot bread in jars, which I haven't even tasted yet, but it looked and smelled terrific. The pineapple-coconut bread I made was no good at all ..... fell apart...... but I managed to eat an entire jar for lunch anyway. OOPS! I am not sure if the fact that it fell apart is just cause it was too hot though, so I guess I will just HAVE to open another jar of it tomorrow to see if I need to modify the recipe or not - oh no!!! The fact that it felt apart sure didn't seem to stop me from scarfing down every morsel ... sheesh! Oh well,  I think I am still in ketosis, I have a BLINDING headache, just like when doing my original induction - or worse, maybe .... I'm dying here, I swear.... not too sore from all those crunches I did yesterday though, except when I coughed once earlier, I felt it then....

Br: leftover pork tendeloin, 3 scrambled eggs with 1 slice cheese melted in

L: the whole jar of coconut-pineapple bread that fell apart when I went to sample it

D: 2 cheeseburgers and 1/2 c. cottage cheese

 

Cals 1913

 

Carb 36 - 6 fiber = 30 net (7%)

Protein 155 g (33%)

 

Ex: Slaving in the kitchen must count for something

Water: yes, all

Supps: All plus double potassium and magnesium, didn't help headache any

went UP one pound - ew!!!

 

NOVEMBER 29

Hey, I heard something interesting yesterday.
What did I hear, you ask?

WELL........ 

I hear there's going to be a brand new Cooking Column in the next edition of Low Carb Luxury newsletter.
A regular column, I mean, it'll be in there every time from now on, twice a month beginning 12/7..

So? you ask? This column? you ask? What's supposed to be so exciting about THAT?
WELL .............
Have you guessed yet???????
YUP!!!! It going to be called "Cooking TLC" with Karen Rysavy
Written by Yours Truly
This could be big, guys and dolls. Very big!!

Really, not too bad, considering what I ate for lunch!

~No change in weight next AM~

NOVEMBER 30

Woke up HUNGRY ....

Br: 3 sausage patties with 1 slice cheese melted over AND French Vanilla Hot Cereal - YUM.

L: None - didn't get hungry again till 4 and wasn't about to eat THEN.....

D: 1 Perfect margarita - Happy Friday!!!
2 cheeseburgers

Later: 1/2 square of white almond bark - this stuff is GOOD GOOD GOOD!! and 2 Tb? SF bridge mix, picking out raisins...

Water - less than 2 liters!!! what's up with THAT, I dunno
Ex: Did my 200 crunches, at least!
Supps: always

Cal 1611
Fat 188g (69%) Sat= 50g (29%)
Carbs 31g (6%) less 7 fiber = 24 net
Protein 96g (25%) percentage wise OK but total grams are under my minimum requirements

So you'd think, wow, great calorie level considering my BMR is 2800....... but I only went down a half pound. Will slam water today and am thinking of going SKIING in a little bit, so maybe that will help.

 

DECEMBER 1

Decided there is still not quite enough snow for me, I will ski when the conditions are great and not before.... besides it is time to trim the tree, etc!

 

Br: Coffee and Trim Advantage mint bar

L: Cranberry Coconut Bread - OMG!!! You guys are gonna love THIS, this experiment is a keeper!!! Roughly 3 servings.

 

Sn: 1/3 cup Buffalo Nips

D: Garlic and Herb Grilled Shrimp (from Sam's Club, these were SUPERB, flash fried them from frozen in a fry pan and tossed with butter at last second, to die for - and they were butterflied already, which means they are "safe" to eat - I do NOT eat non-butterfiled shrimp with the you-know-what intact - ew!) Also a salad with TLC ranch, and frozen Perfect Margaritas. YUM. THAT gave me the munchies and I made OIAB with some pecan pieces and some white almond bark:"chips" in it..... I took my FIVE POUNDS of white almond bark and vacuum sealed a lot of it, 4 squares to a package. Then I took about 12 squares and froze them on a baking sheet, when totally frozen I chopped in the Cuisnart and put in jars for baking - oooh la lah, this is the ticket - my next Xmas delicacy is going to be Cranberry Orange White Chocolate Almond Chunk Cookies!! (where's the emoticon for licking your lips??)

Cals:2208
Fat 185g (81%) Sat = 91g (39%)
Carbs 45g (7%) less 9 fiber = 36 net - too high for losing, dang
Protein 64g (12%) Reprehensibly low!! Bad me!!

Next AM - no change. Yay!! I attribute that to the high fat percentage. Had I kept my carbs lower OR skipped the rita, I am quite sure I would have LOST. But hey - I enjoyed every drop. We finally did the inside of the house decorating, and I am IN THE XMAS ZONE now!

 

 

DECEMBER 2

Br: Coffee/crm, mockaroni grabbed out of the freezer and nuked - sounded better than eggs! (Was)

L: Went bowling and snacked snacked snacked! Ew. Chicken wings with ranch,  Buffalo Nips, AND Popcorn. When got home, had pepperoni chips with cheese, 2 ak mak crackers w/ 1 wedge Laughing Cow light cheese, between bowling and home, drank FIVE Miller Lites!

D: 2 Aidell's Habanero Turkey sausages with TLC ketchup, green beans with butter - Later while playing Pictionary with the kids, I ate a half cup of my newest treat, not sure what I will call it even - reminds me of the taste of a Zagnut Bar, so maybe ZigZag Nut Crunch??? Or Toasted Coconut Crunch? 

Almost had a heart attack when I entered all this into Lifeform honestly.....

 

Cals: 3368

Fats:  242g (73%) Sat = 93g (28%)

Carbs 69g (7%) less 13g fiber = 56 net - OUCH!

Protein 148g (20%)

Not surprisingly, I am up 3 pounds the next morning. And you know what? I DON'T CARE! Why don't I care? Because I hardly ever eat that much, because it WAS all lowcarb, low glycemic food, and because I had a great day with my kids and husband. And because I know how to lose it, and besides, no one gains 3 pounds of fat in a day, a lot of it is probably water weight that will be gone in a few days.  "That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!!!"

DECEMBER 3

Br: 4 scrambled eggs with 2 slices cheese melted in, coffee/cream

L: oops - by the time I realized I was starving it was too close to dinner to eat

D: pork loin, roasted - a lot - 8 oz, a nice big salad with ranch and cheese and peppers and red onion and tomatoes and zucchini

water: not enough supps: of course

ex: way too busy with multiple deadlines to leave the computer chair - my butt imprint is permanently affixed now

 

Cals: 1429

Fats: 96g (63%) Sat= 44g (29%)

Carbs 15g (4%) less 1 g fiber = 14 net

Protein 113g (33%)

~ Down 1.5 pounds of the gain from Sunday's fun day ~TOM is in the building now (ugh) so it could be more but masked by water gain, it's hard to say.

 

DECEMBER 4

This is BAAAAD. Can I just say that - TOM is in the building. But the 4 cherry cordials that I reported eating later were actually 1.5 peanut butter cups. I got a WHOLE BOX of free samples and the timing was really bad. Then I was lazy about entering a new food and figured this was close enough. As you will see, the effective carb counts are practically nil and although I suffered GREATLY from the maltitol, I did not gain to speak of - I was up a half pound this morning which I consider inconsequential particularly in light of the fact that TOM is here.

I am grateful today for narcotics! And for this new way of reporting my daily intake, which will save me a lot of time in my journaling.

 

Supps: plus 2 percodans

Ex: and TOM never occur together!

Water: 2 liters - low again - also a Diet Rite - and a Miller Lite I forgot to report - oops!!

DECEMBER 5

 

 

Supps: Ooops - did take 4 Percodans and 4 Vicodins (not together, of course, spaced out over 24 hr period)

Ex: and TOM never occur together!

Water: 1.5 liters - WAY low again - gotta work on that!

~ Back down that half pound ~

 

DECEMBER 6

 

Thanks for the wine, Didi, it tasted very good, but as I suspected, a little TOO good - I was up a pound this AM.... boo hoo.. oh well, as I said before, it WAS good! Can always blame it on TOM instead.... that's it! It's TOM... surely not that delicious NY wine! LOL!

No exercise, naturally - supps plus only 2 Vicodin in the AM, hence the wine in the PM..... only 2 liters water again.

DECEMBER 7

Not the best lunch - oh well. No exercise, since I am skiing tomorrow, that will be enough. Dinner was fabulous - Made an omelet with l.o. taco meat and pepper jack cheese, then topped with sour cream and salsa. VERY good! :)

Went down one pound

DECEMBER 8

 

EX: Skiied for a solid four hours with my kids (they were on snow boards) and my 2 best friends - FANTASTIC conditions but just, so I am glad I held out and waited until now to go. COME ONE SNOW SNOW AND THEN SNOW SOME MORE!!

Dinner was crock pot I fixed before I left and it was KILLER - I just halved and peeled the chayote and dropped it in there with the pot roast and WOW. I am fixing chayote with EVERY pot roast I make this way from now on. Try it - it beat turnips hands down, even the kids liked the taste I made them try. Went to party after and so full from a great dinner that I settled for 2 Miller Lites and that's IT... Next morning - down a pound AND a HALF - whoooo hooooooo. That's more like it!!

 

DECEMBER 10

What a weird day!!! Before I paste in my meals, i am going to excuse my behavior by showing you what I made today.....

First,,,,

and THEN, magic bars,

and YES, they are both sugar free, low carb! to the tune of just 2 carbs "per serving" - sometimes it's the staying put with one serving that I have trouble with, esp. when I am SO EXCITED with a new recipe.......

This (next) morning, the 1.5 pounds that I lost while skiing are back in full force! I must stop getting inspired this way, or else Christmas better HURRY UP and come, or I will have a "blue, blue, Christmas"!! Not really, I plan to ski again soon - will have to just balance creative cooking days with skiing days! Yeah, that's the ticket! LOL!!!!!! And now, to the treadmilll...............

DECEMBER 10

This was a strange day, I ate very little during the first half of the day and a ton that night. Maybe because the drain in my kitchen clogged AGAIN just when I should have started dinner. We have had more problems with the that drain, I can't even use my disposal, I just couldn't believe it was clogged again.... Headed straight for the wine, but there was only one glass in the fridge.... settled for a sandwich on toasted LC bread. Had just pulled the turkey breast out of the freezer that I froze from Thanksgiving, at least THAT worked out ..... but when I look at my calories and carbs and compare to other days, I really can't imagine how I could be down a pound this morning! (I'll take it, don't get me wrong - but....... IT'S REALLY STRANGE!! (More credence for my original Up the Fat theory, methinks!!!)

DECEMBER 11

Okay, maybe yesterday really WAS a fluke - although my eating today left something to be desired, without a doubt....

I have been dealing with a stopped-up kitchen drain for the last couple of days - UGH! We finally got it draining but I got up and took one look at the disgusting kitchen - dirty dishes stacked all around, the once-clean dishes in the drainer that needed to be bleached and re-washed due to dirty water squirting across the whole room while trying to unplug .... and went "No WAY!" So....... I went POWER-SHOPPING instead of cleaning! Was starving when I got home, so I made a half sandwich, then I made LC pizza for dinner, which was awesome, but always makes me gain.... and then I hit the mousse at 9Pm, and then I hit the mousse AGAIN ....... and the upshot is ....... UP 3.5 POUNDS. Yikes!! That seems a bit much, based on the numbers, but maybe it's part water due to salt from the pork rinds and all that cheese - who knows??? Maybe it's just because it ate late, and maybe I'm just constipated! hahahaaaa. Not worth stressing over, THAT much I have learned over the last couple years of eating this way and tracking what follows.... I will pound the water today and squeeze in a workout, if I can.... in between all the DISHES - ick! But at least I CAN do the dishes - Gosh I just hate plumbing problems!!!!!

Yesterday while driving through the canyon on the way shopping I had a chance to think about how everyone thinks I am crazy because I call for the snow all the time, and I think I figured it out..... the people who think I am crazy gotta live towards the eastern half of the US - where there is much higher humidity - they don't understand how it is here in the west, in the mountains - I'll try to explain.....  9 degrees here feels like 30 degrees in Maine.... most snow falls here at night (don't ask me how they work THAT out!!) and then the sun comes out (70% of the days from Nov to Apr are SUNNY days!) and due to the fact that we are so much closer to the sun, it is much more intense - leading to the roads melting off all by themselves most times,  very quickly! Plus, even when there IS snow on the roads, because it's so dry here, it tends to be "fluffy" snow (think champagne powder) that actually provides more positive traction than you would have without it  - it's not AT ALL  like where I grew up in Maine, there the snow just  packs down and turns to black ice and never leaves the roads from November to March! Plus, the humidity makes it feel so much colder - I kid you not, when it is say, just 9 degrees here, it FEELS more like 30 in Maine... plus we get very little wind here.... I really don't miss the wind!!! In the summer when its 100 degrees here (not that often but we do get it occasionally) it is still much more comfortable than an 80 degree "muggy" day in the east....... AND ... my favorite part - it ALWAYS cools down at night .... sometimes by as much as 50 degrees..... it's not like there isn't ALWAYS some relief in sight..... AND ..... we have hardly any bugs here!!!! After growing up in Maine where the state BIRD is the mosquito, that is probably my #1 all-time favorite part of the Colorado climate! I only wish we got as much snow as we used to, when I first moved here ..... but then, my last winter in Maine was 81-82 and we never got a drop of snow that year, all the while having REALLY frigid weather, for one 32 day period it was 40 below every single day!! When I was a kid, I remember snow drifts as high as the telephone wires, and getting four feet in one storm was typical.... times are dry all over, darn it! At least we still get enough snow here so I can play.... and it's easy to drive in, so OF COURSE I do the snow dance every day.... speaking of, IT IS SNOWING NOW! YIPPEE!!! :)

And here is a glimpse into the weirdness that is me....... Last Thursday I heard that a tanker had blown up in this same canyon, closing it for 12 hours, one person, the driver was killed in what the media described as a "fireball, as he attempted to run from the scene"..... ew.

I thought at the time, how fortunate that no one else was involved, that canyon is fun to whip around in a car or on a bike but those semis are another story, they scare the hell out of me in there all the time..... and that is a very busy stretch of road ... they talked about how they had to inspect a bridge that was involved and one lane would be closed for a while and so on... I didn't realize until I drove through yesterday what it must have been like... there were visible scorch marks along a stretch of road approximately 1000 FEET long ... and this is part of the highway where the two lanes are almost stacked, both are suspended over another (old) road below ... this had to have been a holocaust sized fireball, the bottom of the next level up was really blackened in the one spot where there are 3 roads (making you real nervous about how safe the one is that you are driving on and realizing that you had already driven over the one you could see the damage on) and it seemed like the blackened rails went on forever and ever ... this was HUGE .... how no other car was enveloped is beyond me... I mean, really BEYOND me .... and I couldn't help but wonder .... just what had this guy been doing??

*shudder*Is the universe really random? Or was this one big almightly 'Buster you are gonna pay NOW' scenes ..... I mean, I was AMAZED at the scope of the conflagration that must have started .... it just seems so unlikely that this could happen this way and no one else get hurt in any way. Still, most of the people who would seem to deserve God's wrath don't get it, and some who seem to be golden children do die in terrible freak accidents, we all know that .... but it really makes me wonder when I see this stuff. What a terrible way to go.

Hug your family, make up with your friend, remember - today just might be everything, so make sure you enjoy it and give yourself some TLC along the way, too.

Today I am grateful for my life.

DECEMBER 12

Did the above from memory just 2 days later and am not at all sure it is accurate - I do know that there was no change on the scale at all afterwards.... gotta do this EVERY day as I go...

DECEMBER 13

So, Mitch and I needed to take our new truck to Denver for its first scheduled maintenance.... I went ahead and power shopped up here on Tuesday because I KNOW how much HE enjoys shopping (not!)

We went with the idea of finding a new bed for the two of us, after 18 years of being together we have never owned a bed (just mattresses on those cheapo frames that stick out from the end and break your ankles all the time). Stopped into a Super KMart looking for a Fantom vacuum and picked up a couple more things, including a sketch pad for Roxanne. Picked up the only ones there and there were 6 of them, all shrink-wrapped together. Looked at the price posted, $3.99. Looked at each other, shrugged, and threw the whole she-bang into the cart - after all, it is not OUR responsibility to ask "Is this right? Maybe you're giving us too good of a deal? I was thinking that the checker would question it, if it wasn't right, but he just said Wow, this is a big sketch pad, scanned it for 3.99 and handed it to us with a smile.... so I shrugged and thought to myself 'OK, call it karma' and we left.

Later, at American Furniture Warehouse (where we did NOT find a bed) I picked up two beautiful stuffed white tigers for the two kids - they were marked $29 on sale for $21 and $39 on sale for $31 ~ yet they rang them up for $33 including tax! Huh? They check your receipt at the front door and that lady just said 'Wow, these are such a great deal, aren't they?' I replied, "Yeah they sure are!' and we left there with a smile, too..... looked at the receipt and one charged for just $8.00???? I think they meant to take $8 OFF?? Oh well, again, not my problem ..... but by now we are thinking, Hey, this is one good day.....

So......... Mitch insisted that we go home via Central City and Black Hawk. These are two old historic mining towns that started limited stakes gaming a few (10?) years back, in order to save the districts. I usually don't like going there, I prefer the real thing (Vegas!) because I always seem to suck when I play there, but yesterday I hit a $120 jackpot the second time I touched my slot machine, and then $80 and then $60 and then while waiting for them to fill the machine back up so I could take my money and move, I gave Mitch most of the coins I did get out, about $100, and he lost those plus the $100 he started with. We looked at each other like Huh??? Usually HE wins and I suck, so what's with this?

We moved around the corner finally and I said OK, let's play these 2. Sat down and right away I hit $120 and he hit $850!!!!!!! While waiting for THAT payout, he moved over a few machines and hit $300 and then $200! SO, the upshot of everything was, we left $650 richer than when we walked in there just 90 minutes earlier!!! (We put some money into a $5 machine hoping for the REALLY BIG payout, after all, have to play to pay, but our luck didn't extend quite THAT far!)

We stopped for steaks on the way home!

I still don't own a bed, but that's FINE WITH ME!

I took a lunch with me and started the crock pot for the kids before we left  - and then ate some pot roast after I got home and was putting it away, just because it smelled so darn good. And here I thought I was over eating "just because" ... tho the brew-skis coulda (musta) had something to do with it!

This morning I was down 1.5 pounds of that mysterious gain from the other day.

DECEMBER 14

Woke up ravenous, so I ate a huge breakfast, knowing that we have our company Christmas party tonight, in a restaurant - I wanted to get off to a good START, anyway. re: lunch - Must say that since I started putting my la Tortillas directly on the gas burner over the flame until they start to blacken, that they taste MUCH better - this is definitely the way to eat these babies! Lay them on the flame, add the cheese, when they start to smell actually burnt, pull them off and add any other fillings, then roll 'em up. De-lish! Also re: the beer - we had a driver with us, and I drank the last 6 *after* getting home - we played pool till like 3AM, felt like kids. Not even hung over this morning, though, since there was no cigarettes and no sugar involved and I slammed plenty of water before and during the drinking. It was the KIDS that didn't feel like going skiing today, not me! HA

Up one pound this morning - all things considered, not bad at all......

DECEMBER 15

Not enough water, but everything else looks good - yet there was no change on the scale. Yet.

DECEMBER 16

The wedding cookies are to die for - these are cinnamon:

40 net carbs - oh well....... that's STILL 500 calories LESS than my supposed BMR. What a joke. If I ate anything CLOSE to 2800 calories per day I'd be back into a size 24 in no time flat. I have decided that I am going to have to go to deprivation calorie levels in order to get anything really moving again, and I am not ready to do that until after the holidays, so.... as of January 1, it's back to induction and no experimenting in the kitchen until things go DOWNHILL once again and I get at least back to my all-time low weight. If that slows down my progress on the book - oh well, too bad so sad -- because *I* have to come first....

DECEMBER 17

What a weird day! I worked on the computer all day, writing the next LC Luxury column and my next three newspaper columns (finished one and a half and have a plan for the third, so not too shabby). Hardly ate all day except for nibbling on the stuff I was taking pictures of for the site and the columns, then made my lunch at 4PM! A huge chef's salad, then had a turkey wrap at 630 too, plus a few nuts meanwhile.... had some mousse at 9pm.... ended up with 36 net carbs and 2400 calories, not too bad, right? WRONG. Up another friggin' pound this morning! Soon I will have gained back TWENTY!!! Sheesh. It is clear to me what is happening, as much as I have tried to be in denial, I know exactly what's going on... my body has adjusted to low carb completely and it still wants to be fat. I was in a size 24 even though I didn't overeat, before I started low carb. I thought that low carb was my ticket out, but at the rate I am gaining, it looks like I need to do something DRASTIC to prevent that from reoccurring. I refuse to do a reversal diet, because I firmly believe in the medical benefits of lowcarb. And I am not starting any sort of deprivation diet during the holidaze .... So the current plan is to eat in moderation through the rest of the holidays and go ahead and eat some artificially sweetened treats if I want - in moderation - and the scale can just be DAMNED (only because I will know in my heart that I am eating "okay"). Then on January 1, I will start a low carb, no artificial sweeteners allowed, workout-till-I-drop phase, in an effort to reverse this damnable gaining trend. There! I feel better now that I have just decided on a course of action. Let's just hope I can stop gaining a pound a day for the next 2 weeks.... I may just not weigh during that time,  because I do NOT want to be in a funk on Christmas and depress everyone around me...

DECEMBER 18

Okay, this day defies ALL logic....

What is so weird is that I DROPPED a pound after this day. WHY? Why would I lose after this day but gain after the day before, when the numbers are so similar... and gain after the day before THAT when the numbers were all lower..... Maybe I would have whoosehed this morning if I had only foregone the mouse last night.... maybe it's the mousse (OIAB) that my body likes ..... WHO THE HELL KNOWS - NOT ME! Not anymore. The one thing I do know is that I am scale-dependent, because I really didn't want to weigh this morning, not after having the second mousse last night. But I couldn't seem to stop myself. *sigh* So, I am still 15 pounds above my low weight at this moment. If I can just maintain this through the holidays without adding to it I'll be content, though, because I really do plan to give up all the AS on Jan 1 - any recipes I work on for the book in January will be dinner recipes, not "sweet" ones....

Gawd, I sure wish it would SNOW. I'd be skiing today if it would.... but I'll be darned if I'll go up there when conditions are not good....

 

By the way .... feast your eyes on THIS, my new Four-cheese, Four-Vegetable Lasagna from last night: it was the tiniest bit soupy, so I will be working on firming up the finished sauce a tad, but the flavor - oooh la la....

DECEMBER 19

Another day that defies logic!!! I am sitting here shaking my head, asking HOW THE &%*#%^ did I LOSE a pound overnight after what I ate yesterday?

Here's where I got into trouble.....

Low Carb Lemon Bars that taste just like the originals, maybe better. One pan = 16 servings and Mitch and I managed to EAT THEM ALL. Every single one. And then I had mousse to top it off! MANNNNNN! (Can you say - "awakening cravings", Mr. Rogers??) Yet I lost a pound last night and am lower this morning than I have been in a week. Maybe this is like when people post that they cheated and lost, maybe I shocked my system. Whatever, I'll take it and be very grateful!!

DECEMBER 20

That pound stayed gone, too! No change from yesterday ~

DECEMBER 21

Driving to Denver the Friday before Christmas???  I must be INSANE. But I had to go, for work! Had a good breakfast before, and a great dinner after...

And the kicker is: Down a POUND AND A HALF! Which seems ..... weird! But I will take it, gladly, don't get me wrong.

DECEMBER 22

After this day, which is not very different than the preceeding says - when I lost - I am UP two pounds! DANG IT ANYWAY. The only thing I did differently was to eat some Butter Toffee from the Wisconsin Cheeseman that I bought for Christmas - for the last ten or fifteen years, my Mom always always made us this candy for Christmas and sent it to us, so this seemed like a nice thing to splurge on for the holidays. Maybe not though, if it hits me like this. I got no gas whatsoever, and it tasted REAL - maybe it is! I have heard lots of stories about sugar filled items being mistakenly packaged as SF..... I think I will drink margaritas tonight, and try to eat NO candy!!

DECEMBER 30

No, I didn't fall off the low carb wagon and stop reporting, I just got really busy before Christmas, and then we left for an out of state visit the day after Christmas.  I am about the same weight as when I stopped recording my intake, which is UP UP UP.... but not for long! It's back to business, now.... and I came home with 50 pounds of venison, which was my favorite Xmas gift of all. YUM. It's really GOOD venison, too, not gamy at all. Thanks, bro! :)

DECEMBER 31

Not too bad, for a holiday! And I was down a half pound the next morning, too. :)