906. 

Okay, I’ve come to the conclusion that the diet my dad sent off for in 1976 was, in fact, Atkins.  I did a little googling and discovered that Dr. Atkins developed his revolutionary diet in the late 60’s but didn’t get it out there in the public until the early 70’s — and it was met with much suspicion.

So now I know what to call this part, the induction phase.  According to modern day Atkins, this phase calls for keeping carbs to 20g a day or less.  My recollection of the plan I was on years ago was that the goal was to keep it as close to zero as possible.  I’m doing that, but even though I’m eating food that is labeled “zero,” FitDay is chalking that food up as “one” or even “two.”  Either way, it doesn’t matter, I’m still staying well below 20.

I felt kinda yucky on Tuesday and then I woke up Wednesday all shaky and sick-feeling.  I remember feeling this back in the day when I was 15!!  I went to my sister’s house on Day #2 or #3, and she saw that I was pale and shaky, thought I was starving myself, and sat me down with a bowl of ice cream! 

Nahh, I was just detoxing from the carbs / sugar / white flour that I’ve been so freely consuming for so many years! 

I went back and looked at my FitDay eating records from when I was maintaining 1500-1600 calories a day, and found that I was consuming an average of 180-200 CARBS a DAY!!  OMG!!  No wonder I’m feeling withdrawals!

So I’m feeling better today - WAY BETTER!  Part of that good feeling is the fact that as of this morning my scale told me that I was SEVEN POUNDS lighter!  OMG!  Now I know I’m not really seven whole pounds lighter because my starting weight on Monday (279.8) was noted in the afternoon rather than first thing in the morning like today’s weight (272.8), but I’m thinking at least ONE or TWO of those pounds is actual LOSS!!  WOOOHOOO!!!

I’m gonna count ‘em, all seven of ‘em, because I did see 279.8 and I did see 272.8 and HELL it just makes me FEEL good, so why the hell not?!?