Starting weight (7/15/08):  279.8
Yesterday:  270.0    Today:  271.2

 Okay, today’s weigh-in brought me back down to earth - it’s not all gonna be down, down, down every single day - this is the price I pay for daily weigh-ins instead of weekly - I get to see the ups and downs.  That’s okay.  I’m still way ahead this week in terms of progress, miles ahead of what my calorie-counting weeks were like.

I’m still sticking to it… almost obsessively!  I made spaghetti and meat sauce tonight for my hubby and I had to test the spaghetti for doneness and the only way I know how to really do that right is to bite down on it - so I did.  I gave it a couple bites and determined it was perfect… then spit it out into the trash!  My son, far from being grossed out, thought it was funny.  “I knew you’d do that,” he said.

I tasted the bread last night - warm out of the oven - and thought it was weird, but good.  So this morning for breakfast I warmed a slice and slathered on the butter (it’s been so frustrating to know I could have butter yet have nothing to PUT it on!!).  To my surprise, I was like “yuck.”  The bread was a weird texture to begin with but the warmth and the butter had turned it to a gelatinous weird texture.  I ate half a slice (thinking surely it would get better) and then threw the rest of the slice away.

Later today I tried it again, this time cold from the refrigerator.  Much better!  It still has a weird taste and texture but I think as long as I put something on it (like a nice juicy burger dripping with cheese and onions) I can deal with it.  My son, on the other hand, did not like it at all, warm or cold.

This morning I added up the food I consumed yesterday and the carbs came to only 14 and the fiber was 6, so I only took in 8 net carbs for the day.  THEN I looked at the calorie count (even though I’m not supposed to be counting calories, well, geez, it was right there how could I miss it?) and to my surprise, yesterday I only consumed a total of 684 calories!!!!  Not good!  We were so busy yesterday that I didn’t get to eat lunch until about 2:30 and then I didn’t have anything else to eat until my bread was done — and that was close to midnight!  Nine hours after a meal and I FORGOT TO EAT!  LOL when is the last time THAT happened?!?

I did much better today — consumed 25 carbs but then 13 grams of fiber, for a net carb total of only 12 — and my calories today totaled 1656.

It’s weird, though that I ate hardly anything yesterday and gained 1.2 lbs.  And it’s also weird, that I’ve been eating pretty much the same number of calories as I was before, yet this week I dropped over eight pounds.  EIGHT POUNDS!!  I don’t care if it’s mostly technically water - it’s still friggin’ eight pounds!  LOL.  :oD

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