Starting weight (7/15/08):  279.8  
Calories/Carbs Goals (limits):       1400  / 25.0
Yesterday’s calories & net carbs:  1418 /  23.3
Yesterday’s exercise:  1 hour light swimming + 1 hour DDR
Weight Yesterday:  ???    Today:  260.8
Change today:  -0.2   Loss-so-far: 19.0 lbs.

About, I dunno, fifteen years ago, I read a book called “The Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet” or something like that.  Like Atkins, it talked about hyperinsulinism and how many people in the population have the type of metabolism that produces way too much insulin when processing carbs.  The essence of the diet plan was this:  Eat close to zero carbs all day long and then for the evening meal, for exactly 60 minutes, you can eat whatever you want.  The diet, of course, recommended eating a healthy balanced meal during that 60 minutes and then polishing it off with a lovely dessert.  Me, I pretty much started with dessert.  It didn’t take long and I gave up on that diet because I wasn’t losing any weight.  Gee, I wonder why.

I think I’ve said here in my blog about a bzillion times already — I don’t much care for cooking.  This means that I really like going out to eat because then I’m not doing the cooking (or the cleaning up).  Since I’ve started on this diet, though, I’ve started getting strange looks from certain wait-staff when they hear what I want to order.  Some get that I’m avoiding carbs, others seem totally mystified by my choices (”You want an omelette with ham AND bacon AND cheese — but you don’t want the toast or hash browns??!”).

There’s a restaurant not far from home that is my hubby’s favorite place to eat (definitely more favorite than home, lol) and we’ve gone there pretty regularly for the past 10 years so by now they know us by name.  We always sit in the same booth (unless someone is in it, of course) and we pretty much always ordered the same stuff…. until now.

I took one of their menu choices and changed it up.  When I first started ordering it, I sounded just like Sally in When Harry Met Sally (not the “big-O” part of the movie, I’m talking about the little-o, as in “ordering,” lol!).  Here’s what I’d have to say, to get what I wanted:

I’d like the small Tiffany’s salad, but without the vegetables, and no croutons, just lettuce — and instead of cheddar cheese, I’d like feta — so that’s just lettuce and feta, and of course, the grilled chicken on top — oh, and could you ask the cook to lightly cajun-spice the chicken?  Not fully spiced, just lightly, thanks… And I’d like the Greek dressing on the side — and even though I’m ordering the small, can I have it in the big bowl?  Yes, and no bread with that, please.  Thanks!

The servers there are used to me now and they know about my special Tiffany’s salad.  It’s pretty cool because when I walk in there now, the waitresses are supportive of my diet.  “I can see it!” one exclaimed, “I can tell you’ve lost weight, it’s working!  It’s working!”  it’s like they have a little ownership over that, seeing as they are my suppliers of dietary sustenance (at least two or three times a week).

My son thinks they should add “my” salad to the menu and name it the Eileen Salad.  =D

Re: comments
delitaagain:  Oh my! When I wrote “swimming” I didn’t mean like racing back and forth nonstop! LOL I know that there are people who do that and I’m not one of them. I mean like “light” swimming — think along the lines of dog-paddling, LOL! Oh, and I may have started a month ahead of you but LOOK at your incredible progress in that time!!! You are gonna pass me up very soon, no doubt about it!!

getupnow & goodlife: : Thanks to you both for dropping by - I really appreciate your input and encouragement!!!

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