Starting weight:  285.2
Calories/Carbs Goals (limits):       1400  / 30.0
Thursday’s calories & net carbs: 1255 / 34.8
Yesterday’s calories & net carbs: 1001 / 27.4
Thursday’s exercise:    none
Yesterday’s exercise:    none
Weight Thursday:: 247.2    Weight Yesterday:: 247.8    Today:  247.2
Change today::  -0.6 lbs.   Loss-so-far:  38.0 lbs. 

Up, down, up, down.  The same pound, over and over again.  I really expected to see 246-something today because the swelling on my knee has gone down considerably.  Oh well, hey, at least I’m not gaining.  I’m still not hopping on the elliptical yet, though.  I don’t want another setback, so I’ll wait until it feels normal, or at least as close to normal as my knees get.

Thanks, everyone, for all your input and support!  I have decided that on days when I can work up a sweat, I’ll add an extra 200 calories and/or 10g carbs, bringing my daily goal/limits to 1600 and 40g for those days.  My rules for going just a bit over will still apply.

I’m having no trouble keeping my calories below goal (sometimes too far below goal!), but I am starting to have some difficulty adhering to the carbs.  I’ve started cutting out certain carbs to try to stay within 30g a day, like for example on chicken taco nights I just have my taco innards in a bowl and skip the tortilla.  They’re only 3g carbs each but that’s 6g saved and heck, the good part is the inside anyway.  Still, I find myself going over (but still within the 10g limit).  Part of it I can blame on my addiction to popcorn.  On days when I want popcorn, I usually try to “save up” enough carbs so I can indulge … but sometimes the yen for popcorn hits on days when I haven’t planned ahead.  Or - like on days like today - I indulged a little too much!!! 

This evening we went to a sneak preview showing of “Bolt,” the new Disney 3-D animated movie about the dog who thinks he’s a superhero with special powers.  With the exception of the randomly-spaced 32 minutes of the movie during which I wanted to smack the mother of the child four rows ahead of us for not taking her very loud, very disruptive child out of the theater until the movie was almost over - I enjoyed every minute of it!  LOL!  Annnnnyway, I ate popcorn.  Too much popcorn.  Too much really tasty movie theater popcorn while mesmerized by the big screen.

It was really good, though.  =D

I stayed well within my calories for the day though (1252) - and I’m still within that 10g limit of goal (at 37g).  I still wish I hadn’t eaten that much popcorn.  And I still wish I’d smacked that mom on the back of the head a couple times.  =D   I’m sorry, but when my kids were little - I made sure that they did not disrupt other people’s enjoyment of their recreation time, whether at the movies or in a restaurant.  If a child cannot behave quietly in either environment - TAKE THEM OUTSIDE! 

That’s my opinion.

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