Starting weight:  285.2
Calories/Carbs Goals (limits):  1400  / 30.0
Sunday’s calories & net carbs:   1208 / 24.3
Yesterday’s calories & net carbs:    1074 / 18.3
Sunday’s exercise:    none
Yesterday’s exercise:    9 loads of laundry  =D
Weight Sunday:: 243.4    Weight Yesterday:: 244.0    Today:  243.2
Change today::  -0.8 lbs.   Loss-so-far:  42.0 lbs.

Bawk-baaaawwwwk-bawk-bawk.  If you are what you eat, then I am a chicken.

I’ve eaten a lot of chicken lately!  Chicken and salads.  Tasty.  Filling.  Really low in calories.  So low that on days when I have grilled chicken twice, I barely log in a thousand calories.  One of the waitresses at the restaurant that we frequent asked me, “Has it been agony?  Do you walk around hungry all the time?”  I was like ohmygod no!  I’m seldom hungry and if I do get hungry it’s only because I forgot to eat.

What?  Eileen forgot to EAT?!?

I’ve forgotten to pay the electric bill.  I’ve forgotten to fill up my husband’s Jeep with gas.  I’ve even forgotten to charge my cell phone.  But EAT?  The old Eileen would never forget to eat.  The old Eileen waited for each new opportunity to eat, anticipating and planning the next meal/snack/hidden treat while still chewing and swallowing the current one.  Surely a person like that wouldn’t forget to EAT.  Ai-yi-yi!

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A while back I found a store that sells low-carb bread and I was so excited!  Only 1g carb per slice, this bread was hearty and filling and yummy.  I bought a bunch of it and put it in my freezer. 

It wasn’t long after that, that I tested negative for ketosis.  I thought, “Crap!  Must have been the popcorn I’ve been eating!”  So I dropped my carbs for a couple days - and still, negative.  After about five days I finally figured out that it was something I was still eating.  Something that I was counting as low that maybe wasn’t so low. 

So I stopped eating the low-carb bread.  Bingo!  The stick turned purple-pink!  Darn!!!

So I’m back to baking.  Tonight I made low-carb rolls which will work for hamburger buns (woohooo gotta get me some ground turkey and make zeusburgers!) or sloppy-joe buns (got some sloppy joes in the fridge, gonna have that tomorrow!) or just for a nice bread-like treat with a salad.  They look good and are exactly the right texture - but they do have a bit of that carbquick/carbalose aftertaste.  *Sigh*  Bettah than nothin’ though!!

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