I’m home - YAY!!!  It was a good trip, a productive one, but after four nights away from Hubby I’m SO glad to be back home again!!

I did really good at eating while I was gone.  I didn’t log anything but I know I was eating only what I was supposed to be eating - and even though I only made it to the hotel gym once, I feel really good about how I did while I was gone.  We did a lot of running around and loading and unloading the car, carrying boxes around and setting up our display and equipment… I’m actually looking forward to weighing in tomorrow.  I’ve been stuck at 237-239 for an annoying length of time and I’m pretty certain that I broke through that threshhold. 

Okay, I admit it, I peeked.  Couldn’t help myself.  Even though I just ate dinner, even though I just finished off a big glass of water and a cup of decaf, I stripped down just to see for myself if I made any progress while I was gone…

At last weigh-in, I was 239.2 - and tonight with a full belly and a whole night ahead of me (I typically drop 2-4 lbs. overnight) my current weight is …

Oh wait.  We’re supposed to make funny faces and go to a commercial now.

Ha!  Been watching too much “The Biggest Loser,” haha!

Okay, my current weight is 238.6, LESS, yes, just six/tenths of a pound less than my last weigh-in BUT it’s lookin’ good for a halfway decent loss showing when I weigh in for real tomorrow morning!  Woohooo!

My lowest weight so far was on 2/9/09 when I weighed in at 234.6 - that would be four whole pounds less than I weigh tonight.  That would be nice to see tomorrow morning… but I’m not gonna count on it.  But yeah, that’d be nice.  Then again, any downward change would be nice.  Even tonight’s weight of 238.6 would be nice, ha!

Hubby wants to catch up on LOST in a little while but I gotta go catch up on everyone’s blogs!  I miss reading what’s going on in everyone’s lives!  (I’m a voyeur at heart ya know.)

Hugs&hugs!  I’m so glad to be back!

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That’s our rental car!  =D  When I went to Avis to pick up our rental - which was supposed to be a mid-sized car, the guy said, “Ohhh, I’m so sorry but we are all out of mid-sized cars so I’m going to have to upgrade you - at the same price - and give you a convertible.”  Awwww, gee, well I suppose if you HAVE to.  Ha!!  And did I mention that the weather has been absolutely magnificent?  Today the sun was shining and there was a light breeze and the temperature hovered around the mid-70’s all day.

Perfect, perfect weather for cruising down the highway in a convertible!

Anyway, thanks y’all for your comments (and for missing me!) and yes I’m fine, haven’t been feeling sick at ALL, thank God, just been really busy on the road and off.  We left on Tuesday afternoon, drove to Jacksonville and got to our hotel around 9pm.  Then we had to get up at 6:30 to be at the event by 8:00.  I presented one workshop by myself at 8:45  and then co-presented with my two colleagues at 10:30.  Both workshops went great and people got much-needed information and that’s what it’s all about after all!

After the Jax event was over, I went out to dinner (with my two colleagues) to Carrabba’s!!!  OMG I love that restaurant!  I have now officially decided that Carrabba’s is my favorite restaurant in the whole wide world!  (LOL I say that every time I have a great meal ha!)  I had salad (minus the croutons), steak marsala (minus the mushrooms), and italian-seasoned green beans (plus some alfredo sauce).  What a delectible, decadent, and extremely low-carb meal!  I stayed totally on plan and it ROCKED!  =D

No, I did not take a picture of my food.  LOL!  But someone else obviously did because I GIS’d “Carrabba’s Steak Marsala” and got this picture!  Just mentally remove those nasty mushrooms (and that glob of what I assume is potatoes) and mmmmm that’s what I ate.

I really shouldn’t still be this consumed and obsessed by the food I eat.
I shouldn’t.

But damn it was good, and I can’t help but celebrate the fact that it was ALLOWED.  =D

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 Starting weight:  285.2
 Weight Last Entry:  237.4    Weight Today:  239.2
Change today::  +1.8 lbs.         Loss-so-far:   -46.0 lbs.    
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Okay, so I started logging my food again.
Take a look:

                                     Calories     Net Carbs  
     Friday, 2/13               2148           36.8            
     Saturday, 2/14           1126           14.9
     Sunday, 2/15             1350           27.3
     Monday, 2/16            1300           24.7
     Tuesday, 2/17           1675           26.8
     Wednesday, 2/18      1500           24.0
     2/19 (did not log)
     Friday, 2/20              1292           30.8
     Saturday, 2/21          1156           28.2

On the day before this list, Thursday, 2/12, I weighed 236.2 - which means I have gained three pounds since then.  Three.  Frickin’.  Pounds.  Is it me???  Does this make sense???  This is so not fair!

Yeah, yeah, last week I was all “positive reaction” and “positive action,” and I still AM, but DANG.  Three pounds.

I just needed to bitch.  I feel so much better now, LOL!

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I still have not been feeling 100% well.  I have moments during the day when I feel totally fine but I’ve had way more moments of crampy pain.  It’s very annoying.  Oh, and TOM has not arrived yet, but definitely feels like it should.  If it’s gonna, I wish it would just get here so I can get over it (and hopefully start losing weight again?!?).

I’m scheduled for another out-of-town trip this week, a two-conference road trip that we’ve done annually (this will be the third year).  I’m looking forward to it and I’m not.  I like the events, I like the pace of the trip (pretty laid back), but I’m just a bit worried about being so far away from home if I still don’t feel well. 

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I was outta town.  One of my co-workers scheduled herself to sit at a booth at an expo 80 miles from here and then she had to go to Massachusetts because her dad went into the hospital - so of course on very short notice, I filled in for her.

The expo opened this morning at 7:30 am so I drove up there last night and stayed in a hotel nearby.  I got in way too late to even bother worrying about whether the hotel had a gym, and then had to get up and out of the hotel way too early this morning to even think about it.

I managed to get up and showered, dressed, and packed early enough so I could visit the free breakfast in the lobby - just wanted to see if there was anything there I could eat.  Amazingly, they had eggs and sausage patties, woohoo.  The cinnamon rolls, waffles, pancakes, cereal, oatmeal, danish, donuts, toast, and bagels all looked really good, but I had no trouble walking right past ‘em all.

For lunch I drove down the street to Sonny’s Barbeque and got the salad bar and sliced pork.  I used miniscule amounts of barbeque sauce and filled up my plate with lettuce and broccoli, so I did real well as far as calories and carbs.  But.  About a half hour after I finished eating, I was in major pain.

For the next seven hours, I was doubled over in pain!  When I left the expo I drove home but was in misery, the cramps were so bad.  When I got home I laid down on the couch but that didn’t help.  I finally felt better around 8pm.

I will not describe the digestive results that went with this prolonged pain.  Definitely would be TMI.

I did finally feel hungry and had some dinner around 9pm.  I feel okay now, too.  Still have no idea what brought on the agony I was in earlier but I hope to never experience it again!

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I watched the Biggest Loser finally.  Caught it on YouTube - a horrible recording but better than waiting for NBC to post it next week!  That show always somehow manages to get a tear outta me and this episode was no exception.  I get so caught up in the drama of it all, ha!

BTW, I have regular/cheap/basic cable so I don’t have Tivo or DVR or whatever it is where you can tape your shows.  I still have a VCR hooked up so I suppose I could tape shows with that - but I would rather watch a show online than on TV anyway. 

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 Starting weight:  285.2
 Weight Last Entry:  237.8    Weight Today:  237.4
Change today::  -0.4 lbs.         Loss-so-far:   -47.8 lbs.    
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*Dancing around*  *Twirling around*  *Making woot-woot noises*

I’m just happy because I did an hour of DDR last night for the second night in a row and even though my knees are just a little bit swollen, I feel GOOD!  Gonna go for another hour tonight.  =D  Yeah I got a Polar F4 heart monitor for Christmas (the only thing I asked Santa for) and I love how it tells me that I’m in “the zone” (for me it’s a HR between 112 and 147).  DDR kicks butt, I was in that zone pretty much constantly!

My friend Diane has diabetes, she was diagnosed over six years ago.  I have spent a lot of time with her and have watched her when she was “good,” eating what and when she’s supposed to eat, and also when she was “bad,” eating things she shouldn’t or skipping meals.  It was a bit fascinating to me, from an outsider’s point of view, how she would “feel” her food intake.  If she indulged in sugar, she could feel the spike - and then not long after that, the crash.  If she skipped a meal, she could definitely feel that, too.  Kinda like blindness forces a person to be more tuned into their other senses, diabetes forces its victims to be more tuned into their metabolic system.

Well now I’m getting a little taste of what it’s like for Diane - kinda.  Before this year, my recollection of “feeling” my food was limited to two basic states: hungry and full.  Hungry was bad.  Full was good.

This year, though, I’ve opened up my awareness to way more than just the black & white of hungry vs. full.  I feel the full spectrum of satiation and/or satisfaction, and it’s way more varied now - it’s different depending upon what I eat and when I eat. 

Our friend, sterling, she got me to thinking about this with her entry about eating “clean.”  It IS different, it feels different, yeah, in your head, when you don’t feel guilty about what you’ve just consumed, but I’m talking about the physical.  It feels different when I eat what I’m supposed to be eating.  I feel stronger, more energetic, more alert, more aware, more fueled.

Oh, and full isn’t now - and never was - always “good.”  I remember lots of times when I ate waaaay too much and the fullness was SO not a good thing!  I would complain, “Ohmygod I ate too much,” but then next time I would do it again.

Anyway, I guess my point is that it’s good to be in tune with all that.  =D

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 Starting weight:  285.2
 Weight Last Entry:  237.6    Weight Today:  237.8
Change today::  +0.2 lbs.         Loss-so-far:   -47.4 lbs.    
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Peh.  Two-tenths of a pound - it’s just silly.  My poor sad scale playing mind games with me again.  i swear that thing has a personality.  I’d break up with him and never see him again - if I didn’t need him so badly!  I have, from time to time, vowed to back off in our relationship, to only see him on the weekends, but I always come crawling back.  I’m so pathetic that way.  LOL!

Recently I came across a copy of Dr. Atkin’s book, the one printed in 1972.  It was so refreshing to read, compared to the more recent version.  I had a very hard time reading the current one because it was, oh, about 75% defensive posturing.  So many words devoted to defending his plan instead of explaining his plan.  It’s sad because after so many years of being attacked for his plan, he felt the need to expend so much energy and time in just defending it.

Not that the 1972 book didn’t spend some time defending his plan - there’s a whole section in the back devoted just to the FDA hearings that took place back then - but the whole book was not permeated with the Doctor’s rebuttals to attackers.  It was filled with examples and anecdotes, with the explanations of the science and the wonders of the low-carb lifestyle.

It’s sad, what’s become of the Atkins corporation now that the Doctor is gone (and no, he didn’t die from poor health because of his diet, he slipped and fell and died from that injury).  His widow maintains a website that is still in line with her husband’s real actual plan.  The Atkins website is all about marketing the Atkins products - with a nod or two toward the science involved.

Yes.  Science.

I’ve run into a few people in the past seven months who have told me - in tones suggesting their expertise on the subject - that the Atkins diet is terrible health-wise and/or it’s just a gimmick.  The first thing I always ask is:  Have you actually read Dr. Atkin’s book from cover to cover?

“Well, no - but I read in a magazine…” or “I saw this thing on the news…”

*Sigh*

The bottom line for me is this:  I tried calorie-counting from January 2008 to June 2008, and I lost a whopping FIVE pounds.  FIVE pounds in SIX months.  Then I switched to low carb in July 2008 and in the next six months I lost FIFTY pounds.  FIFTY.

During both of these periods of time, I logged my food.
During both of these periods of time, I kept track of my calories.
During both of these periods of time, I kept my daily caloric intake between 1300 and 1700.

The only difference between these two periods of time was the chemical content of what I was eating.

The only difference was the science.  Ketosis is a measurable state, a real physiological phenomenon.  During ketosis (brought on by low carb intake), the body’s default source for energy switches from incoming carbs to fat - incoming fat and existing stored fat.

Oh, definitely I agree - it’s not for everyone, but it does work for me.

*Stepping down off soapbox*

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 Starting weight:  285.2
 Weight Last Entry:  240.0    Weight Today:  237.6
Change today::  +-2.4 lbs.         Loss-so-far:   -47.6 lbs.    
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Yesterday I weighed in at 239.4 and then today at 237.6, so over the past two days I’ve managed to drop 2.4 lbs.  Yep, water.  Most likely some of it was from swelling.  But back on the 9th, I was 234.6, so I’m still carrying around 3 extra lbs. that shouldn’t be there.  Eh, they’ll come off soon, probably after TOM arrives.

Thanks for all the support and encouragement!  This place is so cool.  =D

It was grabthebull that asked the question yesterday.  THE question.  The one that occurred to me as I wrote what I wrote on Saturday.  The very same one that I was asking myself.

“So… when will it be time to pull that DDR back out???”

After all, it was fun.  I liked it.  I enjoyed doing it.  And I lost weight - consistently!  That’s what I want!  CONSISTENCY!  I want to see the numbers on the scale drop most of the time instead of every once in a while. 

Okay, so I was scared.  I was afraid I’d mess up my knee again.  It was no fun doing the game without the jumps because I got crappy scores and what fun is it if you do your absolute best and still get a D?  So while my knee healed I stayed away from the game.

Then - Christmas came and my son got X-Box 360 for Christmas.  It was my understanding that if we got him the one with the hard drive, we’d be able to play regular X-Box games on it.  Well that worked for some games but not for DDR.  So since the XB360 was hooked up to the back of the TV, it was a pain to switch it out for the regular XB - so I stayed away from the game.

A couple weeks ago, I suggested to my hubby that we could buy one of those multi-game-hookup-thingies to plug both video games (and the DVD player) into.  So we bought one and brought it home, but we didn’t buy an extra cord for it so my son couldn’t hook it up.  So I stayed away from the game.

Then about a week ago, my hubby searched through his stuff (he’s a packrat, saves everything) and found a cord that would work to hook up the multi-game-hookup-thing.  Son plugged it in and showed me how to turn on the X-Box and switch the TV over to the game. 

Still, I stayed away from the game.

Scared of injuring my knees, I was testing them out on other things - the jumprope, the running/jogging - and even though my knees felt okay and the outlook was good, I was still scared. 

Eileen.  You wuss! 

Step up your game.  Add another layer of effort.  Get off yer damn butt and get moving, woman!

So tonight I put in an hour of DDR.  The last time I used it was October 18 - nearly 4 months ago!  I thought I’d be rusty but I really did well, even set a couple new records.  Woohoo!!  I wore my heart monitor and yeeehaaaw no wonder I lost weight doing this!  It’s an awesome workout!

So far, my knees … they feel fine.  =D

PS In case any of y’all missed it the first time around, here’s the link to the video I posted back in September:  You Tube DDR  I’ve lost some weight since then, maybe that’s why I did better?

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 Starting weight:  285.2
 Weight Last Entry:  240.0    Weight Today:  240.0
Change today::  +-0.0 lbs.         Loss-so-far:   -45.2 lbs.    
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Hope everyone had a happy Valentine’s Day!

I have several announcements.

   - I’m still holding steady at 240. 
   - My bi-monthly TOM is due around the 20th.  Six days from now.
   - When I woke up this morning, both knees were swollen. 
   - I’m still happy that I ran though.
   - I did a bunch of shopping/walking today and my knees became very sore. 
   - I still don’t regret the running.  I don’t. 
   - I know to “baby” my knees when they’re swollen.
   - I want to run again.
   - I’ve started logging my food again. 

I checked out SparkPeople and though it is a VERY cool site, it is not set up for folks who choose a low-carb diet.  At all.  I can’t use it.  Oh well, back to FitDay. 

I really really liked the freedom of not logging every bite - but I can’t say I’ve been really successful while not logging, so… I need to put back that particular layer of effort.  Put it back and leave it there probably forever.  I can be pissed at that notion or I can just accept it.  *Sigh*  This is me accepting it.

My hubby sent me flowers for V-day yesterday — at my work.  Woohooo he did good!  I’d take a picture but I lost the cord to my camera again.  Anyway they kinda look like this:

I don’t much care for roses and he knows that, so these were perfect!

Okay, back to my knees.  All the world revolves around my knees, LOL.  They are just on my mind today I can’t help it!!  So to tell this other knee-related story I need to back up a bit.  Okay a lot.  I need to go back about, ummm, nine months.  NO I’m not pregnant!  LOL.  Heavens.  Bite thy tongue.  Anyway, about nine months ago, I bought one of these: 

I thought it would be great exercise, and after all, I loved it when I was a kid so it’d be kinda fun, right?  Well, I couldn’t do it.  I couldn’t jump.  I’d injured both knees, one of them twice, and I was physically unable to jump.  At all.  Not even once.  I tried - and just stood there and cried.  I had had no clue, no idea that I could not jump.  I hadn’t tried it for so long that it just hadn’t occurred to me.

So fast forward a couple months.  I got the DDR.  Remember I was so excited because I loved that DDR?  And it was working, I was doing an hour a day and I was losing weight steadily.  And guess what DDR requires the participant to do.  Yes.  Jump.  I did it.  I jumped.  And at first it was hard, but I got better at it.  To the point where it wasn’t a big deal anymore.  I cranked up the DDR to the next level.  It was fun!

Then I twisted my knee.  Did a DDR jump and landed funky.  Injured the same knee that I injured in the car accident the December before.  I ended up on my butt, most of the time with ice on my knee, not able to walk without a cane.  It took quite a while to heal.  I tried to do the DDR while skipping all the jump moves, but it just wasn’t fun anymore.  I was scared.

Okay fast forward again to about a week ago.  I put my time in on the elliptical and I was feeling great - strong, no pain, no discomfort.  I did my awkward weight-lifting moves and then got an idea.  I was feeling so strong that I decided to try the jump rope.  I knew exactly where it was.  I got it, took it outside, and … for the first time in over 20 years, I jump-roped.  (Or is that jumped-rope?  Eh, pick one, that’s what I did, hehe)

Granted, I didn’t last for long (omg it’s a helluva workout!) but I did it.  It didn’t hurt!  I did, however, feel that it was still a little high-impact for my previously-injured knees, so I put it up.  Another twenty or thirty pounds, I told myself.  It’s interesting that when I ran last night, again, it didn’t hurt.  Today, yeah, I’m a little swollen and a little sore, but it’s not that I’m incapacitated.  I’m gonna baby it, let the swelling go down. 

And then I’m going to try again. 

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 Starting weight:  285.2
 Weight Last Entry:  236.2    Weight Today:  240.0
Change today::  +3.8 lbs.         Loss-so-far:   -45.2 lbs.    
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Two forty?  Two FORTY?  What the hell is up with THAT?!?!?

I thought I’d said good bye to the 240’s FOREVER.  I thought I’d done that a month and a half ago.  A MONTH AND A HALF!!  I couldn’t help but think, Was all the work, all the careful eating for the past 45 days for NOTHING?!?!

So I had two choices here.  Two basic reactions to choose from.

     1.  Negative

     2.  Positive

To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

It all pretty much comes down to that, doesn’t it?  We all do it, every day.  We all react to stimuli.  Sometimes it feels like we have no choice in our reactions, that we are buffeted by winds created beyond our control and our reactions are simply instinctual - and also beyond our control.

But this is bullshit.

We have a choice.  We always have a choice.  We choose to react, either the way that we’ve always reacted, almost without thinking about it, or we can choose to react a certain way despite all of our conditioning, despite all of our knee-jerk impulses.  We always have a choice. 

I choose positive.  Positive response, positive emotions, positive action.

It didn’t take me all day to make this choice.  It was a choice that was demanding to be made right then, that moment, while I was still standing on the scale, my mouth open in disbelief.  In those few seconds, a whole buncha negative thoughts crowded in, jockeying for position, straining to be at the front.  Pick me!  Pick me!

Thoughts like:  Why do I even bother? 
Thoughts like:  If I’m gonna eat right and gain, then I might as well eat badly and gain.
Thoughts like:  I’m going to fail at this after all.

I pushed those thoughts away, and as I did, something else took their place.  Laughter.  Laughter!  Standing there on my scale in my underwear, looking down at that “240.0″ on the display, I started to laugh.  “No fucking way!” I said out loud to the bathroom at large.  No fucking way!

So I went on with my day and I stayed on plan and I did some thinking.  To gain almost four pounds in one day is nearly impossible, I know that.  But seeing the 240’s again, that was a helluva wake-up call.  Whether it’s water or muscle or atmospheric disturbance affecting the electronics in my scale, the fact of the matter is:  I saw 240.0 on the scale this morning.  I thought about it a lot.  And came to some conclusions.

Things aren’t moving along fast enough for me.  I like it when I weigh in and see a .2 or .4 loss every other day, I LIKE THAT A LOT!  And it hasn’t been happening lately.  I need to step up my game.  I need to take this weight-loss thing to the next level.  I need to add another layer of effort. 

I was lazy for so long.  Not walking.  Not exercising.  Not doing anything, really, just sitting on my ass in front of either the TV or the computer, snacking mindlessly while my ass grew and grew beneath me.  Doing 30 minutes of SOMETHING was, for me, a 100% improvement.  Didn’t matter whether it was 30 minutes of the exercise bike, 30 minutes of DDR, 30 minutes of Total Gym, 30 minutes on the elliptical - just getting up and MOVING was a layer of effort that I’d never expended on a regular basis before.  NEVER.  That 30 minutes, it’s now a regular part of my life. 

IT IS TIME TO ADD ANOTHER LAYER OF EFFORT!

So tonight I pushed on past 30 minutes on the elliptical - to 40 minutes - and THEN, I went for a 20-minute walk/jog outside.  Me!  I was so excited because the last few times I tried to run, it was so painfully hard on my knees that I thought they were gonna burst or something.  Tonight… I did it.  I didn’t exactly all-out-run-like-the-wind (like I would love to, omg I want to run like that!), but I did jog and it didn’t HURT.  I have no endurance so I got winded quickly but IT DIDN’T HURT!

I was so happy that I got all emotional, jogging and wiping tears away out there on the side of the road.  For the first time in I-have-no-idea-how-many-years, I RAN AND IT DIDN’T HURT!!!

Two forty?  Not for long!  No fucking way!  LOL!!  =D

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 Starting weight:  285.2
 Weight Last Entry:  236.0    Weight Today:  236.2
Change today::  +0.2 lbs.         Loss-so-far:   -49.0 lbs.    
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Oops.  Life on Mars wasn’t on last night, I had my nights mixed up.  So instead (at 10pm), I popped a movie into the DVD player so I’d have something to keep my mind busy while I was on the elliptical.  I have this incredible collection of chick-flicks, so I put in “What Women Want” with Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt.  Sweet!  Anyway, Life on Mars is on tonight, maybe I’ll do my workout at 10 again.

Okay, so I felt like a lightweight because I was only lifting 10-lb dumbbells - until sterling wrote that she started out with 5 and 8-lb dumbbells.  Really???  Really and truly??!  Okay I feel MUCH better about my 10-lb’ers now!!!  Speaking of sterling, HEY GIRL, sending a warm GET WELL shout out your way!!  In fact — here’s a shout out to all my blogging buddies who are in need of Get Well wishes (even if they’re on the mend now)!

Oh yes - I remember now - I was about to write about how much PAIN was felt last night - OMG the first time at “light” lifting didn’t hurt much but the SECOND time - OWWW!!!  It was good, though, because I knew, then, that I really had done something tangible.  Significant.  Painful!!!  It will get easier, yes it will.

What reminded me of the pain was the two minutes of holding up that dumbbell for the picture, LOL.  Ouchie, my musssskels hurt!!  =D

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I went to the Daily Plate today to check it out.  Thing is, apparently I’ve been there before because I have a login there.  So I tried entering my food and it was harder than FitDay.  In fact, I created a new food, input the whole recipe and everything, and then it wouldn’t add that food to my plate - I tried like five times and it just wouldn’t take it.  *Sigh.*  I’m still not logging food but if I do go back to it, I’ll just use FitDay.  After all, I bought the damn home version of it.  Speaking of which, that pissed me off. 

Okay, here’s the thing.  If you want to use the online version of FitDay it’s free.  You can post a link to your public profile and everyone can look at your food intake if you want them to.  But if you want to enter your food into FitDay without an internet connection, you can’t.  So you have to buy the at-home version.  So I did.  I bought the at-home version.  I set it up on my computer and it allowed me to sync the online with the at-home so that way I’d have all my special foods and all my history on my hard drive.  Sweet! 

But I liked using the online one, so I continued to enter my food there.  After a few days of doing that, I went to sync my program again - and it wouldn’t let me.  Ya hafta PAY for a freakin’ subscription if you want that feature!  $70 a year so I can NOT have to enter my food in TWO places!  What kinda freakin’ SCAM is THAT?!?

Toldja it pissed me off.

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Oh, one last thing!  The recipe for the low-carb Cheddar Bay biscuits is here:
http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/cq_cheddar_bay_biscuits.html

They rock at 2g net carbs each!

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