I think I counted wrong a couple times along the way but it’s been approximately one year since I went on the low-carb diet.  I totally expected to have lost more than 50 lbs. by now, but that’s okay.  Sometimes I think, “Well obviously this low-carb plan isn’t working for me anymore” but then when I go off of it I’m hit with such bad cravings that I scramble to get right back on.

With that said, I think I’m gonna take tomorrow off.  It is, after all, a holiday, and there isn’t gonna be another holiday for a long while.  Yeah I took a day off while I was in New Orleans, but this is different.

See how easy justification becomes?  Ha!

My boys want me to make a “traditional” 4th-of-July meal tomorrow, with chicken, hot dogs and hamburgers cooked on the grill and all the cool stuff that goes with that.  I was making a mental shopping list out loud in the car tonight and I kept saying, “Well I can’t have that, but…” After saying that four or five times, it occurred to me that I wouldn’t be eating much of this meal I’m preparing - pretty much nothing but the meat.  No buns.  No potato salad.  No macaroni salad.  No baked beans.  No fruit salad.  No strawberry shortcake (I could have some strawberries but no cake of course).  So yeah.  Meat and strawberries.  Woo.  Hoo.

Yeah I could make me some cauliflower.  I could even make it up to look like/almost taste like potato salad.  But still, it’s not the same as enjoying that meal combination that everyone else will be enjoying.  Because that’s what it’s all about, it’s the combination.  Not just the hot dog, but the bun.  Not just the barbequed chicken, but the baked beans too.

So I haven’t made up my mind yet, but I’m thinking yeah, one day.  Just one!

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Tonight we went to the movies and saw Ice Age 3.  It was awesome!  We all agreed that it was a great movie with a lot of laughs.  Two thumbs up!

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

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