Morning everyone!
Hoping for some much needed rain today!
Carol Sue, glad you got your new cell phone! I’m like
Jacqui and don’t have a landline obviously and didn’t have one when I had a house either. I use my smart phone for so many things that aren’t voice related. I would be really lost without it. As far as just eating a spoon of CO or grass fed butter, no difference, I am sure. My problem is I just do not like CO by itself. Now, the grass fed butter is another story.
Mars, Wow! Your career is so impressive! I felt my mother hen
come out when you mentioned deployment. I can’t even imagine.
carb day foraging! That reminds me that I’m already getting excited to go back to Trader Joes and gasp, look at the middle aisles.
Disclaimer: I have a bad habit of composing my comments as I read instead of reading and going back so any replication to others’ posts is purely coincidental.
Mars, I had already made my morning rant before seeing your bulletproof coffee post. Sometimes I think you are in my head… Anyway, adding to this now that it might make a meal because it is filling, but I have a tendency to sip on a big cup of coffee for several hours trying to keep from falling asleep at 6pm over here. I don’t do well when I skip breakfast, but it would be easy for me to skip lunch and that could be why. However, I didn’t know you were supposed to put both CO and grass fed butter; I thought it was just the butter. That makes me feel a little less guilty about what I wrote in my morning rant.
Mary, great job! Thanks for clarifying about your cumulative weight loss total. AT first I thought you had lost 9.5 lbs in two days and I’m like, GIGANTIC and shocking WHOOSHes! But, 4.5 lbs in two days is still a big whoosh! So glad things are finally coming together for you!
Jacqui, thanks for the hugs and words about my blue-ness.
Yep, the aches and pains are a b!tch, but we have great futures ahead of us and what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger!
I have never tried lamb either. It always sounds delicious even with the little bo beep images running through my mind.
Morning rant: I’m up 2/10ths of a pound so yay for sort of maintaining. I feel so guilty eating all this fat, but it does make eating low carb less boring. It is hard to do this after 30 years of being told that fat is bad for you. I don’t even feel comfortable posting my menus and might not for awhile. My menus are usually the same thing over and over anyway. I will keep myself accountable by admitting to any added (non dairy) sugar or "bad" carbs. Now, into my 3rd week, I have only done that on Carb Day so far. I almost put OVCO AND grass fed butter in my coffee this morning. I have created a monster. I don’t have a blender, but I do like the taste. At least with JUST the OVCO, I feel like there are other health benefits besides the fat. BUT, I am enjoying the taste of the grass fed butter. Maybe I’m fooling myself. Sorry that I am saying this all out loud...with all this said, I will continue this experiment and not count the calories...for now. I have been weighing just about everything that isn’t veggies to stay at “serving” levels. Meeting in the middle, I guess.
Well, some idiot decided to set fire to my park across the river. The mountain range was alread looking a bit smokey when I woke up ysd because of the big forest fire to the South of us. By late afternoon, no more mountains, just smoke. Luckily, only 5 acres were scorched saved mostly by all of the hard trails but I could smell the smoke through the AC for a couple of hours. We haven’t had rain since I have been here; almost 3 weeks. So un-north-westerny.
I have to report that I stayed in bed until after 6am. Shocker! I haven’t done that in years. I think I got some good sleep in there amongst the peers at the clock throughout the night. I felt so lazy when I awoke. Like a real vacationer. I am off to some touristy spots tomorrow - mostly waterfall trails. Mountain views, but no climbing this time. I should get lots of exercise and am saving my strength.