Back on Track

It's been quite some time since I posted. Life happened, and I stopped eating low carb. My body has paid the price for that. I'm back up to just about where I started last time, and was even higher than that not too long ago. Anyhow I'm trying to get back into the low carb way of life, but it's been hard.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, "I'm a carb addict!" Now I have to break that addiction or I'll keep feeling like crap and gaining weight.

So here's to starting off on a new low carb way of life!

Life!!

The past week has been rather chaotic. We got back from Florida, and I slept pretty much all of the following day. Then we had some family drama for the rest of the week. But I was good all week. The only thing I did wrong was skip a couple of meals because I woke up too late or fell asleep.

Then we had a Super Bowl party on Sunday, and I not only did I have some carby stuff (cookies, a piece of granola bar, and some tortilla chips), but I also overate. If not for that, I'd probably be down a few pounds today! But instead I was back up (a little bit) to 182.6. That's still not bad, and it's about 9 pounds less than I was when I started about a month ago.

Saturday evening Wayne and I cooked up a whole bunch of low-carb yummies and stuck them in the freezer. So we have food for lunches and dinners, and we just have to stick them in the microwave when it's time to eat. I have mainly been eating fried eggs for breakfast because I love them so much, but I think tomorrow I'll nuke up some of the breakfast casserole I made (and divided up to put in the freezer).

And so now I'm back on track! I had eggs, cooked in butter, for breakfast, some version 2 pizza skillet for lunch, and Buffalo wings (home made, got myself a deep fryer!!) for dinner. I had a little bit of cheese for a snack, and really I wasn't hungry all day. But now I'm craving something sweet, so I think I'm going to go to bed early.

Heading Home!!

I'm going to stop using days as the title of these posts. Somewhere along the way I must have skipped a day or two, because it's now the 26th, and I've been doing this since the 1st, and somehow my post yesterday was for day 24? Maybe I'm just that bad at math!

Anyhow, we left Orlando at about 3:30, so we're hoping to get home around 5am, unless we decide to stop for a few hours to sleep. Claire slept for about an hour shortly after we left, and woke up SUPER cranky. We stopped for dinner at Cracker Barrel, and almost had to leave because she kept screaming. I can't stand it when she does that. It makes me feel bad for her, and embarrassed at the same time. *sigh*

Dinner at Cracker Barrel was the smothered chicken. I had about two bites of the green beans tat came with it, and gave the rest of my sides (corn and applesauce) to Claire. Breakfast was 3 eggs and lunch was a pizza skillet left over from Sunday (it was frozen). I had a piece of cheese in there somewhere :-) I probably didn't get enough calories or fat today, but I'll make up for it tomorrow.

I'm getting/will be getting considerably more caffeine than usual again today because I'm driving second shift. Once we get past Lake Marion in South Carolina I'm going to take over for as long as possible. I have recently acquired a nasty phobia for driving over certain bridges. I took over driving when we got into Georgia, forgetting that there are a LOT of bridges in that area, many of which are the kind I am afraid to drive over. I almost blacked out driving over one bridge, so as soon as we got over it I took the next exit and turned over the wheel to my mother. I told her I could drive when we got into SC, but would have to get her to drive over Lake Marion (according to the map, it's a looooong bridge!!). Fun stuff!!

Days 23 & 24

OWWIE my head hurts!! I was a dummy yesterday. For some reason, I thought it would be OK to have some pizza, fries, and carrot cake for lunch. I really don't know what I was thinking, except for maybe I had been at Sea World and Disney World every day of the week. Anyhow about 2 hours after eating the junk, I started feeling lethargic. Then this morning I felt like crap and had trouble waking up. All day I've felt gross! I went back to eating well today: bacon for breakfast, bacon cheeseburger for an early lunch, another bacon cheeseburger for a late-afternoon snack, and chicken and steak from Pollo Tropical for dinner. I suspect the headache is from my body going through carb withdrawal again, which is good, but darn it hurts! I hope it's gone tomorrow because we have to drive home to Maryland.

I didn't do FitDay today or yesterday, and now I'm just too pooped to even bother. I'll get back to it tomorrow. We're not going to Sea World again, except for maybe a short trip so I can ride the roller coaster (kinda hard to do when it's just me and Claire, and she's WAY too short!!).

Day 22

I'm not bothering with FitDay today. Just too pooped from yet another day at Sea World. I wasn't too bad today; had a good breakfast of three eggs and some bacon, lunch was beef brisket, and dinner was a sirloin steak with some cheese, black olives, hardboiled egg, and bleu cheese dressing. I also had a few bites of Claire's cheese for a snack (probably about an ounce, she had like 3 pieces!). We stopped at the Hospitality Center at Sea World and I got my two free beer samples (muhahah!) of Michelob Light and Michelob Ultra. And because I've been dying for some ice cream, probably from seeing so much at all the theme parks, I got some CarbSmart ice cream bars when we stopped at the grocery store. I only had one, and it did the trick :-)

That's it for today. I did a lot of walking, again, and Claire is sleeping in the bedroom so I can't do my T-Tapp, again!!