Friday

It had better be, that's all I can say.  We feed our dogs raw bones as a way of increasing the percentage of their diet that is actually what they're supposed to eat, and they've just finished some.  Unfortunately, Roscoe hoovers his in like he's never had food before in his life, and usually ends up mildly sick from them.  As he did at 4:30 this morning.  It's a sound guaranteed to wake anyone instantly.  Lee jumped out of bed to deal with it (i.e., get the dog outside, quickly) and promptly got leg cramps.  He also found that he'd lost a pound and a half overnight - so either he got past a set-point stall, or his metabolism has healed enough for him to be losing again, or something.  That's all good.

I'm down to 142.6 again this morning - not too surprised by that.  Although, thinking back, when I started "dieting" last April, I had a goal of getting down to 160.  Nice to have glided right through that and past it by nearly 20 pounds, without any particular effort.  I'm there, Lee's below 200 consistently and taking all his pants back in for another round or alterations, and Elizabeth's at 153 and trying to stem the losses (she's having vertigo problems that may or may not be Meniere's syndrome - that's what her doctor is treating her for at the moment - but whatever it is, it's diminished her appetite a lot).  With her, I'm extremely glad that we got rid of gluten; she had digestive problems in High School that were almost certainly wheat-related and it's implicated in so many auto-immune disorders, Meniere's possibly being one of them.

I had the mini-meatloaves for dinner, followed by various quantities of cheese, chocolate, coconut, and nuts - stressy evening led to snacking a lot.  But all good stuff, obviously.  The mini-meatloaves were great - they heated up and were still juicy and tender.  I'm quite impressed with the potato starch panade there.  Basically, all I did was to follow the Joy of Cooking meatloaf recipe, but mix a tablespoon or so of potato starch in with the egg before adding any of the other ingredients.  Then I cooked them in a muffin tin - don't remember for how long, and I may have used a probe thermometer to get to a medium-rare temperature or something.  Froze up two batches of four, and now, one of them is gone.

Three day weekend ahead, followed by two days of work and our trip to New Orleans for Mardi Gras.  I haven't really given a lot of thought to how we might eat there - probably in part because I have a strong hankering for a beignet or two, and some King Cake, and neither of those is remotely part of our way of eating.  Between that, and the likelihood of copious adult beverages, and the fact that New Orleans is a food town, it may end up being a cheat weekend.  A few things in moderation, as a treat, with the bulk of our intake being meat-oriented.  We'll do our best, but I'm thinking it won't be strictly paleo all 3 days.