Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Tuesday

Sleep is not going so well, just now.  Sweat a bit, intense crazy dreams, wake up thinking it's nearly morning - 11:32 pm.  My shoulder isn't painful - so maybe that's something.  But, ugh!

147.2 again this morning; fingers swollen and stiff.  Not surprising.  Here's yesterday:
  • fat-bomb smoothie
  • cheese
  • Wendy's double with cheese, no bun
  • more cheese (about 3-4 pieces total)
  • effing chocolate blueberries (half a box)
Stress much?  Elizabeth has a new dog.  He is sweet and smart and charming, and a holy terror when left alone.  We kept him at our house yesterday, since he barks when in a crate, and she was worried about fellow apartment-dwellers not liking that much.  Crated him in our room, cleaned off most horizontal surfaces, closed all doors, in case he got out of the crate (which was quite secure).  He got out of the crate.  He got out of the room.  He destroyed about half of the house's window treatments, a ceramic pitcher, the glass on a picture in our room, a box or so of dog treats.  Generally created chaos.  We think he was terrified at being alone in the house.  Anyway, I came home to the devastation.  We took him to a vet for an exam and to discuss tranquilizers, and she has a prescription for Prozac.  In the meantime, he's in a crate, that has been fortified with tie-wraps, on the back porch with the other two dogs (which he escaped from once before when left in it without the crate).  I don't think he can get into the house from there, but we know he can get out of the porch, since that's already happened.  Still, that's much less messy than what happened yesterday.  I just ordered new curtains for the living room, at $518 including shipping.  They'll be here just before Thanksgiving.  I think we can re-hang the dining room stuff - need to get new brackets is all.  And we'll be buying blinds at some point.  They're the least critical.  Golly.  So at the end of the day, I was a wreck, and I went for the mindless chocolate consumption.

Here's hoping today will be better.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Monday

Gruesome.

I weighed 144.6 at one point this weekend.  Assuming it was Saturday, because it wasn't yesterday, and it certainly wasn't this morning - 147.2 today.  

Ate like a pig yesterday - chocolate blueberries, M&Ms, potato chips, all sorts of crap.  Stress eating, all of it.  And slept accordingly crappy.

New start today.  Fat bomb smoothie for breakfast, and nothing else until dinner.

Friday, October 26, 2012

Friday

I survived yesterday, but it was somewhat brutal.  My shoulder just ached like crazy until dose number 2 of Advil, in the afternoon.  No idea why.  It feels fine this morning.  I'm under orders to stop doing the exercises if it gets inflamed, and I had every intention of not doing them today, until I woke up and realized it didn't hurt anymore.  So I did them.  Whatever.

Yesterday turned out to be a sort of fast.  I had breakfast, but dinner was a bit, well, odd.  Owing to the gymnastics meet I'd promised to go to, which started at 5, I managed only a piece of cheese at dinner time, and had a bit more later.  145.0 this morning, as a result.  Here's the details:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • sausage patties
  • cheese (in total, 3 pieces)
  • cashews (1 handful)
  • walnuts (1 handful)
The second two pieces of cheese and the nuts were consumed at bedtime, basically.  Ketosis is a wonderful thing, I must say.  Apples were on offer, and I didn't even want one.

Sleep was adequate.  I am waking up around 11:30-midnight a lot, thinking that I've had a full night's sleep, but being able to fall back quite quickly.  Not sure what that's about.  And this morning, I woke again at 4, was awake for most of the ensuing hour, and fell asleep during the half-hour of radio we allow ourselves before getting up.  I feel fairly well rested this morning, so I guess it could be worse.

Weekend coming - no idea what I'll be able to accomplish.  But I might turn my dried carrots into carrot powder/flour and attempt a few cupcakes.  Maybe.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Thursday

Don't know why I was so eager for it to be Thursday this week.  Thursday brought snow and traffic snarls this morning and seems likely to deliver more before the day's over.

I achieved ketosis yesterday, for certain.  The fast lasted until dinner was made, and I wasn't all that hungry when I got home, truly.  And my calves are fasciculating, bless them.  Had me launching out of bed last night like a rocket, once - but only once.  Other than that, I slept very well.  And I'm at 146.0 this morning.  So there.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • Big-Ass Salad (tm) with roast beef and feta and Greek vinaigrette
  • two almond shortbread cookies
  • a Ghirardelli chocolate square
  • a handful of potato chips
  • two chocolate almonds
By the time I hit the bed, I could tell that cramps were imminent, so had the chips (yeah, that's why!).  I don't think they worked all that well.  However, once the one cramp hit and was vanquished, I slept like a log until 5:27, so I don't mind much.  And of course, now I'm really tired and achy.  My shoulder is stiff and tired - I don't know if the exercises are making the muscles being exercised ache, or if they're irritating the ones at the root of the problem, or what, but I wouldn't mind spending a couple of weeks not using my right arm at all.  I think Advil is in my future.

Maybe fasting lunch and dinner today, again for convenience; going to my niece's gymnastics meet directly from work.  Shouldn't be too much of a burden not to eat.  Glad to see 146 again this morning.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Wednesday

This week is crawling!  Every morning I wake up thinking it should at least be Thursday by now, and it's not.  Tomorrow, perhaps...

Ate reasonably well yesterday, although it included Mexican food for dinner.  147.2 this morning.  Here's the scoop:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • bacon
  • chips and salsa
  • 3 cheese enchiladas with green chile
  • iced tea
  • one almond shortbread cookie
I think that was it.  Fasting-for-convenience today, and probably another Big-Ass salad (tm) with meat for dinner tonight.

Sleep improved, by the way - back on the Menopause support version of melatonin - not sure what else they put in it, but I'm able to sleep much better with it than with plain melatonin, so I will continue to purchase it.  Shoulder is doing really well.  

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Tuesday

Got some sleep last night.  I changed back to the menopause-specific melatonin; don't know if it had to do with that, or if I was just bloody exhausted, but I don't remember much between, say, 10 pm and 3:47 am, when I woke up for a very short time.  I will take it.  More, please!

Eating yesterday was an improvement on the weekend, although no weight was harmed - still 147.8 this morning.  And I'm still pretty swollen up, so figure it will go when that stops.  Here's the breakdown:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • bacon
  • cheese
  • a chef's salad (turkey, ham, cheese, blue cheese dressing, on lettuce)
  • a couple of almond shortbread cookies
  • a handful of potato chips
  • a handful of cashews
So, as I said, better.  Not perfect, but an improvement.  We also walked before dinner - on the cheese and cashews, as I recall.  I got in a couple of laps past a mile at racewalking pace/form, which seems to have been mostly okay with my shoulder this time.  I ended up doing the shoulder exercises twice yesterday - once in the morning and once after the racewalking, though possibly not soon enough after.  Anyway, my shoulder is a little achy today, but not bad at all - feels more like post-exercise than injury, which is where we want to keep it.  And the rest of me, that was so nasty yesterday, is fine now.  The walk seems to have fixed my lower back and hamstrings.

Onward!

Monday, October 22, 2012

Monday

Not tremendously great weekend.  I did about 2-3 hours of garden cleanup on Saturday, and I'm still feeling the effects, which are painful.  Possibly even a twinge of sciatica - some shooting pains down both hips.  Sleep Saturday was fine, thank heavens, but last night was wretched.  I put some pain-relief cream on my hamstrings, and the capsaicin in it caused them to burn most of the night.  And I wasn't smart enough or awake enough to get up and do anything about it at that time.  It was just rough.  Eating over the weekend was okay - not great, but not horrid.  147.8 this morning, up from 147.4 yesterday, and my fingers are very swollen, so I think it's mostly water/inflammation.  Here's what I can recall of yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • menopause supplements only (not working much right now, either)
  • an almond shortbread cookie
  • two brats with sauerkraut
  • a few potato chips
  • cheese
  • roast beef
  • mashed potatoes with gravy (rice-flour roux)
  • salad with blue cheese dressing
  • peach ice cream
  • a couple more almond shortbread cookies
  • a glass of Gewurztraminer
I think that was everything.  I mean to get back into ketosis this week and calm things down, so probably a chef's salad or the like tonight for dinner, maybe after a gym trip with Elizabeth.  And no snacks during the day, either - I have beef jerky in the car, but if I get monstrously hungry, I'll go have another cup of tea or bouillon.

The roast was perfect yesterday - I did the dry-brine, slow-oven approach from Cook's Illustrated and got a rosy-pink, tender, delicious result.  So nice to have found a way to do it that works reliably.  The gravy was less wonderful - not sure if the rice flour dampened the flavor or if the lack of drippings was an issue - the liquid was mostly commercial beef stock.  And trial 2 of peach ice cream was a disappointment.  First, it needs the egg yolk (I omitted that this time), and second, peach is just not a very assertive flavor.  The result isn't bad, just a bit bland.  Next up, raspberries or strawberries, I think.  Either in a French vanilla base as fruit, or in a French vanilla base as the main flavor.

And, I think I have enough dried carrots to make flour now.  Crossing my fingers that it works roughly like coconut flour and can be used as a cake base; I will give cupcakes a trial some time over the next week or so.  One egg's worth of batter, however much that might make.

Friday, October 19, 2012

Friday

Weird eating day yesterday.  I thought I wouldn't be eating dinner, so I had the rest of the trail mix - about 2 portions as I've been eating it all week.  Come to find out, Lee and Elizabeth were eating very late at Red Robin, and caught me on the way home from shoulder therapy.  I joined them, and had a lot of starch - details below.  147.0 this morning.

Shoulder is better, I think, and I now have exercises to protect it.  I will be doing them religiously to see if I can't get this mess cleared up.  On the other hand, the hot flashes didn't get better last night at all - I think there were about 4 episodes that woke me up, starting around midnight.  All I can do is keep plugging, I guess, but it's hard.  Sleeping in tomorrow.

Here's yesterday's eating:
  • tea with cream
  • scrambled eggs
  • bacon
  • the usual supplements
  • 2 portions of trail mix
  • a double-decker burger with sauteed onions and cheese and bacon
  • fries
  • mustard and catsup
  • chips and salsa and guac
I'm fairly sure it stopped there, but it wasn't a stellar day's eats.  I think next week will be a strict ketosis week - that's my stated goal, anyway.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Thursday

Apparently, I'm now heading into the "exhausted" phase of something.  Had a really hard time waking up this morning, although I was aware that the radio had started to play.  About 40 minutes later, I finally got out of bed.  Freezing.  Only one hot-flash incident overnight that I recall; I did the black cohosh thing at bedtime again, and am hoping that the more frequent intake will settle things down.  On the weight front, back to 146.8 this morning.  Here's yesterday:
  • scrambled eggs
  • bacon
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • caesar salad (no croutons)
  • the insides of a roast beef sandwich (beef, greens of some sort, blue cheese)
  • two strawberries
  • 1/2 cup of trail mix
  • meatballs with spaghetti sauce and cheese
  • one Ghirardelli square thingie
I think that was it.  

Not much else to report today.  Going in for another shoulder treatment tonight, and happy to say that the pain I was having is nearly gone.  We'll see if this will settle things for a while - and I'm to learn some exercises to help strengthen it against future injury.  Which I promise to do - I need to.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Wednesday

I may have found the key to getting my sleep back in order, although it's a bit too early to tell for sure.  I had thought that the menopause support supplement I'd been taking only had melatonin in the nighttime pill; it didn't.  It has black cohosh as well, as does the daytime one.  Took a daytime supplement along with my other melatonin last night, and while I still woke up a couple times with hot flashes, I think things were a bit more manageable.  So I will do that again tonight, to see if it continues to improve, and if it does, I may just go buy some bloody black cohosh.  

Eating yesterday was weird.  Lee was sick or something, and didn't get up, so I had just cheese for breakfast.  Then I didn't want beef jerky, so I had trail mix - twice - as my daylight meals.  I find the trail mix interesting - it's good, but not addictive.  My guess is that the lack of salt is why I can eat until not hungry and then stop.  But I don't know for sure.  Anyway, I think it might be a keeper.  147.0 this morning, so we're still working off the whatever-it-was from Sunday.  Here's the breakdown:
  • tea with cream
  • cheese (two pieces)
  • the usual supplements
  • about 1-1/2 cups of trail mix
  • gyro meat with tzaziki sauce
  • one Ghirardelli square with milk chocolate and almonds
  • one more piece of cheese
I think that was it.  We walked after work last night, and before dinner, and I wasn't crazy hungry - and that shortened the evening eating window, as usual.  To keep my shoulder quiet, I didn't race walk, just strolled for a mile and went home.  Good decision, I think; things are pretty quiet in the shoulder pain department this morning.

A more normal eating day today, I think - although I have a lunch user group meeting thingie today at a pasta restaurant.  I may find myself explaining my eating style if the options available don't include anything I can actually eat.  Whatever.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Tuesday

In case I hadn't stated it before, I will not be having beans again any time soon.  My stomach was all kinds of messed up yesterday, until mid-afternoon when I got hungry.  This morning a chunk of the mystery weight was gone - 147.4 - so the inflammation/swelling from Sunday is subsiding, although my fingers are still swollen up some.

Sleep last night was some better - slept until 3:00ish and it took a bit over an hour to get back to sleep - I vaguely remember 4:25 but think I sorta woke up to see it.  I'll take it.  Lee's all tired today - not sure why, but he lost 4 hours from 11:00 - 3:00ish.  There are viruses going around right now, and exhaustion may be how we get them.  Way better than vomiting, if you ask me.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements (anti-inflammatory heavy - fish oil and turmeric)
  • beef jerky
  • about 3/4 cup of my trail mix
  • cheese - 4 pieces total
  • chips and salsa
I don't know if it was an overdose of cat dander from the house cleanup Sunday or what, but I did a sinus rinse in the morning and spent the entire day with a runny nose.  Did it again at night and things are better today, although I sneezed about 4 times on the way to work this morning.

Started today with cheese - Lee was so tired that he hadn't got up at all when I left for work, and I didn't really want to fast again.

What else?  The 3 am wakeup was entirely hot-flash related.  I'm moving into the no-thermostatic-control phase again - was recently standing in a well-heated room wearing a wool sweater (less than an hour ago), with my skin feeling as if I were standing naked in a walk-in freezer.  Now I'm sweating again.  I'm beginning to understand why old women are crabby.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Monday

Ugh.  We had an extended-family workday yesterday and my Mom made chile for lunch - with beans.  I should avoid beans.  I'm suffering this morning from them - and have been since about 1 am.  Not a good night's sleep - the stomach ache and hot flashes combined to make it a challenge to get back to sleep after waking at 1.  No breakfast today.  I'm swollen up from the work and abnormal food - 148.6 this morning.  I'd been 146.6 both Saturday and Sunday.  Here's yesterday's eats:
  • bacon
  • tea with cream
  • only the menopause supplement
  • chile (with beans)
  • a ham-and-cheese roll-up, no bread involved
  • pickles and olives
  • grapes
  • cheese
  • walnuts
  • 1 square Lindt 85%
  • pork tenderloin with a wine-dijon pan sauce
  • green beans
  • trail mix - an experiment made of almonds, coconut shreds, raisins, and dark chocolate M&Ms - probably too much of it
So not a great eating day, and I'm paying for it - or some of it, anyway.  We will be going to the gym and eating better this week, I believe.

Friday, October 12, 2012

Friday

I. Am. Effing. Exhausted.  

Up last night until midnight for work (my hatred for IT grows daily, but it's what I know how to do, and it pays well).  Up at 5:30 for vomiting dogs - we gave them the spent bones from making stock last night.  We should know better.  I had a coconut milk fat-bomb smoothie for breakfast, and I am hoping to get through the day on ketones and willpower, but I don't know.  145.2 this morning.  Here's yesterday:
  • scrambled eggs
  • bacon
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • a vending bag of M&Ms (had a bad taste/heartburn thing going on and was trying to overlay it - unsuccessfully)
  • 3 shredded beef tacos, with shells - Fuzzy's finally opened in our town
  • about 6 chips with queso
  • peach-pecan ice cream
  • something north of 20 chocolate cherries as midnight approached - for stress.  They were unbelievably nasty.
I may be over the chocolate cherries.  Ugh.  I really don't know why I ate them, except that I'd been up since 5:30 am yesterday and it was midnight and I was up trying to herd cats and get a stupid deployment pushed over the line, and I was pissed off at being in that position, especially as I'd just spent last weekend herding the same mob.  Very not paleo.


Thursday, October 11, 2012

Thursday

Pretty ordinary eating day, yesterday.  Sleep, not so much - the work on my shoulder made me intensely aware of it all night and I spent a good deal of time being not-quite-asleep as a result.  145.8 again this morning.  With an ordinary day planned today, I hope to continue seeing numbers of that sort.  Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • scrambled eggs
  • bacon
  • the usual supplements
  • beef jerky
  • about 6 chips
  • some sort of spinach and cheese dip
  • iced tea
  • steak-and-wedge salad with blue cheese and tomatoes
That was it.  After dinner, I left for my shoulder treatment, and once that was done, it was bedtime.  I would really like more at-home time right now, but it appears that it's just not possible.  

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Wednesday

Wow - just declared it "Monday" again in the title; I don't think I need another one this week, thanks.  Sleep and Menopause symptoms improving a bit - probably a strong causative relation between those two (the latter causing the former, I mean).  Apparently, Black Cohosh works for me.  And I'm darn glad of it.  Fasted breakfast yesterday due to not wanting to get up, and because we were having a celebratory lunch thing at work.  Unfortunately, the latter consisted of pasta, bread, cookies, cupcakes, and salad with "lite" dressing.  I ate salad with "lite" dressing, but ugh.  It caused indigestion that lasted until bedtime.  145.8 this morning, though - and I thought I ate crappy yesterday.  Here's the list:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • salad with "lite" ranch dressing, cranberries, and nuts (type unspecified)
  • a vending bag of M&Ms (the cookies and cupcakes got to me)
  • cheese
  • a fortune cookie
  • two squares of Ghirardelli salted dark chocolate with caramel
  • Half a small bag of Zapps potato chips (kettle cooked, from New Orleans) for the salt
I think that was it.  The indigestion dictated the starchy stuff - the cookie and the chips - and maybe they got rid of it.  Anyway, despite discomfort from that and a minor stress about my work phone having died, I got to sleep easily and slept right up to 5:30 this morning.  That's something.

Getting some MAT therapy on my shoulder tonight.  I wish it would calm down for good.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Tuesday

I spent yesterday feeling drained and exhausted and slightly dehydrated - like I was coming down with something.  Got home after work and hit the couch and never moved again until bedtime (unless the dog wanted to go through the door one way or the other).  However, that meant that I spent a chunk of time eating chocolate cherries - too many of them to count.  Not good.  146.8 this morning.  Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • bacon
  • beef jerky
  • Altoids (several very small ones, because my mouth tasted funny)
  • chili (no beans, made yesterday)
  • cheese (2 pieces)
  • chocolate cherries, as mentioned above
  • peach/pecan ice cream - after a day in the freezer, it mostly tastes like butter-pecan. Definitely need more peaches next time.  But the texture is perfect.
That was it.  Slept better last night, I'm glad to say - fewer temperature fluctuations, although during the day yesterday I honestly felt feverish.  It was just nasty.  I hope today's better.

My shoulder is bugging me again - guess I'm headed back in for more treatments.  I wish it would calm down and stay that way.  I'm wearing eau-de-IcyHot this morning - covered my entire shoulder, pec muscle group, and upper arm with the stuff.  It's still cold after about 2 hours.  Also took some turmeric this morning and will repeat tonight.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Monday

Weird weekend.  I had a long deployment for work that ran from Friday evening through Saturday dinner, during which I definitely leaned on the chocolate cherries as food-of-choice.  Did a bunch of cooking; we had a pot roast for Saturday dinner and a roast chicken yesterday (finally got one to work!!!), and made chili (for tonight's dinner, and to freeze) and peach ice cream with salted pecans.  Most of it was quite good, although the pot roast lacked salt.  Anyway, I'm at 146.6 this morning; was at 145.8 yesterday.  Here's yesterday's eating:
  • tea with cream
  • bacon
  • the usual supplements
  • chips and salsa
  • two cheese enchiladas with green chile
  • roast chicken
  • brussels sprouts (roast with worcestershire sauce and dijon mustard)
  • peach/pecan ice cream
That was it.  Lunch wasn't so great, carb-wise, but the rest should have been okay.  The ice cream was pretty darn good - two-to-one ratio of heavy cream to milk seems to be a sweet spot for texture.  I cut the sugar down from 3/4 cup to 1/2 cup and eliminated corn starch and corn syrup from the recipe, relying instead on the peaches (and a bit of peach schnapps) for sweetness.  I would do more peaches the next time, as the end result wasn't all that peachy, but it was otherwise perfect.

I also made/am making stock from the chicken bones - roasted them at 400 for an hour this time, which should darken things up a bit and add some caramelization flavors.  Tonight, I'll clean the crock pot and start a load of beef bones.  Guess I should go buy more freezer containers.

Sleep last night, however, was utter crap.  Temperature fluctuations all over the place, and when the alarm went off, I was curled in a ball trying desperately to get warm, despite the down comforter and the mattress pad heater.  Menopause is getting very old.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Friday

Groggy as all get out this morning - I took a couple of advil PM last night to erase some of the sleep debt, on top of which it was perfect sleeping weather (in the 30s outside - welcome, Fall).  I was up to 146.0 this morning, but felt very swollen up, so I suspect some of that, at least, is water.  I walked just over 2 miles at the gym yesterday at a good clip - sub-15s, anyway.  And am a bit stiff, as a result.  Here's yesterday's eating:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • beef jerky
  • cheese
  • taco salad with grassfed beef, guacamole, sour cream, cheese, and salsa
  • 2 chocolate cherries
Wow, was that it?  Seemed like more, somehow.

As it probably froze last night, I ran out and grabbed every last tomato I could find - regardless of color - and brought them in.  Not yet sure what I'm going to do with them all; there were a lot!  Green tomato salsa verde, possibly - found a recipe for that.  In any event, I'll be on house "arrest" all weekend for work and should have plenty of time to tinker.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Thursday

Weird eating day yesterday - I worked from home during the afternoon, and was hungry, so I ate then, rather than in the evening.  Lee had what turned out to be a dinner meeting, so he ate at that, and I had the odd snacky thing.  Whatever I did, it was fairly successful - 145.2 this morning. Very glad to be getting back into that vicinity again; I could live with 150, but it feels unsafe - too close to being heavier.  This feels safer - and the low 140s will feel safer still, thank you.  So I guess I'm sort of dieting at the moment.  Yeah, whatevs - cause it's so hard (not).  Here's yesterday's eating:
  • tea with cream
  • scrambled eggs
  • bacon
  • the usual supplements
  • cheese (about 4-5 pieces total)
  • turkey (2 slices)
  • potato chips (a disciplined portion)
  • chocolate cherries (8)
  • walnuts (not too many - I'm getting a bit bored with them, truly)
  • a Ghirardelli chocolate caramel thing
That was it, in the end.  Not fabulous, but better than it felt at the time, as seems to be the case these days.

Fasting this morning for convenience - I had a political junkie moment last night and was up a bit late listening to post-debate analysis, so we opted to get up later and skip the eating thing.  Probably won't take it through the entire day.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Wednesday

Walked again last night before dinner, and remembered to stretch out my left hip flexors at the end - I think that helped with sleep a bunch, since that side has been bothering me enough to cause uncomfortable wakefulness at 3 am the last week or so.  A reasonable eating day, I think, and 145.8 this morning - not keen on the direction things went, but I like that it didn't go anywhere much at all.  Here's the breakdown:
  • tea with cream
  • scrambled eggs
  • bacon
  • the usual supplements
  • a piece of swiss cheese
  • burger, no bun, with guacamole, swiss, and jalapenos on it
  • the pickles
  • chocolate pecan blueberry ice cream
That was it for the day.  The ice cream was homemade - my experiment from the weekend - and tasted a lot like ganache, which is not a bad thing at all, really.  Very rich, and no sugar other than what was in the chocolate, so I think it should have been pretty low carb.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Tuesday

Fasted yesterday - ate nothing until dinner, which was an anniversary dinner out.  So we consumed the entire pteradactyl, figuratively speaking - Lee and I split a 40-ounce porterhouse, which is a giant T-bone.  And I'm down half a pound this morning - 145.6.  Here's the details:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • a glass of pinot noir
  • wedge salad with bacon, tomato, blue cheese (dressing)
  • 20-oz porterhouse half, including a NY strip and a filet
  • sauteed green beans
  • half a broiled tomato
  • 1/3 of a creme brulee
That was it for the day.  Delicious, and the fast was workable.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Monday

Menopause is striking again; I slept fitfully last night with somewhat better sleep earlier in the weekend, but am mostly suffering from thermal intervals during daylight.  One noticeable change this time - I don't feel like I'm feverish with them, just sweaty.  Sounds minor, but it is a big improvement.

So, eating and weight and stuff.  146.2 this morning, good enough for me.  And my butt is feeling smaller, so I think the walking is paying off a bit.  Here's yesterday - note that it involved a family birthday event.
  • tea with cream
  • bacon
  • the usual supplements
  • a Qdoba bowl with shredded beef, guac, salsas (tomato and green), sour cream, and cheese
  • salted flavored almonds
  • carrots and dip
  • teriyaki pork tenderloin
  • garlic mashed potatoes with butter
  • stir-fried green beans (in Canola oil, I am sorry to say)
  • salad with blue cheese dressing
  • ice cream with caramel sauce (homemade) chocolate sauce (bottled) and whipped cream
That was it.  The potatoes and ice cream probably pushed me out of ketosis, if I were in it at all (not sure).

Theoretically fasting this morning; we'll see if it lasts.  Due primarily to exhaustion on hearing the alarm go off.  Probably dinner out for our anniversary tonight - not sure where, yet.