Monday

I tried - and partly succeeded - to eat a bit lower carb over the weekend.  Not perfect, especially yesterday, but adequate.  149.6 this morning, and a drop over a weekend is always slightly miraculous.  Here's yesterday:

• cheese
• bacon (4 pieces)
• milk chocolate-covered almonds (least offensive movie snack)
• a very large "small" drink, which I filled with fizzy water
• about 3 tortilla chips with some nacho cheese abomination
• more tortilla chips with a layered dip (refried beans, guacamole, sour cream, cheese, tomatoes and onions) - maybe 5 or 6 of them
• two hamburger patties with mustard, catsup, and pickles
• cole slaw
• some potato chips (less than a vending bag's worth, I think)
• a glass of wine
• iced tea
• two almond-flour chocolate chip cookies
• another piece of cheese

Saturday was much cleaner - had a monster omelet for breakfast and ate mostly cheese and a few almond-flour chocolate chip cookies between that and dinner, which was meat loaf and green beans.  Yesterday was made difficult by an unprepared trip to the movies (and I wanted to see what the new movie snack facility at the theatre was like - nice, but still not much use to me) and a family birthday gathering where my mother lovingly prepared a carb-fiesta.  In addition to the bean dip thing (what is wrong with veggies and dip???), she offered for dessert two items: ice cream sandwiches and ice cream drumsticks - both had ice cream, which I could probably eat, and in both cases, the ice cream was surrounded by things made of flour, which I do not eat.  I picked out the things that were least damaging and ate them and didn't make a fuss about the rest, and went home and had dessert there.  Which, I should add, I didn't really need - I felt full once we got there, and overfull by bedtime.  My bad.


Elizabeth and I are on our own this week.  I had bacon only for breakfast, and we're planning on greek-style salad with salami in it for dinner.  Should be tasty.  I'm thinking we are eating a lot of salads (granted, they'll be what Mark Sisson calls "big-ass salads") this week, for the sake of both our weights.  Since I have the dogs and cat to care for in the mornings as well, I anticipate a couple of fasting days just for time tradeoffs.  I also did 50 curls in the situp jig last night, and about 10 wall pushups as low as I could get them - may switch over to slanted ones on the bathroom sink counter tonight, since they didn't seem too hard.  And I'm continuing with my "building has no elevators" workouts each morning and as needed between meetings.

The almond flour cookies, by the way, were made for Lee to take on the road - I'd got some chips while shopping, planning to make some for Elizabeth as a housewarming - she gets her new apartment next week - and he hinted rather strongly that it would be nice to have some to take with him, so I ended up making not quite 5 dozen of them, and sent most of them with him - but not quite all.  They are addictive - a strong testament to Guyenet's theory about palatability, I must say - so I am trying hard not to eat the first one as much as possible.