Experience means experiment.

Messed up last night, pretty bad.  I woke up and for some reason, I use the habit-breaking excuse of being "so good" for so long, that I "deserved" it?  Not sure. 

In any event, live and learn, I suppose.  I heard that in some other language that I cannot recall, the word experience is synonymous with experiment.  Or, maybe experiment IS the word that we call experience. 

To be frank, I messed up.  The two protein shakes along with 10 oz (or a little less) of sharp cheddar cheese showed on the scale. 

Weigh in: 159.4. 

- 11 eggs
- Two French vanilla Atkins shakes
- 20 oz mushrooms
- One can of pumpkin with cinnamon, ez sweetz and pumkin pie spice
- 10 oz cheese
- Mustard, LC ketchup

I guess the whole point of going back to logging what I eat (which I had not been doing for quite some time) along with daily weigh-ins (which I have kept up with) is to investigate to determine what works with what does not. 

Onward and downward on the scale. 

In case you were wondering why my goal weight is 153....  Well, I'm 5'10" (almost) and that was the weight that I was at when I lost my mom about 15 months ago.  I gained some after that, was on too much progesterone which did not help with waking up hungry most nights.  I was doing well until I lost my Daisy dog a few months ago.  I got up to 175 lbs at one point and with seeing a new NP for my hormones and eating the right things at the right times, I've been able to get back to the 150ss. 

The body keeps score.

For me, success with food has always been the number on the scale going down.  I'm almost to my "goal weight" which is 153 and I have to say, I'm fighting a much bigger fight that simply what shows up on the scale.  

I'm working to be more hormonally sound, which has everything to do with the adrenals, free T3 and the like.  Feeling lower-than-normal energy has put my diet in question (to me, not to my doctors).  Very low carb turns the body into a seemingly starvation state (which is awesome for fat loss, but no so great for other bodily functions).  

So much has has changed since I've written here, but it feels good to be slapping something up, if anybody is even still around.

My meals have been in bursts and fits, so I am only logging the totals of the day.  You do not need to know how many times I woke up in the night for the glorious strawberries!

- 2.3 lbs of strawberries

- 11 eggs 

- A can of pumpkin

- 16 oz mushrooms

- Olive oil

- 1 oz cheddar cheese

- LC ketchup and mustard, cinnamon, home made pumpkin pie spice 

- French vanilla Atkins shake

Scale stayed the same.  154.8.  I was expecting a jump due to the large amount of strawberries.  

For me, adding in carbs is risky business, but I did find a cool way to make an easy pumpkin pie type thing in the microwave.  Necessity is the mother of invention?  Is that how it goes?

Low carb menu

Still eating low carb!

Adding in some more "healthy" carbs for a couple reasons, namely hormonal.

Yesterday's weigh-in: 155.2.
Today's weigh-in: 154.8.

11 eggs total
1 oz cheese
1 can of pumpkin
3 cans of mushrooms
some olive oil
cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice
15-20 strawberries
Atkins French Vanilla shake
mustard and low carb ketchup

So, this is wayyy more carbs than I usually am comfortable eating, but the scale liked it, nevertheless.  Shocked!