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13 January 2014
Givin' the middle finger to food logging for the last day. I'm SO in Don't-Care-Land. Suffice to say it was a lot like the previous day.
It was kind of a down day, totally unlike yesterday. No energy, an annoying headache, cruddy mood and some cravings to eat something sugary as a quick happy-fix. Didn't though. I'm now certain I have a caffeine addiction. I always get a crap-tastic headache that never goes away until I have some. What a drag.
Guess not every day can be a fabulous day.
Also, on Wednesday, gonna go on a strict weekly-only weigh-in. Weighing every day is a temptation, but is a source of stress to see the daily fluctuations.
Now to listen to some music to try to boost my mood. But what should I choose: Noize Sektor Radio for industrial noise or the soothing sounds of Cryosleep from Echoes of Blue Mars? Hm. Maybe some nice post-rock and some Skyrim to help me zone out...
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12 January 2014
Tonight was pretty awesome. The roomie fired up the grill in the middle of the night and grilled a bunch of steak for us. It was
perfection
. I love LC so much. :)
So, all in all, the plan is going perfectly. Not one cheaty moment and as usual, the sugar cravings are diminishing daily. Today I didn't even get any! My energy and mood have been up these last couple days by quite a lot and I actually got a few extra things done around the house. Such a huge change when sugar is out of the equation entirely.
Sometimes I wish I could hug Dr. Atkins for bringing to light the only way of eating (I just can't call it the evil D-word!) that has ever worked for me. Alas that he is not around anymore. :(
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12 January 2014
I keep finding that I'm overestimating how many carbs I'm having in certain foods, because I keep thinking I'm eating more than I actually am. My portions are turning out smaller than I think they are (for instance, yesterday I totally thought I'd had a cup of blue cheese dressing, when it was only half that, and that I had four cups of loosely-packed salad when it was actually closer to 3). I guess this is one of the hazards of just estimating after the fact. I don't want to shortchange myself of those few precious carbs I can have!
I actually measured my breakfast items today while putting stuff on the plate and made those mental notes to myself so I could accurately record it later. Will do this from now on.
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10 January 2014
Okay, just now went ahead and logged a few foods that went into my mouth today, and wow, it was kind of annoying!
See, we make everything from scratch in this house -- we use NO pre-packaged anything, just whole foods that we cut, slice, dice, chop, mash, mix (and whatever!) into delicious combinations with our own hands. Very honest stuff, no funky things sneaking into our food, absolutely no added sugars or anything else. The carb count I was getting on the drop-down for 'blue cheese & roquefort dressing' in the food log DID NOT seem right at all, so I opted instead to just list the seperate ingredients we used to make the dressing, in the amounts I think I consumed.
The counts seemed much more in-line after that. :)
Food logging. GROAN.
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10 January 2014
I briefly thought about recording my food in that 'Food' thing under the "My Diet Calendar' heading there, but whenever I've looked, the serving sizes in the drop-down menu just aren't very meaningful or helpful to the way I eat, so I tend to just not bother. I mean, I don't really measure my food in cups or grams or whatever (though the thought of getting a food scale has crossed my mind). For example, this morning, I made a huge fresh salad full of iceberg lettuce, two tomatoes, one large cucumber, roughly a quarter of an onion, two radishes and a left-over chicken breast. Tossed a bunch of this, maybe two or three generous fistfuls if I had to estimate, into the container and topped it with some home-made blue cheese dressing and just went to town.
The bad thing about this is that I have no clue how many actual net carbs were in the entire shebang (it certainly could not have been many) but the ambiguity kind of concerns me a little. It's times like these where I kind of wish I had OCD to propel me along to make sure my food accounting is spot on, but I almost can't even face the idea of being so exacting.
At this point, having done Atkins a few times in my life so far, it feels like I'm relying on intuition and past experience to judge how many carbs are in a meal. I suppose as long as the weight is coming off, I can accept this approach as successful. If there's carb-creep, the scale will show it quick enough, and that'll be the time when I'll have to make myself get particular about measuring my food and keeping logs.
I hope it doesn't come to that, though.
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