Long-time-no-post

Yes, thanks for asking, I’m still here!  It’s not that I haven’t thought about posting, it’s just that my summer totally got away from me and I never really felt like I had any earth-shattering info to pass along.  Sorry, not much of an excuse!

So, I’ve meandered through my summer doing some low-carb living.  I haven’t made a lot of progress.  I see that on August 6th I was 183.6 and today I am 182.2.  That’s rather depressing to me.  Yes, it’s going in the right direction but why so slow?  I am still netting about 35-45 carbs per day, and my calorie intake is anywhere from 1350 to 1650 per day, depending on what’s going on (and what I eat!!)  I’m wondering if I eat too often, or eat too much, or eat too many carbs.  (You can click on My Fitness Pal link to the right to see what’s going down the hatch).

I have said “no” to a lot of foods I would have liked to have this summer.  Ice cream in particular, though I have started eating Breyer’s Carb Smart ice cream and it’s pretty good.  It’s really good with a couple of teaspoons of natural peanut butter and a Tbls of Chocoperfection chips melted and poured over top!  On my birthday, three weeks ago, I skipped dinner and went to Cold Stone Creamery and had the most flippin’ wonderful bowl of the Real Thing!  It was fabulous and worth it.  I only have a birthday every other year, after all!

Last week we went to the fair.  “The Fair” is the Washington County Fair in Easton, NY for us.  I spent my childhood at that fair and even took my goats and rabbits there when I was 12 with 4-H.  Lots of memories in that place and 98% of them are of food.  I kept it light all day and splurged on French fries, soft ice cream and sugar fritters.  None of it was worth it except the sugar fritter!  The sugar fritter shack has been there since before my time and is run by the fine ladies of the Greenwich United Methodist Church and they fry hunks of bread dough and roll them in sugar and charge all of a dollar for them.  Seriously, I wish now that I’d ditched the fries and ice cream and just eaten 3 or 4 more fritters!  They were THAT good!

After I ingested all of those carbs, not only did I not feel so good, but my legs felt like lead!  I warned my husband that he might have to carry me back to the Jeep, which was parked in the furthest spot from the gate!  I definitely had a carb-hangover, which was a great reminder of why I’m trying to live this low-carb life!

So other than those two, albeit significant, carb blow-outs, I’ve been tried and true.  Perhaps this slow weight loss is to teach me patience and perseverance!  If so, I’d better learn them quick because I’m becoming a bit frustrated.  More as it comes to me….thanks for stopping by.