A little sluggish this morning. My schedule is definitely a couple of hours off and I need to try and fix that over the next few days. I have an early start on Friday so I'll definitely get a nudge there whether I like it or not. I still think it would be glorious to wake up early and rested. Some day.
Was also a bit bloated. Not sure if was eating pizza after 8:00 pm or the chips and salsa verde or a combination of both but I definitely was holding on to some extra liquid. We'll see if it goes away today.
In other news, I noticed yesterday that I'm finally getting into this. My interest level the past few years (and many attempts) is best described as superficial. You probably have to go all the way back to the successful period in 2012-2013 to find a time where I was actually super invested in what's going on here. Otherwise, just recording stuff. This is a very good sign and makes me hopeful.
And it's not just the novel-length posts!
Another sign of being into it is that I've been reading more stuff online about different eating plans. I've read more about keto, carnivore, croissant, French, whatever. Of course there is a ton of conflicting information, but it's been interesting trying to puzzle some things out. One thing I do wonder is if I'm super sensitive to vegetable/seed oils, since I do better when I don't eat them. I should ask the mexican place if the corn tortillas they used are fried in lard instead of corn oil. Could blow my whole theory right up. (Insta-edit: Looks like soft corn tortillas aren't even fried in any kind of oil. Note to self, buy some masa harina.). Obviously it's incredibly difficult to avoid them in 2020 USA but it is possible.
I think I'll be experimenting with some things, trying to see if I can keep the trend line moving downward while still enjoying food. I should have room to do so since I have lots of extra weight. Just a question of whether I can consume some level of carbohydrate while still losing. On a related note I found this morning that Walmart carries a quality brand of animal fat (Fatworks) so I picked up some lard and some tallow. I can get lard from the farm I patronize but have no local source of tallow. Looking forward to frying up a potato or two.
Lunch: Cold leftover pepperoni mushroom 4 cheese pizza
Good stuff and about as quick and easy as it gets. If only every day were that simple. I'll have to look and see if I can tweak pizza any to fit better into any reasonable diet plan. Only eating half at a time is a step in the right direction at least.
Dinner: Leftover chuck roast with green peppers, TCD style mashed potatoes.
Decided to only re-heat half of the last portion of the roast (since it would be too much) and to try the super-buttery mashed potato recipe from the croissant diet page. 300g potato is about 45g of net carb, which isn't as much as I would have guessed. It's also more potato - 2 of what I would call medium potatoes came out to 283g. 4T of butter is a lot of butter, probably double what I would use normally and I always though I was pretty generous with the good stuff.
Anyway, this greatly improved my enjoyment of the roast. Very delicious and I'm quite full. Since I only did maybe half of my last container of roast I'll probably do this again tomorrow night, especially if I don't retain a bunch of water. Maybe I'll have some green beans or something since I'm now out of the roasted green pepper.
Exercise: Nope. A pretty sedentary day. I should go out now and do something, but it's already after 7:30 and an early bedtime is the best idea. I'm also quite full.
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