Calm About Blips

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Day Seventeen

It's been such a good month scalewise that I am suprised when there is an upward blip.  Today was the third one, I think, in each case by the smallest amount recorded by my scale.  I'm not fazed by it, I know that I really shouldn't weigh in every day but I think it does help with the accountability ... and it's sure nice when it's a good sized drop.  So I'm calm.

And it wasn't all meh news, I got the best BP number I've had in a long time.  It's been trending down nicely but this was really, really good to see.  Still a ways to go there, but I'm hopeful that with weight loss, diet and exercise I'll get back to where it should be.  Exercise, you dumbass.

Breakfast:  CF sausage links (0), V-8 (4), coffee (0)

I blanked on taking a photo, remembered just after I finished chewing.  Doh.  Anyway, same serving size as the patties, more or less, it just takes more links to get there.  And I'm sure there is some fractional carb in there due to seasoning but I'm not going to worry about it.

Lunch:  Soup (10), pickle (1)

Again.  And again good.

Dinner:  Ground beef keto bowl (20e, $15.37), SF raspberry jello (0)

Audible.  Needed to run an out-of-town errand and was hungry for dinner.  It worked out that I was near this place.  One of the best keto bowls I've had.  Would eat a couple times a week if it were local (and if I'm right and it's not super carby).  Also of note:  I could have happily kept eating, but now, almost two hours later, I am still very pleasantly full.  Delayed satiety, but it kicked in HARD.

Exercise:  Nope.  I was a little frustrated, I was in bed by 9:30, but then my mind got going and I could not shut it down.  It was after midnight before I got to sleep.  Made for a sluggish morning and a late start. I need to do better.

Day totals:  $15.37 spent,  35ish  g carbs, semi-success

I'm really not sure about the carb count on the keto bowl.  There are some carbs (and seed oil, undoubtedly) in the cheese sauce.  Some in the guac, tomato and onion.  Nothing worth worrying about in the cheese, beef or lettuce.  I think 20 might be on the high side, but since it's a local place they don't even have guesstimated nutrition info.

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