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Morning, all!
Yesterday was a dramatic and traumatic day. For my dd. She's a senior in HS and has an old truck that was supposed to last until August, when she goes to Arizona for college. Well, yesterday it died. DIED. Terminal. No can repair. Oy vey. Her dad and I are trying to figure out a reasonable solution.....but in the meantime, she's devastated.
In the midst of all this, she and I went to our appt with our personal trainer. We've been doing the same legs workout for 6 weeks, and it's long-since time that we switched. So, she put us through a new one. WOW. YIKES! It is tough, tough, tough. The only thing I can recall that is as tough is the one we did for the last 6 weeks - but after 2 weeks, it got very doable. And it caused me to lose 4 inches in each thigh or something like that.......
Today I'm staying after school to teach an extended day reading session to mostly my students. Just for an hour, but I packed an extra snack because, knowing me, by the time we get home, I'll be ravenous without one. I took a look at my fitday for the last month last night, and I'm eating mostly veggies. With fat. I haven't had meat in a month for some reason. My protein is coming from eggs, a bit of cheese, and veggies. This is something Atkins said would happen eventually, and he was right. I read somewhere on this board a long time ago that the people who have had the most long-term success losing and maintaining eat just a ton of veggies. In maintenence, after moving up all of the rungs of OWL, they still weren't eating many grains or starchy things. Who knew there were so many non-starchy vegetables to enjoy?
Life is good. Let's go make it so for someone else.
Yesterday was a dramatic and traumatic day. For my dd. She's a senior in HS and has an old truck that was supposed to last until August, when she goes to Arizona for college. Well, yesterday it died. DIED. Terminal. No can repair. Oy vey. Her dad and I are trying to figure out a reasonable solution.....but in the meantime, she's devastated.
In the midst of all this, she and I went to our appt with our personal trainer. We've been doing the same legs workout for 6 weeks, and it's long-since time that we switched. So, she put us through a new one. WOW. YIKES! It is tough, tough, tough. The only thing I can recall that is as tough is the one we did for the last 6 weeks - but after 2 weeks, it got very doable. And it caused me to lose 4 inches in each thigh or something like that.......
Today I'm staying after school to teach an extended day reading session to mostly my students. Just for an hour, but I packed an extra snack because, knowing me, by the time we get home, I'll be ravenous without one. I took a look at my fitday for the last month last night, and I'm eating mostly veggies. With fat. I haven't had meat in a month for some reason. My protein is coming from eggs, a bit of cheese, and veggies. This is something Atkins said would happen eventually, and he was right. I read somewhere on this board a long time ago that the people who have had the most long-term success losing and maintaining eat just a ton of veggies. In maintenence, after moving up all of the rungs of OWL, they still weren't eating many grains or starchy things. Who knew there were so many non-starchy vegetables to enjoy?
Life is good. Let's go make it so for someone else.
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It can't be TOM just yet and this has been going on for quite awhile. I'm at my wits end....I'm not losing inches, I'm gaining weight, but my ketosticks are pink??? I actually caved and ate a cupcake and two cookies this morning. Its probably going to knock me out of ketosis and add on to my misery and depression. I KNOW there will be a gain on the scale tomorrow. 
I'm so disappointed in myself. I'm pushing water and thinking about running two miles on the treadmill although I've already done an hour of Plyometrics today. I hauled my butt back on the atkin's wagon and will be having chicken salad for dinner. Any quick carb binge recovery tips for me?? As for my day, I have to patch a hole in the wall from one of the kids throwing a toy and missing the toy box during clean-up before bed yesterday, do laundry, get on top of the housework. The boys' dad has visitation in about an hour when my oldest son gets home from pre-k. Oodles of fun. 
I wonder if all this stress is making me gain weight?
It was hard going back after almost half a year, everyone there has gotten a lot better, and I haven't. I spent most of the night getting hit in new and exciting ways, but I loved every minute of it!
Check out 'Get Running' if you have an iPhone.
kinda feels good! Loving this sunshine! 
kids
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