All In

We went to breakfast at Boone's with friends this morning.  We used to love their wagon wheel pancakes & green-onion-garlic hash rounds.  Sigh.  But we're doing so well with our weight loss,  feeling good, and Mark's blood sugars have never been lower.  So.  Now we have huge omelets--meat lover's for Mark and cheese for me with a side of sauteed mushrooms.  The potatoes have only the tiniest bit of come-hither power any more and we just don't pay any attention to them.  

Over the course of our breakfast this morning, a warning comment was made:  "Be careful with low-carb.  When you go off it, your weight goes way up."   Yes, that's exactly what would happen.  That's why we're not going to go back to eating carbs. . . 

What we really need to be careful about:  Dwelling on never having  potatoes or cherries or cake again.  That will bring on a serious depressive episode.  Guaranteed if we feed that carb-craving monster, it will grow.   So, whenever those thoughts come up, I think about everything good that's happened in the last six months.

• We get to eat really good food.  Like butter.  Tonight we had green beans that tasted like my mama's.  Cooked in bacon fat.
• I get to eat until I'm full.  And when I get hungry, I get to eat again.
• I now fit into non-plus sized pants.  
• Everything in my closet fits or is too big.  
• I don't have to worry about what I'm going to wear tomorrow.  I don't dread getting on the scale.  
• I don't have to take anti-inflammatory meds anymore.  I don't ache all over. 
• Mark's blood sugars got down into the 60's twice today and he HaD to eat! 
• His feet don't hurt any more.  
• He doesn't need as much medicine now.  From today's numbers, maybe his doses will go down even more.   

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So if someone says to you, "be careful you'll gain it all back when you go back to regular eating", just smile and agree.  And keto on!