The virus then swept through every member of this house. I was forced to care for them all and in some cases clean up after them. It was the longest 4 days ever when the baby got it. Diapers diapers diapers. That says it all.

Up to that point I was really doing great. I was loosing weight. I was in a great routine of salads and lean meats and drinking lots of water.

After the virus, everything I had eaten in the week before make me sicker to even think about it.

The only things I could keep down was bread, potatoes, milk - you know the white foods. Also the high carb foods.

I am just now able to look at a salad without a full body shiver.

It has been slow going to get to here and now.

I am now back on the wagon. The weight loss has resumed.

At some points I could almost cry and the time and the long road to get to where I was had been so suddenly derailed.

It is so very hard to start over again. I lost all of the momentum I had. Now I am building a new head of steam and trying to chug onward.

Wish me well.

I think this time it is even harder to get going again.

LOOOOOOOOONG Story.

lunch -

supper -

diet coke
diet coke

Evening - mac and cheese diet coke - 5 carbs

total carbs - 11 carbs

Lunch - toast diet coke 6 carbs

Supper toast chicken broth 6 carbs

total carbs 18

Supper green beans and chicken

Total - 7 carbs

NOTHING.

Nada.

I think it is because I am on my period. I hasn't been a great week. I have wanted to eat all day long every day. I think I have probably eaten too much of what I can eat to compensate. Not sure. Maybe it is water weight.

I am hoping next week will be better.

I am trying.

When at first you don't succeed, try , try again.

One good thing, at least I didn't put back any weight in the process.

Total weight loss 0 pounds.

Lunch - mug of hot chicken broth from chicken soup I made (the last of it thankfully), vienna sausage with mustard

Supper - we went to a mexican restaurant, I did have a few chips with salsa, I ordered beef, chicken and shrimp fajitas but only ate the meat portions, no tortillas and whatnot. Unsweetened ice tea. Just in case I am going to count the supper as 15+ carbs because of the bit of salsa and chips I had.

total carbs 21+

snack - coffee coffee coffee

Lunch - Chicken spinach and avocado wrap - 9 carbs

snack - diet coke

Supper - Flounder filet, shrimp, spinach salad (ken's dressing 1 carb), fried and lightly dusted with fish fry mix ( 2 carbs)

Dessert - breyers ice cream

total carbs 16

snack low carb muffin (4 carbs)

Lunch - flatout wrap (6 carbs) with chicken, avocado (1.5 carbs) and baby spinach (<1 carb), water

snack - cup of broth from chicken stew, only the broth

Supper - Pork tenderloin, spinach salad (<1 carb), kens dressing (1 carb), water

Dessert - breyers low carb ice cream - (4 carbs)

total carbs 18

snack 1 muffin with butter (4 carbs)

Lunch - leftover chicken soup, mostly chicken and broth, without pasta and a green salad (2 carbs)

snack 1 muffin with butter (4 carbs)

Supper - Steak, shrimp, small green salad (2 carbs)

16 carbs total for the day but I blew it big time. Steve and I shared a bottle of wine. I have been off of sugar and everything for over 3 weeks now and the wine I drank made me tipsy. Giggle tipsy and jovial. Not drunk. It took the edge off ofwanting to eat everything in the house!

Flavored water and 1 carb chocolate while out getting groceries.

Lunch - hamburger patty with cheese (<1 carb)

Supper - Chicken soup with cauliflower (<1 carb), asparagus (<1 carb) and low carb rotini (5 carbs)

Snack - Breyers low carb ice cream (4 carbs) 1 carb brownie

total carbs - 15 carbs

The scale says I lost 5lbs over the past week. I guess that makes the headaches worth it.

Altogether I have lost 11lbs but I do not feel like I have. Some of my pants are baggy and I had to hike up my britches saturday but still I don't feel like I have lost anything.

11 pound is -

44 sticks of butter

and it is more than -

2 - 5lb bags of potatoes

or

2 - 5lb bags of sugar

Lunch - 1 peice of fish, 6 shrimp, small green salad (2 carbs) with Ken's ceasar dressing (0 carbs)

Supper - Ribs, small salad (2 carbs)with Ken's ceasar dressing (0 carbs)

Snack - 2 low carb baked brownies (2 carbs)

Total carbs - 7 carbs

Lunch - fried flounder with a small salad (2 carbs) and ken's light northern italian dressing (1 carb)

Supper - bed of lettuce with a full cup of chili (20 carbs) and shredded cheese.

total carbs- 23

*Had such an aweful headache that I indulged and ate some of my homemade chili which had some beans in it. That is where the carbs came from.