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Tom is settling in well...but he's going to run out of cafeteria money before the end of the semester (when they moved him to the upper classmen dorm they took him off the unlimited eating plan, and gave him a card with $700 on it and a kitchen).  He's eating fruit and milk for breakfast (pretty healthy) and he says that the on-campus sushi place isn't half bad.

Amanda is half moved, half not.  She has a cough and wants to go to the doctor, so I reminded her that this is the last month she's going to have insurance.

I've crafted out and need to get back into the swing of taking a little while every day to knit or cross stitch while I listed to podcasts.  I feel better mentally when I have that time to spend doing just that with no other distractions.

A close friend of mine lost two friends and will be attending two funerals today, back to back.  I'll have dinner with her afterward (we go to a steak house that's low-carb friendly except for the wonderful rolls with honey-butter...so I'll save all my carbs for the end of the day)

Henry is staying with me.  I want another heartbeat in the house and a listening hear.  He doesn't talk back much and I have to feed him twice a day...but Amanda can't afford the food and insulin - and the place she's staying already has two cats and I'm not feeding them Iams.

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EDIT:  this is my weight loss graph from 6/5/09 - 8/28/09 (yes, the numbers are removed)

I've been exercising and I've had really good low-carb/low glycemic days.

My weight it stuck. I do tend to have plateaus about every 15-20 pounds so I'm 5 pounds overdue.  I'm maintaining so that's good.

Okay...I pre-posted a couple of days ago so the recipe would be up...and my got knocked off the plateau.

My weight this morning was 6.2 pounds less than the Friday before we left on vacation (2 weeks ago) and 5.4 pounds less than the day we left.

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Here's a morning smoothie I've been making

(yes...I blend the watermelon rind in with the smoothie...there are a lot of vitamins and fiber in that rind.  I threw in a little hidden veggie and it doesn't effect the taste at all.  I don't add sweetener because that's in the fiber drink powder.
Watermelon breakfast smoothie.

Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1                cup  almond milk, Almond Breeze, original flavor, unsweetened
1              scoop  egg protein (harvest health)
1                cup  watermelon -- wedges, with the rind
1              stalk  celery
1            package  Kellogg's all-bran fiber drink mix -- raspberry flavored
1/2    tablespoon  konsyl psyllium fiber
2          teaspoons  flaxseed Oil
1                cup  ice cube

Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 313 Calories; 13g Fat (31.8% calories from fat); 25g Protein; 36g Carbohydrate; 20g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol; 582mg Sodium.  Exchanges: 0 Vegetable; 1 Fruit; 1/2 Non-Fat Milk.

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I was sleepy (groggy but cannot nap) and my head feels like it's stuffed with soggy cotton balls.

I think it's the "post-vacation eating plan blues".

I did not eat badly on vacation.  It is difficult to eat low-carb on vacation.  I ate plenty of veggies and fruit, but indulged in wheat and other higher carb goodies on days that I knew I'd be walking.

But the first few days of low-carb (I'm shooting for under 75 net grams of carb per day) I feel a little mentally out of it.  I don't hit ketosis until around day 3 of under 50net, so I'm not planning on that.  Friday and Saturday I'll knock it back to 30net, then increase it again for the week.

I am committed to eating a good mix of fruits and vegetables - and I can't do that on an "Atkins Induction" sort of plan.  Anything under 100 net grams of carbs is considered "low" and my endocrinologist put me at 135.

Current restrictions:

  • no wheat
  • no milk
    • I will eat 1 serving of dairy per day, options are cheese, yogurt and kefir
  • no peanut butter
  • no potatoes (sweet potatoes are okay)
  • limit other grains (including rice)

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Child Psychology - the book is on back order and the professor emailed the class; the syllabus will be on blackboard tomorrow.   This is my 3rd psych class and the other two were no-brainers.

Art for the Elementary School Classroom - got the book but may not need it.  I saved the receipt so I can take it back.  In the classroom I work in, Carolyn and I had the students doing a lot of projects.  Since Carolyn is not back(and may not be coming back) I think I'll be able to make the AT class and my job work together quite nicely.

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I got my new upper for the dental appliance (the lower has a minimal amount of puppy teeth marks and I've soaked it numerous times in denture cleaner).

Everything fits and the insurance is in the works - we just didn't follow the right steps in the right order so they made the dentist's office go back and do it again.

But I have my appliance.