Food Intake for Day 5 – 1111 cal, 24.98 carb

Breakfast: Frittata: 1/2 cup eggbeaters (60 cal/12 g protein/0 g fat/2 g carb), .5 ounces of french feta (per ounce: 50 cal/5 g protein/5 g fat/0 g carb), handful of spinach, 1/2 tbs olive oil (60 cal/7 g fat). Total calories: 177. Total carb: 2.

Lunch: Turkey and ham and emmental on low-carb tortilla. Total calories: [...]

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A Mopey Start to New Year’s – Avoid the Market at All Costs

I have spent the day talking to friends — telling them I love them, that I am doing well and I am happy, and that I hope that the next year brings them happiness. (I was a bit more eloquent on the phone, and a bit less eloquent on voicemail — sorry, E.)
One of [...]

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Lessons Learned in 2007

These are among the lessons I learned in 2007:

Trust my instincts.
My family is the absolutely most important thing to me in the world: my best and dearest friends, and the people I enjoy spending time with the most.
In addition to my actual amazing family, my family also includes those to whom I am not related [...]

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Au Revoir, 2007 – Day 5 – 152.6

Down another 0.8 pounds.
So, it’s NYE and I am conflicted.
In many ways, this year has really sucked:

I had that all-consuming project in May/June that went all weird when the client used me to buffer himself from having to fund and still failed to fund and then refused to pay me the $35k he owed me. [...]

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Food Intake for Day 4 – 888.7 cal, 24.57 carb

Oops. Well, this is not good: I am 500 calories under for the day.  (Edited:  recalculated and add late snack, so I am only down 200 calories.)
It’s a bit of a lazy day and I awoke kinda late and with no motivation to make a frittata (though it’s almost no effort). [...]

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The Feline Fountain of Youth

I have a brand-new cat, in the body of my 12 year old Siamese.
Three weeks ago, I switched her food from a daily combination of Hill’s Science Diet Oral Care and Light to Oral Care and Advanced Protection: Senior.
Before the switch, I had noticed she was jumping more gingerly and was just seeming a [...]

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My Big New Year’s Plans

This is my first single NYE in 8 years and I have no plans to go out and celebrate.
I’ve spent a few NYEs alone over the years, choosing to write and reflect and prepare for the new year, rather than attend a party or go to a restaurant, as I have in years past.
With the [...]

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Sugar, Sugar Everywhere

I LOVE candy, cake, cupcakes, cheesecake, ice cream, gelato. You name it, I love it. It’s always been a weakness, especially when I am hormonally challenged.
When I am limiting my carbs, my desire to inhale a bag of oreos* evaporates. Not lessened . . . gone.
As I sit on the sofa [...]

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Obsessions and Body Image – Day 4 – 153.4

This morning, I nervously stepped on the scale, wondering if this would be the day I’d see a smaller change or no change or the wrong kind of change. After all, I ate 3 more carbs and 50 more calories than I had intended and I didn’t drink enough water and I still didn’t [...]

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Food Intake for Day 3 – 1105.5 cal, 23.48 carb

Breakfast: Frittata: 1/2 cup eggbeaters (60 cal/12 g protein/0 g fat/2 g carb), .7 ounces of french feta (per ounce: 70 cal/7 g protein/5 g fat/0 g carb), handful of spinach, 1/2 tbs olive oil (60 cal/7 g fat). Total calories: 169. Total carb: 2.
Lunch: Turkey and emmental on low-carb tortilla. Total calories: [...]

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