I made it through the weekend with just a few bumps in the road on Saturday. Note to self: eat before 11:00 PM or all self control will go out the window! I sell used books on Amazon.com to pay for my
Disney vacations (aka "Mouse Money") and there was a great booksale north of Chicgao. My friend and I drove to Oakbrook from Wisconsin (about 2.5 hours each way) and the sale lated 4 hours. We didn't leave until after 10:30 PM and then the only places to eat were fast food and diners. We chose a diner with lots of cars in the lot (at 11:00!) and I had baked scrod with veggies. That was OK, but the matzo ball soup (For all you Chicagoans, I was in
Skokie ... it was a requirement
) and the half a roll I ate because I was starving was not. C'est la vie. Sunday was another day and I did fine. The other snag is that it my TOM and I always bloat up. I used to bloat in advance, but now I bloat at the last half. *sigh* Ain't perimenopause grand?
ETA:
While cleaning, I found excersize/weight logs from over 10 years ago. I used to belong to a health club and I had a personal trainer. I was dieting and excersizing pretty regularly. My weight then was 188 lbs and I am now in the low 160's. I look back on that time in my life and I don't think of myself as being bigger than I am now, but wow! I was 25 lbs heavier. I found that motivating.
Onto the food!
Friday June 3
Vitamins - YES
Water - YES
Excersize - NO
Total carb count = 17 (25 g - 8 g fiber)
Breakfast: Robin's Flax Bread toasted with butter, coffee with cream (4 carbs, lots 'o fiber!)
Lunch: 2 Oscar Mayer Smokie Links (1 carbs)
Snack: 2 oz cheese, 1 oz porkies (3 carbs)
Dinner: Walleye pike, scallops in a lemon cream sauce (9 carbs)
Notes: I forgot how many carbs there was in lemon juice! Yikes!
Saturday June 4
Vitamins - NO (I forgot!)
Water - YES
Excersize - NO
Total carb count = 44!!! (46 g - 2 g fiber)
Breakfast: coffee with cream, 2 oz cheese curds.
Lunch: 4 Culvers Buffalo Chicken strips on the go driving. Yummy, but carby. (22 g carbs!)
Snack: none. Part of my problem, I think
.
Dinner: 1/2 hard roll, matzo ball soup, bakend scrod, veggies. (22 carbs)
Notes: Bad, bad day for me
Sunday June 5
Vitamins - NO (Forgot again!)
Water - YES
Excersize - YES (cleaned like a demon, up and down 3 flights of stairs all day)
Total carb count = 9 (13 g - 5 g fiber)
Breakfast: coffee, eggs and bacon (4 carbs)
Lunch: salad with 1/2 avacado and Marie's blue cheese dressing (3 carbs)
Snack: porkies, cheese (1 carb)
Dinner: Oscar mayer smokies, salad with dressing. (1 carb)
your way. You can do it! 
