Day lost count

So today I slept in (yay) and totally missed breakfast.  For lunch I had leftover cheesy spinach and baked chicken.  IT WAS DELICIOUS. For years I hated spinach, of course the spinach I grew up on was the spinach that either came from a can or was home canned by someone in my family.  I hated it, I hated the texture, the taste, pretty much everything about it.  Then about 9 years ago I was introduced to creamed spinach....OMG.  Then came spinach artichoke dip...OMG OMG.  from then it escalated into a love of spinach.  I still refuse to eat it from a can, but I have the frozen kind a few times a week (even when I am not doing low carb).  Best thing of all....my kids love it.  Andrew had almost a full cup of it, Eve ate a good portion of it, but Iz (who normally gobbles it up) only ate a few bites, but she is what I like to call "food moody"  one day she will eat something  and ask for seconds, the very next time she refuses to eat any.

Case in point. Spaghetti. Iz used to eat spaghetti like it was going out of style.  Now she will eat noodles, she will eat the sauce, but she balks at eating the two together...drives me batty!

So, I am hoping to get my meal plan up on here in the next day or two.  I have homework due tonight, so I'll probably use a meal plan as procrastination tool to push my homework back to the last possible minute :)

Day 8 and 9

Day 8 of Induction went great - not a lot to say.  I ate meat, cheese, and veggies.

Day 9 - Well it started as normal - I had my cup of coffee, was running late to my hair appt so no time to eat.  Finished my hair appt - ran to Chuck E Cheese's  stayed away from cokes, cake, and pizza.  Ran to Target, picked up tights and then had to deal with the mist incompetent check out lady ever.  Then we got home....It was 1:30, I was starving, I had no meat thawed out...so cheated....I ate one of those prepackaged small ice cream sundaes....it was 16 carbs, but it was pure heaven and I didn't care....in fact I still don't care right now. I'll finish the day as if it never happened and move on :)

day 4-7

Days 4-7 have kinda flew by, I have stuck on target and I am kinda excited to see where I am at tomorrow. My cravings have been less, my headache finally went away, but I noticed my temper seems a little short with people.  While on induction this week I have started browsing for low carb recipes to try.  Yesterday we had "mexican chicken" - made with ground chicken, onion powder, granulated garlic, rotel, heavy cream and cheddar cheese.  I have to say it was quite tasty and while I did miss the crunch you normally get from the chips, I decided it was an acceptable substitute for the real thing.  Today we are going to eat some grilled pork chops and cheesy spinach for lunch/dinner.  Hubs doesn't work this weekend, so we will get to experiment a little more on some eating - plus we got PAID and I will get to load my pantry with low carb goodies once again :)

Day 3

Induction Day 3 didn't turn out too bad.  It could have been much better if I would have gotten to sleep in, but NO, my kids decided to wake up at 5am and go wild, so we got up and made them clean the entire second floor.  We told them no breakfast till it was all picked up.  Needless to say we didn't even eat breakfast 'til almost 11.  BUT their rooms are clean, as is the loft....I however would feel much better if I could get some carbs in me for a quick pick me up.  Since that isn't possible, I ate dinner (braised chicken and broccoli) and drank my one glass of tea (with truvia) and now it's time to watch the Oscars and muddle through my homework.

Induction Day 2

I am on day 2 of Induction.  I have had a headache most of the day....I haven't craved too many carbs....but I know it's coming.  I stayed at 20 carbs yesterday, 19 today.  2 days down, 5 to go.  I didn't exercise today, I instead was in crafty mode.  Iz and Eve no longer have curtains because they keep pulling them down, so I saw a cute idea on pinterest and I have worked most of the day on that....I will share photos once it is finished.  Eve and I also worked on hair bows. Unfortunately I can't find my clips, so we made part of the bows, now I have to go back and add clips to it once I make a run to AC Moore.

Induction

So a friend and I are going to try Atkins for a while - Today starts 14 days of hell - known as "Induction."  The name alone is bad enough.  I mean couldn't they have called it Heaven....or Vacation....or Retirement...anything but Induction.  So yesterday I kinda did carb overload to prep for 14 days with only 280 - 350 carbs total (I have one sheet that says 20 carbs a day - another that says 25).  What can I eat?  Meat, cheese, meat, low carb veggies, oh and meat.  For breakfast I had my cup of coffee with 1 tsp of sugar (instead my normal 3) and 2 eggs, cheddar cheese, and a handful of bacon.  Yeah I said it...Bacon.  If there is one good thing (ok two good things) it's the fact I can eat 2...3...4...5...heck I can eat all the bacon I want because I can. Which reminds me I need to get more bacon.  The bacon we have is maple bacon - which has carbs, so I need to get regular bacon.  I have went through this before - years ago.  Even bought the testing strips to monitor ketosis.  so I know about day 4-10 I will be in a fog...a carb hungry, mind boggling fog.  but it will clear and I will live.  :)

Word of the day....procrastination

pro·cras·ti·na·tion

 [proh-kras-tuh-ney-shuhn, pruh‐] refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of lower priority, or doing something from which one derives enjoyment, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time.

So I am in my last semester of school, 2 weeks in and already my favorite word has snuck back  into my vocabulary... PROCRASTINATION.

Here I sit, 5 hours and 10 minutes till my assignment is due and I instead decide to write a blog.  A blog I have neglected for the last few months, but suddenly I NEED to update.

And now here I sit - updating the blog instead of doing homework. Thinking of all the fun things I could do or say on here....like update everyone on the trips we have taken, or the holidays, or a million other things that are going on.

But now, I really will close this blog because I cannot procrastinate any longer :)

Until Next Time!