I figured nobody would be reading tomorrow, so I should send out my Thanksgiving greetings today.

We’re going to miss Thanksgiving dinner for the 5th year in a row.  We might head down to the states tomorrow, but not until after work, so won’t get there until 9 pm.  I don’t particularly like arriving so late, particularly on a holiday, because I might … gasp … not find anything to eat.  If we do decide to leave tomorrow, I’ll fix something to take with us.  No need to set myself up for failure by hoping I’ll find something worthy to eat.

I finally went out and shoveled my own driveway on Friday.  Of course I picked the day it was -10 F … it was SO cold.  The wind picked up yesterday, though, and now it’s 32 F out with 70 mph winds.  Can’t win for losing up here in the frozen north.

It’s been two weeks since I’ve gotten back on track with my eating.  For some reason I decided to start counting my carbs (rather than just winging it as I had been doing).  I’m not much of a counter anyway, but counting carbs appears to work so much better for me than counting calories.  When I count calories I don’t always make the best choices.  Carbs are a whole other story, though.  If you eat high carb foods, you are done almost before you started.  So no cakes, cookies, ice cream, quick breads etc.  Lots of low-carb vegetables and protein.  Haven’t had fruit for a while because the only thing that looks good is bananas and they are pretty high in carbs (as are potatoes … wow … I’d heard eating potatoes were like eating sugar, but honestly I had no idea how carb-heavy they are.)  Plus I’m looking things up before I eat them (what a concept!)

So far I’m thrilled with how easy this is (still!).  And at the amount of energy I have. And how well I sleep.  And that it’s not only annihilated any sugar cravings, but also somehow (because I always thought that the C-word was an inevitable part of going low-carb) find my eliminating totally normal.  Not sure how that happened, but it may be because I drink lots of water and eating more good fats and not much of anything that would stop up the system (I’m talking about you, baked goods).

I have one more week to go in the 21-day challenge.  After that I might look at upping my carbs a bit by adding in fruit once in a while (if I can find some that I like).  I’m still working on going from obese to overweight which was my goal before the end of the year.  Getting my eating under control is primary to me; I know the weight loss will follow at its own pace.  I do need to get some consistency with my exercise, although I am moving more with all this extra energy, just not doing a specific workout.

I hope everybody has a wonderful Thanksgiving.  It’s a joy to spend time with family and friends.