Keto Challenge Catch-up Days


I REALLY need to work harder to get here to update every day, or at least every other day.  It's harder with each passing day to get caught up.

 Let me start by telling you about Friday, June 2.  My husband met me when I got off work, as did my oldest children's grandmother, my "mom".  We then headed to my youngest grandson's high school graduation.  The only thing I can tell you about Friday is the day at work was hectic and the evening was full of excitement and, of course, tears.

I can't remember exactly what I had to eat that day, but I can tell you my husband and I tried to stick with foods that are allowed on my Keto challenge.

Saturday lunch I made a Keto pizza.  OH MY!!! It was so surprisingly good!


I was blown away.  Seriously, I felt like I was cheating even though this recipe was right of the challenge itself!  I think that is what has surprised me the most. The food is so good that you feel like you are being "naughty" and falling off the challenge wagon.

Saturday night was just as much of a surprise.  Baked "jerk" chicken drumsticks.

It was also surprisingly YUMMY!! I can eat pizza, oven "fried" chicken drumsticks, and so much more.  

I should mention that by this weekend I was past the "Keto flu". A few days after you start a REALLY reduced carb way of eating, you start feeling a little under the weather.  If you want more information about "Keto flu" let me know and I'll give you some resources to help explain it to you.

The pizza that we had on Saturday was so good that we decided to have a pizza for lunch on Sunday also!  Having made it previously, I decided to try a couple things a little differently. It came out even better than the one on Saturday!


Sunday supper was pork shoulder chops with a chipotle marinade, with a side of green beans, sauted in bacon fat and mixed with avocado, green onion and spices. So GOOD.




Once again, no disappointment with the food at all. I would have never thought to fry avocado with green beans, but let me tell you, it WORKS!

Tonight was another surprise, chicken skewers, celeriac "fries, and an amazing spinach dip to go with it all.




In case you were wondering if this whole "Ketogenic" thing was working, yes it IS.  When I started, I weighed in at 181.2. This morning I was 177.2. That's down FOUR POUNDS in 1 week.  Now I know that kind of weight loss won't continue, but it was really nice to see the loss after the first week. It definitely helps motivate a person to continue!

I still want to tell you about the cats, both our indoor (we have four) and the outside kitties (currently 3 plus 2). Until I am able to make the time to tell you about all the cats, here is a teasers:

I hope your days are wonderful! Stop by again soon?  And while you are here, won't you please leave a comment?  Ask a question, leave a suggestion, or just say "hi".

Until next time, THANK YOU!












Comments

  1. UnknownJune 5, 2017 at 11:16 PM

    Good to hear all your positives! Love you mom

    ReplyDelete
  2. UnknownJune 5, 2017 at 11:16 PM

    Good to hear all your positives! Love you mom

    ReplyDelete
  3. UnknownJune 5, 2017 at 11:16 PM

    Good to hear all your positives! Love you mom

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Most Popular in Last 30 days

May 21

Image
I'm finally back! Hopefully it won't be another month or so before I come here to update.  There's been a lot going on, including a wonderful vacation in Arizona! Maybe more about that later. In the meantime, here's a new tile I just finished. It's for  Diva's Weekly Challenge #218 , where we were challenged to use a white gel pen (I used Gelly Roll by Sakura) on black tile (I used an official Zentangle tile).  The tangles I used for this are Mooka and Zinger. I thought maybe that was a little too simple, so I've changed it a bit. Which one do you prefer, the original or this one? And here is black on white! Black Pigma Micron on white 3.5 x 3.5 Zentangle tile. Lightly shaded with regular graphite #2 pencil. And here again I used Mooka and Zinger. Also, some of you know that I also make jewelry. I have entered a contest to win a book about making Vintage style Jewelry . Wish me luck! I'll be back in a couple days w
Read more

Day 12

Image
Today many of us are celebrating the Bi-Zen-tennial, the 200th Weekly Challenge by the DIVA. You can see here website at  The Diva . Here is our challenge: This week's challenge is to use your Mac'N'Cheese tangle in a Monotangle. Or in other words, create a tile using ONLY your go-to or favourite tangle. And let's take advantage of the WHOLE tile! No borders! Let's extend from end to end and fill our tiles BURSTING with Tangly JOY! And finally - put the number 200 (big or small) somewhere on your tile. I chose 'Nzeppel..not because it's my go-to tangle, but it's a wonderful new tangle that I learned last week, and it just might end up being one of my go-to tangles in the future! Thanks for stopping by! Check back tomorrow for more.
Read more

Day 19

Image
Today the Diva announced the winners of the contest that was part of the 200th challenge celebration. I was in shock when I got an email from her yesterday that I was one of the winners!!!  I am so excited.  I rarely win anything, and to win a contest with a Diva challenge... a Zentangle challenge... well I just can't believe it.  You can see more of the challenge (over 200 participants!) please visit her website at  I am the Diva blog Challenge 201, this weeks challenge is to design a tile using the Moebius Syndrome Foundation's logo as our string in honor of Moebius Syndrome awareness. This is mine: And this is Day 19 from my tangle*a*day calendar, using the patterns Beeline, Cubine, and Rain. Thank you to all who stop by, and to those who leave comments. The comments are very encouraging and help keep me motivated.
Read more