Starting New

It's been nearly 2 years since I posted last. A lot has happened since then, except for my low carbbing. I don't know what happened to me. When we last spoke, I had gone to the dr. and had good results with y blood sugar and all my other tests. So instead of being smart and staying with what I was doing, I let my low carbbing fall by the wayside. I have not been doing well with my medicine either.

In the fall of 2010, I started back to college to finish my degree I had started 27 years ago. I want to get my degree in teaching middle school mathematics and English. I've had a good slow start so far by only taking 9-10 hours each semester. That has helped me to get a 4.0 average the last 3 semesters. This next semester, I am going full time (12 hours) as well as working full time at the middle school. We'll see how my grade point average holds up.

I had gallbladder surgery the week of Thanksgiving which probably helped me not gain much weight during this past holiday season. Still having some issues with digestion but everybody says it can take your body up to 6 months to a year to get used to working without a gallbladder.

So now here it is a new year. 2012. I've decided I've lollygagged around long enough and as of Jan 1, 2012 I'm back on the low carb bandwagon. I am now on my 5th day and have done surprisingly well considering I haven't cooked a lot. I know the weight doesn't come off me fast like it does other people but my doctor attributed that to my diabetes, so I'm going to try not to weigh myself too often.

One thing I have done this week that I haven't done the times before that I've started, is that I haven't gone to the sugar free candy yet. I don't usually eat much candy anyway but when I think I can't have any, I want it all the more. I'm going to try to stay away from it the total first two weeks, but I'm sure I'll go back to it.

I'll just list a few of the things I've been eating. I've only had bacon & eggs on Sunday. Got a bit of a stomach ache after I ate it so I've shied away from it since. But I've had a few other things I'm surprised didn't bother me. Sunday night and Monday for lunch I had fried cabbage with polish sausage. We didn't have school on Tuesday so it was pretty easy to eat right. I've taken a Atkins Daybreak cranberry bar to school each day for breakfast. Tuesday night for dinner we had a Walmart rotisserie chicken & I cut up leftovers and put in a salad for Wednesday's lunch.

I had a ham sandwich on oopsie rolls that I flattened out to resemble bread a couple of times and made some cheese chips. Last night I read a recipe with 3 tbs of cocoa, 1 egg, a little baking powder, vanilla, and sweetener. I made this and put it into 2 cupcake papers & it came out just like a brownie. I'm not much for chocolate and I didn't quite get it sweetened enough but it was pretty darn good.

I'm going to try to start doing like I did before and post new things I've made with pictures when I can. Loved everything I made before so I'm sure I will go back to my old posts and remake more of them. Walmart was out of jicama the last time I was there so I can't wait till they get some more to try more ideas I've found.

Been going through some old pictures so I might post some of them to give you an idea of where I've been (with weight) and where I am now.

My college classes will be starting back on Monday night Jan 9. It will be interesting to see how I will be able handle it all this semester.

Thank you for reading and.............

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