Week Two Down
Week two of low-carbing went very well. I lost another two pounds, which would be mostly fat this time, since I shed the extra water the first week. On the low-carb newsgroup, I’d report it as 248/242/199. That’s my starting weight, my current weight, and my goal weight. That’s a bit of shorthand people there use to save typing.
I was actually lower on carbs this week than the first week, with a few days below 20. That’s just because we were busier, so I didn’t get as many vegetables cooked. The important thing, though, is that the carb cravings are completely gone. I still know fries and ice cream would taste good, but I don’t crave them anymore. I had one (one!) slice of fried potato at my folks’ yesterday, and while it tasted awesome, I didn’t feel any compulsion to eat more. And I recorded it as 2 carbs when I got home.
Now that I’m just burning fat, I don’t expect to lose more than 1-2 pounds per week from here on out. A consistent two pounds-per-week would be awesome; that would have me hitting my goal right about Christmas. Just in time to celebrate with pie! Even one pound-per-week would have it all gone by my next birthday. It took years to gain all this weight, so I won’t complain if it takes almost a year to lose it. As long as it’s dropping, I’ll be happy.
My list of foods eaten in the past week (some a few times):
- bacon and eggs
- cheesy scrambled eggs
- cheeseburger and kraut
- plate pizza
- giant burger (basically a meatloaf with a cream cheese/mustard/horseradish filling) and fried squash
- Jello (sugar-free, made with Splenda)
- cheeseburgers
- pork chops and stuffed squash
- bratwurst and kraut
- broiled chicken and fried squash
- meatballs
- sliced meat and horseradish mustard
- cheese and sausage tray
- raw cabbage
- lime pickles
- ground beef with cream cheese
- 1 fried potato slice
- picnic chicken
- cream soda
The plan for this week is just to keep it up. I’ve got a couple new recipes to try, and I want to eat a few more vegetables, since we’ve got loads of them in the garden right now.
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