Week 11 Weigh-In is cancelled

Calories eaten yesterday: 1663
Fat: 74g (43%)
Carbs: 71g (18%) (way too high)
Protein: 115g (30%)
Calories burned in exercise: 106

Week 1: 147.6
Week 2: 147.6
Week 3: 147.6
Week 4: 146 (-1.6)
Week 5: 145.4 (-0.6)
Week 6: 144.6 (-0.8)
Week 7: 142.6 (-2.0)
Week 8: N/A
Week 9: 145.6 (+3.0)
Week 10: 145.2 (-0.4)
Week 11: 145.2 (-0) [Editing in my weight from the next day.]

Total gain/loss: -2.4

I knew I'd be up today so I'm skipping the weigh-in. I ate like Saturday for three straight days and gained a ton. I only managed to get some of that off. :( I really haven't lost any weight since this started 11 weeks ago! What is wrong with my body?

I'm having trouble sticking to plan. I need to be really good six days a week. If I am allowed to give blood in a couple weeks I will make that a free day so I can eat their snacks, but other than that I plan to stay on plan until Thanksgiving. And if I am turned down from giving blood I won't make that a free day at all.

Made it to the gym today. I forgot my weight lifting gloves, but I did 45 minutes of weights anyway. Then 30 minutes on the elliptical, and 20 minutes walking on the treadmill.

I watched two busses drive off today while I ran after them. After the second one at the BART station on the way to work I was so angry I decided to walk over the overpass. I stripped off my sweatshirt near Denny's and decided to just walk the whole way to work, so that was about 30 extra minutes of walking. I had over 13,000 steps by the time I got to work.

My medium size Old Navy size 8 jeans are super tight on me. It sucks that I can eat to satiety on low-carb food for three days and gain so much real weight.

I talked to the folks on the "dinner train" we're having Saturday lunch on (Saturday after Thanksgiving). Their idea of a diabetic dessert includes grapes?!? WTF?!? Grapes are the highest sugar fruit that exists! I'm going to have to pick through the fruit plate for what I can eat. And they wanted to give me a plain chicken breast, although the stuffing looks legal (tomatoes, black olives, Swiss cheese). What's up with that?!?

They also serve no veggies! All there is to eat besides the chicken and plain dinner salad (their dressing has sugar) is fruit and potatoes and bread. I will bring low carb bread with me. God I'm going to look stupid eating so little while everyone else dines on delicious carbs. I asked for no potatoes, will pick through the fruit salad with lunch and again as dessert, and asked for vinegar and oil on the side of the salad, even though it's likely carby Balsamic vinegar. Life as a low-carber trying to eat out sucks. How can people eat a lunch of nothing but carbs and more carbs with a little bit of protein to make it seem healthy? How can people think bread and potatoes are healthy in any way?

I am sooooo hating this and am going to be so hungry. I think I will eat a bunch of eggs or something before going. How can someone serve a meal without a veggie alternative?!?

On the weather front, it's officially winter in my house. Not only am I needing to use the heater and am considering pulling out the down comforter, but after Xena ate breakfast this morning (dry kibble - I'm such a mean mom), I found her curled up in front of the wall heater. She'll remain there for a good portion of the winter, warming her big fat kitty butt. She's my little heat seeking missile. :)

Abby won't sleep in front of the heater. She only sleeps under the bed, or in high places where she can keep an eye on anything that happens. She's my little feral baby.

Not to overlook Halloween, as a Protestant Christian I prefer to celebrate Reformation Day, the day that Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the doors of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517. Wikipedia explains: This was not an act of defiance or provocation as is sometimes thought. Since the Castle Church faced Wittenberg's main thoroughfare, the church door functioned as a public bulletin board and was therefore the logical place for posting important notices.

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