253.8 - Wow, it's been a long time since I posted.

253.8 - Today was another Day 1, the start of another run at low carb / ketogenic eating. I know it works. I've successfully lost weight and felt MUCH better many times eating low carb. Each time I have had a taste, a meal, or a "break" that derailed me. I don't question whether I could lose all my extra weight with low carb eating. I question whether I am capable of sticking with it for the long haul. Each time I go off low carb I gain back all the weight I've lost and struggle for weeks/months/a year with trying to get back to it. I know I need to look at it as something that I stick with every day regardless of whether it's a holiday whatever to be successful with losing the weight and keeping it off.

Since it's been almost a year since I posted on here, I will note that I think I did 2 or 3 runs of low carb since this time last year (of at least 2 weeks or more). My lowest weight during the last year was 238.8 in late September 2012 and my highest was 260.6 in mid August 2012. Mainly I was in the upper 240's and lower 250's though (excluding the low weights from successfully low carbing and the high weights that proceeded each stint).

Today:

Breakfast: (at 1pm, quite hungry before, quite satisfied after)

12 ounces coffee with 1.59 oz heavy cream and 9 drops of EZ Sweetz (liquid splenda)

Lunch: (at 4pm, starving (had gone to Walmart and was famished when I got back), quite satisfied after eating Light Flatout wrap with 2 pieces of Oscar Meyer bologna, 1 slice Kraft American cheese, 20 grams mayo, 24 grams lettuce, 29 grams tomato, 6 grams onion

Dinner: (at 7:30pm (hunger level 7/10 before eating, moderately satisfied after) 183 grams iceberg lettuce, 30 grams cheddar, 27 grams blue cheese dressing, 1.48 oz cooked chicken breast

Drank about 1 Liter of Diet Shasta through the day

Totals:

997 calories/ 80.3 grams fat / 33.6 total grams Carb (21.7 Net carbs) / 45.8 g. Protein

Percentages 69%F / 13%C / 18% P

Protein was lower than I *think* it should be. Carbs were good. Fat was made up of too much seed oil (canola in the blue cheese dressing, seed oil in the mayo). I feel pretty okay for it being the 1st day back on low carb. I feel like I *could* eat some more, but am not really hungry.

Pills taken: Birth control pill, 1000 mg SR Metformin, 225 mg Magnesium Citrate, 5 mg Biotin, 1 gummy (1/2 dose) children's vitamin

Notes: No headaches today. Energy low (this is normal lately).