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Here's to hoping for a great 2018!

Good ole keto cream cheese pancakes. How delicious, simple, and comforting you are. Used this recipe: www.ibreatheimhungry.com/cream-cheese-pancakes/ With toppings of butter, Maple Grove Sugar Free maple syrup and Land O' Lakes sugar free whipped cream. So gooooood.

Started eating keto again! Day 2! Rotisserie chicken bits on romaine with mayo and avocado.

I'm pretty proud of this meal. I managed to cook chicken without ruining it! For most, I'm sure it's no big deal, but as someone who overcooks eeeeverything (mostly by accident btw), this was a victory. Waterpod lettuce with peppercorn ranch dressing, mini cucumber, and butterflied chicken breast tenderloin seasoned with a garlic and herb seasoning. I looooove me these mini cucumbers. They are snack size without all the chopping needed. Perfect for taking to work if running late and have no time to peel and slice, nor want to bring a knife and peeler with.

The reason I couldn't survive Whole30... goat cheese. This is some broccoli slaw, with pesto sauce, meatballs, parmesean and goat cheese. This had less carbs than the marinara I have in stock. Not the most pleasing looking, and the slaw texture was still a tad too crunchy for me, but the rest is darned tasty. But I can eat goat cheese, pesto and meatballs forever, lol.

Recipe used: http://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/2012/01/cream-cheese-pancakes.html Tweaks made: Added a tablespoon of coconut flour. Not pictured: The half that got shoved in my face before I remembered to take a picture. This morning I woke up staaaaaaarviiiing. So I whipped these bad boys up and ate the entire recipe worth with butter and maple syrup. Om nom nom!

Lunch from McDonald's today was: bunless Big Mac and bunless grilled chicken artisan Pico guacamole sandwich. This absolutely satisfied the craving I had for the Big Mac, and all the stats are within range today so far! Although I will need a fattier dinner later to counter all the protein.

Managed to keep the carbs under 25g, which was good. What was even better was after two evenings of eating too many carbs, I still managed to have moderate ketones in my system! (Based on the strips anyways) I figure that Thursday was day 24, but since I somehow didn't boot myself out of ketosis, today could be day 25. Shhhh, let me have this. ;) Today for breakfast I made pancakes to have with my yummy Maple Groves sugar free syrup. (Recipe: https://ketodietapp.com/Blog/post/2015/04/15/basic-keto-pancakes) I did how one person suggested and used 1/2 cup almond flour, 1/4 cup coconut flour and it turned out well. Overall very tasty, and my non-LCHF boyfriend also enjoyed them with his regular syrup. So that was good. Lunch was meatballs in a 1/4 cup spaghetti sauce, nothing fancy. Dinner was a ribeye steak with, get this, LOADED BROCCOLI! Man did it feel good to put butter, sour cream, bacon, chives, salt and pepper on my cup of steamed broccoli. It felt like I was cheating even though it was all in my scope of stuff I can eat. This has been the easiest, most fun I've had on a diet ever. Mmm bacon and butter. Don't mind me if I repeat stuff from time to time. ;)

If it is ketoflu, I’m gonna avoid carbs as long as possible from now on. Sheesh!