#modified atkins

Store bought ‘spring mix,’ ham pieces (cubed Canadian bacon), and chopped kalamata olives, in a nice dressing.  Yum!  

-finding food is easier

-but I have to be really careful, because the temptation is to just eat cookies all day and I know it would make me feel awful

-I’m really sugar sensitive.  Like, I just ate a banana and I’m sugar high.  Whew!

-everything is easier to digest, and my stomach is happier more often

-I have more energy overall

-there’s the temptation to eat only fruit/veg/grain and let my blood sugar levels spike and plummet.  Keeping that from happening is harder without the draconian measures that I was taking.

-can’t tell if it’s changing my seizures at all.

So I gave up.  I am sitting here drinking a smoothie, and I didn’t weigh the ingredients first.  YUM.

I’m still not eating much sugar.  I’m avoiding starches, and I’m still hard to feed between allergies and intolerances. Spikes and drops in my blood sugar mess with my meds.  But wow is it nice to eat a granola bar when I get hungry, instead of peanut butter or a chunk of fatty meat.

Me: “Hey neurologist, I suddenly lost all interest in sex. Think this might be related to my sudden change in diet?”

Neuro: “No, totes not, nope, no way.  Talk to your gynecologist.”

Me: “Hey gynecologist, I suddenly lost all interest in sex.  Think this might be related to the new birth control I’m on?”

Gyno: “No, totes not, nope, no way.  Talk to your neuro.”

:|

I saw this recipe for chicken nuggets: https://ketocook.com/2012/08/21/chicken-nuggets-2-0/

... and it looked tasty and fun, so last week I ordered a mini cupcake tin off the internet- silicone so I can use it hot or cold and pop the little guys out easily.

Warm weather means I’m in the mood for salad.  (Apparently salad has its own mood now?  Weird.)  And this week’s salad involves ham and olives and greens.

Handful of “mixed spring greens” from Stopnshop (.25-.5g carb)

2oz ham (2g carb)

5 kalamata olives, chopped into 2-3 pieces

soy ginger salad dressing, 0g carbohydrates (because it’s mostly oil)

I’ve had about 2 big bowls of this a day for three days now, with or without olives.  I’m almost out of ham, running low on olives, but those big boxes of salad are ginormous and the greens will probably eat me in my sleep.

I had a dream that I was on a Federation star ship, in the meal hall, and I was served a bowl of wide rice noodles.  I was really hungry so I wolfed them down.  Halfway through the bowl I realized with horror that I’d just eaten WAY over 20g of carbohydrates, and totally screwed up Modified Atkins.  But I kept going, finished the bowl, because they were so good.