slowly but surely!

I'm still riding the low carb train! I've hopped off a few times to sight see, but for the most part, I've kept my carb intake at right about 50g per day.  Let me tell you, that's not a lot, especially when you are trying to stay within your daily calorie allotment AND you are vegetarian.  It's so different eating low carb now than it was when I was still eating meat.  A day of that diet looked like this:

8am-turkey bacon or turkey sausage
10am-cheese galore
noon-chicken wings with 4 containers of blue cheese
2pm-more cheese, maybe some turkey pepporoni
4pm-some type of low carb bar 
6pm-more chicken wings, or perhaps a blue cheese burger without the bun
8pm-cheese galore
10pm-some sort of snack

Supplement that all with various sugar free candies, diet coke, sugar free Redbull, etc.

How did I not have a heart attack, and why do people think this is a healthy way to eat? (maybe because i lost weight...)

So now, here I am, trying to slim down a little more, recognizing that I over-indulge on carbohydrates, but also recognizing that I need a balanced, HEALTHY diet if I'm going to look and feel my best (not to mention the set of little eyes that watch every move I make during the day...there is no way in Hell I want my sweet girl to learn mommy's bad eating habits, or even worse, mommy's poor self image). This time around on the low carb train, I'm loading up on veggies all day long, adding in tofu, seitan, vegetarian "sausages" (favorite kind are Lightlife Italian style, only 140 calories and 7g of carbs), natural peanut butter, apples, almonds, low fat ricotta, seltzer water, black coffee, low fat cheese (trying to stick with ones that are naturally lower in fat like feta and goat cheese), wine (reminder: wine is actually low in carbs!), etc.  When I write that all out, it doesn't look like a "low carb diet" right away, it looks like a healthy way of eating, and I like that :-)  I'm also throwing flax meal into just about everything! A punch of protein, fiber, and omega-3 fatty acids, it should be in everyone's diet! 

So that's where I am now.  In a good place.  And I want to stay here for awhile! JOIN ME IN MY GOOD PLACE, KATIE!!!!!!!

-Kelly