I remember the one time in my life where I weighed myself every day, even twice a day at times, and that was when I was obsessed with losing weight to the exclusion of nearly everything else. I’d say I was a bit mentally ill about it. And then I became physically ill because of it.

Also, I count my carbs and leave off the “net” part. This kind of takes the mind game out of the “net” carb deal. A carb is a carb is a carb. If the label says 5, I count it at 5 no matter how much roughage is in there.

I’ve also done induction several times and have no problem getting into the dark purple on the Ketostix as long as I don’t have cream everyday with my espresso (took a while to figure out what the culprit was). So, the one golden shot theory is a bunch of hooey.

And lastly, I don’t worry so much about weight loss because I know this a healthy lifestyle that I truly believe is best for my body. Regardless of weightloss, eating high carb processed foods is literally poison and my body reacts with an onslaught of insulin to remove it. The lifestyle is simply minimizing that reaction and all things shall follow in due time as my body begins to heal itself.

Unfortunately, I’ve had the flu for two weeks and try finding prescription cough syrup without sugar in it!!

Oh, and PS: GC, BC – the best parts are the last three or so chapters – you’re not doomed……………..