Today started with an Atkins bar at about 8am. At Noon, I ate a pint of the mock potato salad. Then at 3pm I had another bar.
I did feel rather dizzy during the day, but I attributed this to my getting maybe 4 hours of sleep the night before.
It was when I got home that all hell broke loose.
I had 2 bowls of the beef stroganoff with sour cream, which is really filling. Then I had some slices of kielbasa – at least a half-dozen. Then finished it off with a half-dozen slices of some cheddar cheese and 2 squares of the Lindt chocolate.
Still in ketosis – the stick went dark. Personally, I don’t obssess on the color – if it turns a little bit, you’re in ketosis – the color has more to do with how much water you’ve drank and how efficiently your body is burning ketones – neither of which I concern myself with.
I’ve also been drinking some 4C drink mix – they use Splenda instead of Crystal Light, which uses Nutrasweet. I haven’t tried their 2Go products – I buy the tubs. Of the flavors they offer in this container type, I like the Pomegranate best – the fruit punch is a kid-taste and the lemonade is just so pedestrian. I like the Crystal Light Orange stuff, and 4C apparently makes something similar, but not in a tub. Oh well…
Today’s temptation: Mc Donalds. I get a call on the way home to pick up fries and chicken nuggets, so I ride home with the bags next to me. Then home, there’s chips, cookies, and noodles seemingly everywhere I look.
I resisted, though. Perhaps this is why I scarfed down all the low carb stuff I did.
But this isn’t a race, nor a diet, really – it’s a lifestyle. I need to restrict my diet like a diabetic does – as I’m probably going to end up being one if I don’t – or as a vegetarian, or a devout member of the Muslim or Jewish faith would.
This morning weight is 205.4 still down 8.6 lbs. from the start.
Impressive for some, but for me, an indication I really let myself go this time, and my internal ‘set point’ shifted higher. Oh well, I’m in this for the long haul, and the trend it in the right direction.
Low Carb Confidential 
This daily writing is a good thing. For you and for the rest of us low-carbers. Gives you some accountability and lets us know that others are out there struggling to win as well. You’re right, it’s not a race, it is a lifestyle, but I still love what Dana Carpender says. “There is NO finish line!” Ron, aka The Former Donut Junkie.
Yeah stick at it. Do you find yourself becoming more positive about it?
I just wrote a blog about the set point and its relation to low carb diets. It might interest you. http://darwinstable.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/why-low-carb-diets-work/
ps – you can delete the link I just wanted to give it to you.