Update and Food Diary 8/3

So, the trip to Charleston was pretty successful, food-wise. I ate a few things that I knew I shouldn't, but I mostly stuck to the plan. For breakfast, Papoo made eggs and bacon/sausage, and I know the bacon and sausage were maple-cured or contained sugar, but I let it slide. Lunch was a burger at a cafe with Mom, and dinner was a burger at home. The second day was lunch at the family reunion, and there was LITERALLY nothing there that wasn't a carb except for green beans. I grabbed a piece of fried chicken and ripped of the breading and had a piece of fried fish. It had a cornmeal breading that didn't really come off, but I ate it anyway. Dinner the second night was on the road, so I had another burger from McDonald's without a bun.

Yesterday morning and this morning, I was still at 178, so no loss or gain over the weekend. Kind of a bummer, but oh well. I'm going to explore some of the Ongoing Weight Loss stage of Atkins. I think I'm basically doing that, just adding in a few things here and there, but I'm not upping my carb count. Maybe I'll try adding in a few carbs. As counterintuitive as it seems, I've heard a lot of people say that's what helped them get back into the swing of losing.

Let me see what my weekly losses have been so far:

Week 1: 4 pounds
Week 2: 2.5 pounds
Week 3: 0.5 pounds
Week 4: 1 pound

So in a month of doing Atkins, I've lost a total of 8 pounds. That's not too shabby. The last two weeks have been less than stellar, though, so I'm going to go read up about Ongoing Weight Loss and see what my options are in that regard. I've already added in a few things, like sunflower seeds, so I'll try to mix it up with some berries and other things. Maybe mixing it up a little will work for me!

Oh, food diary for today:

BREAKFAST:
Bacon and Cheese Fritatta (2)

LUNCH:
Italian Meatball Burger (4.5)
1/2 cup green beans (3)

DINNER:
Bacon Beef Rolls (2)
Just Like Stuffed Baked Potatoes (4)
We ended up going to Bob and Gina's house for dinner. She made chicken with black beans and taco seasoning. I'm not sure how much I ate, but it was probably about 1/4 cup of beans. That would be about 10 grams of carbs, so I'll estimate that.

SNACK:
Sunflower seeds (1)
Cream cheese cloud (1)

TOTAL: 21.5 net carbs