What Really Happened?

Week one___ and the upcoming MOG dress is still a tad to tight. I weighed bright and early Monday morning, which is my usual weigh in day, and somehow even doing keto all week, I had managed to gain 1 1/2 pounds. WTH!!!

So I did the only thing possible. I ate not one, not two, but 3 cookies and a 2 inch stack of Pringles. Then I realized I would not lose anymore weight if I kept eating like that so I got back on the proverbial keto wagon and ate keto the rest of the week.

This is what I had planned vs. what actually happened

1. Mississippi pot roast/ green beans/ carrots (TheHub)/  potatoes (TheHub)/ cauliflower  (me)

Had this sans carrots and potatoes for TheHub. He had rice instead.

2.  Italian sausage with onions, peppers, spinach, tomatoes and garlic/ coleslaw

Had this but added new potatoes for TheHub

3. Chicken curry/ broccoli/cauliflower rice (me)/ brown rice (TheHub)

Had this but served asparagus instead of broccoli. This was really good

4. Grilled steak/ baked potato (TheHub)/ tomato, onion, cucumber salad

Nope, Seared scallops, tossed salad, TheHub had tater tots and I had mashed cauliflower

5. Baked chicken tenders/ cauliflower fake potato salad/ sliced tomatoes

Chicken tenders, cucumbers, sliced tomatoes

6. Carnitas/ tortillas (TheHub)/ tossed salad/ * keto tortillas is I feel really ambitions

Not sure what we had this night but I know it was not carnitas.

7. Take out, or leftovers, or a fake bread grilled cheese. I don't care which, but I am not cooking every day.

Out to eat

In addition to this I made and froze a recipe of keto rolls and a loaf of keto bread (neither of which tastes remotely close to the real thing, but, if you have had none since June, are perfectly acceptable. I will buy TheHub some bakery rolls which with satisfy him.  I have also been making us a keto dessert once a week. This week I am making cheesecakes that taste remarkably similar to a plain old cheesecake.

I did bake the "breads" but did not eat them though I did buy a pack of rolls for TheHub, and he ate one only 2 nights. I intended to make the keto cheesecake but never got around to it. Maybe this week, or maybe I will make some keto cookies.

Menu for the coming week

1 Buffalo chicken salad on greens with sliced tomatoes and  brussels sprouts

2 Goyza meatballs over cauli rice (me) and brown rice (TheHub), asparagus

3. Pork tenderloin, German "potato" (cauliflower) salad, green beans

4. White bbq chicken, broccoli, cucumber/tomato salad

5. Carnitas, coleslaw, tortillas for him and keto tortillas for me if I feel inspired enough to make them.

6. Sausage and kraut bake, tomatoes, potatoes for TheHub

7. Leftovers or out to eat

keto cookies, keto sausage balls (Saturday lake breakfast), keto cheesecakes

Now fingers are crossed that weigh in tomorrow morning is a successful losing venture!

Hopeful for the Week

I bought a dress for Son2's wedding that I really do like. The wedding is in mid November which is generally gorgeous weather here. Additionally it is mid day on a Sunday. If the weather is typical it should be gorgeous. The MOB decided to wear a long dress so I am also wearing long, but I just don't wear things that have shine, sparkles or sheen to them, which severely limited my options. I found a lovely light grey long embroidered sheer duster that tops a light gray chemise. I love the simple style, the needlework on the duster, the long sleeves and the chemise. I hate the buttons on the duster though. Since Son3 lives in Manhattan I am getting him to help me out a little. There are 2 fantastic button stores that I know of, so I will get him to go to them (We will just call this payback for college tuition?) and Facetime as I look at buttons. (I went here and found nothing I like. TheHub and I went to one of the button stores there and walked out with about $150 worth of buttons, so I know they will have something I like).

Buttons aside there is another small issue with the dress. I have been doing keto since June and am having much success with it, so I ordered the dress a size smaller than what I am wearing right now. It could almost work right this minute, but I would feel uncomfortably tight in it. I have a tad over 50 days to keto away and it should be prefect on the wedding day as long as I do my part. 

Instead of leaving anything to chance, I decided I will really track everything I eat until then, so I will be keeping a pretty extensive menu for me. I am only posting my dinner menu because no one really cares if I eat cream cheese and olives on cucumber slices for lunch.  I know me well enough to understand I have to have varied flavors if I am going to continue eating this way, and I have to have it convenient so I will not have any excuse not to eat it.  I have cooked ahead and frozen many meals in serving sizes for TheHub and me, so my main meal prep on any day is cooking a couple of veggies or making a salad. This is what my next 7 days should look like.

1. Mississippi pot roast/ green beans/ carrots (TheHub)/  potatoes (TheHub)/ cauliflower  (me)

2.  Italian sausage with onions, peppers, spinach, tomatoes and garlic/ coleslaw

3. Chicken curry/ broccoli/cauliflower rice (me)/ brown rice (TheHub)

4. Grilled steak/ baked potato (TheHub)/ tomato, onion, cucumber salad

5. Baked chicken tenders/ cauliflower fake potato salad/ sliced tomatoes

6. Carnitas/ tortillas (TheHub)/ tossed salad/ * keto tortillas is I feel really ambitions

7. Take out, or leftovers, or a fake bread grilled cheese. I don't care which, but I am not cooking every day.

In addition to this I made and froze a recipe of keto rolls and a loaf of keto bread (neither of which tastes remotely close to the real thing, but, if you have had none since June, are perfectly acceptable. I will buy TheHub some bakery rolls which with satisfy him.  I have also been making us a keto dessert once a week. This week I am making cheesecakes that taste remarkably similar to a plain old cheesecake.

Another Day

I suppose I should post something, but I am in a rut and can't seem to pull myself out of it. I am not dealing with depression or angst, but just seem a little mired down with my current day to day living. Mom's knee is better and we did let the sitter go for the time being, but she really cannot take care of herself any longer. I got an emergency call from her yesterday afternoon when she couldn't find her inhaler. Fortunately I knew where an unopened one was and could tell her the exact location. She was gasping for air (partially asthma and partially panic) and hung up on me, so I grabbed my keys and went flying down to her house. I found her sitting in her chair and she was fine. Me? Not so much. I wound up  talking to her about how difficult it is when she can no longer be responsible for her day to day living, but her need to control everything keeps My Beloved Sister and me from adequately providing for her. We are going to have to make some difficult decisions and I expect some fallout from Mom. Lots of fallout, disappointment and guilt.

I need chocolate and a stiff drink!

It was Just One of Those Things

Ever had one of those days that start out not great, then take a turn for the better where you are really enjoying things, only to have some huge disturbance in the force and things go from just irritating to worse?

I have mentioned before that Mom can be a tad difficult. Two weekends ago we had a family reunion and Mom face planted on the deck. She blamed my cousin for having an uneven board rather than admitting she fell off her sandals. Yep, if you are 87 and a tad unsteady sandals should not be your footwear of choice. Anyway fast forward to this past Saturday. It seems she fell again in her house and wound up hitting the ceramic tiles in the bathroom leaving her unable to stand. She recovered in about an hour and was walking, but was using my dad's Alpine walking sticks. (He felt he was much too cool to use a cane and the walking sticks suited him just fine) Instead of using one in each hand putting one in front of her body in alternating fashion, she used just one and held it in front of her like she was riding a hobby horse or propelling a gondola.  Long story short she refused to go to the doctor and kept refusing.

Until today. I had just gotten back from an early morning airport run since MyBeloved Sister and her husband are taking a long overdue trip to DC for some sight-seeing. I did stop at the grocery store on the way home for some cashews and macadamias, but it only added about 10 minutes to the total round trip time. I walked in the door and saw the phone blinking. Without even looking I knew who it was and what they wanted. I checked my voicemail and heard "Anne I need to go to the doctor"

Selfishly I told Mom I had made plans and would not be home until 1 but I would take her then. She was not sure she was OK with that but I was not going to change my plans since she would not go see about it when asked a million times in the past few days.

I even involved TheHub who called the clinic manager and got them to leave the back door open so we would not have to sit in the waiting room. (I hate people who use privileges, unless it is me dealing with Mom and then I will accept every single advantage I can find) They rushed us in a room, offered us bottles of water and coffee while we waited, but__ their room was too cold, the xray machine was uncomfortable, the room floors and the hall floor didn't match, the Dr. was dawdling, she was tired, her back hurt, she didn't get to eat enough for lunch plus I had a white thread on my black slacks and it was bugging her. By that time there was no amount of money anyone could have offered me to remove the offensive thread.

Well the xrays were processed, the doc did come back into the room only to tell us her kneecap was broken in two places. Great. Again I got TheHub involved and had him call an orthopedist he is friends with. After a quick call to me they agreed to wait at their office until we got there. We pulled out of the clinic parking lot and went straight to the orthopedists office. After more films and a gozillion new patient forms we saw the doc only to find she is now having surgery at the crack of dawn tomorrow.

I hope MBS enjoys the sights and sounds of the city. I will be in the waiting room

The upside? I hired a sitter to say overnight with her for a few days. I can go over during the day but I am not going to spend he night and thankfully the doc told her she would need help,  Still you might notice some action on the richter scale when she finds out I "went behind her back" and hired someone