snow day

22% dip from day time.  

Yay! 

Fasted all day. 

Mom gave me a chicken wing. 

Drumstick. 

Blood Glucose is a wee bit high. 

This is first thing in the morning. 

Says my H and H  is 13 and 40! 

KetoMojo said this feature isn’t accurate. 

Still, last year the machine said

8 and 30. That’s low! 

Read this and learn it well. 

This is what people tend to miss. 

High INSULIN is the problem 

Ice Ice Baby 

Another storm is a-coming. 

I’m ready! 

I packed for 3 days. 

3000 posts

Yay for Atkins! 

He was certainly ahead of his time. 

50 years later, he’s still relevant. 

Yay for blogging ! 

I have published over 3,000 blog posts. 

I’m coming close to my Low Carb-a-versary! 

This is me prior to Atkins- and me last week. 

3 x scrubs to size Large. 

And I’ve maintained for nearly 13 years! 

We’ve lost many Bloggers 

Along the way. 

Obesity kills. 

May their memory be a blessing. 

Some bloggers fell off the wagon. 

Then they ate the wagon! 

I can’t imagine how it feels 

To find you’ve regained it all

And then some. 

My heart breaks for them. 

Many just gave up. 

I’m not sponsored. No affiliations. 

I make no money blogging.  

I earn my living via Nursing. 

Blogging is a unpaid hobby. 

I can’t imagine being a Low Carb Celebrity 

And having to work through the 

Dreaded Regain. It’s so public! 

I’ve met many good people 

Through Social Media. 

I have lifelong friends now. 

I’ve managed to do some traveling 

and hiking to see our beautiful 

National Parks. 

It’s possible to lose weight on vacation -

Which is how this blog started. 

Specifically with this mule-

Or was it his brother?

The mule handlers told me I was 

“TOO FAT” to ride in 2009. 

I rescued a baby cat! 

Broken legs are hard! 

I lost a baby girl. 

Hospice Nursing is hard. 

A quick look back -

A broken leg,

(Mending)

A broken heart, 

(Also mending) 

32 years of Nursing. 

(Hey- why aren’t I rich? Lol) 

I’ve learned to to avoid Debt

And learned Money Management,

And started planning for retirement. 

Some people swear debt is tied to 

Weight gain.  Could be! 

We survived a Global Pandemic. 

And the most bizarre time we will ever see

In our lives. Will it ever be done? 

I survived a Mystery Illness (12/19)

That was probably COVID 

Before it actually had a name 

I had an anemic /cardiac event,

Ulcers - and now Sobriety from wine. 

I ended up in hospital 

First time in my adult life. 

I’m am learning about CBD

And how beneficial Hemp is. 

I’ve been UP 20 pounds. 

I’ve been DOWN 20 pounds 

I gained (and lost) that twice. 

But not much more than that. 

I’m pretty consistent. 

Non-obese people gain and lose over the years. 

I think it’s just the ebb and flow of aging 

Maybe stress- and accountability. 

14 years of weighing just about every day! 

I do labs every year (or more)

They’re always great! 

My last HA1C was 5.2.

And I’ve scored ZERO on 

3 annual Cardiac Artery Calcium scans. 

That’s a perfect score, BTW. 

I take no meds at all

(Just supplements)

And put my health first! 

At my age, I’m proud of that. 

I’m 61 now. 

I try to move and walk every day. 

Diet is Key! 

When Snake Juice Fasting came to the scene, 

My weight loss clicked into place.  

Also Intermittent Fasting and OMAD. 

We watched early on, as Paleo

Took ever the podcasts. 

Then came Primal (cheese) 

Then Carnivore (meat)

And now Keto is all the rage! 

I still call my plan ATKINS. 

Although I stay close to Induction Numbers

Or I always gain. 

I can’t go above 30 to 50 carbs 

Without the belly bulge. 

I’m still trying to improve my IR

Insulin Resistance. 

My blog is dedicated to 

Dr Robert C Atkins. 

Any success I have I owe to him as well. 

I literally owe him my life. 

It works if you work it. 

So work it! 

In a few weeks,

I will have been Blogging 14 years! 

This is March 2009 and today. 

(Actually I started LC in March. 

But didn’t start to blog until May, 2009) 

So thanks to everyone who came along for the ride! 

Your support and comments 

Mean the world to me. 

Love…. Nurse Anne! 

hail to the naw naw

Deception here. 

My pulse was bounding. 

I took some sleepy cold medicine 

And it kicked my butt into next week. 

Even that was horrible. 

I laid in bed and bargained 

with the Universe for anything 

That would help me  never feel like 

I did last night. Anything. 

I was sick sick sick. 

It felt like inflammation. 

It was like poison. 

I had a hand full of peanuts

I think were rancid and super salty,

And that with everything else 

It was like watching myself die

In slow motion. 

I threw up like 10 times. 

Dark bloody like before. 

Bargaining is the last phase 

In the Stages of Loss

Right before Acceptance. 

This is Elizabeth Kubler Ross. 

This is Siri. 

She knows things. 

If I had COVID 12/19 

before it had a name - 

And that’s what my doctors think- 

Then the vaccine made me sick

And I almost died- earlier this year…

Then this cold turned into something bad- 

Then it all makes sense. 

COVID changes everything. 

I think we’ll hear people say 

Before COVID I could XYZ

But now I can only ABC. 

As luscious would have it,

I’m scheduled for a CRP

C Reactive Protein- this week. 

So I can test my theory. 

About a week in tune with myself. 

All this inflammation and crap

 I gained 10 pounds in one day 

and lost it the next. 

Simple meals for me. 

Hamburger meat and cheese. 

My best boi. 

My current mood. 

I guess bargaining to acceptance 

Is like the serenity prayer. 

You don’t have to like it. 

But it does no good to deny 

something that is obvious.