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Carbs at 14% again today. This better not be a trend!
The peanut butter-chocolate Fat Bombs are so tasty without any added sweetening, I just had to have 2 with breakfast & lunch: hahahahaha! Maybe I will lose my taste for sugar? Wouldn't that be nice!!
Got another one of those hunches that going to Uwajimaya would be a good idea, so I did. I had to find something to peg the apple slices back atop each other. An explanation is in order, so here goes. I am absolutely smitten with those decoratively-carved fruits and vegetables of ItalyPaul and southeast Asia! And I do mean completely taken with them: once I (find and) get settled in my new apartment, I will buy the English-translation book, and take the online classes, and I can hardly wait! We're talking dreams about them, they are so beautiful! Okay, enough breathless preamble. I found a YouTube video from one of the rank-beginner lessons, and I want to do it for the potluck on the 26th, so I needed to practice. It involves slicing an apple horizontally -- and very thinly -- then pushing a small skewer through all the pieces to hold them together, and finally fanning out the slices into a spiral. This requires skewers that are not much longer than the apple is tall. I couldn't find the ones I bought for making hair sticks, so off to Uwajimaya I went. Turns out, they were having a food fest, with all kinds of booths in their corridor, and sale prices on some of their groceries. Fun city!
On my way home, I passed by a whole lot of boxes folded and jammed into other boxes, on the curb near that building's Recycle Cart. I took the largest box's worth home with me, and struggled up the steps. My friend was there, and opened the door for me, but we got so busy talking that it was a lo-o-o-o-ong time before we decided to go inside. She invited me into her unit to explain what she had learned from one of the constructioneers. Seems the new owners haven't decided what to do with these units: the idea to put bathrooms in all of them turned out to be unfeasible. They still need to update the plumbing, as some of these pipes were installed before 1904, but beyond that they haven't a clue. And we thought the plans were set and everything. Eeek! Kinda glad I won't be here for the mess and uncertainty, and my friend is beginning to think she doesn't want to continue working for the new owners with all this frightful "maybe, maybe not". I don't blame her at all. Then we talked about that toy store in Pioneer Square, and how wonderful it is, and went from there to the new buildings and businesses in our neighborhood. Apparently, there is a new "dangerous" store on Broadway, near the new light rail tunnel station: all the Penny Candy from the '50s and '60s (my childhood), and not all of it from the USA. I wondered aloud whether they have those super-delicious violet-flavored candies that the nearest World Market no longer carries. Then we went to our usual discussion about food. By the time I got home, it was too late for me to slice those frozen Brussels Sprouts, so I made a Loaded Turkey Burger. Oh, yum! Why didn't I think to do this to those burgers before?
I better bake those other Fat Bombs now, because I will need them tomorrow and Sunday.
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1654 kcal
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Fat: 130.00g | Prot: 68.48g | Carbs: 56.14g.
Breakfast: Peanut Butter-Cocoa Fat Bombs, Trader Joe's Uncured Bacon Ends & Pieces. Lunch: Peanut Butter-Cocoa Fat Bombs, Tapatio Salsa Picante Hot Sauce, Trader Joe's Unfiltered Organic Greek Extra Virgin Olive OIl, Trader Joe's Chili Lime Chicken Burgers. Dinner: Unfiltered Organic Greek Extra Virgin Olive OIl, Hass Avocado, Salsa Picante Hot Sauce, Trader Joe's Turkey Burger Patties, onion. Snacks/Other: Tea (Brewed), Teas' Tea Teas' Tea Unsweetened, C2O Pure Coconut Water, Trader Joe's Unfiltered Organic Greek Extra Virgin Olive OIl, Onions, Hass Avocado, Choco-Peppermint Fat Bombs. more...
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1781 kcal
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Exercise:
Stairs (Climbing Stairs) - 5 minutes, Resting - 12 hours and 1 minute, Walking (brisk) - 6.5/kph - 55 minutes, Sleeping - 10 hours and 34 minutes, Grocery Shopping - 25 minutes. more...
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Well, hello Seattle. Now you have me thinking about short skewers.
18 Jun 16 by member: SeaRoyhill
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I absolutely LOVE PB Fat Bombs. I have never had a taste or desire for sugars or carbs. I only gained weight bc of being on steroids for acute asthma problem. Early on, it was called "Cushing's Syndrome". That scared me! The 5 lb bag of sugar, I bought 4 years ago bc husband asked me to buy it, and I figure it will last another year or more. Only the husband uses it anymore and he uses it rarely. No $ spent on sugar or those foods containing sugars or processed foods that break down into fast sugars in the body which is not healthy for any body. It is healthy LCHF for me, forever.
18 Jun 16 by member: IzeIZAwake
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Yea, your journal today was very good & brought me into thinking more on LCHF and all the benefits of following this diet as a lifestyle. I didn't realize that prior to the asthma, that I was naturally on the LCHF diet throughout life and without realizing it, I always thought I was naturally slim and didn't have to diet. Epiphany moment here, as I work my way back to the health I once had before the steroid treatments. I read through some of you other very inspiring journal posts and I hope others read them more too. Some good take-aways from them for a healthier life and body. Good job PokeyJack! Spreading your words of wisdom and you will help a tremendous number of people! This takes your time, but, you're helping people and that is a noble thing to do.
18 Jun 16 by member: IzeIZAwake
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Thank you, IzelZAawake! If someone benefits from my scrawlings, that's fantastic! Yes, SeaRoyhill, short skewers are good to have around in general. Are you in Seattle by any chance? Thank you Carmen1098: "awesome" is high praise indeed!
All of you guys here on FS are encouragement for me to keep on truckin'. I need it so much, I love all of you for it: a thousand "thank you"s!
19 Jun 16 by member: PokeyJack
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Just a thought on the skewers..are toothpicks long enough?
19 Jun 16 by member: mskestrela
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No, PokeyJack, I'm not in Seattle; I'm 55 miles south. Grew up in University Place, and, ages ago, worked at One Union Square. Don't get to Seattle much. Read Pioneer Square, Broadway and Light Rail and thought as a PNW'er I'd give a shout out.
19 Jun 16 by member: SeaRoyhill
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