Carb Lent Reloaded

I had to start over on my Carb lent.  I was unable to keep it going on vacation.  Sarah warned me that it would happen.  I stayed strong for the first half and slowly, while having to eat in Disneyland and at fast food and then the drive home...it wasn't meant to be.  So, I have started over.  I started on May 14th so I am in it one week. I have had a few (less than 10 a day) 63% cocoa chocolate chips and some fruit and such but that is it.  No sneaking a delicious honey nut cheerio or justifying some major meltdown on the weekends.  When I weighed in on the Sunday evening after our vacation and after enjoying Mother's Day and all its carbs, I was 195 pounds.  I am now at 189.2 as of last night.  I was probably heavier than usual on Mother's Day due to many, many desserts.  I will finish on June 22.  The nice thing about that is the 23rd will be a Saturday and I will have a donut.  I just remembered, I did take some Gatorade to my frisbee game and I probably had about 1/2 of the  bottle.  Even with those carbs, I was lighter Thursday than any other day this week.  I assumed from the sweating that took place at the frisbee game I won.  I scored one point, had two Ds and made one turnover.

Day 4

After today I will be 1/10th into my goal of doing super low carbs for 40 days, in the style of Lent.  I have put on a bunch of weight and I decided that I needed to cut out the deliciousness of carbs for a Lent period of time.  Day one and two were indeed rough.  By the evening I was very tired and had no energy.  Sarah pointed out that I may have been more gradual the first time around and this time it was sort of a cold turkey response to the fact that I had been eating as many carbs as ever.  Yesterday was better.  I didn't eat any sugar or carbs and I felt fine the whole day.  With our Cali trip coming it might get a little rough, but I believe I can lose weight on vacation by carefully watching what I am eating.  This time, when my 40 days are over, maybe I will buy into a monthly donut-orgy-fest but not weekly.  I am pretty sure that is what derailed me.  We (I) were buying donuts every Saturday and once the carbs start coming in, they sure get addictive.  Just for the ease of keeping track, the first day of no carbs was Monday April 30.  The end of my carb super-restriction will be June 9.