Low Carb Week 2 - Derailed Momentarily

After having a great first week back on low carb and losing 7 lbs, I was a little disappointed to only see a 1 - 2 lb loss the second week until.....I am reminded to be grateful !! Thanks for the reminder about the law of attraction.. Whatsoever a man thinketh in his heart - so is he!! I am thinking and believing THINNER AND HEALTHIER each day with low carb....

I am grateful to God for allowing me to lose a total of 75 lbs from my highest point several years ago.. I can remember how every step and movement was such a struggle on my 5'4-1/2" frame. I was able to do that with the Lord's help, Atkins low carb in the beginning, then Kimkins last year.. Since then I got slack, lost my focus and had allowed about 26 lbs to creep back on but - low carb to the rescue again and I AM on my way back down..

My little detour from low carb on Saturday did account for a smaller weight loss.. We had a church cookout and I did great until... I looked over the table of "disgusting" sugar-laden dessert junk with suprisingly, no desire for a brownie or donut but then I saw the beautiful fresh, watermelon chunks and grabbed one...I can't remember the last time I had watermelon. It was so sweet and delicious, one became two, then three chunks, then I lost count!!! That is exactly the same problem that I have with bad carbs, no portion control and really it's the same addiction - sugar whether in the form of naturally sweet fruits or chocolate cake... It's all the same to an addict !!

After the cookout, I went home and picked blackberries for my mom.. I KNEW they could not stay at my house because they would be "miraculously" changed into a blackberry cobbler before I could say - abracadabra !! Don't get me wrong, I love to eat blackberries right from the vine without sugar or adornment(which I did) but growing up - there was never a question what you did with blackberries...You either made a cobbler or sweet blackberry dumplings...

As I mentioned, I did start eating the blackberries while I was picking...All the time, I'm thinking - GEE, they only come once a year, they are so good and healthy. I'm trying to rationalize, all the time thinking "Yep, they might come once a year but there will be other years, do you really want to LOSE this weight NOW??? then forget the blackberries until you are on maintenance! but I didn't-( but I do have plans to freeze some berries and design a "Low Carb Mock Blackberry Cobbler" recipe for maintenance when I reach my GOAL WEIGHT with low carb!

How funny, I was looking online for a blackberry photo to use for this post and the first page of google results were almost all about the Blackberry smart phone - technology, you gotta love it.. We have chocolate phones, cherry phones, razr phones, apple computers and iphones - what next ??

1 CORINTHIANS 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, DO ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD.