Day Five: paying for bingeing on carbs.

Wt: 165.1 lbs (ARGH), ketosis moderate (40 mg/dl).

I GAINED weight from yesterday. I GAINED WEIGHT. No more Atkins Advantage products. We hates them, precious. Total carb intake was over 100 for the day. Bad!! And even though total calories were pretty low for a normal life (951), somehow the day was a total disaster for a diet. Guess I should be happy I'm still in ketosis, but am not happy to have GAINED WEIGHT on fourth day of rather severe diet. I've even been exercising; yesterday was a mild day (walked about 4 miles), but still better than sitting around.

But, clearly, not enough.

What were poor choices? (1) eating entire Atkins bar (hissssssss) for afternoon snack; way too many carbs, and didn't follow LB's suggestion to eat only half. Was somehow obsessed and couldn't stop myself. (2) drinking shake at end of evening: didn't need it (pretty full after late dinner and was tired and falling asleep in front of a movie), didn't enjoy it (pretty crappy, esp. for 160 calories and 9g fat), shouldn't have had it, will try to remember this next time.

Am not that happy with self.

P.S. scale is fickle. I stepped on it three times in a row this morning and got three different readings: 165.6, 164.9, 165.1. Where is the truth?

P.P.S. Somehow non-fat cottage cheese has twice the carbs, 1.5x the calories, and roughly the same amount of fat as the 1% fat version. WTF? Also ingredients list of non-fat includes lots of crud, whereas 1% has mostly milk and cultures. Further confirmation that it's best just to eat foods that are as real as possible. Michael Pollan is right.