Excuse me, I didn’t fall off the wagon. I jumped!
Ooh! I didn’t plan well for today’s adventure, and I fell off the keto wagon big time!
So Let me back track just a little. Yesterday, I found MyFitnessPal that tracks your carbs, proteins, sugars, fat, and calories. I really like this handy tool, for I can even look up items on its site, and it calculates everything for me. However, I did notice that I have to watch because sometime it makes mistakes. I have to double check, but it saves foods that I normally eat, so I have a quick and easy checklist that I can just click on, and in a jiffy the work is done. Plus, at the end of the day, it tallies up everything and shares projected weight loss estimates on your daily eating habits. Now, I also found other sites too; however, some I would have to pay a monthly fee and most required a a special phone or gadget. Time to fess up, this grammy is a dinosaur, and I do not even own a cell phone! So this one works for me.
Okay, now to my keto disaster. Months ago, I met a sweet gal through work, and I wanted to take her and her daughter to lunch. After several attempts and one broken leg that required two surgery, hers not mine, we finally found a time we could connect. My buddies wanted to eat Mexican food, so I thought no problem, I will eat a salad. Well, if I had a phone and checked, I would not have ordered the carne asada salad. While the company and the lunch were wonderful, the carb overload was not. This grammy nearly had a coronary! The lunch totaled 16 carbs! So yes, with today’s final total, I broke the bank. I was in the hole, deep in the red. Live and learn.
After I noticed my big uh oh, I went to my online support group. Once I saw what a member had posted, I had to laugh. She had provided some great keto hacks when going out for meals. Better late than never! And yes, I think it’s time I came out of the dinosaur age and just buy a damn phone already! Everyone keeps telling me I need one for emergencies, and today, well, it would have diverted my keto crisis! At any rate, next time, I will request a location before we eat, so I can plan accordingly. And yes, the extra work and calculations are really worth it! But I must admit if I were going “to cheat,” I would have preferred something decadent like like a triple chocolate cheesecake!
Still lookin’ on the bright side,
Annie
It’s hard to do everything perfectly. Hopefully you can brush it off and realize improvement, not perfection is the goal, right?
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