Lori- Yay for being on your way and free wifi, and now you are there. Have a great time!
Kmom- aw, nice how that young man was looking after you.
I hope your "ticker"
is still moving along at the proper pace today. Wouldn't that be grand!!
Girl, you are TOTALLY CAPD and FIRED UP!!! I can feel it. You are on a mission!
Blue- what you are doing is working well for you and IMO is also really smart. You are still staying quite low carb but allowing yourself a little wiggle room. I could take a lesson from that myself.
I know you are struggling with the changes but I bet beautiful, gorgeous things are on the other side of the hill you are climbing. You know that feeling when you get to the top and the vista literally makes your jaw drop and steals your breath away? You are in a brush and trees but you are headed to that vista, my friend!
Trig- Lots of hugs coming your way. Take the time you need (and dope up on sinus meds!)
Jaz- I don't think you've talked about the luncheon yet, with your ten pounds of pork. How was it? Did you have fun? Did people like the pork?
Fingers crossed daily for Miss Ava. Cook away, little one!
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So easy drive to the low carb meeting thing yesterday. I bopped around the outlets for about an hour and a half and bought only a Quest bar.
A friend had mentioned these Quest Hero bars and I was walking by a window and saw them there, so I bought one as I was leaving. HOLY YUM. Those things are marvelous- I tried the Blueberry Cobbler. I ate two bites then, and about another four after the meeting, and I have half left. I can see how you could lose your mind with those though- that is the best low carb bar I have ever tasted and Quest bars in general haven't had much appeal to me before.
So anyway, I arrived at the conference, battled down my UGH! feeling about being around people I don't know and walked in, and was promptly seated at a four-top with a couple, and another single woman. I'm 48 and the couple were probably in their early 50s (they have a son at Parris Island right now and an older daughter) and the single woman probably late 50s, early 60s? BTW, the person leading the meeting was a woman named Melanie (search Low Carb Journey Melanie and you will pop her up.) She had a Doctor there also called Mark Cucuzella and he is name I think we will be hearing a lot more of in the future- apparently he will be heading a new part of West Va University Health Center called (something like) Low Carb and Metabolic (whatever else) so a health center dealing with metabolic and diet issues using low carb/keto methodology. So that's very cool. And then Jimmy Moore was there as well.
Jimmy looked as I expected given that I keep tabs on him and track him via podcasts, instagram etc. I was surprised and happy to say that he is more likable as a speaker than I expected- he seems to be a genuinely nice and kind individual. He is heavy, which I expected also from current pictures- I'd say running in the upper 200s if not a little higher. This worries me, of course, given that he has been a low carb and then keto guru since the 1990s. His health markers are all really good though, so I don't know.
The buffet- first was salad - romaine or spinach leaves, with choice of adding cucumber, grape tomatoes, dried cranberries (!), sunflower seeds, and bacon, along with four dressings (the one that surprised me was the balsamic vinaigrette.) Then there was sliced squash in tomato (YUM), spaghetti squash, salmon wrapped in prosciutto (YUM) and chicken thighs stuffed with spinach and some other stuff. The chicken was not very good. I had a small salad, some of the squash which was really good and a piece of the salmon. It was liberating to go to a buffet and not be tempted- you could pretty safely take just about anything you wanted- but it wasn't a huge buffet or anything. Pricey but given the speakers were 'free' it was a great deal IMO.
Melanie has a great energy about her. She is fired up for sure. Jimmy spoke more on his background with low carb (and had books for sale/signing lol.) I was very interested in the Dr- he seems interesting. He is also a major marathon runner- when I googled him this morning that is what came up the most.
So after some talking, what it boiled down to is that Melanie is teaming up with Jimmy Moore and a couple of others (used to work for a company called Heal) to start something online called the Keto Clarity Academy. It offers classes (Keto 101, 102, 103) based on Jimmy's book plus a couple of others as it goes along. It also offers a telephone mentor (at a price point) and 24-hour texting for questions etc (at a price.) IMO the price is steep. I'm not sure how successful it will be, but I will be watching to see how it goes for them. I will also be following Dr. Mark to see what happens at WVU Health. That could be interesting.
Melanie does a monthly meeting in WVU and apparently it has been growing exponentially. I might attend a couple of those and then maybe consider starting on in the area. POSSIBLY. Not likely but possibly.
So it was interesting in general and worth going to for an easy drive, but some people drove as far as 5-7 hours and it was not worth that for sure. I got restless (as I do) and stood for the last hour along the side wall. I am not built to sit and listen, not as a kid and not now!
I gotta mosey along- I need to leave in about 40 minutes or so to see my CASA Little. Wish I had more time to chill out first but it'll have to wait until I come back.