Steak, Alzheimer's and Craps

I've been on this new WOE  (way of eating) since February now.  I'm down over 30 pounds and 3 pant sizes.  So very happy with the progress I'm making.  My parents came to visit at the beginning of June and stayed for 2 weeks.  We really had a wonderful time.  There was a lot of eating out, though.  I prefer to try to eat clean for most meals, but that wasn't going to happen.  I did at least manage to continue to eat LCHF.

I knew my protein was too high for those couple of weeks, but as we were in Black Hawk and eating at the buffets, meat and veggies was about all I could eat, and I'm certainly not complaining about having steak every night!).  I still managed to lose 2 pounds over the 2 weeks they were here, but that's definitely not as fast as I had been losing.

They've left for home on Tuesday, and I'm already down 1.2 lbs in those 2 days.

In other exciting, related news, I did awesome in Black Hawk!  My dad has stage 3 Alzheimer's, but he does pretty well for himself.  It's just the most recent things he can't remember.  So he can sit down at a black jack table and kick some butt.  But he decided he wanted to try to play some Craps with me.  I tried to explain, but there is so much going on, that he would forget what I had told him 5 minutes ago.  So I said, just do what I do!  We had so much fun together, and we won, which made it even better.  Mom didn't do so well, but we more than made up for it.  It was still a great time.

Preparing for another day with the parents

Yesterday wasn't as bad.  Mom didn't pick on me, but frankly much of the damage has already been done.  Maybe I'm being selfish.  Nick and I don't get very much time to ourselves.  Of course I look forward to seeing my parents, but I also look forward to being able to spend time with my husband, without the children.  He has tonight off, and I don't think we'll be able to do anything together!

I did, however, decide that I AM going to go on a ride-along with him on New Year's Eve whether my parents watch the kids or not. I have a backup plan (thanks Kym)!

And now I'm trying to think of something for all of us to do today, sans Nick, who got home from his shift at 7:30am!  He needs some sleep.  

Thanks for listening to me vent!

Christmas is over and I'm ready to take down the decorations.

Christmas is over and I'm ready to take down the decorations. I'm not sure exactly what happened. I was really looking forward to my parents' visit. I hadn't seen them since last May.  But my mom has been, well, a bitch since they got here last Sunday.

Then on Christmas Eve, she just kept picking at me and picking at me until I finally snapped.  First she wanted to help me fold clothes.  I know, sounds great!  How could I complain about that?  But I'm trying to bake for Christmas Eve and have a fun pizza making dinner with the kids.  It's our family tradition.