Thanks for the welcome Christie and Jess! Is there an easy way to keep up on comments on posts I'm following or do I just keep checking back? Still learning my way around here!

Thanks Fvaisey! I'll do that.

Made a huge pot of bean soup with smoked turkey yesterday for a family dinner tonight. Making peanut butter cookies, banana bread, and chocolate chip "Mrs. Fields" cookies today. Why oh why do I do this to myself?? Because it's expected? Because I try to love people through food - even though I know it is bad food? I'm trying to think of how to handle dinner and to not eat the bean soup, probably 4,000 carbs in there Happily I'm not too tempted by the cookies, just don't have that sweet tooth anymore. Looking forward to Saturday when all the Christmas festivities will be over and it will be easier to keep only hflc foods around!

So I've been behaving and my weight is up. Dumb ol' body.
I'm going to be naughty tonight at the Christmas Eve party. They have foods not available to me any other time of year, most especially since I don't see these people any other time of year.
But I'll be behaving myself on Christmas Day.

Hoping for a pleasant holiday for everyone.

Made it! Carb Slipping and Sliding all the way there. No plans for today other than to take a deep breath and get back to it! So relieved and grateful! I revamped my food today to very stark keto (for me) except for my jeto version of mocha coffee. Total holiday damage may wind up being actually down a couple pounds! Have to wait a couple days for the water weight to be released to know for sure. Merry Christmas to you and all your loved ones.

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Anyone else experiencing no news feed for 2 days now? Very frustrating!

Yep! It's a glitch they're working on. Apparently if you click on "load more" 50 times your newsfeed may come up... I got bored after 5 clicks and gave up!

Took another trip to the dumpster with a food that turned into a trigger. Now its back to sunny skies and clear sailing! I managed to stay at my second goal weight which is 10 lbs under my original. Still about 3 pounds over my lowest recorded weight so far - but some of that could well be water retained from extra carbs. I'll wait a couple days before I get this year's holiday challenge numbers. All in all, I think I did great weight wise... Next year I hope to find a way to be able to increase my holiday spirit. I pretty much ignored it this year in favor of weight issues, but maybe by next year my life willed be refilled with new friends, returning children, and most definately I hope that a new romance is in the cards! Hope all is well with my friends. Thanks for your kind words of support this season - meant alot to me. For the new January challenge (I hope there will be one) I will be more positive and hopeful, I promise.

So, just popping in here to share a dessert recipe that totally saved me over the holidays. I splurged and bought some birch xylitol to make this cheesecake :http://www.intoxicatedonlife.com/2012/05/27/new-york-style-cheesecake-low-carb-gluten-free/ and then made this for a topping: http://whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/CremeFraiche.htm using sour cream and sweetened with liquid stevia. Even my non-LC friends loved it! Christmas here in mid-coast Maine was 45F, bare ground and sunny! Gotta love it!