Treat Time

My college daughter flew home for summer break yesterday and that meant CELEBRATE!

Dinner was one of her favorites, ravioli with broccoli and alfredo sauce. She's vegetarian so she stopped there. I'm keto so I didn't go there at all. I also cooked up Italian sausages in a tomato sauce for the meat eaters. I enjoyed a sausage link and 1/4 C of y low sugar tomato sauce. Yum!

Celebration time meant a treat too. TJ chocolate peanut butter cupcakes for them. Keto "mug cake" for me.

I made mine, and then put it in the fridge to completely cool before frosting it. In consistency it was like a dense "pudding" you'd get in England, or a bread pudding here in the US. It was super tasty. I promised I'd be really honest in my blog entries so the frosting I creatively thought up? Hated it! Scraped it all off. My husband tasted a little and didn't think it was bad so maybe it's just me, but I didn't care for it.

Recipe:

2 eggs, 2 TBL almond flour, 2 TBL melted butter, 1 packet stevia, 1 TSP cocoa powder, 1/2 TSP vanilla extract, 1/4 TSP baking powder, 1 small square of dark chocolate grated, all mixed well and poured into buttered ramekin. Microwave for 1 minute, let cool.

Note- this is meant for a mug, and it really rose and bubbled and was huge on top which scared me a little lol. As you can see, when I flipped it out, it wasn't a pretty ramiken shape because of the muffin top thingee.

Frosting was some heavy whipping cream , 1 TSP peanut butter, 1 packet stevia, 1 square dark chocolate whipped in the bullet blender. But again, I didn't love this or even like it really- I would skip it next time. 

Oh hey, it's Saturday, official weigh in day. 

This week was a modest success again. I am that 1-3 lb a week loser. I watch with envy these 10 lbs a week losers but I realize I'm not starting at as high a weight as them, and I'm probably not as strict given my evening cocktail/wine habit. And on the up side I have read slower weight loss = less loose skin so we will see.

Lbs lost this weight- 2.4

Lbs lost since starting keto- 21.3

Lbs lost since holidays Fat Peak- 28.3

Keep on ketoing, I know I will!

Quick round up

Continuing on with One Meal A Day. It was a busy errand and appointment day, so I didn't have a whole lot of time to think about meal planning. At the last minute I decided on eggs benedict (without the bread for me) I also made sausage (I was careful to find sausage without sugar or corn syrup added) I ended up only eating 2 of my 3 patties, it was just too salty and bitter tasting. I also made a spinach salad with cheese and tomatoes, and since I still had lots of calories and fat macros left indulged in a bowl of whipped cream for dessert. 

Macros (including heavy cream in my coffee)

896 calories

10 net carbs

39g protein

77g fat

I'm not hungry yet today, so far this doesn't feel like a struggle- beyond trying to get ENOUGH in at my one meal a day!!

Scale moved own .4 lb today.