June 10, 2009 Low-Carb Menu

11:15AM
4 local farm eggs cooked in butter with Colby Jack cheese
Diet Coke with Splenda

7:00PM
1 pound of pork BBQ
Diet Dr. Pepper

NOTE: I've been helping out with Vacation Bible School (VBS) at my church this week and it's been a load of fun. Because I like to have fun and make crazy voices with my mouth, they assigned me to do puppets. It had been several years since I've done puppets and I forgot how much it hurts in your upper arm when you do a skit that's more than a couple of minutes long. OUCH! One of the teenage boys who was helping out said he was gonna get "buff" doing puppet shows. HA!

We did have some break time in between the puppet shows and a nice room with food and drink was set up for us volunteers to get refreshed. For the past several days, all they had was cookies, candy, cakes, chips...in other words CRAP! But today there was something a little different amongst that smorgasbord of nutritionally-bankrupt "food"--BBQ!!! Yep, somebody brought some pork BBQ sandwiches for us to enjoy tonight and ENJOY I did. It was funny watching the faces of some people as I marched over to the garbage can to dispose of the buns to leave just the meat. Even the children's director said, "No buns, huh?" I replied, "Nope. Too many wasted carbs."

At the end of the night, there were a few BBQ sandwiches left over and they asked if I wanted to take some home. ABSOLUTELY! Christine loves BBQ and it will make for a nice meal or two for her to eat (of course, she eats the bun--UGH!). I was talking with the associate pastor at the church who lost a lot of weight himself on an exercise diet and he asked if I was still eating low-carb. I said I was and that it would be my diet for life. Another woman chimed in, "So, you don't eat any carbs at all?" I went on to explain that there are carbohydrates in a lot of foods like eggs, cheese, non-starchy veggies, etc. It's nice to be able to educate curious people about what REAL livin' la vida low-carb is all about. They get too much of the negative aspects of it from the media and the so-called health "experts."