An update on my progress of kicking my sugar habit, and dropping some weight. Adopting a keto WoE (Way of Eating) hasn't been difficult at all! I can eat bacon any time I want, I snack on whole avocados, I use lots of butter, and food tastes great!!
So in the first 30 days, I have dropped 13.8 lbs and a total of 8" (I am only measuring bust, waist and hips). I am rarely hungry and when I am, I eat. I still have a long way to go to get to where I need to be, but it took me many years to get heavy, so slimming down in going to take time too. I'm in it for life now, so I have patience.
On a completely different note, last fall I discovered a website called Icelandic Roots, where those with Icelandic heritage can enter their names, birthdates, birthplaces, and any family they know of, and have a whole new world opened up to them! Icelanders are very big on genealogy. I have discovered, also, the Icelandic National League of North America, an organization that strives to maintain strong ties between Iceland and those of Icelandic descent elsewhere in the world. This year, the 100th INLNA annual conference is here in Winnipeg, so I arranged a few days off work so I could attend. I am so excited to learn more, and to meet cousins! Distant cousins, but cousins all the same.
Congrats on the weight loss! I'm a bit of a nut with garlic butter, I slather it on everything and it doesn't seem to do me any harm.
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I loooove butter! And use it liberally, garlicky or otherwise.
DeleteCongrats on the diet accomplishments! Well done!
ReplyDeleteThat is so cool that the Icelandic conference will be handy for you to attend. That should be very interesting.
Thanks, LX. It is a journey, for sure.
DeleteThe conference has been very interesting! I have met people who are distant cousins, and learned a lot about the Icelanders who settled in N. America.
Bugger! I don't have a sweet tooth so I'm not sure what I can give up...
ReplyDeleteDinahnow, for some people it is things like pasta, breads, rice or potatoes. Those all turn to glucose very quickly with digestion, so they have the same affect as eating sweets. You could look at those things to see if there is something to cut back on.
DeleteGoodness, there will be many blond, blue eyed and tall women, and some Thor-like guys for your pleasure. I vaguely remember that there was a kind of genom-project somewhere in the North, maybe Iceland - I forgot, sorry. But yes, the group of individuals was never overwhelmingly large. Didn't you mention your genealogical research earlier here ?
ReplyDeleteThank youu for being you
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