Saturday!

Welcome to Seattle, we are obsessed with coffee, snow and road conditions. And, very afraid of running out of food. I stopped at grocery store at 4:30 am yesterday to get frozen strawberries (no supply problem with those) and was amazed at the empty shelves. I asked if they hadn't been getting deliveries because of roads but that wasn't the problem. The stores had been packed like "thanksgiving combined with Christmas" and people just crazed. Their last truck arrived at 10pm the night before. The store tried to push freight to the shelves at 10:30 even with the crush of people but people swarmed the goods directly off the stocking pallets. The clerk said "it was a little scary" She said everyone was working mass overtime. The only milk remaining was goat milk (natch) and buttermilk.

I admit I panicked the day before when I was down to just a wee bit of half and half but was able to take care of the issue before the swarm. Of course I bought more other stuff than I needed, because I am obsessed with all of the above, too.

I have a regular home work out to do, then will check in with neighbor to see if she can join me for snowshoeing. (Did I tell you about my Monday neighborhood snowshoe? We came across the milk man and his cow-painted truck that had clearly spun down Nike hill and jammed itself into the side of the hill. The milk man had been in the truck for 8 hours! He was getting ready to abandon it. DH said he probably had ice cream in there)

WAVING TO ALL OF YOU!

Shel

That's incredible. All the broccoli is gone? That is not the first item I stock up on when a storm is coming. Maybe I'm living my life all wrong.

I think broccoli is an aspirational storm food :) I bet most of the veggies will end up in compost.

My neighbor posted that he had eaten 3/4 of his "storm foods" before the snow started falling. So very funny. I'm sure that wasn't broccoli.

Aspirational storm food...

Good heavens, Shel! You'd think it was the apocalypse! I read this morning that the entire state of Oregon is under Winter Storm Warnings and Watches and the item they ran out of was... Kale? I would rather die of starvation. Weren't there any old Twinkies at the back of any shelves? I'd eat a boatload of those first.

Weight: 179.8 squeaked in under the wire.

I managed to make it to the grocery store yesterday, no such weather hoarding going on here, but we're expecting less than an inch of rain over the next few days. I bought a new cookbook a WLS nurse/patient I follow on Instagram was raving about a few weeks ago. It's a whole-foods Keto cookbook, but a very moderate approach that fits with what I learned was appropriate for a wls person - protein, healthy fats, and low carb veggies are great. I often think Keto people can go overboard on "fat bombs" and processed foods and bacon at every meal (the last one, I secretly want to do, but won't). She also doesn't go nuts about staying in Ketosis, but says that as your body adapts to burning fat for fuel over glycogen a meal with more carbs occasionally won't wreck anything. Anyway, I really need to not eat so many empty carbs and thought this would help with ideas for how to replace them. It's called Keto Quickstart by Diane Sanfilippo. Worth a shot to get off the carb wagon I've been on.

Tonight I'm going to a concert with a Grammy award winning bluegrass band that often plays with Steve Martin and his banjo. Should be fun! I saw them (Steep Canyon Rangers) this summer in Michigan and they were fantastic.

Hope everyone has a great weekend and doesn't have to resort to hoarding kale to survive the cold!

Thanks for that recommendation, I just skimmed the sneak peak and it looked interesting, so I bought it on my Kindle. I know my body does best with protein, higher fat and low carbs. Sometimes I rock that diet so well, and other times it seems impossible to follow through. I'll enjoy getting some new inspiration.

I did see your forecast and I guess you guys panic more than in the Northeast. But even there everyone runs to the store for milk and bread!

Weight 125.8, which could have been worse after pizza and key lime pie last night. I had 1.5 slices of mushroom pizza and a slim slice of key lime. Then I was thirsty, thirsty, thirsty probably from the pizza so I drank a ton of water last night but didn't pee a lot.

Quiet day today at the pool again, then DD arrives tomorrow afternoon. So we have been saving dinner out and beach trips for her visit.

Have a satisfying Saturday!

Yes, definitely more panic than warranted. People will be legitimately snowbound, tho. Our streets aren't pretreated or cleared to the standards of the snow states. (The vast majority of streets get no attention at all) And, many peeps simply have little to no practice at driving on icy/snow packed roads.

Greetings Storm Watchers

155.5. So that's that.

Shel, unbelievable store pictures and stories. Gotta admit that storms don't make me crave broccoli. More like popcorn, soup and chocolate chip cookies. I remember years ago in the midwest a big storm came and I decided I could not live without choc chip cookies so I drove to the store for the chips on barely passable streets. You are right that all that broccoli will get composted. Everybody in the midwest used to do storm shopping but it happened so often the stores were always ready.

We are getting storms here though on the coast its just rain so far. Gallery duty at the fresh fudge neighbor today which should be slow. No one goes out strolling in driving rain. So its walking in circles, knee bends and crosswords.

Interesting thoughts on the Keto diet Cecily. Let us know how it works. Bacon at every meal? Sounds like a plan.

Thats about it. Time for more coffee. Diane S

On the subject of bacon, anytime I eat bacon as part of a low carb eating plan, I lose weight. It's my magic go to diet food. One egg and 3 pieces of bacon is my favorite low carb meal.