Today ends five (5) months on a serious low-carb high-fat lifestyle. My weight continues to fluctuate up and down, but the overall trend is still down. I’m not going to set new goals for next month. It seems that every time I set a new low for carb intake, I have a rash of migraines—10…
Month: May 2015
May Conference Call
What follows are notes that I took in real time during the NEWSTART® conference call today. I’m presenting my notes pretty much as I took them, except for making two observations: First, it is totally erroneous to describe low-carb approach as “low-carb, high-fat, high-protein.” Dr. Atkins may have been high-protein in the beginning, but a true…
Migraine Returns
After 19 consecutive days without a head-splitting migraine requiring medication, I had a migraine in the middle of the night (about 4 a.m., I think). Well, that was 19 days that were gifts. Fortunately, I’ve had enough time to accrue another month’s supply of sumatriptan. The only thing I ate yesterday that was unusual (for me) was tuna…
May Day
April was a hard month in many ways. I started out on Easter Sunday with a horrific cold that lasted a week. I had 11 days of migraines for the first 15 days of the month. I felt under increasing pressure to get the tax returns done in time. And of course I had all…