Day 4 on Atkins 20

Day 4 has come and gone and I am already so much more active than I was just a week ago. I live in St. George, Utah which is known for a very active lifestyle. There are over 110 miles of bike and running paths in this area, dozens of reservoirs and many state and national parks within just an hours drive of here yet since we moved here a little less than a year ago we have spent most of our time at home. Some of the reason is my job. I am a health insurance broker dealing with individual health plans for people who don't have insurance through work. All my client work and sales are over the phone so that means a lot of sitting. From November to February i am sitting in front of a computer 12 hours a day staring at a screen and talking on the phone. This does not lead to a healthy lifestyle. I will have to find a way this fall to stay active even despite that.

Today I took my family out swimming to a reservoir for the second day in a row. It was a lot of fun had by all. There is a pretty long walk to the beach we use so between that and the swimming it was a good day of physical exercise for me again. I am quite burned so there will be no outdoors stuff going on the next few days for me. I kept to my eating regime despite the craziness of the day. I made an eating plan at the beginning of the week and have been following it pretty closely, but also have paid attention to cravings and what my body is telling me it wants. As an example on the way home from the park I really had a craving for tacos. So we picked up the necessaries and had tacos last night. I love low carb tacos! Basically all of the ingredients inside a taco are low carb so I simply use a nice big romaine lettuce leaf as my shell and load it up. I was so famished I had four so my counts are a little high for the day, but with such an active day, I'm not worried about it. I still kept my carb count where it needed to be. I forgot to take a picture of my tacos but will next time I have them, (which might be for lunch today.)

So here are my meals and numbers for the day:

Breakfast - 2 Eggs scrambled, 2 pieces of bacon

Lunch - 2 Beef Franks, 1/4 cup Pepperoncini Peppers, Cucumber Salad with sour cream & a dash of apple cider vinegar

Dinner - 4 romaine lettuce tacos w/beef, cheese, sour cream and tomatoes.

Snacks - AM - 2 Beef Sticks, PM - 1 mozzarella cheese stick, 1 cheddar cheese stick

Total counts for day 4, 22.6g Carbs, 2043 Calories, 156g fat, 118g protein