This is only kinda sorta an accountability post.

First off, THANK YOU to everyone who wished me happy birthday! It was so kind. I really appreciated each and every statement. Still makes me smile thinking about them.

Next – I neither gained nor lost weight last week. As it was Thanksgiving and my birthday, I’m taking that as a win. I have three weeks before I’ll be traveling for Christmas. So three weeks to get the weight back down. Will probably gain weight over Christmas. Will lose it again in January.

Again, so educational to actually be paying attention to my weight this year. I finally realized what the big change has been. For most of my life, I stopped eating when I got stressed. I would always lose weight during the holidays.

At some point in the last few years, my coping habits changed, and now I eat when I’m stressed. It’s kind of odd. Not sure exactly what changed. But at least I can see what happened and so can address it better.

Because it was Thanksgiving and my birthday all rolled up into one delicious long weekend, I have not been in ketosis for quite a few days. Actually, more than a week. The problem is that I get headaches when I eat so many carbs. I’ve had pretty much constant headaches all weekend.

I do not necessarily want to be keto for life. However, the headaches have convinced me that at least for now, I need to be there. Today, some of that yummy food gets composted.

The problem really wasn’t the weekend. If it had just been a few days, I think I would have been okay. But I started baking early, so I’ve had pecan yumminess all last week. I just can’t have that much sugar that many days in a row, not without paying a price for it.

So this week I’m going back to hard core keto. Hopefully the headache will be gone before the end of today, or tomorrow morning at the latest.

And now, I’m going to try to write. Not sure how much I’ll get done with this headache. But I’m going to aim for at least 500 words on a new short story. I’ve finished 7 short stories over the last 9 days. Writer brain keeps telling me that there are 12 total. So one more week of short fiction before I get back to the novel.

Have you ever had your coping mechanisms completely shift under you, without you working on them consciously?