Atkins, day 1.

Here I am in the world of no-carbohydrates. Well, under 20 grams per day, anyways. So far today I have had bacon, more bacon, chicken salad, gravlax, cream cheese, my requisite 2 cups of salad (with a very tasty Whole Foods italian dressing), and an Atkins Cappucino [sic] shake, the latter which I am currently drinking. It tastes pretty vile, but it seems to be dealing with a crankiness that felt not unlike low blood sugar (coupled with a craving I couldn't identify) that crept over me on the way home, so I'm tucking it away with a certain complaisance; many thanks to naudia for providing the powder. Total carb intake for the day so far: 9 grams.

I had a cup of green tea earlier, in flagrant violation of the injunctions to drink only decaf, but their only recorded objection seems to be that caffeine is Generally Bad (as opposed to being harmful to the diet theory), so buggrit. Not as if I'm a six-cup-a-day coffee achiever here.

In other news, our storm-of-the-century for this month has turned out to be a fizzler: rotten to walk through, but the accumulation is laughable. ( And then there was aikido. )