Facing Challenges In Times of Crisis.

Things are rolling right along here in KetoKellyLand.
I had two things that I wanted to brag about here and explain our latest crisis.
Wednesday night when we got home there was a voicemail from my husbands father stating that he was en route to the hospital, following the ambulance that was carrying Rob’s mother there.
A little background here: Rob’s mom got a pretty nasty flu bug and was hospitalized a couple of weeks ago.  She was allowed to go home but was required to be on oxygen.  We saw her on Sunday and played cards with her after our breakfast together and she seemed okay to me.  A few hacking coughs here and there, but much better than she was when we visited her in the hospital.
So according to Rob’s dad, she had been having a harder time breathing than she should and Wednesday night it got to the point where she was gasping for air.  Long story short, 911 was called – she went into respiratory failure in the ambulance and was placed in ICU on a breathing tube.
The initial voicemail was all we had to go on until around 8 PM when we got the update from Dad about the severity of the situation.  Dad told us that there was no need to come down to the hospital and he would keep us updated.
All of that was understandably unnerving.  We hadn’t done much from the time we got home, to the time we got the update other than worry.
Thursday we didn’t get any notification until around two in the afternoon, but the news was good.  She was still in ICU but awake and breathing on her own.
Last night we were allowed to visit her so we headed over after work and she was looking and acting much better than we had anticipated.  She was in good spirits and a great time was had by all while we played along with Jeopardy on the TV.

The reason I am mentioning this in my weight blog is the fact that I faced many challenges in the last few days that I could have easily said: “Screw it, we are in crisis mode!” and fallen off the keto wagon, but I DIDN’T!!!
On Thursday morning I was a wreck.  No updates from my father in law and since I always imagine the WORST in any given situation, I was sure my MIL was on her deathbed.  Well, my manager chose that morning to bring us in bagels and cream cheese.  Bagels are my jam.  I could eat bagels for breakfast, lunch and dinner…and probably have.  And it wasn’t just any old cream cheese either, there was date and walnut cream cheese – MY FAVE!  I got very close to giving in because I was having a very bad day, but I didn’t.  (Full disclosure: I did pick the cheese off a cheddar and jalapeno one, and eat said cheese.)  Then last night since it was so late when we got done at the hospital, we entertained the idea of a cheat meal because there were no fast food burger places on the way home but there was a restaurant that we really enjoyed in the past.  Clearer heads prevailed however as we saw a KFC in the distance.  We ended up getting a bucket of grilled chicken and two large sides of green beans.  Since we rarely eat fast food (even when we weren’t Keto) this felt like cheating!  It was sooo good!

So overall I’m pretty darn proud of myself.
Oh and the hospital had a Starbucks in it (!!!) so I got to try my very first keto friendly starbucks drink.

I was rewarded this morning with a two pound loss on the scale, so if feeling proud of myself wasn’t enough to keep going, that was.  😀

Oh and I also put together a screenshot of my first video for my youtube channel, and one of the last video I did and here is the result:

Results are a very good motivator!!! My face is so swollen on the left I look like I was taking steroids or something.
Happy Saturday y’all!!!!!