My biggest concern was that I stick to this WOE and, at the same time, not hurt my SIL's feelings. I accomplished both. In fact, I sat right beside my SIL, she took one look at my plate and said "Oh, you're on one of those low carb diets. Just please don't tell me it's that no carb, high protein Atkins." I smiled and said, "No, not no carb, high protein Atkins; low carb, moderate protein, high fat Atkins." She had (see - that's the past tense here) the usual misconceptions about Atkins being no carb and high protein. We had quite a discussion about it yesterday while all the boys were downstairs watching football. I think she has a much better understanding of what I'm doing now and there will be more low carb selections for Christmas.

I did take the pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting and everyone thoroughly enjoyed them.

Believe me, after my visit from the whoosh fairy yesterday morning, there was no way I was going to eat anything that's not part of this WOL!!

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