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2018 MAY 8 -- Day 27

I am down a tiny bit today, but I'm not going to do my happy dance just yet. I think I may be at the plateau that can last weeks following the initial loss of water weight. I hope not. I don't want to have to wait for my weight loss! LOL. I want it now!

I have to learn to be patient; don't I? Ugh! I don't want to. I really sounds like a spoiled child. It doesn't matter how long it takes, I will not give up on this. I have seen fat too many success stories. I want to be one of them. I will be one of them!

Starting weight: 401 lbs
Current weight: 368.2 lbs 
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 359 lbs

For our anniversary, I had my husband buy me a food processor by logging into his Amazon account, finding the one I wanted, and clicking on "Buy." LOL. That's a way to get what I want; right?

I want to try making my own mayonnaise at home because everything in the store seems to have the worst kinds of oils in them. I couldn't find an olive oil one that only used olive oil, for example. There's canola oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil, and soybean oil. I can't have any of these. They are all terrible for my body and definitely not Keto. So I want to try making it with the extra light tasting olive oil. That should be good.

I have found some really good recipes that start with a mayonnaise base, and I'm excited to try them out. Namely, the ranch dressing! Yes! I love ranch dressing.

I found a number of mayonnaise recipes that require me to have the ability to slowly introduce oil while I'm mixing an egg in a food processor, but I found Butter Bob's recipe for ranch dressing on YouTube, and he starts by making mayonnaise. He puts the ingredients into the oil, and then just uses a hand-held stick blender to fluff it up into mayonnaise. That looked so easy. I don't have one of those blenders, so I will do it the traditional way in the food processor, but it looks like it tastes amazing. I can't wait to try this.

I am going to make my own mayonnaise graph:



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