Congratulations!!! 208! That is awesome.
But the diet doesn't work long term you know. Hah! (Been basically on it for 7 years!)
As an aside one of the original founders of AA, Bill Wilson suffered from long term depression that the 12 step program helped but didn't lift. The man was a genius, lawyer, stock broker, professional golfer and he started one of the most influential self help programs of modern times. The 12 Steps of AA. But he couldn't beat his depression. Well he started looking around AA and noticed the behaviors that addicted people engage in. Smoking, coffee, and massive carb consumption. He reasoned that these behaviors were substitutes for alcohol. He came up with the then Radical idea of limiting sugars and starches and taking megadoses of niacin. As an aside Bill Wilson was the person who actually named Niacin vitamin B3! To make a long story short he beat his lifelong battle with depression. He, using his weight with AA, wrote a second communication to doctors outlining a treatment method for alcoholism using a low carb diet and Niacin. It worked for hm and many others! After his death there was a battle within AA over the document and it was pulled as outside the traditions.
Just an interesting story about one of the greatest geniuses of our time. The 12 steps and 12 traditions is one of the most awesome spiritual books ever written. As to the Big Book it is copied in hundreds of 12 step groups and hundreds of languages. He was a God touched individual!
Since going normal-carb in April, I have been feeling absolutely great, mentally as well as physically. (I get plenty of niacin in my multi-vitamins.) I attributed the feelings of euphoria to my exercise but it could very well be a result of my new way of eating too (or at least in part). Not that I was depressed before, but I wasn't feeling that great about myself either like I am now (I was depressed as a teenager but that was over 20 years ago).