Seawolf Park Galveston

Hey, y’all.

For those only interested in the vids they are here and here. 😊


Spent last week in Galveston for our annual b-day trip. Didn’t photo every meal or even everything like I normally do. Just wanted to ‘be’ in the moment and all that good stuff. 😊


One thing I did take a lot of pics and some vid of was this tour we did of a WW II sub and ship.


They’re stationed at Seawolf Park in Galveston.


Pappy and Papa B were both in the Navy and the boo was also in the military (different branch) so we decided to take drive out to the park.


I didn’t really expect to get much out of it but it turned out to be really interesting.

To move around you have to crawl in and out of these holes. My thighs are still recovering. 🙃

The tables have these game boards painted into them. Papa B said it was just like that on the his Navy ship.

This was the sub’s mascot. Papa B said every ship and sub had a mascot. At first I was like why is this dolphin wearing a sombrero and holding a surfboard? But then I realized it’s a torpedo. You can also kinda see how tight the rooms were. I’m standing at the door taking the pic and that’s the desk with the typewriter. That door closed too. 😲

I think I took pics of every clock and gauge on both vehicles. Papa B’s first ‘job’ on his first ship was to set all the clocks. When we were little both he and pappy had these old timey Navy display things that hung on the wall and had a working clock, compass and atmospheric pressure gauge.


It costs $6 to get into the park and then an additional fee to tour the Navy stuff. There’s also a fishing pier out there and that’s another fee too. Active and former military pay less with proof of service.

Galveston Naval Museum


There are no guides or anything you just walk around on your own.

I uploaded the videos to youtube here

and here

Moving around both vehicles involves a lot climbing so if you’ve got any issues with climbing up and down stairs or with being in tight spaces you’ll want to think twice about going inside.

Overall though I highly recommend touring both.

Even though my fam served on ships I found the sub the most interesting. On the ship they have a lot of it locked off where you can just look through the doors or windows. On the sub you can touch pretty much everything. Both had music playing throughout. I liked the sub better because it was playing actual music from the era. Music the sailors would have actually been listening to. She ship was playing patriotic songs that we associate with WW II today but probably would not have been actually playing on the ship at the time. I just thought the actual music added to the experience. I could imagine them sitting at those table playing checkers or cards with the music of the day playing over the speakers. (Y’all know I’m all about the music at all times.) 😄

Life After Keto

Hey, y’all.  🙂

It’s been so long again since I’ve even opened the blog. 

It’s the same ol’ same.  Health hell a hundred different ways.  But mostly digestive system. 

It was 2 years ago this week that I was put on those 6 months of antibiotics and I’ve never been the same since.😢

I’m seeing a new GI doctor 2 hours away next week so I’m trying to be hopeful that maybe she will have some answers.

One good thing that has happened recently is I finally stopped obsessing over keto. 👍 🧁 Keto / lchf messed me up so much.  I got so emotionally attached to the idea of it being the ‘best and only right way’ and for the last two years I’d spent way too much time trying or wanting to get back to it. Only to get worse and set myself back every single time I tried. 

For whatever reason my body cannot tolerate meat or fat anymore without carbs to buffer my stomach.  I know there will be those of you who will say I didn’t try hard enough or whatever.  You’re wrong.  I’ve done nothing but obsess and try for the last two years.

No more.  For real this time.

That’s actually why I haven’t been posting on insta for the last 6-ish weeks. I’ve been forcing myself to stay away from all the keto talk on social media.  So many of my favorite follows are from my keto days and I just couldn’t allow myself to backslide.

Because…

Yes this is an actual published book. I first read it back in May when we took a little pre-summer trip to my beloved galv. 

I tried to start practicing it that week…and I did.  I ate all the thangs.  😋

But then before I even made it back home, I was already obsessing about trying to force keto/lc/carnivore as soon as I got back.  And of course, I tried.

Several more times.  Each time my stomach ended up worse than before.☹️

Don’t you dare ever call me a quitter. 😉

The final straw came in August.  It was record heat. The house air conditioner broke and we got a new car on the same day. I was outside transferring all the stuff from the old car and I ended up having a mild heat stroke.  It was beyond scary.  That day I was in the middle of my millionth time trying to force keto and when I overheated I started throwing up the worst grossest stuff yet.  That night I said enough.  The next few days I stayed bundled up in blankets drinking coke icee and re-reading the F*ckit book.

It’s an easy read and should be relatable to every single person who has ever tried to out diet their DNA.  

It’s taken me 37 years (allegedly 😉 ) but I’m finally done fighting mine. 🎈

It was hard and I talked myself into “trying keto just one more time” many times but thankfully I didn’t give in.

Keto / LCHF and carnivore are fantastic in the right body, but I won’t try again because my body is not the right body. Even (when?) I finally get some digestive answers I’ll always have Lupus. And I will always be on some kind of meds. Most of which need some carbs to buffer the stomach. 

That’s the lot I’ve been given in this one short life.  I’m done fighting it. 🙂

This is not in anyway a paid endorsement. I purchased this book on my own and it was worth every cent.  There are other books that fall in the anti-diet category (I read two others) but most of them are still focused on weight loss. This one is not. 

I can’t waste whatever time I have left on this earth worrying about the size of my clothes or a number on a scale.

ps. I’m still following all of my favs because I like you for reasons beyond how you eat. 😊 If you eat keto that’s great. If you WW that’s great too. If you’re vegan…cool. If you’re preachy about your chosen food I’ve already unfollowed you. 🙂

Y’all have a great weekend. 😊

Here’s were you can find me on insta where I’m usually more active. 👍

One Month Down and Thanksgiving in March

Hey, y’all. 🙂

So I just finished month one back on the keto high and it feels so so good. 🙂

To celebrate how very thankful I am to have finally figured out my digestive issues and to be back to living the ‘butter is a food group’ life we celebrated Thanksgiving in March today. 🙂

Do y’all follow highfalutinlowcarb on you tube? He has a southern cornbread dressing recipe and I decided to give it test run today.

It did not disappoint. 🙂 The only thing I will change next time is to add a little bit of xanthan or some gelatin to the cornbread to help it hold together a little bit more. Even the carb eaters said this was really good. Thanks, Wes for coming up with such a great recipe. 🙂

Hope y’all are well and as always more frequent updates are on insta at jatgahb

Just a Little Update

Hey, y’all. 🙂


It’s been forever again. 🙁

The TLDR version of the rest of this: health hell for 15 months…all kinds of tests…finally found out what was wrong…new med…feel like a new person…back on keto…super happy.


I have been to hell and back with all the health stuff. 🙁 Every time I thought I was finally turning a corner boom the lupus would hit me with something else.


I also made myself worse by eating wheat/gluten for months. In October I had to have an endoscopy and colonoscopy to try to figure out why I was coughing up and passing blood. So I wanted him to look at the celiac stuff while he was in there. I’ve tested positive twice and negative once. I’ve honestly never really thought I had it because I’ve never fully reacted to wheat the way I read about other people reacting to it. So anyway for the test you have to eat wheat for weeks (which turned into months). I did and of course it didn’t end well. At all.


BUT we finally seem to have some answers to all of the digestive issues. It hasn’t been my stomach (well not the primary cause anyway). It’s been my pancreas. I’m not producing the enzymes to break down food and after all the testing my dr put me on this miracle med:

I’m not exaggerating when I say this saved my life. Emotionally I’d slipped to a dark and scary place. I didn’t want to live in so much pain anymore.


I hadn’t slept thru a night without reflux in 15 months. I was on so much stomach / acid blocker meds and was having breakthrough reflux almost every single night. Basically the way I understand it now is that I wasn’t producing the enzymes to break down my food and that was in turn causing my stomach to way way way over produce all the acid.


The acid blocking meds are known iron blockers and my iron also plummeted to dangerously low levels.


2 DAYS on the CREON and I was like a new person. The stomach pain…the horrible never ending reflux almost immediately gone.


I went back on keto and feel like a completely different person.


So where I am now…

I started keto / low carb high fat on September 6, 2018. Between then and October 2, 2017 I lost almost 80 pounds. Then the ear misdiagnosis and all the unnecessary antibiotics sent me on a year long spiral.


I gained 35 back.


Happy to have not gained it all back but also not happy ya know?

Anyway that’s just a long update that wouldn’t fit on insta where you can find me more regularly. 🙂