Tonight I’m in New Orleans and will be here until Thursday.  Tomorrow many of the wonderful people I work with will arrive for Director’s meetings, and on Tuesday the whole ElderCounsel team will arrive for our company retreat.  I’m very excited to be here, but packing sure was a challenge!

I’m determined to stay in ketosis this week, which meant packing a lot of my own stuff, and hoping for a little luck when eating out.  There are certain things I don’t want to be without, in particular, coffee blended with butter!  So, I packed the following:

Blender, kettle to boil water, ground coffee beans, french press, cooler, Super Starch snack bars, Atkins shakes, coconut oil, tea bags, lots of nuts, and all of the supplements I take daily:

Thank you to my wonderful friend and colleague, Melissa, who took time today to find me grass-fed butter and heavy cream!  I should be set now, even if there’s not much for me to eat in the catered meals.

We’ll be working outside most of Wednesday helping to repair homes that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina.  No, that’s not a typo.  There are still many homes that have not yet been rebuilt.  I was here in 2011 for an ElderCounsel retreat and was amazed by how much work there was to do.  Now, 4 years later, there is still so much to be done.  The ElderCounsel team will be out in full force doing our part Wednesday!

Now if I could just find a bike to ride…