March Mindfulness Challenge: Week 2 (3/8-3/14)
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@baconslave - x2^^^ I may not post a lot but, I have to let you know, you are one of the main reasons I'm still here. I understand the frustration of our bodies not doing what they should be doing, physiologically. Hang in there.
How can your DH question what has clearly worked so beautifully for you all this time? I'm really not buying the your body needs glucose to make tears theory.
Anyway, you've got a huge support system right here at your fingertips. Sending hugs your way. ♡0 -
Something I've become mindful of in the past couple of days is that my stomach really can't handle the volume of food it could before. Which makes sense since I've been eating more calorie-dense food on this WOE. Working on stopping when I start to feel full rather than feeling like I should finish my serving b/c I already weighed/measured it or whatever!0
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Big hugs @baconslave. We'd miss you if you stopped posting. We're on this journey with you no matter what happens. If you're in a tougher spot, that's OK, too; don't feel like you need to post less unless that's what's healthier for you.0
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Oh @baconslave! We here want to hear your struggles! If we can't bring them here, where can we bring them? I'm so sorry for what you're going through!! I wish I had an answer for you too! You know, as well as I do, that finding information (whether erroneous, or not) on what we want to believe, can be found. I'm sure you're DH would love to blame keto for your issue, but I don't believe keto is the problem. Since you've mentioned the AS, I would believe them to be a contributing factor before keto. But that's just my opinion without any scientific basis!
Hang in there hun, and post whatever you need to post, be it bad or good! As @glossbones mentioned, we do care, and we are hoping this malady gets resolved for you! I also hope your child is just adjusting to a new life phase, and not having any major issues!
Sending you a big hug! Sounds like you could use many today!!
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March 11
SW: 153.4
CW: 130.4
Cals: Just under goal
Carbs: 45 net
Exercise: 2.5-mile trail run/walk
Sleep: Not enough0 -
Mar 11
SW: 247 (12/12, started keto)
SW: 214.2 (Mar 1)
CW: 206.0
GW for March: 206
GW for 12/31: 180
Be Mindful of:
Staying under 30 carbs daily -- Yes
Logging at least 1 day ahead -- Yes
Exercising 4 days per week -- 4 of 70 -
I love many of these ideas!
Adopting the following goals for until next weekend (at the very least)
- Only eating at a table. I will get some spring flowers to celebrate.
- Hike the to the local lookout 1x/wk
- Prepare all food and stick to my plan; no buying snacks when out0 -
getting a jump start on the upcoming week because i have some catching up to do and want to re focus on a streamlined eating plan for a few weeks..
feeling a little scattered in the mindfulness department, yet somehow a pre-envisioned life is beginning to gel.. my mind is set on making a few things happen for me going forward and i have to say, so far - so good.. i'm not very good at organizing but i see progress..
but, for this week i'm putting my mind on notice that attention must be paid to the eating plan so i don't let myself indulge in stress eating...changes in my life seem to make that more likely to happen..
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Mar 12
SW: 247 (12/12, started keto)
SW: 214.2 (Mar 1)
CW: 206.0
GW for March: 206
GW for 12/31: 180
Be Mindful of:
Staying under 30 carbs daily -- Yes
Logging at least 1 day ahead -- Yes
Exercising 4 days per week -- 5 of 7
NO change in weight --- up or down! Thought this a.m. my allergies were kicking in but by noon I realized the body is considering getting a cold. NOT going to happen ... lots of Vit. C and lots of meat protein for the next few days and I'll be back on track. KCKO0 -
MAR 12
Calories: just under goal
Carbs: Well, the carbicide after dinner threw me off a bit. :P That was about 30gm carbs right there, so I had 48 net today, 59 total.
Exercise: Did my strength training!
Sleep: Rotten little kids woke me up at 6:20 on a Saturday. They are so fired. :tongue DH let me sleep in but it wasn't as restful since they kept coming in our room ...0 -
getting a jump start on the upcoming week because i have some catching up to do and want to re focus on a streamlined eating plan for a few weeks..
feeling a little scattered in the mindfulness department, yet somehow a pre-envisioned life is beginning to gel.. my mind is set on making a few things happen for me going forward and i have to say, so far - so good.. i'm not very good at organizing but i see progress..
but, for this week i'm putting my mind on notice that attention must be paid to the eating plan so i don't let myself indulge in stress eating...changes in my life seem to make that more likely to happen..
Awesome!macchiatto wrote: »MAR 12
Calories: just under goal
Carbs: Well, the carbicide after dinner threw me off a bit. :P That was about 30gm carbs right there, so I had 48 net today, 59 total.
Exercise: Did my strength training!
Sleep: Rotten little kids woke me up at 6:20 on a Saturday. They are so fired. :tongue DH let me sleep in but it wasn't as restful since they kept coming in our room ...
I know those feels SOOOO well.
Well, kids gonna kid. *sigh*
Thanks for the thoughts, guys.
I've been doing some thinking and reading and some Sjogren's suffers find relief (not cure but a decrease in symptom severity or periods of symptom remission) in a paleo-like diet. So I'm doing a dairy elimination. If you all are the kind who pray...I could use some positive vibes directed toward me in this universe right now.
Coconut milk is SOOO NOT HWC. I went all day without dairy yesterday until I had a piece of 86% dark chocolate, not thinking about the milk in it. Dumb dumb DUMMY! I made some sour cream out of coconut cream...it was ok. And I know I could make some yogurt or a passable dip for pork rinds...
I want it to be dairy, because that means I might get to sleep at night more, but I also don't. Because I'll probably lose all interest in food and die.
Anyhow. Trying to keep in a good mood. Even though I'm tired and I think that evil TOM is coming after me.
I haven't gained any weight other than the water weight. As a matter of fact I went from 157 to 155.8 this morning and I'm still over 50g carbs. I'm not really logging anything at all. I'm just stopping when I'm full, enjoying my food when I eat, and not eating certain foods. I save a carbier item (like an apple) for right before a workout, so it gets burned off a bit. I'm kind of proud of myself. We ate Burger King for lunch yesterday. In my past life, I would have eaten a double whopper, large fry, large sweet tea, and then had a milkshake. I allowed myself (because I knew I'd be going home and walking and shooting hoops) half a small fry and I ditched the bun on the burger (double whopper) and ate half of it. I was full and satisfied. I could have eaten more fries and the bun if I wanted, but I didn't want to. Something like that in the past would have led me to say, "well I messed up! Day's ruined. So binge all the carbs." That was the carbiest thing I had that day. And I didn't eat again until supper and ate a reasonable portion of asparagus and taco meat. Had the dark chocolate square and a tbsp of PB and was done. No binge. No junk. That is serious progress.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone.
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My Green & Black 85% dark chocolate does not contain milk! See if you can find that brand! Or I'd be willing to mail you some!
I know exactly what you mean, and I wish you the same success I had with dairy elimination. It's worth knowing, though.
I'm finding it easier to be mindful in doing this ground beef experiment. When food is that predictable, it doesn't satisfy anything mental to overeat. I stop when the next bite sounds unappealing, and save it for later when I am hungry enough to get over the boredom.
I am down almost three pounds since starting this, all inflammation no doubt, so I'm sticking with it. Not as a permanent solution (OMG I Miss cracker cut colby jack) but to get me 'caught up' to where I feel like my weight loss journey should be, and then I'll add foods back in slowly to catch my culprit, starting with eggs. Dear Cthulthu let it not be eggs!
I have my annual lady prod coming up on April 1, and I swore to myself last year that the "weight issues" box would NOT be checked on my form this time. I'm planning to wear light clothing because even my pajamas and socks are a quarter pound, and shoes I can slip off (I'm usually wearing combat boots). I know those medical scales are always a little mean. At least it'll be first thing in the morning. I can even go before breakfast, when I usually weigh myself!
So this'll be a major goal for me if I can hit it. I know they're going off BMI with that checkbox, and by my scale, I'm 24.8 as of this morning, which is just below the ceiling of normal! If the beef continues to help me drop, I should be square, even accounting for a critical medical scale. Very anxious/excited/nervous about that metric.
Okay, I'm off to buy a couple pounds of ground beef!0 -
@baconslave "kids gonna kid" made me smile.
Thinking of you; keep us posted on how the dairy-less-ness goes and I'm proud of you for how well you've been doing!
@glossbones good luck with your weigh-in! I totally wear light clothes for dr appts too.
MAR 13
Calories: Under
Carbs: Well under goal
Exercise: Rest day
Sleep: Mm, roughly enough0 -
@glossbones - annual lady prod- lol
@baconslave - sending good thoughts your way.
I very "mindfully' had 2 beers at dinner last night. *sigh* Along side my bacon cheeseburger.
Saturday was a "carb nite". I understand the theory behind it- it seems to work for a lot of people. I just don't know if I'm going to be one of them. It's supposed to spike your insulin, then when you return to low carb, you're supposed to see a drop in weight.
Back to very low carb today- we'll see what happens. :-)0 -
Wow, I sure wasn't very mindful this past week. Ate an entire can of smoked almonds (mindlessly) and ended up with a weight gain of nearly 4 pounds for the week. Yikes! Planning to do much better this coming week.0
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This morning I didn't spend any time trying to analyze my hunger signals, as I normally would. I think I was just so excited to have gotten up at my proper time rather than oversleep (it was dark out so I was paranoid I'd fall back asleep too deep), I didn't want to waste in on anything so silly as cooking my food. :P
I'm hoping that means that I'm just more in tune with the hunger, or rather, not so worried about whether I am, or not, that it's my primary focus. Knowing I had 10 ounces of burger at 8pm the night before, though, probably took some of the question out of it.
Anyway, it's a little early to take my lunch, but now I am feeling hunger in my belly. I've got water, though, and plenty of work to keep busy on, so I don't think I'll have much trouble putting the hunger aside until lunch.0 -
March 14th
Meaningful Monday
BW: LCHF 189 (5.1.2015)
SW: 147 (March 1st)
CW: 146.0
GW: for March 142
Exercise - Yes Got my 2 miles in early this morning. Whoot.
Sleep - Great
Calories - Perfect
Carbs - Perfect
I had a great dietary weekend which always feels good heading into Monday. I also started up again doing my (at least) 2 miles every day and keeping with it. I'm only down one pound in 2 weeks, but I'll take it. I had a few extra calories week one. I feel like I'm turning this ship around and heading in the right direction again. Got my meals all planned out, so I'm feeling in control again. Yeah!0 -
Public Service Announcement:
Getting lean has not made all the other problems in my life go away (trust me, I am just as surprised as you are)
HOWEVER! Eating a low/no carb diet HAS provided me with the energy and attitude needed to attack those challenges with verve and positivity! Woo!
Keep calm and LC/ZC on!
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glossbones wrote: »My Green & Black 85% dark chocolate does not contain milk! See if you can find that brand! Or I'd be willing to mail you some!
I know exactly what you mean, and I wish you the same success I had with dairy elimination. It's worth knowing, though.
I'm betting I can find it somewhere.
I know I'm frantically gasping at straws. I'm just so tired of this *kitten*. It came out of nowhere, and not getting to sleep well... it's been since January. Sleep affects everything. Waking up so many times at night is torture. I wish my appt were sooner. So we can get bloodwork done and find out what the heck!slimzandra wrote: »I feel like I'm turning this ship around and heading in the right direction again. Got my meals all planned out, so I'm feeling in control again. Yeah!
W00T!ChoiceNotChance wrote: »@glossbones - annual lady prod- lol
@baconslave - sending good thoughts your way.
I very "mindfully' had 2 beers at dinner last night. *sigh* Along side my bacon cheeseburger.
Saturday was a "carb nite". I understand the theory behind it- it seems to work for a lot of people. I just don't know if I'm going to be one of them. It's supposed to spike your insulin, then when you return to low carb, you're supposed to see a drop in weight.
Back to very low carb today- we'll see what happens. :-)
Wishing you good luck!0 -
3/14
No pie for me today.
Cals: Maybe 10 over
Carbs: 29 net
Exercise: check!
Sleep: Argh. Not nearly enough. Going to bed at 10 tonight; wish me luck.
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Mar 14
SW: 247 (12/12, started keto)
SW: 214.2 (Mar 1)
CW: 205.2
GW for March: 206
GW for 12/31: 180
Be Mindful of:
Staying under 30 carbs daily -- Yes
Logging at least 1 day ahead -- Yes
Exercising 4 days per week -- 6 of 7
Really like this little gym in town ... lots of different types of machines and equipment (most I don't know how to use yet) and very very clean. Members have a key-card so it's available for use 24/7, owned by a couple (both LEO's) who do background searches on the new members. 85% of the members are in local and state law enforcement of some sort or are fire-fighters. Little old lady like me (and getting 'little-r' all the time) likes to feel safe. 0
