Tracey's Maintenance Journal - Year One
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I love water, great job!!!
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Your meal looks delish as usual. you're doing a great job keeping your weight in a narrow range.
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Your plates always look like leftovers from an amazing family gathering, and I am SO jealous. I would love those potatoes right about now! I wonder if the WF hot bar has any today.0
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Great way to share the load especially if (since) you both can cook well.
I've enrolled in a cooking course so that I can learn to cook better and I get to bring food home too
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I am grateful to have her staying with us so she can share in the cooking.0
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Well I weighed today after not weighing since Friday and as expected after the junk sweet week I had, I am over where I want to be so today I am just going to have my chocolate kale shake and that is it with the hopes my official weigh in tomorrow will be way better than today.
After all of the changes and such I have decided to just to do a (KISS) maintenance plan. I will do OMAD everyday with the weekdays being Low Carb/Keto and Saturday and Sunday being a no restrictions meal and only weigh myself on Fridays.
Eating during the day causes me to mess up in the evenings. So the plan is to drink ACV/Lemon Juice/water in the mornings, drink water throughout the day, and eat my meal when I get home from work on the week days and eat my OMAD at whatever time presents itself on the weekend (Could be early, could be late depending on what we have going on, but only one meal).
Chant to self - I only eat one meal a day! I only eat one meal a day! I only eat one meal a day! I only eat one meal a day! Keeping it Simple Seriously
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I love your new attitude! KISS is the best!
I am also really wanting to keep things simple. I hate always having to switch things up, but I'm just so dang hungry and I don't want to stop working out!!!0 -
You will find what works for your routine. I need to add in more exercise. I do walking everyday but I want to be able to add at least two HIIT workouts in during the week.1
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You'll get there! Just be prepared for the hunger monster 0
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Just hit the gym at the end of work and it will be much easier than doing it in the morning and then trying to fast. You can use that as a break in the routine! You can totally fuel a workout after a long fast by taking some coconut oil and/or some corn starch. They won't upset the stomach, make you more hungry, or spike your insulin and cause a subsequent crash. I can run about 30-min max hard (about a 450-kcal effort) after a 21-hr fast but can go for an hour (900kcal effort) if I take just about 150-kcal of the stuff mentioned. The medical community uses regular corn starch or modified corn starch (glycosade/UCAN superstarch) to treat people with glycogen storage disorders (muscles can't store glycogen) because it is slow release and doesn't cause you to go hypoglycemic later.0
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Today's official weigh in.
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Nice job staying under 160!0
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Nice! You’re doing really well, and I hope your new plan is exactly what you need to make maintenance a breeze 0
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I was kind of sweating my weigh in today because my preliminary weigh in on yesterday had me at 158.1. so I did a low calorie day and this morning was back at 155.4
I believe my new plan will work for me I just need to make sure I have low carb meals prepared for the week. I may start doing some batch cooking on the weekends and make some low carb casseroles that I can divvy up and freeze and then I can just select what I want, make a salad, grab a fiber one bar, and chocolate kale shake and my meal will be complete.
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Good idea! I used to batch cook on the first day of the month and freeze everything in individual servings so I could grab and go all month, and it worked wonderfully for me.0
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After reading Brenda's post, I have been inspired to change my plan once again. I am looking for simple and believe this is it. I posted about the possible challenges I could face with back to back LC days and making sure I am prepared. My new plan will help alleviate that concern. I mentioned alternate days and then went and got rid of them. Well now thanks to Brenda, they are back and my new program is looking like this:
MONDAY.........LC OMAD
TUESDAY.........NO RESTRICTIONS OMAD
WEDNESDAY....LC OMAD
THURSDAY......NO RESTRICTIONS OMAD
FRIDAY........... LC OMAD
SATURDAY......NO RESTRICTIONS OMAD
SUNDAY..........NO RESTRICTIONS OMAD
Still doing OMAD everyday but am alternating between my LC meal days and No restriction meal days. I have no problem not eating, it is when I start eating that I have problems so holding out for my one meal will be pretty easy for me. I think this plan will make maintenance easier for me.3 -
Love it, and it makes a lot of sense! Good luck!0
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Sounds good Tracey. Good luck with the new plan.
Like I mentioned in Britt’s journal, I think if you’re feeling good and comfortable (and of course, results are showing), your plan is working. If not, tweak until you get there!0 -
This week's official weigh in.
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Awesome, you're keeping below 160 0
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Great work Tracey!!! Rockin' it!0
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Thanks, I kind of fell off toward the end of the week. Want to get back at or below 155 this week.1
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Doing well!0
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Today's Official Weight Report
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Awesome!!!!0
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Nice work Tracey 0
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NICE TRACEY!0
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Tracey, you're killin' it! I already gushed a bit in my introduction, but I credit you so much for motivating me to try OMAD. I had read through all of your OMAD-related threads and felt so inspired by your determination to succeed. Your documentation was wonderful, raw, and real... just fantastic for someone to read through who is curious about OMAD.
Anyway, gushing aside... you're doing such a great job with maintenance! Keep it up! 2 -
Yep, Tracey is a great example of determination and persistence.sunnycobayo wrote: »Tracey, you're killin' it! I already gushed a bit in my introduction, but I credit you so much for motivating me to try OMAD. I had read through all of your OMAD-related threads and felt so inspired by your determination to succeed. Your documentation was wonderful, raw, and real... just fantastic for someone to read through who is curious about OMAD.
Anyway, gushing aside... you're doing such a great job with maintenance! Keep it up!
Nice job Tracey!
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