1st April 141.5
4th April 140
19th April 141
22nd April 140

It seems I'm the first one to start the new day.

I'm really happy with this. I haven't logged or tracked anything.

Yesterday was unusual. It turned chilly here and I wasn't hungy. A couple of coffees, a couple of slices of bacon and then about 4pm... BOOM... I'm ravenous and ate a whole day's worth of food in a couple of hours.

@Sajyana yes, you're the first to get the new day. And congrats on the way you've been tracking, that's fantastic!

1st April 84.6
8th April 83.5
15th April 83.8
22nd April 83.1

Obviously very, very happy with that. Actually can't believe my eyes now I've typed each week next to each other like that

Carb goal has been under 20 but I did hit 22 on Sunday. Was 8 grams last Thursday so maybe that evens itself out.

It's been a bit of an adventurous week and I ended up feeling weak and wobbly by Sunday. A friend on here checked out my calories (that I can't see) and I'd been eating too little. I'd been eating *just* sufficient each day to not feel hungry at any time, which obviously for me - in dieting mode - isn't a good guide on my food needs. On Thu and Sat the 'you're not eating enough' warning had popped up and I thumbed my nose at it.

Additionally, we had to walk home in the midday heat (not that hot, 27°C) on Monday and it nearly killed me. I still had all my faculties, but barely made it home, I felt so hot. Threw the aircon on full blast, stripped my tummy bare and lay on the cold tiled floor for 20-30 mins until I dared start sipping water and begin slowly getting up. Realised when the sweating finally started that I hadn't been doing that on the walk.

My heart still feels like it's beating too fast. Well, it is. 76 resting pulse where I used to be 59 - 62 and my blood pressure is up again (as it was in my early keto days) to 143/93. I feel very confused, but have an app't to see my naturopath at lunch time. I don't feel as if it's LCHF to blame, but obviously I'm doing something wrong, or have a mineral or vitamin imbalance of some description and hope my wonderful Mauricio can fix me quickly. What with heart palpitations in late February, that I've now narrowed down to taking potassium supplements (in any form, even lite salt) my heart is having a really hard time of this and I don't want to be a slim corpse.

Sorry for so many words but this could well be related to doing 'too low calories' when my seemingly slow-to-adapt-body is still adjusting to LCHF. By which I probably mean that it's still dealing with toxins being released from my body fat as I lose it. Well, that's my theory anyway. I will give a quick report back after I've seen Mauricio - or should I copy and paste the chatty part of this into a new thread in the forum?

**I don't want to hijack this thread by creating feedback on what I've just written**

April 1-299
April 8-299
April 15-298
April 22-294.4

Been way under my goal of 30g most of the week. Feeling great.

Maintaining. Same as last week at 156.4. This week has been a real roller coaster though. Too much coffee I think. The weather rainy and cool

4/1: 219
4/8: (Didn't officially weigh, think it was around 218)
4/15: 216.6
4/22: 216.2

Up from my lowest low so far (215.6) which I hit Saturday when I started TOM (typical water loss for me). Have only had one non-keto-for-me day so far this month, and that was this week. Had the most amazingly AWFUL headache all day on Monday. Borderline migraine, and nothing was helping...not drugs, not electrolyte supplementing, not water, nothing. Not a thing in my logs could point to what caused it, except maybe overexertion physically on Sunday, with too little hydration. Got off work crawled into bed in a dark room w/ an ice pack on the back of my neck for a couple hours...still throbbing. Took a couple more excedrin migraine, and made myself a bowl of super buttery popcorn and ate that...within 45 minutes, the headache was gone. Now, I'm not attributing it to the popcorn. ;-) And no, that won't be my first go-to next time either. I was searching for comfort and that popcorn, at that time, fit the bill. Had some dark chocolate, too. Still kept carbs that day well under 75, still in ketosis the next a.m., and total calories were less than my TDEE, so I'm good with that. Probably would've showed a better scale result today had I kept carbs at 20, but I'm fine with the choice I made.

One more week of calories be damned, and then on to my attempt at Meativore May! lol That should keep things interesting...

1/4: 203.8
8/4: 202.5
15/4 203.9
22/4 203.5

This has been another frustrating week. I haven't been able to hit my exercise target of 3 - 8 miles walking. I've also had to increase my carb target to 50 to accommodate the consumption of more oats. My digestive system simply can't tolerate the low levels of fibre which seem to be a feature of a lower carb diet. I've also been unsuccessful in changing the balance of my fat intake from saturated to monosaturated fat. A complicated gallbladder condition makes this a necessity. On a positive note I plan to stick this out to the end dv.

4.1 163.8lbs
4.8 164lbs
4.15 163lbs
4.22 166.8lbs

So this week I ate, and ate, and ate some more, I did not watch carbs or calories, the scale reflects that. I know it is mostly water weight. I am still working on adjusting my carb amount. I have been trying less then 40 net, but was struggling with this, I always felt very hungry, going lower then 40 with higher fat did not help. This week I have upped my carbs to around 100 total for the day. So far my appetite has seemed to regulate a little bit. I will continue to monitor what seems to work for my body. I am doing 25%Carb/35%Protein/40%fat however, the only number I am really watching closely is the Carb number for this challenge at least

4/1: 196.6 lbs
4/8: 198
4/15: 197
4/22: 194

Down for the week. Down for the challenge!

I've been going berserk. Ever since my binge at Easter, I've been hungry. Craving carbs. Ketostix are saying moderate to small depending on the day/time/water consumption. Breath is saying the same depending. Scale hasn't changed one way or another.

I'm not tracking anything but I know my carbs are often under 20. I'm suspecting I'm pretty (very) high on fats (calories) some days. The days I feel really hungry I eat a little more protein and more fat until the hunger goes away. Often what makes it go away is a big bowl of salad or veggies of some kind. I'll save all my carbs and have a big bowl of spinach or broccoli. So I don't know if I'll be in for the challenge next month after realizing this. I'm still kind of learning my bodies signals I think.

I'm clinging desperately to the notion that my body has been screwed up for so long with restrictive diets (two times in my life I went 4 months without eating because I was so desperate to stop gainging weight) that maybe it's just going to take a little longer for it to stabilize itself. I want desperately to lose weight and be able to do all the athletic things I used to do. I can't bear the thought of it not happening.... so this is what I'm telling myself. It will happen eventually. I have to trust and ignore all I've been taught previously.

In the mean time, I'm still sticking with it because I DO feel better emotionally. And that is a big deal. And, I haven't gained anything so...

On a somewhat unrelated note, I was offcially diagnosed with Asthma today! So I'm not just out of shape, I really can't breathe!! Halleluja! So I started puffers n stuff today so that hopefully I'll be able to start walking soon. That, I'm hoping, will also help.

End frustrated rant:.

gsp90x wrote: »

I've been going berserk. Ever since my binge at Easter, I've been hungry. Craving carbs. Ketostix are saying moderate to small depending on the day/time/water consumption. Breath is saying the same depending. Scale hasn't changed one way or another.

I'm not tracking anything but I know my carbs are often under 20. I'm suspecting I'm pretty (very) high on fats (calories) some days. The days I feel really hungry I eat a little more protein and more fat until the hunger goes away. Often what makes it go away is a big bowl of salad or veggies of some kind. I'll save all my carbs and have a big bowl of spinach or broccoli. So I don't know if I'll be in for the challenge next month after realizing this. I'm still kind of learning my bodies signals I think.

I'm clinging desperately to the notion that my body has been screwed up for so long with restrictive diets (two times in my life I went 4 months without eating because I was so desperate to stop gainging weight) that maybe it's just going to take a little longer for it to stabilize itself. I want desperately to lose weight and be able to do all the athletic things I used to do. I can't bear the thought of it not happening.... so this is what I'm telling myself. It will happen eventually. I have to trust and ignore all I've been taught previously.

In the mean time, I'm still sticking with it because I DO feel better emotionally. And that is a big deal. And, I haven't gained anything so...

On a somewhat unrelated note, I was offcially diagnosed with Asthma today! So I'm not just out of shape, I really can't breathe!! Halleluja! So I started puffers n stuff today so that hopefully I'll be able to start walking soon. That, I'm hoping, will also help.

End frustrated rant:.

Wow! Congrats on the diagnosis bringing some respite...because at least knowing, you can fight back, eh? And I'm still recovering, too, since the Med Faire I worked. I'm still on plan... I'm just waiting for my body to catch up.

still trucking along. started zero carbs 12 days ago. feeling great. sleeping well. lots of energy.

eating about twice a day - appetite waxes and wanes. the other day i ate about 2.5 lbs of meat, today all i have had are a few chicken legs. feels good not to need to keep track of anything and let hunger guide me.

got curious about the scale, so i stopped in to the health center on campus to weigh. i wasn't sure what to expect, as i have been eating a LOT and i can also tell that my body is re-compositioning (is that a word?) as i can see and feel increased muscle tone, and i actually had to use a belt with my skinny jeans today!

so the verdict is: down 2 lbs. from april 1.

i feel amazing. i'll take it!

FIT_Goat wrote: »

Actually, since the weigh-in for this period isn't until Friday, I will still have 7 total days for the average. I guess we will see how it goes by then.

I thought it was Wednesday. I eat like mad the entire week and then starve myself for the weigh-in.

I find that I just substitute the weekly weigh-in as a short-term goal similar to the goals daily logging gave me. Goals seem to help.

FIT_Goat wrote: »

I am aware that the cheese will stall or reverse my weight loss. That's an acceptable trade for me. It's not always for some people.

I just started a thread about this. But *why* does cheese produce weight gain?