I'm back to cutting out my fake desserts. I saw amazing progress when I stopped eating fat bombs, cheesecake stuff, and mousse, but I let it creep back in over the long holiday, sliding that scale up again. I use barely sweetened tea or chewing gum (both of which AS don't affect me the same), and I still use the AS in my LOADED TEA, but the fake sweets have got to go - or be limited to 2 TBSP a day. Typically if I have any, it starts as a single TBSP and ends up as 5 or 12... I have no control over them, so they have to go.

I hope to see forward progress again (got back down to 240, had a dream I went to 239, but actually the scale was back up to 244.2 today, and I wanted to cry)...on the scale and all other factors.

So:
Current Weight: 244.2
Goal Weight: 235 by end of month (I know that 4 pounds should be water weight, so 5 pounds in a month should be reasonable).

I'll have to measure inches and add to this post later.

I am happy with my food and weight. So, there's no goal there.

I am going to walk my dogs every day of June, unless I am not home, in which case I will hit at least 11,500 steps minimum to compensate. It's not even that I need the walking all that much. I just know my dogs are happy to get to see the neighborhood more often.

It will help a little, because without work, my steps and "tracked" activity goes down. I don't actually do less, but I forget to wear my fitbit and pay attention to what I do during the summer.

I'm going to be adding one non-animal product food item back in per day and see how I fare as compared to the last month. I didn't stick to meativore 100% but every time I went off, I got ill. I want to see if I can eat other things or if my body says the only good carb is a dairy carb.

So my plan is to eat meativore primarily, but have a vegetable once per day, or a frankenfood, or an alcoholic beverage, stuff like that. My carb limit is going to be 20g total carbs. Prefer to keep my sugars to 10g or less, but if I'm only doing one item per day I want it closer to 5g. In the case of vegetables the carbs will be high quality, not so much the other two.

I know my process is not very scientific at all but my hypothesis is that my scale results will taper off and plateau with the extra junk. It'd be nice to be wrong. With summer on the horizon, there are a lot of fun recipes I want to try. I will NOT be continuing this through June if every little thing I consume makes me ill, I hope you'll forgive me.

Mostly I want to add back in the things I've been missing during May, the things that my brain is trying to convince me will help me enjoy the summer more.

Of course if the extra veggies keep getting thrown out like they were in April (when I was VLC), I'll stop, to save the $.

I'm in! For June I want to continue in ketosis but I want to add some daily exercise....usually it will just be a 45 minute morning walk with my dog....but that is more than I have been doing! Losing 5-7 lbs would be awesome...but the longer I am HFLC the more I am realizing that this is a WOE that I can live with long-term, that makes me feel good, and that the scale really is a lying mcliarpants!

I am going to cut out AS. i eat far too much sugar free mints, gum and drinks and the carbs really add up. It will save me money too as well as being better for me.

I have been on the Keto diet for 4 weeks now and lost 14 pounds. I am proud of myself but the weight loss isn't going fast enough for me to get ready for my wedding. This month I am going to incorporate exercise into my routine, and try to go to the gym 2-3 times a week. I have been suffering with some health problems that has limited me from exercising, but I will try to work on that this month! Thanks everyone for the inspiration!

Dragonwolf wrote: »

I think this month, I'm going to focus on finding out and fixing what's going on with my hips. I hate not being able to run when I feel like it and hate even more that I can't weight lift.

Seen Kelly Starrett's stuff?

Just One June.

I'm going to stretch everyday. A proper stretching routine. I'm a qualified massage therapist. I've worked with a physio, sports med doc and sports teams. I know how to do this. I just need to do it. Especially for my hips/back.

Stretches. Adding them to my day.

My goal for June is to consume less sugar and carbs and to get on a good workout schedule. I have a problem where I will work out for and week or so and then just not pick up the weight again.
My weight loss goal is to be 170 by the end of the month! Last time I weighed myself i was 180... hoefully i haven't gone up...

I'm in the process of stepping down my carbs & starting over with the LCHF lifestyle (but my husband has explicitly pleaded for me to not go cold turkey on low-carbs this time, apparently I get a bit "witchy" to live with ).

My "Just One June" is to avoid cocoa & chocolate products. I tend to still use raw cacao in smoothies or eat no sugar added baking chocolate to fulfill chocolate cravings. But as I become more body-aware, I think that even in small quantities it has a huge negative impact on my body & makes me carb crave.

Let's see how I feel without it for a month...

5marshallsstrong wrote: »

I will make it my goal to get 10,000 steps per day. Even if I have to do circles in my front yard at 8 P.M.

I will walk circles through my apartment for an hour just to get my steps in.


My goal for the month of June is to continue with my goal of getting 15,000 steps minimum in per day. I've been seeing daily weight loss with this since I bought my pedometer almost a week ago. I already get 10,000 steps in just by being at work. Getting those additional 5,000+ steps in after work instead of sitting on the couch after dinner has made a WORLD of difference for me.

Ok, I've really been thinking about it. There are a few things I want to try. I was going to commit to tracking, as I don't and haven't really. But, I have a really big feeling that I would be miserable and it would bomb horribly. Seeing as I'm going to stick with zero carb.... I've just decided I don't want to be miserable so I'm not going to track. Maybe another month.

so then I thought, well I signed myself up to do a virtual ironman triathlon next month. But... I can totally see me bailing on that at some point, so, i need to scale it back to something manageable.

The Beast is adamant that I WILL do a Spartan Sprint within the next year. He even went so far as to really research what exercises I could do even in this state to start building upper body strength. I'm already running every other day for the last month and I'm up to 3 X 5 minutes with a 3 minute walk in between each run. WOOT!! Huge achievement there. Even forgot to take my ventilin puffer before the last one and I was okay!!

So, I'm going to commit to doing the body weight exercise workout the Beast organized for me every day that I run. In case you're wondering, they are modified (VERY modified) exercises leading up to: Pull-ups, Push-ups, one legged squats.

And in case it matters... I am currenty (approx) 207lbs. I don't weigh in officially until Monday, but I'm guestimating I'm around there.

Kitnthecat wrote: »

I use Green Beaver toothpaste which is sweetened with xylitol, so not sure what to do there. Does anyone think that the toothpaste will interfere with my plans or is this negligible ?

You'll be fine.