Hi, great Challenge

I'm returning member so my goals will be simple to get me started.
I have 3 goals.

1. is to stay below 50g of carbs
2. is to drink over 2l of water
3. is to exercise minimum 60 minutes a day.

Sounds really simple but let's see how I get on

Very excited to do this again!

SW: 195
Prior W: 189.8 (1/22)
CW: 187.2 (1/29)
GW: 160-165

I've committed to running 2-3 times each week with at least 2 weight training/body weight training sessions weekly as well.

I will be continuing to keep my carbs to 20-22 net carbs for at least another 1-2 weeks, then will start adding in 5 carbs each week, so I suspect by the end of February I will be at 30-35 carbs.

I am HOPING that I will be diligent enough to reach 175 (or less) by my birthday (2/23), which was my goal last year and I was at least 10 pounds from it then....what a great gift to myself to reach it this year!!

OK
Stay below 50 carbs daily
Drink more water at least 1 liter daily
Not loose my mind with this new job.

Lets Do It!
1. Minimize restaurant trips and food waste. If a restaurant can make it, so can I, and Starbucks is becoming a bad habit lately. No more than two trips a week excluding Sunday breakfast and coffee stop.
2. Better sleeping habits - In bed by 10:30 pm 5 days a week.
3. Drop 3-5 lb this month. Usually I am not about weigh goals, but I want to see 155 lb or less on the scale in mid March, because I would love to wear a really skimpy outfit to a music festival I am heading to.
4. Re-double my new employment finding efforts. Send out at least one resume a weekend.

I think that's enough for the next 29 days.

1. Keep on keeping what I'm doing (3 pounds in January gone!)
2. Commit to more exercise. - This made a difference last month.
3. Continue with carbs under 30g
4. In for Five in Fabulous February.
CW: 147.5 (on 2.1.2016)
GW: 142.5 (on 3.1.2016)

I'm in... Just started logging again after almost a year hiatus... 11 days in and down 7lbs. Would love to loose 12 more pounds by Feb 26 as that is when I leave for a 17 day vacation to California.

Goals
1. 20 carbs or less - doing induction until I reach my goal of 159lbs, currently at 187lbs.

2. 30 min or more each day on my elliptical. I'm on an eight day streak so far.

3. 2L of water a day.

4. Being kind and patient with myself and stay committed to "this is for me because I'm worth it"

Count me in!

In honor of National Heart Health Month, I commit to exercising at least 4 days/week.

SW:222.5
CW:175.5
GW:142

I'm in for 180 minutes of exercise.

nvmomketo wrote: »

I am eating too many nuts and cheese lately. My body is off. Too any raw veggies too. Carbs are creeping up again. I need a big change.

My change for health will be to go mainly carnivore this month. No nuts. No veggies. No fruit (except for the 3 avocados I will eat because no one else will and I can't waste them LOL).

I will eat meat, eggs, and some full fat dairy like 14% sour cream, a bit of heavy cream, butter, and measured cheese because breaking off a chunk is just TOO MuCH! My one concession will be coconut oil and a bit of coconut cream I am finishing off.

I won't be full carnivore but close. I plan to extend this into March since I will be easing into it and I want a full month or two as coconut carnivore before I judge how well it works for me.

I still want to lose another 10 lbs so if this helps me in that direction, great. If not, that is okay too.

I'll be following your progress! I am trying to go zero carb for two meals a day (say, breakfast and dinner), and slowly transition into full zero carb in a few months or so. We shall see how it works out for me, now that most veggies taste sweet to me, I want to eat them all.

MAX 15 Nuts a day for when I am v fatigued/hungry
Max 40g seeds a day.
Max 100g dairy.
Max 20g net carb.

Just completed my first run - 1.72 miles at an 8.5/mile pace. Can tell a major difference in my energy depleting about half way through the run, since I'm pulling from fat, not carbs...I really pushed myself though. But it feels good! Heart pumping. Breaking a sweat. It's awesome!!

I like this Self-Love challenge! Count me in:

50 gr of carbs or less
More Omega3 intake
More consistent excercise routine
Less Facebook
Intermittent fasting
Go to sleep at 10 pm
Meditate every morning

I'm about as sedentary as you can be. That has to end. My mom is coming to Scotland to visit me in May and I want to be able to go out walking with her without needing to take a break every 10 mins.

My goal in February is to log 29 miles on the treadmill.

I'm in as well. To Love my Health this month, I'm going to commit to riding my recumbent bike a minimum of 3 times a week, for at least 20 minutes each session. Other than that, keep on with my LCHF diet - I lost a total of 5.8 pounds in January and think it could be even more with consistent exercise.

My goal for this month is NOT to track my intake or weight and see how I do "free range."

February 23rd will be my 1 year lowcarberversary (no cheat days whatsoever, highest carb intake in a single day over the past year was 80g - stupid tortilla chips), so I know I won't go off the reservation in sight of such a momentous streak.

Currently I am primarily, but not strictly, carnivore. For example, onions and garlic in my food is fine. There's spinach in my ground beef lunch that I brought today. I haven't eaten a side dish with a meal since vacationing at Christmastime (I ate a lot of green beans in Disney). Well... sometimes I eat my meat with a side of meat!

Anyway, my biggest problem seems to be that I'm not listening to my hunger cues, eating everything on my plate because it tastes good, or because I put "a serving" on my plate and I already logged it.

I'm hoping to get in touch with the signals of my body this month instead of worrying about numbers. It's seriously freaking me out at this point. I'm afraid I had a lot of protein with my breakfast, and not enough fat. But if I don't track it? Schrodinger's Macros.

I weighed in this morning: 140.6. Down from the weekend (where I politely ate spinach dip with celery at our friends' house and got two pounds of inflammation water weight for my trouble). Higher than where I wanted to be at this point (I started the year below 140). My goal is still 125 by early summer, but I know that if something doesn't change I'll remain in this homeostatis where I'm just bouncing the same pound on and off. That'll be fine for maintenance, but not so fine for getting to where I want to maintain.

And then there's the whole "the scale is a lying liar who lies" aspect. I do believe that an unhealthy obsession with the scale is bad for your brain, and if you're damaging your psyche by "dieting" then you're missing the point of the benefits you can gain from eating low carb/keto/ZC.

I caught myself, this morning, considering a ketone breath analyzer. This brain, she wants her metrics! But no, the idea is to be fully human and not plugged into tracking this month. If I gain weight or inches when I re-weigh in March, then I'll reevaluate. Besides, ZC ≠ Ketogenic.

To give myself something to focus on, I will be continuing the Principia Carnivora lifestyle, and I will try to reach my step goal daily (5,000 steps - I cut myself some slack since I have a standing desk). If I can reach it daily for a week, I'll increase it. I typically do not reach the goal (usually ending between 3,500 and 4,500). Today, I have to run to Stop & Shop for dinner ingredients, and Wal Mart for other things, so I may do a couple extra laps of each store.

Evaluating myself right this moment, I would initially tell you that I'm currently hungry. But when I take a moment, I realize the sensation of "fix this" is in my chest. That's anxiety. Hunger doesn't come from the chest, it comes from the stomach (also not the intestines). So I'll feed myself with some music and try to tune out my noisy office mates. Anxiety and cortisol can also get in the way of progress.

I just drank a cup of bouillon broth, so now that I know my sodium is pretty much covered for the next 6 hours, I'll fill up my water bottle.

To further the connection with myself, I'm also not going to track my water intake (OMGSHE'SCRAZY), which for me means I will refill my water bottle before it empties so I can't keep track by the marks on the side of the bottle. Maybe I'll even get myself an opaque bottle at Wal Mart. I won't drink water to reach a number, I'll drink water when I'm thirsty. Which may not be much today because I burned my tongue three days in a row and it's kinda not talking to me right now. But that's okay.

TL;DR: I will eat when I'm hungry. I will drink when I'm thirsty. I will confirm hunger sensations before acting upon them. I will try to reduce my stress. I will try to move more. I will avoid carbs in general. I will not weigh or track food, water, or macros again until March (with the exception of taking body measurements for a baseline because scales aren't the whole story). I will make the choices I know are healthy and trust myself to be OK.

Which probably means my 'check-ins' will be lengthy, like this, as I will be talking in more abstracts than check boxes. Apologies in advance!

I'm looking forward to this experiment. It's scary, but I hope that listening to my body gets me the results I want rather than focusing on tables and tallies.