I will commit to more exercise this week. I will not look forward to my bed after I get home from work only to channel surf for hours on end. I will get out of the bed and find a video online and do it.

I will stick to one breve this week and not one a day.

I will call my Mom to tell her I love her and wish I can hug and kiss her because life happens.
The three youngest of five was raised in foster care. Ages 12, 9, and 5. I have struggled over the years to let go the abandonment issue but my kids are 23 and 18 and I am 44 time to let go. I forgave her years ago.

I am down 17 pounds. Stared low carbing on Jan 3, 2016. Did it before but never stuck to it like I am this time. Decided I needed a life change and not a fad diet. 100 carbs a day has me losing and I get chocolate here and there. But if I eat one more EGG for breakfast I am going to puke. I have looked for other no egg breakfast with little luck. Any ideas.

Some of the stress from last week and the cold that laid me out disappeared, so here are my goals to which I am re-committing with renewed strength:

1. Minimize restaurant trips and food waste.
2. In bed by 10:30 pm 5 days a week.
3. Drop 3-5 lb this month.
5. Re-double my new employment finding efforts. Send out at least one resume by Saturday and two over the weekend.

This week I am continuing to avoid cream (but not cheese or butter because I eat them in relatively small amounts), I'm adding back in a few veggies to see what happens, and I'm adding in exercise (weights, elliptical, and body weight).

That's going to be too many changes to see what might affect my size reduction goals, but I think I'll be able to tell how I react to each in general (stomach aches would be the veggies, not one of the other two, for example, while soreness or pronounced muscle lines will be the exercises).

I'd like to wake up earlier and with more energy, but with the exercise I suspect that won't happen during the first week.

My husband's been feeling nauseated by most of the keto food, so he brought up the idea of doing a dairy free experiment. I was planning to do one for the first two weeks of March but I told him I'm up to try it whenever. Maria Emmerich has a ton of recipes to get it going.

Argh, @baconslave I really wish I could do something to help you out!

If I want to start a low carb diet, what are the best links to check out. Not sure a ketosis means. Greenhorn here but I have to bust out of this weight gain that won't come off.

But if I eat one more EGG for breakfast I am going to puke. I have looked for other no egg breakfast with little luck. Any ideas.[/quote]

I get that too, and just eat lunch food for breakfast!

FEB 8

SW: 247 (12/12, started keto)
SW: 219.8 (Feb 1)
CW: 216.0
GW for February: 215
GW for 12/31: 180
Calories under 1200: yes
Carbs Under 30: yes

Happy Mardi Gras everyone! Remember not to give up chocolate, with Valentine's coming up this weekend.

Ugh, yesterday got totally thrown off by the water supply at work running out. The water delivery scheduled for yesterday never showed up because of the snow (I assume). I had a killer headache and an awful mood when I left yesterday and neither went away before bed time. I had cramping in my legs before bed, too.

I had been planning to exercise last night, but with the dehydration I wasn't about to throw that in and risk that I'd feel dead today.

So this morning I stopped at the store on the way in and got a 2.5 gallon tapped water bottle. The water delivery will probably come in this morning, but I wasn't taking any chances. I'm fasting again today. Maybe. I'm not hungry now (though to whomsoever is sick of their eggs, pass 'em my way please), but I do have lunch I can eat if I want it.

I need to run out and get coffee from the roasters at lunch, and I think I'll stop at the market across the street from there and see if they have braunschweiger. If not, I'll probably just give up and get liverwurst. And I'll get the goat cheese that my husband really liked scooped up with bacon last time (seriously, I got that goat cheese for ME, and he ate it all!).

So I found out last night that my mom has been taking SIX gummy vitamins a day (three different kinds, 2 per dose). There, alone, is 12g of HFCS. No wonder she's not feeling the benefits of keto! So (after I observed her taking them last night) she said she's not going to take them anymore. I tried to convince her she's getting everything she needs from her food except maybe Magnesium, D3, and K2, but she was still fixated on "not enough vegetables." I read her the stats on the major nutrients and how they're just as, if not more, available in meats. I really don't think she got that. It took her three months to come around to fat, though, so maybe I shouldn't assume she's hopeless here, either. But I'm waiting for her to mention scurvy...

I'm curious to see if she'll start having carb cravings now that we're eliminating that sugar hold out.

I did have asparagus last night, and it didn't make me feel crazy bloated like it did last time, so maybe it was something else that time. Actually that's not true, I was feeling quite overfull at bedtime with belching and such. Anyway, the asparagus was wrapped in bacon so I hoped it would protect me.

I need to stop at the Vitamin Shoppe to get the above-mentioned supplements, but it's in the opposite direction from the roasters, so that'll have to wait. Mom can take my powder packet of prenatal vitamins if she's really worried about it.

I haven't weighed this month but in general I feel like I'm gaining again. I want to try eating more vegetables as a delivery mechanism for butter, and back off on the super high protein meats, get my protein mostly from cheese. Basically I want to return to the fundamentals of keto, rather than ZC. Bacon, eggs, avocados, butter. That braunschweiger if I can find it.

2/8 summary:

1. Minimum 64 ounces of water per day. Check. I filled my 32-ounce bottle 2.5 or 3 times, I can't remember which.
2. Under 50g carbs per day. Yep. 39g total carbs, 26g net carbs.
3. 8,000 steps at least 5 days a week. YES!!!! I finally did it!!!! Although I should point out that I was standing still scrubbing a pan at the sink when my FitBit alerted me to reaching my goal, which tells me some of those "steps" may not have actually been steps. But I did it. And then today I forgot to put my FitBit back on after my bath, so I definitely won't be reporting having met my step goal tomorrow.

SW: 236
2/1: 176.4
2/2: 174.6
2/3: 172
2/4: 170.6
2/5: 172.2
2/6: 172.2
2/7: 174.2
2/8: 176.2
2/9: 176.4 (this is very very not good!)
3/1 Goal: 170

I am almost 50 year old female, 5'5" living in Michigan, started low carb in July 2015 at my highest weight (200)
without being pregnant. I have lost weight but I have not exercised due to chronic back pain and depression although now I'm starting to feel better . I take medication that makes most food tastes terrible and my appetite low. Believe me this is not as good as it sounds especially when it affects your skin hair and nails. I absolutely have to stay on this medication because it is helping me with my depression.
I need a kick in the butt to start exercising and toning up. My BMI is embarrassingly high. I just heard about this app and so far I really like it. I have been looking around at the different forums and the people on this thread seem to be very nice. I have seen a lot of snarkiness on several threads which has really turned me off.
I need help to stay motivated, need food ideas I need accountability I need a kick in the butt to start exercising. I need good solid helpful advice. I don't have any friends yet and I'm not really sure how that works.
Sorry this long.
SW: 200 started LC on July 2nd 2016
SW: 151.2 2/1/16 for the challenge
CW: 149.8 2/8/16
GW for February: 144
Calories under 1200:
Carbs Under
Thanks for reading! - - - Candace

Karlottap wrote: »

I know I posted a .1 pound loss yesterday, but wanted to post my scale reading this morning! Yesterday's total was 186 pounds, and today's is........(drum roll please, ..............) 181.7!! Really?!?!?! It happens when we least expect it! I have been sick the past few days, and expect a rebound, but can't help but be excited over it! My original goal weight was 180. So, I'm so close I can smell it, lol! I did reset my goal to the 160s a few weeks ago, but can you say, "Happy Dance?" I've been dancing around, on cloud nine all morning!

NICE! Way to go!

glossbones wrote: »

nvmomketo wrote: »

@glossbones Could your hubby's electrolytes be off? That can cause nausea sometimes.

His sodium at least, I'm sure. He takes a daily chelated magnesium glyconate, but he keeps turning his nose up at foods with proper levels of sodium and fat. And he drinks a lot of water.

Keto without high fat would be tough. Would he watch Peter attia? Maybe a fit doctor eating fat would change his thinking a bit. I don't know... Good luck!

Karlottap wrote: »

I know I posted a .1 pound loss yesterday, but wanted to post my scale reading this morning! Yesterday's total was 186 pounds, and today's is........(drum roll please, ..............) 181.7!! Really?!?!?! It happens when we least expect it! I have been sick the past few days, and expect a rebound, but can't help but be excited over it! My original goal weight was 180. So, I'm so close I can smell it, lol! I did reset my goal to the 160s a few weeks ago, but can you say, "Happy Dance?" I've been dancing around, on cloud nine all morning!

Carry on!

Woohoo! That is awesome!

@Mami1976D moving is moving! Congrats!


My scale is going through a nice whoosh right now too. In the last few days it has dropped from 153.2 to 150.2 yesterday, and then 148.8 today. My guess is part of it is water from cutting carbs again but coconut carnivore is agreeing with me.

Today's scale dip was especially fun because I did not eat well yesterday. I had a few BPC then had pepperoni at 3pm, two hot dog wieners and some chicken for dinner (was a rushed day LOL), 3 fat bombs, and then an entire bag of pork rinds with 3 heaping tablespoons of sour cream (probably closer to 6-7 real Tbs measures).

It was not a day to brag about nutritionally (or even admit to without some embarrassment ) but it was fun to see a drop with all that junk food.

I am sure it will bounce up again. Probably after this weekend; I am staying with family during a butchering-bee. I'll pack my extra foods and try to avoid carbs. I am lucky in being a celiac because they already know I eat "weird". LOL I can pass on people's baking without offending anyone.

Thank you for your advice. I think I will have some soup for lunch. Hopefully I'll feel better. I've been doing this since July of 2015.
I would like to start walking when the weather breaks we are expecting a foot of snow in the next two days. I have an elliptical downstairs. My goal is to make it down there and get on it for at least 10 minutes. I think that would be a good starting point. It's lame but it's a start.
I appreciate you taking the time to read my story. I think I may have posted my introduction into the wrong place. I was able to join the other LCHF for over /50 group but I see that it has closed.

clblewis wrote: »

Thank you for your advice. I think I will have some soup for lunch. Hopefully I'll feel better. I've been doing this since July of 2015.
I would like to start walking when the weather breaks we are expecting a foot of snow in the next two days. I have an elliptical downstairs. My goal is to make it down there and get on it for at least 10 minutes. I think that would be a good starting point. It's lame but it's a start.
I appreciate you taking the time to read my story. I think I may have posted my introduction into the wrong place. I was able to join the other LCHF for over /50 group but I see that it has closed.

There is a very active thread for Ladies Over Fifty in our group. They are a fantastic bunch... I've been tempted to join but at only 42, I would be pushing it.LOL perhaps drop in there? http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10089227/over-50s-ladies-our-special-needs/p1

ETA I think that is a great start! That is 10 minutes more than I do on most days. Good for you!