Still not excelling at listening to my hunger cues. Ate a lot, socially, this weekend. All low carb, most ZC, but still in direct defiance of my stomach which said it was perfectly content.

Was extremely tempted to weigh myself this morning, to "assess the damage" of the weekend, but convinced myself it wouldn't be worth anything without context. :P

I've eaten more veggies than usual as a result of making recipes. I had gotten chorizo last week so I made a quiche-type dish with that and onions, peppers, and eggs. And I was eating the last of the Szechuan beef which had spinach and erythritol. Plus unrolled eggrolls with cabbage. I still have a bunch more cabbage so I'll probably make some bacon and beef 'crack slaw' as well, rather than waste it.

There's also carb creep from the smoked sausage I made yesterday. I'm sure I don't want to know my totals, but I do think I'll enter the chorizo recipe into MFP. There's a difference between not tracking and not knowing.

Feeling cravey after the weekend. Wanted to make LC brownies and ice cream. Wanted to make almond flour bread.

Now I figure I'm not in Ketosis because of the excess protein I've been consuming. Not sure what that means for my cravings. Going to try and hold out (with a little help from dark chocolate squares) until the sharks swim back out to sea, and then evaluate from there.

Husband is having a really hard time. He says he wants to eat 'Keto' but he wants to dial the carbs down, rather than cut them out and add them back in. He's never tried the latter and I really feel like he'd have a better time. He's never gotten below 80g of carbs per day, and never gone more than a month without a cheat day, and I feel like he's straddling a razor wire fence doing it that way. He's one six-foot walking craving, and he's miserable, and he ends up eating burger king anyway. (I offered to make him a cheeseburger yesterday and he said "no, I'm having texture issues" and then he ate a cheeseburger from Burger King... so there's a total mental disconnect going on...). I'm trying to leave him alone about it, and let him come around to everything on his own. But if my mom and I have a conversation about keto it gets him all irritated, so it's as bad as if I start critiquing him about stuff directly. I'll have to make an effort to, if my mom asks me a question, take her out of earshot to have the impending discussion. Problem is she will interrupt our activities constantly to make ketocentric comments. She knows I'm proud of her, I don't think she sees how it increases my husband's struggle.

Mom says her IBS seems to be better. Still no relief on the Fibro front, but she says maybe it's just taking longer for her neurological damage of two decades to repair. Glad she's giving it time! She certainly doesn't hate the nightly rib eye! She's way better at eating to her satiety, but as I've mentioned I think she's got appetite-suppressive effects from one medication or another so I'd prefer to see her eating more. At least she drank the butter sauce from the scampi I made her on Friday! And she says her weight has been over 115 lbs for three days straight, so she's feeling better about that. I have her eating a lot of Boursin and steak and at least one ballistic coffee per morning. She bought a bunch of veggies on Friday when she picked up the shrimp, so I guess she wants some veggies back in her diet! Asparagus with her steak tonight. Last time I ate asparagus I felt the little fiber warriors in there kicking up my gut, so I'll pass and stick to steak and goat cheese.

My goals have been to lose 5-10 lbs, and i've lost 3.5 pounds so far this month; Yoga twice a week before work... well, I did one day last week but I'm aiming for two days this week and to finish our home gym this month and we did take a bunch of stuff to goodwillt his week so that's a step in the right direction!!

2/5-2/7 summary:

1. Minimum 64 ounces of water per day. No, I only recorded 56 ounces on Friday and 48 ounces on Saturday. Yesterday I recorded 64 ounces, though.
2. Under 50g carbs per day. YES! 39, 50, and 45 total carbs, respectively.
3. 8,000 steps at least 5 days a week. Not once. *sigh*

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 (this is not good!)
3/1 Goal: 170

I'm gonna celebrate a new low of 186.6, from last low of 186.8! (It's the little things right?) Despite this sinusitis crud interrupting my planking efforts I feel good!! Carnivore is the way for me! Why would I stray from it? The WANT for something else? Boredom? (Not really, I love meat!). Not 100% sure why I added veggies that led to adding the protein bar, but am glad they are out of my rotation! The really best part is that the protein bars are still in the house (hubby eats them, and can handle the excess like I can't)!! Before LCHF I would have had to eat them all, and insist they not be allowed back in the house! Huge accomplishment here that I'm very proud of! Now, to get well so I can continue my exercising efforts!! Hugs everyone for your struggles, and accomplishments too!!

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.

1. Ok, I went to a restaurant only once this weekend. We did go get coffee twice, but I am letting my Sunday cup of 'Kevlar' coffee from our local roaster (who happens to be good people, as well) a free pass.
2. I was sick most of this week, and I went to bed at 6:30-7pm Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Yep. I sleep it off.
3. I am avoiding the scale as the shark is in town. However, I bought some pants from the thrift store to wear to work, two pairs in size 4 and one in size 2 (!!!).
4. Dang it, I knew I forgot to do something over the weekend. I'll have to get an extra resume or two out on Friday.

Just joining- after 6 weeks starting Jan of eating low carb high fat, and starting to do more walking (though not every day, admittedly) the news was good and bad.
Good news:
No longer eating junk food, fast food, or drinking 20-40 oz of wine every night
Bad news:
Not a pound lost
Fasting blood glucose was 126 (gulp) teetering on diabetes. What a wake up call.

When I looked back over my logging stats, I discovered that
My "low carb" still was not all that low, often around 40
Calories were very high

So, I guess it's NOT true that "you don't have to count calories" .
Also I should say that I have yo-yo-ed extensively on the HCG diet- at least 4-5 times getting all the way down to 135, and then immediately climbing back up to my all time high this year of 203.

So, I think a good goal for me, since I tend to spend months at a time not logging anything and therefore not noticing weight gain of 50 pounds, is to commit to logging daily, even when it's not good.
I'm trying the "intermittent fasting" concept. I realized that I was still eating most of my waking hours. The idea, which makes sense to me, is that you limit your window of eating, giving the body a chance to actually burn fat when you aren't constantly in feeding mode.

This works great for me, since my days are super-busy and I was coming home and eating at 10 pm, then going to bed. Now my cut-off time is 1 pm. I will check in next week to let you all know how it went!

I am just new to this, still having a hard time learning how to eat my calories, but keep carbs at 50