Today marks one year of eating Low Carb High Fat without cheats or binges! My highest carb day was 88g total on Christmas Eve. That didn't seem to impact my progress, as I was at my lowest weight of the past year on December 30th. Since then I've steadily crept up five pounds and I'm back to wearing pants that had been in the "to trade in" pile.

I wish I could say this was from working out the past two weeks, but I truly believe this is from eating when food's available instead of when I'm hungry. I also think I was likely experimenting too much. And I don't think being the 'manager' for my mother's LCHF diet is helping me, either.

This morning I'm feeling very proud of my accomplishment (I tried Low Carb MANNNY times since 2010 but never went a full month without a planned 'cheat day' - now I called those 'planned fails' and disdain them as such). All the same, I need to make a course adjustment because, while I can deal with a spike on the scale, I do not like my pants getting tighter!

Mom says she's reevaluating whether she'll continue after Sunday. She's told me her IBS, which has plagued her for decades, has been better. I can't fathom why she'd stop, based on that alone, but she's her own person and needs to figure it out on her own. She's reading Keto Clarity, which arrived yesterday. I've never been so happy to have a new purchase snatched out of my hands! Really hoping that it helps her understand exactly how this way of eating is meant to help, and maybe she'll make some adjustments and become less dependent on me to be the keeper of the Keto Knowledge.

We hashed out the menu for the week, since my husband and I each have an appointment this week that will keep us from being able to cook whole dinner dishes. Until Thursday we'll be eating separately from my mom. She's having sausages, peppers and onions for dinner with my dad, then rib eye tomorrow, dinner out with dad on Wednesday. My husband batch cooked himself a pot of chili yesterday to feed himself from. Thursday night we are planning for pancakes as a family. A servings is 10.9 g carbs (and I'm rather not good at precision pancake pouring). Mom's already asked what else she can put on it that isn't the SF syrup. I'm going to offer her a SF preserve reduction or whipped cream. She's not getting fresh berries. I'm not going there. If she was going to have berries, I'd have to buy berries, and we wouldn't use all the berries, and then berries would be around and we'd have something else to go with the leftover berries, then she starts craving berries and relying on the berries... slippery slope.

Anyway, my folks are on their own again for Friday's Lenten fish dinner (she wanted to get me a lobster but I'm not interested in paying that much to work that hard). My husband and I are planning for a fathead pizza, though I may pass depending on my progress (almond flour is an issue for me).

My plan for this week is basically an egg-based reboot:
HB eggs in the morning with a BPC coffee (I had a scoop of guacamole this morning, as well, 3g carbs total).
BPC for lunch (we have an office lunch thief, so no point in bringing in food).
Fried eggs and bacon for dinner.

I expect to be back on track after that. Sunday we have an appointment to get tattoos, and dinner will probably be burgers just to keep it easy (tattoos are exhausting, and our visit will take all day, likely).

I am of half a mind to go back to my "Disney Diet," lolol. Eggs and BPC for breakfast, no/minimal lunch, then buttered meat and greens for dinner and coffee for dessert. Yes, my Disney progress had a lot to do with the constant walking, too, and I do want to get my step count up. My plan is to walk around at lunch instead of eating. Target, Stew Leonard's, or I could even pop over to the mall and do that circuit. Plus walking around the office more at work. Like, instead of a straight line between the bathroom and my desk, I'll walk through the whole building once.

So yeah. 1 year Lowcarbversary, not quite on track with where I want to be, but still very proud of my new outlook on eating (no interest in binging on carbage, no matter how disappointed I might be that everyone else seems to be able to drop 50 pounds in a flash, while I've worked hard on these 22 pounds for 365 days). I can't compare myself to others. N=1 and no one is just like me. My determination is solid, and I do still hope to reach my goal of size 6 (~125 lbs) by late spring/early summer. I am pretty sure I know what I need to do to get there.

I guess I should thank the coworker who ate my steak out of the office fridge last week. Not trusting the office environment to bring my lunch in will definitely help with my intermittent fasting!

SW: 153.4
CW: 130.2

Cals: 1451
Carbs: 32 net
Exercise: About to do yoga.
Sleep: Enough for a change.

FEB 22

SW: 187 (5.1.2015)
CW: 148.0
GW 125
Calories: check
Carbs: check
Sleep: Not great, kept waking up. I still feel like I'm on a boat. LOL.
Exercise: None last night. Planning for today.

Hi Guys, I'm feeling really great. Down 2 pounds yesterday. Hoot. After the 4 pound gain over the vacation, I knew it was just a lot of water weight. I ate a lot, few more carbs and sweets than I usually eat, but mainly stuck to LCHF. I was happy it was only 4. Today's weight of 2 pounds more is probably more reflective of my splurge. Good day planned, back to work. Lots to catch up.

@glossbones congrats on your 1 year lowcarbversary!
@reblazed your success is inspiring.
@slimzandra so glad you're doing well!

Wow @reblazed!!! You're melting away!!! Wonderful! Your body is loving this woe!! You ROCK!!

Been celebrating my birthday since last Friday (2/19), not always with food or alcohol (though Saturday was the worst of it), but the carbs and sugar has been up more with some of the choices I've made. Thankfully I'm not blowing my calories out of the water, but I am needing to become more diligent with my choices and getting my carbs back in balance and cutting out the sugar I've been consuming. While I don't FEEL heavier I have been avoiding my scale to see where I am....I need to suck it up and just look.

I've still been keeping up my runs and weight training, so that's been good. I've been toying with adding in jump rope for cardio on my weight training days. I want a decent rope, but you either pay less for crap or a lot for more than I really need. Figure I'll do some more looking and see what's out there. I'm also toying around with getting a gym membership to our local gym. Still debating it all. In the meantime, sticking with my plan and keeping at the runs and home weights.

I just broke into the 120's this morning; 129.6!
(Original GW was 133, then I decided to aim for 128-130 before shifting to recomp.)
I *think* my body fat is probably still around 28% and I would love to get it from "acceptable" to "fitness" range but we'll see how that goes. I definitely have "skinny fat" genes/predisposition to fight against even when my weight loss efforts are successful. Hoping strength training and HIIT will help with that if I can stop injuring myself and get some traction with a strength program.

Thanks, @reblazed!

Congratulations on all the wonderful successes! You all are really inspirational!

FEB 24

SW: 247 (12/12, started keto)
SW: 219.8 (Feb 1)
CW: 211.4
GW for February: 215
GW for 12/31: 180
Calories under 1200: yes
Carbs Under 30: yes

slimzandra wrote: »

FEB 22

SW: 187 (5.1.2015)
CW: 148.0
GW 125
Calories: check
Carbs: check
Sleep: Thunderstorms woke me up. I ate 3 pieces of bacon at 3am and went back to sleep readily. So tired.
Exercise: More excuses, excuses.. Got grocery shopping done tho.

Knee still hurts. I will look into Polysporin, thanks for the tip! At this point, I should just keep it clean and leave it alone. It's just a mess at this point. I will spare everyone the photos. LOL.

@slimzandra Just as a random side note, Polysporin was what my grandfather used - and he was a late in life diagnosed T2D....for whatever reason it worked better with his system too, and I'm sure the Neomycin sensitivity probably came from that side, too. I'm weird in that I'm not allergic to latex or anything, but to the adhesive stuff - I'll get a worse rash from the sticky part of the bandaid than from whatever it's protecting!

Bleh. I am still trying to catch up to life from all the craziness from last week. Yesterday was the first night I got a decent amount of sleep (more then 4 hours) in the last week. Stress has been eating me from the inside, and I had a binge episode on Tuesday, so I am fighting cravings, mostly with diet soda. It's also not the best time of the month for me, so I just want to cry and dive face-first into some corn chips. On a happier note, I am looking forward to a nice long run tonight, which may kill the cravings and make me feel better. After the run, I am hoping to get the mythical 8-9 hours of sleep, and hopefully wake up in a bit more cheerful mood.

On the bright side, I've stayed away from Starbucks.

@baconslave you look great! Thanks for the inspiration.

SW: 153.4
CW: 130
GW: 128
Cals: Just under
Carbs: 30 net
Exercise: Doing strength once I get the boys in bed.
Sleep: Insomnia again last night.

@glossbones good luck going dairy-free! I did go gluten and dairy free for 6 weeks a year ago and didn't really notice a difference, but I wasn't all that low carb at the time. I tried going dairy free again recently and quit after a day. I am weak. Let us know how it goes though! I hope you're feeling better today.