carsonheim wrote: »

Good morning friends. Day 13 and all is well. When I was doing my cooking yesterday I realized that I waaaay overbought food during my last couple grocery trips. I like to buy lots of fresh veggies but I was thinking I don't think we can actually eat this volume of food before it spoils!

My eating schedule has become 2 meals per day (buttered coffee only for breakfast), and one of those meals is usually bacon and an egg. Which leaves only dinner and a huge amount of veggies in the fridge. It's only DH and I, so the food lasts longer

Yesterday I started something I've been wanting to do: if there's a show on DVR I have been really wanting to watch, I watch it while walking on the treadmill, not sitting in the sofa. So that was fun

Two more days until weigh-in. Fingers crossed.

Remember, @carsonheim that most fresh veggies can be frozen for later use...either prepared or raw.... There are lots of intriguing ways to prepare things, too....like someone suggested roasting romaine lettuce leaves. I haven't had any around to try, but curious minds are intrigued! LOL

pwrfl1 wrote: »

4031isaiah wrote: »

pwrfl1 wrote: »

4031isaiah wrote: »

I am currently on my first day of vacation and already had some waffle fries but plan to do better tomorrow.

. You will do great ! Keep logging if it helps...

The resort is all inclusive so everything is at our fingertips but very few low carb options...

. Sounds like a beautiful vacation....you are certainly getting your " resistance training " in with food at your fingertips!

The more you exercise that resistance muscle, the stronger it gets.




Sorry I haven't checked in much. Lots of things are going on and life has been busy and so had my involvement with the LCD group.

So my eye-nonsense did not improve much with the expensive prescrip. It's $405/month WITH a discount from the company. NICE, no? Funny thing though, I've been having a suspicion for awhile about AS and how it affects me. I was looking back at dates and the fatigue came back once I stated using Torani in my coffee and drinking diet sodas. It was a big coincidence, maybe. That's when my dry-eye started off and on coincidently. It went apocalyptic in January when I started trying to cut again and was using A LOT. Chewing lots of gum, eating jello every night, eating low-cal/low-carb yogurt, and sweetening nightly flavored herbal tea with it. I had other symptoms, too, of hot flashes at night and of irritation of the UT/kidneys...I'm not going into that further, but ladies with multiple births under their belt know what I mean.

That's not funny. Here's the funny part. I have been AS free for 2 days. And for 2 nights my eyes are only mildly a PITA. I only woke twice to use eyedrops, and there have been no close calls on the ripping. I had been waking 6 times a night and having at least 1 close call up until the first day I stopped the AS. And for 2 days, the other symptoms are going away. I have dropped 2lb of the extra weight that has been hanging around. That could be due to a decrease in cortisol from the stress of the pain at night and the not-sleeping.

I'm getting the keto buzz back after my morning keto coffee. And I haven't carb-binged in 11 days.
It's not magic. I'm still tired, and I still have dry mouth/dry eye pretty bad. I have an appt on the 21st to have a check-up and to browbeat the dr into ordering a bunch of bloodwork. There is a MARKED difference though. I don't think there is any coincidence about it. It's the AS making everything worse. If this keeps up, I will try weaning myself off the expensive prescrip. I do think I still have an issue like Sjogren's syndrome or a hormone imbalance. We'll get to the bottom of that.

I've been using stevia once daily in my coffee. I find it disgusting, so I'm thinking of getting rid of it. Maybe tea would work better with it. Anyway....what else? Oh, also I've gone back to lazy keto while I'm also working on keeping the binges away since they have redeveloped. I'm doing ok. I haven't gained any so far.

Anyway, any of you all on my Mindfulness challenge will probably reread some of this over there. Apologies for that.
Sorry this is so long.

My mood is so improved! But that could be that it's been in the 60s and sunny for days.
I'm optimistic.

@baconslave- I'm so glad to hear things seem to be a little better. Those *kitten* make me nervous. I have some Sweet Leaf liquid and I just don't like the taste- seems bitter/chemically. I know others here really like it. If I have anything, I'll use some Erythritol. I'll use that if I'm making a LC cheesecake or muffins. I don't think it has the same side effects or insulin/glucose responses.
It's a beautiful day here in PA as well. My unintentional "bulk", however, continues. *sigh*

Lol, they edited my last post. I was referring to artificial sweeteners (plural) as AS s.

KnitOrMiss wrote: »

4031isaiah wrote: »

Hmmm... Do you have a recipe?

I kind of end up with insulin reactions to cinnamon, so @auntstephie321 suggested cayenne in my chocolate hemp shake, and I tried it - just a dash per serving, and it's nice. If you put to much you can taste it. I'd start with a dash and just adjust...

oh you can surely taste it if you put too much lol.

Hello! New to keto--started this week! I've had success losing 100 pounds in the past with very low calorie eating. Unfortunately, the last two years of medical school has really packed on the weight (about 30 pounds). This was related to lots of sitting and reading and eating tons of carbs. While my activity level will soon be changing (going into 3rd year with lots of clinical rotations and less reading books all day), I would like to change up my eating. Keto makes sense considering the biochemical mechanism behind it.
I'm struggling with "what to eat" though. Eggs, cheese, avocado, chicken and broccoli is getting old.