Ok everyone....I fell off the wagon and now REALLY want to get back on! I feel so much better when I embrace the keto diet. I just find I don't have the time to plan sufficiently to keep it up...lack of planning = looking for last minute lunch or dinner solutions which turns into fast food or a quick spaghetti meal for me and the kids :-/

sweetiebt wrote: »

Ok everyone....I fell off the wagon and now REALLY want to get back on! I feel so much better when I embrace the keto diet. I just find I don't have the time to plan sufficiently to keep it up...lack of planning = looking for last minute lunch or dinner solutions which turns into fast food or a quick spaghetti meal for me and the kids :-/

@sweetiebt - At fast food, my favorite things are bunless burgers, eating just the roast beef at Arby's, taco salad without the shell/beans, Caesar salad without the croutons, any egg/bacon/sausage type of deal (just ditch the carby stuff), etc. Add fatty sauces (mayo, butter, extra dressing, sour cream, guacamole, etc.)

Also, they have stuff at Walmart - like salami, pepperoni, or prosciutto, wrapped around cheese, sliced meats with cheeses (I do these with pickles or mayo or cream cheese in the middle), a premade salad (can buy extra shredded cheese, canned/pouched chunk chicken or tuna, extra dressing, hard boiled eggs in a pack, avocado/guacamole packets, cherry tomatoes, etc.) - just ditch the croutons, package of pork rinds with either ranch dip, French onion dip, guacamole, or just sour cream. In a pinch, the lunchable things with meat, cheese, and nuts. A can of dry roasted macadamia nuts (whole thing can be a "meal" or you can just do a serving. Duke's beef sticks. Bacon jerky. Etc.

I also batch cook, so I almost always have taco meat, ground beef, roasted chicken, or bacon available at home. Nothing quicker than bacon and eggs! Taco meat = taco salads in just a few minutes, ground beef is burger in a bowl or pizza (just cheese, some kind of sauce, meat, and seasonings), chicken dipped in butter or topped with cheese and bacon, etc. And if you absolutely have to, Atkin's has frozen meals in a pinch.

If you have 5-20 minutes, there's really no reason not to pull this off. Eat a pickle or some thawed shrimp or some lunch meat roll ups while you cook, etc. If you make spaghetti, serve the kids theirs with noodles, skip the noodles on yours, add a pat of butter, and some extra cheese and just eat the meaty sauce. It's a little carbier, depending on sauce, but it can be done! Or put the sauce on a pan, smother with cheese and any kind of meat and put in the oven, make a bubbly Italian style dish... Once you skip the carby sides, you'll figure out you fill up quicker on less food.

Thanks Knit! I really like that idea and it seems to be playing out for me now. Can almost feel my body re-keto adapting.
Cutting back on social things is helping. Something I want so badly in my life causes me so much stress. Still going to dance night. I seem to be able to manage that, thankfully.
A "situaton" I am getting ready to address, and maybe let go of, is a long distance frienship. It's starting to feel like a security blanket and may in fact be keeping me from being open to something in the here and now. Because I still feel vulnerable to diet/stress/self sabotage issues I think I will keep this as a back burner issue for the moment. But, I do see that eventually letting go may be one of those painful growing type things that I will have to face.
For now, I'm keto-sailing along, losing
pounds, and loving it.

Had another good keto day. Lost about a half pound. Was happy to have a pretty lazy day, but added in a little extra salt due to feeling a little tired for a couple days. Not sure where I'm going with this post, just trying to wind down without a trip to the kitchen.
Felt a little hungry today, so I added a couple hundred cals of fat. I'll be interested to see how that and the extra salt affects my weigh in for tomorrow.
Feeling good about current progress, and entertaining ideas for future food and body changes in a relaxed way. (Who is this girl? It's like I'm a different person altogether...but in a very good way).

http://www.food.com/recipe/crack-slaw-low-carb-434863

Crack slaw. I use whatever spicing I feel like at the moment. It's pretty quick and easy.

LokiGrrl wrote: »

Hi all, I am new to keto, just started last week, and OMG I really love this way of eating. I miss bread and fruit but I figure I can add them back in small amounts once I've lost some of the weight. I've dropped ~10 lbs but I'm pretty sure that's just water weight. The keto flu is kind of killing me and my appetite is way down but man, I love how simple keto can be. I'm eating a lot of avocados, sausage, eggs, and tuna salad (although I had to de-carbify my tuna salad recipe, LOL), and chicharrones are my new best friend. Hope to get to know and learn from yall, although I'm kind of spotty at message boards. Anyway, just wanted to say hi.

@LokiGrrl - Get that salt up. The so-called keto flu is from electrolyte imbalances, and is 100% avoidable. For at least the first 12 weeks, I recommend everyone get at least 5000 mg sodium, as this way of eating naturally dumps sodium for a number of reasons, so you must add back in over and above what was previously needed. The only restriction to this is if you have a very specific type of genetic high blood pressure. For the majority of people, it isn't high sodium that causes BP spikes - but the dehydration it triggers if you don't get enough water/sodium/magnesium/potassium in balance and regularly...

@elize7 - Another friend of mine recommended a book called Body Clutter... Have you read it, by any chance? Sounds like what we're all dealing with, for sure!

Looking for some Keto friends with open diarys!