Low carb weight loss by the end of the year

Ok long post but I'm covering several topics here!

Glad to have you guys in! Just a few more days until we start. I'm hoping to have a small group, maybe 5-10, that way we can all really get to know each other to help out rather than a large group challenge where people just log numbers but don't know each other. This way when someone needs support hopefully another member can provide it. That's why I kept it to those who are low carb only so we could understand each other and not have disagreements about how people are eating. I'll ask we try to save posts for Friday where you can write if you are struggling in number 5, but if you really are having a bad day you are always welcome to post during the week. The earlier on Friday you post the more time you give other members the chance to reply to you as well remember

Regarding food, We can make a section just for that if you like, foods that are low carb. If anyone knows how to make a spread sheet in here, I saw it in another group, members can all add to that post if you would like and create a large menu! Otherwise everyone can pm me their foods and I will create one large post or I'll try to figure out the spreadsheet we will make it work but I think that is something fun to have!


Why don't we all give a little background about each other before the challenge starts.

I am 28 years old, female, and a graduate student going for a double doctorate in psychology. I have been in a wheelchair for 11 years with multiple illnesses so I primarily use diet to keep my weight down. I had been doing a good job, the past few years staying in the 115-125 range (I'm 5ft 1/2inch) and it was just a matter of trying to get the last few pounds off as my goal was 100. However this January I became extremely ill with something called guillian barre syndrome which causes accending paralysis. I ended up on a ventilator for a short period of time until I could breath on my own again and the paralysis slowly went back down again. However it left me paralyzed waist down still and it is unknown when or if my legs will come back (I now take for granted all those years in a wheelchair I could at least move my legs and do light exercises which probably helped a lot) and it also has left me with a lot of pain. The pain meds, steroids and some other meds, as well and being very sedentary has led me to pack on the pounds and I skyrocketed to 183 at my highest, a number I've never seen in my life and honestly left me crying, something my dad doesn't quite understand that I cry about my weight, but I do have some body dysmorphia undiagnosed and this really doesn't help. Since going low carb though, despite only losing a few pounds I have lost several inches so honestly I prefer the inches as I would in the beginning want to look slimmer then worry about the numbers. I have also begun tracking my water.

Low fat and low calories diets were doing nothing for me so a nutritionist wanted me to go Keto. My meds alone cause me to eat 30 carbs a day so my goal is 50 net carbs and I usually am between 50-70 so it's still new to me and I'm getting used to it and getting there. My goal is Keto although I think right now I'm more extreme low carb some days. I get terrible cravings though still and am coming up with alternatives for them. So that's about it for me.

Feel free to write as much or little about yourself!

Get ready everyone, we start tomorrow! Anytime that works for you please use the template provided in the first post to track your information, make it work for you, if you need additional information to track or post that's what number 5 is for to make it unique for you

Any last minute questions feel free to ask. I hope I made this easy enough and explained it well enough that everyone gets it. We are a small group of five I believe and just like the Olympic 5 I believe we are going to take home the gold come the end of December!

Last question for everyone and you can add it in your posts every week if you want as a number 7 (as it came to me late) or just post it once, but what is your realistic goal weight for the end of four months? (How much does it equal to losing!) and what is your ultimate goal weight?

I look forward to seeing posts tomorrow and will look into excel sheets tonight so that you can post right in there and it will keep the pages of this thread shorter and posts after the excel can be regarding other topics.

Have a wonderful last day before the start of a new you

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FLUuymeb0L3DxT_tsSJ-9vXO7MYONKlCzmFjTAjcf40/edit#gid=0

Perfect This is where we will post our weekly check ins. I think I need an email from your so that you have access to edit it as well. If you can edit it without the email that's great and don't worry about it otherwise you can message that privately to me. I will set up the first page so that it is our check ins. Second page can be our recopies. Following pages can be any additional information that you guys would like to have. This excel sheet can be edited throughout the four months. I hope this works out. If the majority of the group does not like it just let me know and we will go back to posting check ins in the old fashioned way. Best of luck today with week one the start of your journey!

Figured out how to use the sharing link here it is for everyone:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FLUuymeb0L3DxT_tsSJ-9vXO7MYONKlCzmFjTAjcf40/edit?usp=sharing

sorry, new with the excel but wanted it to work for tracking convience, thanks for the patience, evenyone else should be able to fill it in by the end of today and I hope to see a full spreadsheat so we have a good start of the challenge!

So brushing off the rough start I look forward to seeing the sheet filled up in the coming days. We all know weight loss is both mental and physical and part of it is loving our bodies. So I thought it would be a fun idea to use this space to ask a question each week, some more light and some deeper. Since it's the first week we will start with a lighter question.

What type of eating schedule do you have?

My answer is that it is irregular and every day is different. classes are easing up now that I am in my 4th year and working on my dissertation my my program we could have days where we had two classes back to back 4:30-8:10 so no time for dinner and I would just grab a smoothie to drink during class and a snack after. The other days twice a week I had a client I saw the slot I didn't have a class so it was still the same full day.

At my internship I love it there but they don't give me an official lunch hour and during two lunch periods for the kids I ran social groups to include kids who ate by themselves and I never knew before or after if I had testing or a kid I had to see so I never packed lunch rather a couple healthy snacks and would eat them when I had a free period but the times varied. At the same time any moment a kid could pop in asking to talk to me and being a school for kids with physical needs and my being in a wheelchair many favored me over the two actual psychologists and I developed quite a case load lol. The only good thing that came out of it is I have a potential job offer I will still be going there 2-3 times a week half days now.

And the. Breakfast which is not my favorite meal so it was half and half whether I ate it which is why my calorie count was always so low back then and I was thin. Being sick now I sit a lot. I have aides and therapists coming in but a lot more time for snacking. Still not a big meal person and I tend to stay closer to 1000 calories a day so even though I switched to low carb I'm having a hard time getting away from low calorie. I don't think it's affecting it though. It's been a month now and 3 and a half inches lost around my waist and more in other places so I'm doing something right. But I don't know if my snacking ways is ok or if I should focus more on meals. At home where I am I have dinner everyday because of my dad, but at school I have no problem having one of the Greek ice pops I made for dinner. The only difference from before is all my snacks are low carb whereas before they were healthy but I didn't watch carbs

Boy I need to learn how to answer shorter haha. Anyway, losing weight with this eating plan and happy with it for now