Sweet chaffles minus the almond flour= still pretty darn good without the added carbs. I'm not really sure there was any texture difference. Maybe a little less egg springiness but not by much.

Food has been pretty good. Big *kitten* salad for dinner yesterday. 3 eggs, lettuce, onion, cauliflower, peppers, pickled jalapeno, 1.25 avocado and had some SF jello after. Yum yum!
Tonight is going to be some pork ribs w/ maybe some kimchi cauliflower. OR I might fix some kimchi stew to eat with it. That sounds good actually lol.
I think I'm just hungry b/c the ribs smell delicious in the oven right now.

Things are good though. Still sleeping horribly, but overall it's not too bad here.

Sorry for going MIA again. Just taking a break before starting OMAD b/c I know I'm gonna be on here constantly again once I start. Especially the first week lol. I promise to catch up with everyone once I'm back to it!

Been good though! Just waiting to see what kind of weather we get here from this hurricane. Shouldn't be bad where I'm at thankfully. Will probably just be like a regular thunderstorm or rainy day tomorrow.
Have to wait and see if school will be cancelled though. Lordy I hope so. I've been sleeping horribly. I think it might just be hormonal? I'll have to keep a log of it to see if it does get better/worse during certain times in my cycle.

It's good here though. Just... starting end of year stuff.
We're supposed to be participating in Trunk or Treat this year (passing out candy) and I'm making the costumes. It's fun but I've never done this before so time consuming and a lot of trial and error.
Also trying to think of presents to get for the kids. Already have some stashed, but we're not doing a ton of presents this year b/c we want to buy a VR set for the family. I think like one more present for each child and that will be it. MAYBE some little cheap things like play-doh or something but nothing more than that. Should still be a good Christmas for them
My birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks too. Not really worried about it. I'll be happy with keto friendly options. MAYBE I'll go low carb for the day so I can have some french fries and fried chicken lol, but nothing extreme like adding in a dessert too.

It took me like half a year to get back here lol, but I'm back and ready for some good OMAD action!

I am missing my coffee this morning, but having a diet dr pepper for the caffeine. I'd like to eventually give that up too, but small steps.

I've been pumping myself up all last week and well.. it worked. What worked best though was just seeing SOOO many OMAD success stories in a FB group I'm in. So many people just having so much success with it and thinking about all of you too. I got inspired AF! lol

Yesterday was an unexpected cheat day though.

Inlaws were going to an apple orchard a few hours away and invited us. I ate like 3 apples, apple pastries, then came home and said F- it and finished off the day with fried chicken and french fries and some other junk lol.

Kinda sorta regretting it to be honest, but days like that will happen... but not often.

So yep... OMAD starts today and it's only 10am lol.

I know it's going to be difficult this week, but I'm FINALLY mentally ready for it.

I'm not weighing myself until Friday. I'll take a before/progress shot then and maybe measurements too.
I do plan on trying to distract myself w/ lots of craft projects I've been wanting to get done and staying busy so hopefully this week won't be so bad while I get adjusted to OMADing again.

I may start exercising again this week too. Or getting the sunroom ready and start moving some of the exercise stuff in to it. I dunno yet.

Feeling really good and really positive. My period should be starting late this week or early next week. THAT is going to suck, but I'm determined now! Time to get this weight back off and then some!

I have a weight goal I would love to be by the end of the year, but I think I'd be happy if I was comfortably in a size 10 bottoms and medium shirts by then.
There are A LOT of events coming up though so it's going to take a hellava lot of determination and consistency. I did it last year.. I will do it again!

deadmanwonderland wrote: »

Excellent idea about the exercise and moving the items to the sun room sounds great. Never hurts to get a little extra vitamin D into the system while exercising!

What type of exercise do you do? I’ve stuck to brisk walking but I’m looking into doing some more. Going to try some yoga tonight for the first time ever

I plan on weight training. I just can't do cardio. It's SO boring. And it is too damn hot outside to walk around. I might do it once the weather cools off... A LOT. I know my boys would love walking around the neighborhood with me.

So yeah.... to start off with.. weight training... and I think I'm going to have to push myself to work harder at it. Before, I started off really light weight, but I want them gains! lol I'm not going to push myself to the point of injuring myself or anything crazy, but just using heavier weights
We have one of those stackable weights home gyms (like this) along with some lightweight dumbbells and whatnot I'm going to use.

I need to lose more weight and gain a lot more strength, but one of my fitness goals is to be able to do a pullup. Right now I can't even hold my weight so I have along way to go, but I want to get there eventually
I would also love to be able to do pushups too, but I can't even put any weight on my wrists... not even inclined. Not sure what can be done about that, but time will tell! I think losing more weight will definitely help though.

I need to start doing Yoga too. I'm as stiff as a board. Would be nice being able to touch my toes without bending my knees


Anywho... first day back on OMAD went great!! I'm sure it had a lot to do with being super motivated, but it went surprisingly well and easy. I'm sure it won't be this easy later when it's just me and the kids at home. But I'm going to try to keep myself busy like I said.
Lots of projects to get done!

I broke my fast w/ a coffee (monk fruit, half & half) at 3:30 and now I'll be eating dinner in a little bit (probably around 6) with some kimchi stew (spam, kimchi, mushrooms, tofu)
Right now I'm going to aim for 3pm every day to break my fast and then eventually tighten my eating window more. But right now I think it'll be ok

Also might be low carbing it this week instead of keto. We picked A LOT of huge juicy delicious apples and I don't want them going to waste. Will be a delicious way to end my meal.. or break my fast. Either way

Yep.. this 2nd day is tougher. Time is going by soooo slooooooow lol.
It's going to be a longer fasting day too. Daughter just started an after-school dance/cheer class and then my son has gymnastics. Won't get home until about 6:30.
I can't have my coffee b/c well.. don't need coffee poops to occur at gymnastics :P lol
Oh well. Maybe it will be good for me to have one day a week of longer than usual fasting.

And I did weigh myself this morning. I had a feeling it was going to be a bit higher than it was and yep.. 181.8. Not really shocked considering the unexpected cheat on Saturday and knowing how my body likes bloating up. Hopefully with continued fasting I can get that number to start dropping again.

mistymeadows2005 wrote: »

SO GLAD you're mentally back on the wagon! It's a nice feeling!

Tell me more about this FB group! I wanna join!

It's called OMAD Diet - One Meal a Day Diet
Just be warned, there are A LOT of the same questions asked by newbies in the group. I don't have a problem with it, but I always see people really annoyed by the same questions being asked lol.

Today's OMAD went well!
I didn't break my fast until 6:30 tonight and felt pretty fine waiting too.
There were moments where I did want to eat, but it wasn't actual hunger... just that 'want' to eat something.
I was tempted to break my fast with an apple at 3, but I waited

Dinner tonight was steak & eggs. Also had about 2.5 apples, low carb raspberry yogurt and 1 grape :P lol

Think tomorrow's dinner is going to be the leftover kimchi stew w/ a can of mackerel in it Stinky but delicious!

Lol... I might as well do squats with how much I have to bend my knees to touch my toes :P lol It's so bad.

Alrighty yall.
Period started this morning. Still not used to having a regular cycle here, but it's been regular for the last few months so.. yay I think? lol
And the hunger and exhaustion that goes along with it is here too.
I slept horribly and am in desperate need of caffeine. Diet soda just isn't cutting it but... I just gotta hold out until 3pm, then I am going to down some coffee.

I actually went to bed at 9 last night, but got woken up at 10:30 with horrible gut cramps and eventually had to get up to use the bathroom and just could not get back to sleep after. After a couple of hours I got back to sleep, but it wasn't a deep sleep. Just ugh a bad night.
Going to bed early tonight too hopefully.

I still haven't exercised this week. I dunno if it's going to happen this week. It's still a struggle to actually get started.
One thing at a time though.