Thanks everyone
It's good to be back.
I'm sorry if I don't completely read over everything I miss on everyone's threads, but it's been a while and that's a whole lotta reading! lol

Things are good here though.
I've been actually in to a store once this entire time. Once I drove to the store b/c I wanted to get something, but the parking lot was jam packed with cars and I'm not messing with large crowds crowded like sardines in a grocery store.
DH has been doing all of our grocery shopping and so far so good. Made us some crappy homemade masks but guess that's better than nothing right now.
Better than what most people do.. which is not wear anything at all or wear a mask just covering their mouth.... like... WTF is the point of wearing one if you don't bother covering your nose too?

lol... end rant!

Feeling ok most of the time though. I didn't really go out before so I'm not itching to go out now and we live in a house so the kids can go outside and play freely. We're not all cooped up like some people are thankfully.
Just every once in a while, I start feeling anxious and like... just.. stressed (hence the junk food I was eating before)..... how frickin weird has 2020 been so far? Seriously... just.... WTF 2020?? Calm your butt down!

Woo boy those cheats were nice though. Being able to just pop in some bread and eat some toast. I was experimenting making bread too which was really fun and tasty.

But I also shot up in weight and felt TERRIBLE once I added in more sugary things. I mean like straight up garbage every single day b/c my body just can't handle "normal" amounts of carbs or sugar. I was popping antacids every night along w/ ibuprofen.
Thankfully after the first week back on keto, I was feeling so much better. Less bloated, no more aches and pains.
I know I'm going to feel that way eating junk, but damnit... why's it have to be so tasty huh?? lol

Uh what else. Daughter is out of school for the rest of the school year. Helping her with her school work at home helps make IFing a lot easier. We start around 9:30 and finish around noon. Also not having to wake up to take her to school is... it's nice. Not even gonna lie lol. I know some folks are being driven crazy by their kids, but it's just same old same old here so I'm enjoying not having to wake up early to take her to school or stop everything I'm doing, get my boys ready, and go get her lol.
I do have to work on my teaching skills though. Thankfully she's only in 2nd grade so what she's learning isn't that difficult, but trying to teach her things that you just naturally know now is... it's definitely weird and difficult sometimes.

Anyway.... IFing has been going well. Still getting hungry during the mornings, but helping my daughter with her work is a good distraction. And I'm only going until at least noon most days. Some days it's a little later, just depending on whatever.
I've stopped drinking coffee. Wasn't really a conscious decision. I just stopped wanting it. I am still drinking a monster drink in the morning though so it's not a clean fast or anything.
BUT it's working though. Weight I registered on Friday was 189.6 and this morning about an hour before I broke my fast my weight was 186.8.
I didn't want to become obsessed with weighing myself again, but it's SO dang encouraging seeing the number go down.
I also just started exercising again. Nothing much right now, but it's something at least. Bazillionth time trying to start it up. SIGH... I just wanna be skinny, fit and lazy damnit!

Feeling good today. I was up about a pound this morning, but also had high fiber foods for dinner and hadn't pooped yet lol.
At least.. that's what I'm hoping the reason was :P lol
That was one good thing about coffee... it definitely was reliable to get things moving and out.

Food yesterday was leftover chicken thighs w/ hot sauce, fried coleslaw mix (it's just the veggies, not the mayo and all that), and ground beef burritos for dinner. 2 low carb tortilla shells, pimento cheese, ground beef w/ spices and green bell pepper, onion, romaine lettuce, sour cream
Also had salted peanuts and lily's chocolate chips.

I've eaten a head of cabbage for lunch today. Yeah.... whole big head of cabbage. I ate it ALL! Steam/boiled it w/ spices until soft and just enjoyed the heck out of it after helping daughter with her work.
Dinner is Japanese? curry chicken and... something. Would be great with rice but nope....
Will probably make myself a big salad to eat with it.

mistymeadows2005 wrote: »

OMGGGGGGGGGGGG the pimento cheeeeeeeeeeeese!!!! I forgot about that and I'm glad your love for it has not waned LMAO

LOL... we actually stopped buying it for a while, but since we switched back to keto, we've gotten it again. I'm gonna have to limit my love for it though. So many calories and I could eat like half the container of it which would be like.. hell I dunno 5k+ calories lol.

Nice weekend.
Didn't get much done, but meh.
DH hurt his back again though. He took the day off. Poor guy. He just started exercising again and was just doing squats when it went out on him again. Wish I could help him.

I started the very horrible process of..... folding and putting away the laundry lol.
I hate it. I hate it so much. The kids go through SO many clothes (b/c they enjoy playing dress up!)
But it had to be done. They were wearing the same handful of clothes b/c evveryone was too lazy to dig in the mountain to find something else to wear lol.
Still have a lot to fold still, but it will get done.
Did find out that my older son has like NO clothes.
He's outgrown so much of his stuff that he only has maybe a week's worth of clothes if he changed every day lol.
We'll definitely have to get him a lot more since he'll be starting school in august.

Anywho...
Diet and IFing have both been going well. My weight is up some, but AF is right around the corner too so I'm pretty sure that's why. I haven't been doing anything else to warrant a gain.