Ok.... kittens!!
Not the best photos when they're awake. They're definitely in full blown PLAY PLAY PLAY mode right now lol.
Finally got them both off the bottle and eating on their own. Although I've been using this kitten 2nd step formula stuff that hubs got from Petco. They seem to enjoy it though so... whatever.
Will need to work on getting them on just water soon though.
We still put them in the bathroom at night, but they're out in the living room most of the day now. Also starting to incorporate clumping litter in to their litter now.
And yeah.. they're both doing really good











They're currently making a giant mess at hubby's desk lol

Back to it finally. Daughter's birthday and youngest's birthday were this weekend. Lots of cake and ice cream lol.
But yep... finally back to it today.
Doing an egg fast. Started it off today w/ a chaffle made with 2 eggs, 62g of mozzarella, monk fruit, vanilla extract and topped with some SF syrup and some butter.
Yummy!
Bought myself a new waffle maker too. A bit more grown up than the spiderman one I was using lol Plus I can just make one big waffle instead of having to make 2 small ones over and over again.

Also started exercising again. Just keeping that low for now just so I can get back in to the habit again. Did 20min on elliptical. No resistance, but doing it to faster paced songs helped me to at least go a bit faster than I had intended so I still got my heart rate up. Yay
Expecting AF to arrive soon. Within the next couple of days. So that's going to suck, but still going to try to do something.

Stress has definitely gotten the better of me this year so far, but I'm still determined to get to that 30lbs lost goal by the end of the year. I think I may have to change it slightly to just be like... get to 150something weight by the end of the year. Hell, I'd be happy to be back in the 160's too.

That's going to be DIFFICULT with even more birthdays and holidays and other crap coming up, but I can do it! I can be strong! I need to keep it to just a single day of cheating or even just a meal. I've been letting my stress guide me these last few weeks.

I'm already thinking about what I want for my birthday though lol. More fried chicken and a giant buttery baked potato /nodnod

vol- I hope I can! I just have to reign it in though and have to remain pretty darn strict (in terms of not allowing unplanned cheats).

Today is day 3 of my egg fast and so far so good. While I'm not sick of eggs, I am ready to just get back to my regular diet. But just one more day though. I can do one more day

I did not exercise yesterday. While I'm back to better eating again (like no urge to cheat again), I'm still not really 100% where I was before mentally so I made excuses to not exercise. Not even excuses.. just.. I don't want to so I'm not lol.
I was making those same excuses today but I started watching a vlogger that is also on her weight loss journey and watching her get up and do something got me to get up and do something too.
I just sat there and thought to myself... "I'm going to watch this video... the least I can do is finish watching it while I'm on the elliptical. Even if it's just at a slow pace."
So that's what I did. I got on the elliptical and took it slow while I watched her video. I did increase resistance just a small bit and near the end went a bit faster too, but I kept it slow for the most part.
Even though it was barely exercise, I'm still happy that I got up and did something. It's a small step in the right direction.

Also... forgot to post weight, but it was 191.something on Day 1 of the egg fast.
And from just a second ago, it was188.2.
So it's dropping, but still up from where it was. Hoping a couple more pounds of this is also PMS related too since that should be starting up today or really soon.

In other news. Son has his follow up appointment today. His nose looks great though. Looks to be healing up really well and he says it doesn't hurt anymore when we're putting the ointment on the scar.

Kittens are also doing great. Hyper little monkey cats. They're starting to get a lot more hyper and getting on to a lot more things. We're going to wake up one day to everything on all the shelves knocked down to the floor.
One thing they still need to work on though is pooping and NOT stepping in it. So gross, but neither of them seem to mind getting a small bath to clean the poop off. Mia (the orange one) actually starts to purr once she's wrapped up in the towel getting dried off lol.
Right now I'm trying to wean them off the kitten formula and just drink plain water. Only have about 2 servings of it left anyway so they're gonna get weaned off no matter what lol.
Also trying to get them to eat crunchy food now too. Somewhat successful so far

Oh I forgot to update here too lol.

So my weight this morning was 187 on the dot. That's down just over 4lbs which I'm more than happy with, but that's still up about 2-4lbs from where I was before my giant stress filled cheatfest lol.

4lbs may have come off even if I had just gotten back to regular keto too though so /shrugs.. still a win

I had myself some fried cabbage this morning. Like... an entire giant bag worth. Still only equaled about 300 calories.
Had some lunch which was leftover shaved beef w/ peppers, onion, cheese

Dinner is going to be a sirloin and either sauted broccoli or green beans or zucchini. Maybe a medley

AF started today and with it came a headache and some minor cramping and uhm... gut issues so no exercising today. Probably not tomorrow either since first 2 days are the worst. Will see how it goes though.

Need to get back to IFing again too!

WHEW My appetite is really high right now. I fixed some chia seed pudding that I snacked on, but I needed more so ate some cheese and salami slices too (all after dinner). I could've easily eaten the entire mason jar of the pudding I made. Easily. And dinner was big too. Sauted broccoli and zucchini w/ 2 sirloin steaks (maybe about 4ish oz each).
Thanks so much AF!....

I could use more sleep, but it's been pretty good here so far. About to go start up a pot of neckbones w/ mushrooms so I can have that for dinner.

Lunch is gonna be.. something. Probably steak burritos (leftover steak)

Still have a voracious appetite, but I've been doing pretty good at picking better choices so I'm not eating like 5k calories a day lol.
My weight has gone up a pound though. I THINK that might be b/c of the mushrooms I've been eating. They don't exactly sit well in my gut, but I've been taking enzymes to help with it so that could be a potential reason.
It's going good though.
I can already see and feel the bloat I had coming back off. Now if I can just get the weight to start going back down again without having to do anything extreme.

KITTENS!!

They're both doing great! Getting in to everythere and everywhere. They both know their names which is always super cute. Especially with cats. Gotta enjoy it now while they still respond to their names lol.
They are little weirdos too. Like, if they're both by eachother and one of them sees the other using the litterbox, the other will have to use the litterbox at that exact moment too. Like women needing to go to the bathroom together. It's so strange lol.

JJ (calico) is definitely the vocal one right now. Hungry? MEOW. Attention? MEEEEOOOW. Where's my sister? MEEEEEEOOOOW. Just wanna meow? MMMMMMEEEEOOOOWWW.

I noticed the other day that both cats were infested again. The fleas hid well until there were too many of them to hide. I moved our heavy as sin couch and cleaned under it well (that's where the kittens like hiding and sleeping).
Thankfully haven't seen any more fleas in the bathroom or anywhere else, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before we do.
We also bought some flea stuff for them. Advantage or Frontline. We've used both on our dogs and they always worked really well. So FX that we're ahead of a flea infestation. We have carpet so it would suuuuuuuuuck if we got infested.
We usually treat our yards for fleas and ticks so don't have a huge problem. We do however always have a problem with flies though. We get SO many damn flies in the house every dang year. Every time we open the door, a few fly in. Drives me crazy.

Anywho, I OMAD'd today! Sorta. I did have like 3 Quest chips at noon, but didn't eat an actual meal until 6.
Had to clean up b/c have some solar panels dude coming tomorrow. Can't let folks think we always live in a disaster zone! lol
While cleaning the hallway that leads to 2 of my kids rooms... I got tired of it looking like a crackhead was squatting in our hallway and decided to finally paint it.
We've lived in this house for 12 years. My daughter is 8yo and she started drawing on the walls when she was around 2-3. So yeah.. that should tell you how much we're procrastinators. We have paint and all the other supplies to paint too. Just laziness too lol.
Anyway... I got tired of looking at a hallway filled with scribbles so took it upon myself to paint it. Grabbed one of the fuller cans of paint we have (a nice sky blue color) and went to work. Took my like 3 hours and now the hallway looks nice and fresh YAY ME! lol /pats self on back

And that's the tale of why I OMAD'd today. Wanted to get a hallway painted and was too distracted to eat.

I weighed myself before I ate though and it was at 183.something so woot! I doubt it will be that tomorrow but I SEENT IT! Before the 183, this morning it was 185.4 so still good IMO