184 on the dot this morning, but I forgot to weigh again before I ate. I also haven't pooped yet today either. Took digestive enzymes w/ my dinner last night and well, they're definitely helping. Mushrooms usually go right through my system but it's staying put and getting digested like it should hopefully /nodnod

OOO DH and I have also been trying out some Quest products. THeir chips are ok. Have a weird dryness to them, but has that chip crunch so it's satisfying for a keto friendly junk food.
He also bought some Quest chocolate chip cookies too. We got those yesterday and I had one after dinner and holy smokes it's good. Big soft delicious cookie!

Total calories yesterday was in the range of 1200-1300. Maybe a little more or less b/c I didn't actually measure anything. Guessed on how much I ate lol.

This morning, I did my first 1k on the elliptical though! WOO!
Took 20mins and yeah. Wasn't too bad. I did bursts where I'd go faster than I'm used to so got in some good cardio I think. I only had resistance slighly more than nothing and incline was at the lowest setting. Just keeping it at that for now until I get used to doing it. Hopefully I'll have longer bursts of faster strides and will get that 20mins shaved down quite a bit Then I'll start increasing resistance, going up on incline, etc.

Already wasted half the day away though. Now I need to finish setting up the kids school stuff and making sure all of that works and getting the kids used to using their laptops. Joy....
Trying to get my daughter to do some extra math and reading right now since we slacked off on that this summer and I swear... I might as well be trying to get our kittens to do it with how resistant she is. So frustrating.

I am having some mood issues today. Might be stress related again (seriously... I think trying to get my daughter to do the little bit of school work is causing my stress to go up more).
Was feeling good and happy earlier after I worked out, but the bad sleep I've been getting has caught up with me and now I'm just having lots of doubt and feeling frustrated.
Am I doing enough? Why do I need to stay so low calories to get my weight to move at all. Hell, even staying low calories and it's going UP (but I haven't pooped so I know why but the doubt is still creeping in to my head).
Just... BLEH!
I hate stress. I really do. Had a dream last night that my hair was falling out in fist fulls. Really good indicator that I'm stressed right now.
Grrrr.... I just wish I could figure out something to stop this. Deep breathing helps, but I need some other way.

Can't get to sleep. Mind is racing on how I can get a small jump on teaching my daughter multiplication.
I mean some of it is pretty easy though so hopefully she'll pick up on the easy parts quick and it won't be so stressful tomorrow. FX!

Thankfully my mood got a bit better earlier. I'm still having doubts, but I'll work through them somehow. Just have to keep going though, no matter what.

And while the digestive enzymes help... b/c the food is sitting in my system for longer.. I am having some horrible gas. I mean, I'll get bad gas when I cheat, but normally on keto, any gas I get doesn't smell at all.
BUT I have been eating a lot more veggies now. Ate some cooked broccoli tonight and well... my gas would clear the room if anyone was up with me right now lol. Holy smokes it's bad. SO BAD.
I know you all want to hear about what's coming out of my behind rofl

Kat- That's a great idea. She has a piggy bank and she does love playing with the money in it. I'm usually hesitant to let her play with it bc she forgets to put it back up, but I will definitely let her play with it more often. Maybe it will help. Won't hurt to try out at least.

jade- UGH I'm sorry you're having a rough time right now too. BIG HUGS energy your way.

Last night was a night filled with too much alcohol! WAY too much. Slightly hung over today, but overall it's not so bad after I ate something.
My new fav quick meal is making myself a 'pizza'. One of the low carb tortilla shells, Ragu, pepperoni slices and cheese. Put the heat on medium low and just let it slowly heat up. Oh and cover the top lightly with some foil so the cheese melts. I'm sure it would work in the oven too, but that would take too long lol.
So yummy and really satisfies the pizza craving AND wanting something that doesn't require a lot of effort to fix.

I did have some popcorn last night too, but that was it. I'm usually a snack fiend when I drink so I'm pretty happy with just having some popcorn instead of stuffing my face with junk.


Kitten news!
They're both doing great.
The flea stuff didn't work completely though. BAH! Not sure what's going on. The fleas shouldn't have built up any kind of resistance to it since inlaws don't use the stuff and our dogs don't have fleas so these fleas didn't come from them.
DH is taking them to the vet on the 1st. Guess they can give them that treat thing that kills the fleas instantly or something.
Haven't seen any fleas in the bathroom, but I'm sure the little *kitten* are probably hiding in other places.

Anywho, other than the continued flea saga, both of them are doing great.
JJ (calico) is a chunky little thing. LOVES eating and loves the cat treats we bought.
Mia isn't a huge fan of the treats though. Oh well.

And yep, that's about it. I'll have to get some more photos of them soon

Yeah I'm not too worried about the little bit of popcorn I had.

This weekend was pretty ok other than the hangover. Just getting the kids ready for their first day. Daughter has already started, just waiting for my son's first day. So weird that his first day of school will be online, but we'll all adjust pretty quick to it I think.

I slept horribly last night. Like one of the worst nights of sleep ever. I woke up around 1 bc it kept feeling like I was getting bitten up by bugs. Not sure if it was in my head or what but it kept me up. I finally just got out of bed at around 3:30 and I've been up since.

I'm light headed like crazy b/c I'm exhausted and running on caffeine right now. I didn't want it to be another day of no exercise so I hopped on the elliptical once everyone was awake and got it done. Slower pace most of the time b/c I'm exhausted already, but I got in my 1k strides.
I did eat part of my son's apple not too long ago. After I got off the elliptical, I started getting nauseous and even more light headed. Not exactly keto, but I didn't want the apple to go to waste (bc he wasn't eating it all) and I needed something. It helped though. No more nausea. Still have the exhausted light headed thing going but oh well. At least I don't have anywhere to go today.

Yesterday was pretty sucky though. My youngest woke up with a stomach bug. No idea where the heck he picks it up from. Thinking he got it a couple days ago b/c he's had some gross poops and it finally resulted in him throwing for half the day yesterday. But again, NO clue where he would've gotten a stomach bug. The other 2 kids are fine thankfully.

jadepearl wrote: »

(((Hugs))) Hope you feel better soon Do it slowly my dear...once you get into the exercise groove, it will be just another routine in your daily life. Keep up the good work

Yeah, I'm really not trying to push myself to do like HIIT or anything like that right now. I'd just end up hurting myself and having to stop lol. I'm trying to push myself just a tiny amount for now. Like not taking long slower paced breaks, going at a faster pace for 20-50 strides... things like that.
I'm working my way slowly to getting better

Sleep was SO much better last night. Maybe b/c I had to take some allergy meds b/c I dared to stand outside for like 10 minutes (and get eaten a live by mosquitoes)... but holy moly... SO much better. I need every night to be like that lol.

My knee was bothering me some this morning so I kept resistance lower on the elliptical, but to make up for it, tried to keep up a faster pace for longer when I could.
Got it done and happy with it I THINK I'm going to try including some upper body weight training stuff tomorrow. Nothing major and it will depend on how I'm feeling too. I'll have to look up if you should do cardio before or after. I don't think it will really matter since I'm not doing either one of them to like full efficiency or anything though.