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Grapes :-)
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Weekends I generally train late morning and during the week in the evening. Training would be a gym session (strength) or an hour's swim. In both cases I'll have 1/2 a cup of oats an hour before.
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Dates at 60-70 calories each!
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Update: I found that eating my oats 1 hour before I hit the water does the trick. Previously my timing (30-45min) was just a bit too close to the swim.
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As girlwithcurls said just keep showing up and increase your distance gradually. You can either just add lengths working up to a new total, or work in set blocks of lengths. E.g. 2 sets of 4, and the next time 3 sets of 4, or 2 sets of 6. Find small goals to challenge and push yourself, but which you are able to achieve.
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Same principle (in Australia at least), swim (and drive) on the left :-)
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Are you able to swim? I have found swimming, with the mindless :-) counting breaths and lengths very calming.
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A starting point for Keto could be around 10% carbs, 70% fats and 20% protein.
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Reduce your red meat intake and increase fish and other proteins. My hubbie was on Keto and overdid the red meat and his cholesterol increased (which it really cannot afford to do). He is now eating more fish, nuts and coconut based snacks.
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As mentioned, carbs..I am experimenting with changing my macros to more carbs and am definitely not as cut as what I was on higher protein/less carbs. I am finding that certain carbs (and I only eat the good whole stuff) are worse than others and I will probably eliminate them (e.g. beetroot and don't even talk about…
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I got back into swimming a few weeks ago. It's something I have always enjoyed and done fairly easily but never competitively. I started out by just doing laps for 1km to get the feel for it again. I did this twice a week for about 2 weeks, and are now working on 200-300 m blocks up to a total distance of 1.5km. I find the…
