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Tracey's Mid-Maintenance Break/Back Into Weight Loss Mode
OK, I have decided to take a break from maintenance and take my final shot at making it to my goal weight of 145 pounds. In order for me to maintain successfully, I need to be at a weight I am comfortable fluctuating up a few pounds in maintenance. My current maintenance range is not working for me as I constantly want to…
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Tracey's Maintenance Journal - Year One
Today is my first day of maintenance. I am starting my maintenance journey at a weight of 150.7 pounds. This journey to maintenance has been long coming as I have always been a yo-yoer when it comes to my weight. I would lose and gain and lose and gain. But this time I know is different and I will not be gaining again. I…
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Tracey's 50 Days to Maintenance
If you follow my OMAD journey thread, I posted that I will be ending my weight loss journey on November 9, 2017 and beginning maintenance on November 10, 2017 which leaves me 50 days to lose as much weight as I can with the goal of reaching 144 pounds. I will begin maintenance at whatever weight I weigh in on November 10…
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Tracey's OMAD Journey
Hello all, I would like to join everyone in chronicling my OMAD Journey. My name is Tracey, I will be 44 years in September. This is my 15th day of OMAD eating. so far since starting OMAD I have lost 4.2 pounds and am currently at 170 pounds with a goal of 140 pounds so I have 30 more pounds to lose. My weight loss journey…
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September 100 Squats a day Challenge
I have decided for September to do a 100 squats a day challenge. I welcome anyone who would like to join me. You may do the squats however you want. For my challenge, I will be doing 4 sets of 25 squats throughout the day. 25 narrow squats 25 basic squats 25 plie squats 25 kettlebell squats. If you would like to join,…
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Tracey's Birthday Challenge
TRACEY'S BIRTHDAY CHALLENGE I am challenging myself to follow the original OMAD protocol to see if I can make continuous progress without having to backtrack and have a continuous losing trend until my birthday on September 16. I would really like to get through the 150's during this time, but will be content with whatever…
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Your September 2017 Goals
My weight loss goal for the month of September is to reach my ultimate goal weight of 144 pounds. This would put me at losing 12 pounds for the month. It is a tall order, but basic OMAD has been working for me and I am going to be sticking with it until I reach my ultimate goal weight and move into maintenance. My fitness…
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Your August 2017 goals
OK this is the third month and I still am looking at reaching the same goal of getting into the 150s. June was a bust, July was a bust, but August will see the 160's gone for good. My vacation caused me a gain and I have 10 pounds to lose to hit 159 and by golly I am going to do it in August. 1. Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian meals…
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Your July 2017 Goals
It is a new month, the first day of the second half of 2017. Let's all make the second half better than the first. My July goals include: Getting trending weight to 158 pounds/Scale Weight 155 pounds Getting 7-8 hours sleep each night Drinking more water Adding additional exercise
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Is a Consistent Meal Time Really That Important?
I was just wondering what the effects are of changing your meal times. I know that it is recommended that we have a consistent meal time everyday, but I was considering altering my meal times cycling through breakfast, lunch and dinner. Maybe doing a 7:00 meal one day, noon meal the next, and 6:00 pm the next, followed by…
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Anyone Doing OMAD with LCD
Hello Group, I was just wondering if anyone was incorporating a one meal a day (OMAD) plan along with their low carb way of eating. I have found doing OMAD to be easier because I only have one meal to be concerned with. I have been losing slowly and steadily since I have been doing OMAD. I started OMAD on 13 May and have…
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What is the best sweetener for keto
I am trying to figure out why so many keto recipes have different sweeteners. I see recipes that use swerve, stevia, erythritol, and others. Some recipes use two different sweeteners. Right now I have more than 5 different sweeteners and I want to be able to just purchase one sweetener for all of my sweetening needs. Any…
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Help, advice, something!!! New to Keto and am gaining weight
Hello Low Carb Family, I am in need of some advice or reassurance. I started the keto diet on Monday 18 April 2016. Tuesday my weight was the same; Wednesday - Friday I had a 0.6 loss each day, but I started gaining after that. Saturday I had a 0.8 gain, Sunday I had a full pound gain, and this morning I woke up to a 0.6…
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Thoughts on cheese and the KETO way of eating
Greetings fellow Low Carbers, I am two weeks in to my Keto WOE and so far I have lost about 2 pounds. I have read stories of people losing a great bit of weight in their first weeks eating Keto. I am trying to figure things out and am looking at whether I should eliminate cheese for now until I start seeing more losses. I…
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Exercise & Keto
Hello LCHFers, I just wanted to get a census on doing the LCHF WOE and exercise. I have been looking at different people's LCHF stories and have found that a good bit of them state that they did not exercise and still lost a lot of weight. It seems for me when I exercise I gain weight and when I don't exercise I lose…
