Nearing the end of Week 5..... Week 5 Day 35

Still on track, with some ups and downs throughout the week.  It seems almost every other day I have a weight gain.  Normal?  Not sure about anybody else, but it seems to be for me.  

The weight gain days experienced this week have been a little more emotional due to "that time of month".  

One thing that has blown my mind is that even on my "lowest" days, I don't want to give up.  Never has crossed my mind to make that jump into the ice cream, chips, etc.  I am so convinced that this is going to work for me, that that type of thinking is not allowed.  

So tomorrow, on my week 5 anniversary, I will have "dieted" longer than any diet I have tried in over 8 years.  I have never made it past the 30 day mark.  I feel this is going to be an adventure I will concur.  

Good news... Just in time

So this morning I woke up to a 2 pound loss!  I am not going to lie, this is exactly what I needed after yesterday's .6 lb gain and the odds and ends gains the last 2 weeks.  Although my overall trend is losing, its still mentally hard to get past the mornings when there is a gain.

I have not been keeping track of my nutrition in MyFitnessPal, but I have been using the site often to ensure I am staying on track with my carbs.  

Aunt Flo is visiting right now, so I am extremely tired and need extra sleep (normal monthly routine for me).  

Frustrated but will keep on keepin on

As I may have mentioned, I weigh myself every single morning.  I am not one for surprises, at least not the type to send me into a crying fit, call out of work and stay in bed.  Not that its ever happened, but you know what I mean.  So I am not going to wait an entire week to find out if I have gained or lost.  

So... I weigh myself every morning.  This helps me look at the day before and see if there is something I did really good, really bad, etc.  The past couple of weeks, I have been having a couple days here and there where I wake up with a .2 pound gain.  But today, I woke up with a .6 pound gain.  Seriously?  How depressing is that.  

I have also been dealing with (yesterday and today) a sugar drop feeling.  After eating breakfast (low carb gumbo soup), I feel a shaky sugar feeling about 3 hours later.  It doesn't feel as bad as when I used to drink/eat a ton of sugar, but it feels similar.  And I DO NOT LIKE IT.  I thought my gumbo soup was low carb, but apparently not.  So I told my husband it is all his and I am back to eggs, bacon, etc for breakfast.  But I will admit, I would much rather have soup, leftover dinner, etc. than eggs and bacon.  I've never been a big fan of either of them, so eating them for breakfast is really hard.  Oh well.

I will put on my big girl pants and do this right!  I got weight to lose ya'll.  No horse playing!

p.s.  I am not supposed to start my girly time for another 5 days, but signs have shown it may come early.  I know this may have a lot to do with everything as well.  

4 Weeks down and the Results are in....

The results are in and although I am happy that I have lost a significant amount of weight, I am also a little discouraged. 

You see, when I first attempted this way of eating (LCHF) a few months ago, I lost 14 pounds in 14 days.  I know that is not a normal weightloss, but for someone like me whom has to lose over 100 pounds, I know that the first few weeks to a month are going to be my greatest weightloss, and then the weeks/months following will be extremely lower.  

So you can imagine my frustration when my entire month's weightloss is hardly more than my 2 week weightloss the first go around. 

The obvious question is "What am I doing differently"?  Well honestly, I feel like the only differences are actually more positive and would have resulted in a greater weightloss.

Here are the differences:

First Attempt:
- Ate out a lot more often
+ Ate only Fat and Protein for Breakfast



This Attempt (Final):
+ Eat out a LOT less often
+ Keep track of meals
+ I feel much more motivated this time around
-  Drinking a lot of Herbal (mostly decaf) Iced Tea (mabye messing up        digestion?)
-  I have switched to eating soups for Breakfast, which contain vegetables (carbs), although they are minimum

I can't think of anything else right now that is different.  If anybody has any ideas on what I could be doing wrong, PLEASE let me know.

I've been busy... Guilty as charged

I have not only been lack on my blog posts, but I have also been "forgetting" to not post my nutrition in MyFitnessPal.  Quite honestly, it gets tedious.  If I have that one meal from a place that I was not able to calculate the nutrition data, then I feel that there is no point at all in posting the rest of the day.  I know what is right to eat and what is not right to eat.  On the flip side, those days that I cannot post the nutrition, I always wake up to a stall or slight weight gain.  But what do I do?  I told my Husband that I was going to start packing my meals and eating them in the car while they (Hubby and Son) eat in the restaurant.  ha ha ha

Tomorrow is my big weekly weigh in and video post.  I hope that I have good news.  

See you tomorrow.   

Day turned sour :( or did it?

Although my day started out happier than you can imagine, I have ended on a sour note.   After dinner (which I wasn't even hungry), I had to rush out to my son's football practice.  I grabbed the last 2 servings of my chocolate bar and headed out.  

During the football practice, I continued to take bites until it was all gone.  Why did this happen?  What propelled me to eat those unneeded carbs?  

Well, here I am 9:00 at night, feeling like crap.  I feel shaky, due to my sugar being out of whack and I probably knocked myself out of ketosis.  

But you know what, I am not reaching into the freezer for some more sugar.  I don't crave anymore.

Honestly, I feel very good about tomorrow.  I will lift my head up and continue with what I know works for me.  

Now that I think about it, maybe I didn't end my day sour. Maybe, just maybe I have actually accomplished something great.  My old habits have not returned.  I did not chalk the day up to a wash, eat whatever I want with the hopes of starting over again tomorrow.  

I have accomplished something great, and I feel very positive.

This is why writing your thoughts down, whether public or not, is worth every second of your effort!  


B:  Southwestern Taco Soup
L:  Romaine lettuce, shredded cheese & blue cheese dressing. Guy Fieri's Pork recipe.
D:  8 chicken wings with buffalo sauce and blue cheese dressing;  a couple cauliflowers and 1/2 cup green beans.  
S:  2/3 bar of organic 80% chocolate bar (2 servings)

ALERT ALERT: First time Weightloss Noticed Day 24

I am actually at work, but I could not wait until this evening to write this post.  I am ecstatic.  I have experienced what every person trying to lose weight wants to experience. 

Walking down the hallway a moment ago, a co-worker stopped me and told me that I am looking thinner and asked me how much weight I have lost.  After telling her about 15 pounds, she said "you can definitely tell and keep up the good work".  

W.O.W!  I seriously cannot believe this has happened so early.  I'm very happy.

So can you see how happy I am?