On Monday of this week I started on a ketogenic diet for the second or third time in my life. Clearly, I was doing it wrong before ... In the past I was not as diligent about keeping my carbs around 20, and I was probably eating the wrong things. It's been a rough week with my body adjusting. Lots of tummy troubles (TMI?) I weighed in this morning and have dropped 6 of my 15 holiday pounds ... 9 to go! Well, 9 to get back to where I was before I started stuffing my face at the end of last year.
My goal weight has always been 140, but I got to the low to mid 150's and got reaaaaaaaally comfortable. TOO COMFORTABLE! So comfortable that I started not caring about what I was eating and packed on the poundage.
Anyway, I figured I'd give keto a go once again since I have a beach trip coming up at the end of the month. I had almost resolved to just go out, purchase a one piece swimsuit, and just call it a day. EEK! I'm not sure if this will be a long term eating plan, but it falls into place with the low carb/low sugar thing I've been doing from the beginning. The carbs are waaaaay lower than what I was doing before though. My morning oatmeal is out the window AND my large Dunkin iced coffees with two pumps of mocha ... sigh. I stopped by and got a large iced coffee with JUST cream this morning ... not the same animal AT ALL!
I will say that with the keto way of eating it has been difficult for me thus far to figure out a good balance of macros. Your supposed to drastically limit carbs ... check ... and increase fat ... check ... My problem has been getting enough calories. Everyday this week I've been between 900 - 1100 calories a day. I'm aware that is TOO LOW, but I'm still trying to figure out WHAT to eat. My meals have looked like this:
Breakfast - Ham & Cheese Omelet
Snack - Half an avocado
Lunch - Baby spinach salad with a side of homemade egg salad
Snack - Cheese stick (which I actually cut out yesterday because I thought it was causing some "issues")
Dinner - Shrimp & Zucchini
We shall see how well I stick to it this go 'round. I'm trying! I think watching carbs and sugar are key anyway!
I've been slowly working my way back into exercising. I wrote a post last year where I poopooed on a friend's advice to stop jogging and to utilize the keto diet. Now, I have stopped jogging and am on the keto diet. OH, HOW THE WORM HAS TURNED! Clearly, I don't ALWAYS know what's best. Jogging became too difficult for me to maintain with all the crazy schedule issues anyway. We just purchased a stationary bike, so I'll be doing that OR walking AND working on my body weight exercises like pushups, pullups, body weight rows, and more. I feel like I'm my own scientific experiment. Trial and error, trial and error.
