One day at a time...

Returning to the high-fat/low-carb way of life. This is a place to keep track of foods, thoughts, recipes and help me determine my own tolerance of carbohydrates and become inspired by others on a similar journey.

Height: 5' 6.5"

Start Date: April 2015
Highest Weight: 245
Lowest Weight: 172
Starting Weight: 227
Current Weight: 229.6
Current Goal Weight: 220

Ultimate Goal Weight: 155-165

Non-Weight Goals: Health, wellness, improve overall eating habits & to feel sexy in my own skin again.

28 weeks in this photo. We’ll see how much change for week 29. Hard to believe I only have 11 weeks to go!

Update time!

I wrote this three weeks ago and never got around to posting it.

It’s been a long time since I’ve actually posted here. I plan to post more often, but we’ll see how it goes. Around mid-February I managed to get back on low carb. My body was definitely trying to hold on to it’s fat and my PCOS never helps. But I felt good; so I didn’t worry too much. I managed to lose 7 pounds in about 2 months.

Toward mid-April I was feeling really tired. My face broke out with perioral dermatitis. I figured it was because my period was coming and hormoes changing. Well, my period was pretty last. Being on metformin really help regulate it. So i hadn’t had an abnormal period in a while. So I checked and my pregnancy test lit up well before the time was up. I’m currently 20 weeks pregnant.

I’m excited and scared. But everything will be fine. I’m having an ultrasound next Monday. I can’t wait to see the baby again. It really is pretty amazing when I think about it. I’m going to be a mother. We will be responsible for another human being.

Anyhow since I have PCOS my doctor had me do some early glucose stress testing. I didn’t do great on either. Now I have to see the Diabetic Nurse Educator, a dietician, and check my blood sugar 4 times per day. I don’t really mind checking my sugars. It’s just a little irritating to have to see a dietician who wants me to eat about 200g of carbs per day (over the day between 3 meals and 3 snacks). I don’t always do good keeping it low carb, but there is some foods I don’t keep at home (i.e., bread) and some things i just don’t eat because they make me feel like garbage (most breakfast staples like cereal). I understand the want to keep my blood sugar stable throughout the day. But that seems like a lot.

verticalfood:

Chocolate Dulce De Leche Cake

(via alphadaddydom)

madeleinegettingfit:

Hey All,
So something else to celebrate is I hit 1,000 followers this month! I had no idea when I started this blog last year that so many people would be interested in my food, and the keto way of eating.
Anyways, to celebrate, I want to do a little giveaway for my followers. I am giving away this brand new cookbook from Liz Williams that has great time saving, and dish saving mealst.
Check her out on instagram @thefittrainerswife for more inspiration.
In addition to the cookbook, I will be sending the winner a $50 gift card to their closest grocery store to buy ingredients for the recipes.
Prizes: 1 cookbook, $50 Grocery Gift Card
Rules:
Reblogs count as an entry, and you can only enter once, so please don’t spam
Must be willing to give me an address to send the book, and gift card (gift card can be sent digitally if preferred)
Must be following to win, but please don’t follow just for this. I run a serious Keto blog, and would like this to go to someone on the keto train with me, or looking to hop on board.
A winner will be chosen on February 11th which is my birthday. Good luck to everyone! Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Day 6

I’ve officially been eating keto since Tuesday, February 6. I was going to start Monday, but I wasn’t prepared like I needed to be. But it was on on Tuesday. I’ve been killing it this week. I’ve been trying to keep it simple.

Breakfast: Eggs & coffee with heavy cream

Lunch: Salad with chicken

Dinner: meat with a vegetable and fat

That’s essentially what all my meals have been since Tuesday. I’ve managed to meet my macros, especially my carb and protein. It’s been hard to NOT go over my protein. It’s been hard this week because I’ve been getting hungry before dinner and didn’t have any prepared fat bombs to get me to dinner. I made it work. I added butter to my meals and all that good stuff.

This weekend has been a little bit harder because I’ve been sleeping in late and I haven’t been reaching all my goals, but i haven’t been going over either. So that’s a good thing.

Today I’m going to prep lunch and dinner for the week. The plan is to make salads for lunch and protein cooked for at least 3 dinners.

I tried to make fat bombs yesterday, but i probably messed up the recipe by measure out the almond butter and coconut oil by weight instead of using dry cup. It was super west and runny when it was cooking. It’s solid now and needs to be rolled into easy to eat balls, but we’ll see how it turned out.

One more time…

I did just write that while singing Daft Punk in my head.

It’s past time that I took my health more seriously. And that I’ve actively worked to manage my health. Last year I started to treat my insulin resistance with metformin and started talking medicine for high blood pressure. My last A1C was a couple decimal points higher. Too high for my liking.

Measurements in November 2017

Bust - 48.5”

Underbust - 40”

Waist natural - 45”

Belly - 47.5”

Hip - 49”

Thighs - 26"

Current weight: 229.5lb (2/1/18)

These were taken two months ago, but should be relatively accurate. I’ll do them again this weekend and take photos.

I plan to start eating 100% keto as of Monday. I used the keto calculator on ruled.me and these are my target macros:

I’ve added these to MyFitnessPal. It wouldn’t save when I tried to do it on my phone. It keep resetting to 1700cal with 50%carbs. It did work on the website! So my macros have been updated.

I’ll get photos posted tomorrow. I’m going to write some general goals in another post.