SHEs Organized

LadyM: your restaurant experience was similar to one I nearly had. We were going out to a fancy steak place that thankfully was a chain so had the menu online. I was being 'good' so checked before hand and discovered the steak was the least calories. Not the broiled fish, but the steak! I have no idea what they coat that fish in but it was almost twice the calories. Thankfully, I caught my mistake before I went and had the steak and grilled veggies plus some of their amazing potato. I had planned for it so it was fine (and it was before I was doing lower carb.)

Did low protein today and ended the day with 50% carbs, 30% fat. Way short on protein but still within the calorie count so won't sweat it. I knew I had the calories to have pizza today and I know how much dh likes it so I decided to have it today rather than have to go over some other time. We biked up to it and ate in a park before biking to the grocery store and home.

Just finished my morning workout at the high school track. Got in two miles.

Went to my workout last night. It was killer, but I didn't wimp out. Lots of running ....200 meters at a time. Plenty of bicycle sit-up, box jumping...I am doing baby ones... And box step ups. We stretch before and after class.

I am the oldest one by far, but there is such a free feeling as I don't even consider my age while I'm in class. Love it...

Have class again tonight. Can't wait to see what's in store for me

Did a short walk need to finish later plus did 10 mi. On ex bike.

When the weight started to fall off me, even when I was well over my calorie intake for the day, I warned dd to watch her weight because she can't afford to lose weight.

She is doing high protein to improve the quality of her eggs (which are obviously poor since only one of twelve survived the IVF process.) But she also needs to keep her weight up since low weight in the mother also is a barrier to getting pregnant (she is about 5'1" and weighs 105.)

She's been eating higher calorie but obviously not enough because she's lost 2 lbs in the last week. So now she has to regain that and then figure out how to maintain it.

I'm down another pound for sure (I've had the same reading 3x, including once after pizza and once after breakfast.)

I did a lookup on my records and realized I still have 17 pounds to lose to get to where I was before I got hepatitis. That sure was the beginning point of all my current troubles since it not only included weight gain but also left me unable to move enough to get the weight off and the extra weight further damaged my knees. Sigh....

Up @5 sigh did get out for a walk earlier and did in a full walk 2day yea.

I've just been down a rabbit hole - looking at http://www.ketogenic-diet-resource.com/ ... -plan.html, then the page on Contraindicated Health Conditions http://www.ketogenic-diet-resource.com/ ... c-diet.pdf ... I suggest you look at that Kathryn. You might need to mix things up a little to find what works for you.

What can I say. Me too. Followed a link for one of the metabolic disorders, that comes by many names. Still haven't sorted out my Zn and B6 needed supplimentation.

Interesting article, Lynlee.

WTG on the jogging and continued weight loss, Helia. I enjoyed your reflections on putting God first.

My running has been put on the back burner for now because I have been working so much. Since my job requires lots of physical activity, I've been gradually dropping pounds and am now very close to being at the weight I was when I got pregnant with our first child. I'm not sure what my goal weight should be though. It's tempting to keep going lower.

I also enjoyed Ramblin Rose's story about the black jeans. Wish I had saved a pair of mine to try on now. I did find a pair of non-stretch jeans which are size 2 in the back of the closet and they fit perfectly now. Love the non-scale victories!

Lynlee: I've never looked at a chart of where calories come from for Ketogenic diets. That's scary. I'm shooting for 30% fat (generally recognized as the recommended amount but looking back I was closer to 20% before), 45% carbs (before I was closer to 60%) and 25% protein (before I barely made 20%.)

My system is still twitchy enough from the gall bladder removal that too much fat makes me feel sick. I've hit that about 3x in the past 2 weeks, far more often than I normally do which makes me think that instinctively my low fat diet helped me feel healthy. So, after those bouts of not feeling well due to indiscriminate addition of fat, I'm choosing fats very cautiously and trying to only have those that further my protein goal.

The weight loss continues steadily. Yesterday I finally acknowledged another pound down since I give it 2 - 3 weigh-ins before I 'own' it, and yesterday's reading was after breakfast. Today's reading is down another pound but I won't log that until I see it multiple times. Ate a lot yesterday (over 1600 calories) but much higher protein than usual. To keep that up, I'd have to do a lot of grocery shopping, yesterday it just happened that my leftovers gave me snacks and additions to meals that upped the protein. It could have been way lower in calories and carbs if I passed on the brownie and Baked Cheetos but I felt like them so I'm guessing my body wanted simple sugars too and I had moved enough that they didn't mess negatively with my total calories in/out.

Despite protein before bed and two advil instead of one, and a heating pad, I still didn't have a good night's sleep. Counting the days until dh leaves to see if that makes a difference. Not sure what I'll do with the data if it does. In the 'olden days' he was traveling 3 - 5 months of the year without me so I had lots of time to refill my sleep bank. Now we are together almost all the time and I think that's part of the reason I'm getting so cranky - I'm just overtired. Of course, menopause could be part of it as well.