Angry, Fat, & Poor

Me again.. 

And yes - about 30 pounds down since you last saw me. And as per usual, I am fad dieting. Will I ever learn?

If you have a tik Tok, you know that calorie deficit eating is all over. Of course, I had to give it the old college try and to my surprise it’s working. 

Calorie deficit eating combined with intermittent fasting (16:8) has seemed to put me back on track. Figured I would come back here because my instagram doesn’t give a shit about my healthy meals, and I feel better posting them somewhere. Don’t you love that about our generation?

Anyway, I’ve been working on this since June. So it’s taking a little longer than the keto did. But you know me, I’ll try just about anything.

Anyway, we are just kinda making this up as we go, so I’ve decided to limit cheat days as much as possible. For example, this week it is only gonna be Sunday, and we aren’t gonna go overboard (I hope).

Well here’s today (and I’ve decided to not count calories so boom)

B

Green smoothie (same as the past two days)

Coffee w/cream

L

Leftovers (spicy peanut noodles (half zucchini noodles/half reg)

D

Shrimp coleslaw salad (fucking weird, amiright?)

Pictured: leftover noodles (no I did not eat the whole pan) and the “shrimp coleslaw salad”

The salad was a funny thing because I had marinaded some Cajun shrimp, and didn’t know what to do with it. I saw I had some coleslaw in the fridge and though, fuck it, mine as well. So I added that with lettuce and just mixed it around. It’s so weird, but oddly good. I just don’t care anymore.

Also I deserve a Reese’s after today. Bye.

I’m sad.

How did we get here? How did this happen? We were doing so well! We were OUT of the 200’s!!

Well for one, I’m married now. I was a whale on my wedding day, and hate looking at the photos of myself. Do I blame keto? No. I blame me. I’ve gotten so comfortable with how I look that I forgot how to take care of myself. And not to mention a global pandemic...that didn’t help. I had to keep those restaurants in business.

To refrain from crazy calorie counting, I’ve decided to just do estimates so I can track the ballpark of what I’ve consumed (I’m easing back into this people!)

All jokes aside. I’m back. I’m ready. Let’s do this.

B - 350

Coffee & green juice

L - 250

White bean hummus and pita chips & a cheese stick

D - 400

Low carb wrap buff chickie quesadilla & one dark chocolate “thin” Reese’s cup

I’m not sure if it’s the comedown from keto but Im still feeling like complete shit. My stomach feels like it’s eating itself. That probably doesn’t make any sense. Ah. Besides that. Another normal, somewhat healthy day was add.

Breakfast

Coffee w/ my nutpod creamer (hey, one positive keto thing was now I’m good at drinking it without sweetener!)

Lunch

Roasted Brussels sprouts

Dinner

Roasted Brussels sprouts, homemade tabouli, and oven steamed salmon as pictured.

Snacks

Blueberries

Here’s to hoping tonight means sleeping better, and tomorrow is another day! Who knows maybe I’ll have some energy to workout for once.

I’ve traded in My Carb Manager app for my fitness pal.

Today was kinda tough because I wanted to eat healthy, but 1. I haven’t gone grocery shopping 2. I had to do stuff after work and didn’t get home til 7 and 3. I still feel sick from my keto lapse.

I didn’t get a chance to eat a meal for breakfast or lunch, but I did find time for a breakfast coffee...with a splash of cream. Which tasted incredible might I add...

I found some wasabi peas in my desk, so that was lunch.

I ended up helping my Grandma right after work, so once I got home I whipped this up. Eating pasta for the first time in 3 months was heavenly. Hoping I don’t gain 10lbs tonight. I was good though and ate a serving size 🙄 and tried to eat more veggies over grain.

Tomorrow I promise to stay away from high carby foods and stick to a leaner meal.

Since I’m not counting net carbs, I will let you know that I have had 775 calories today, and 121 grams of carbs. Forgive me god, for I have sinned.

Really curious to see what the scale looks like come Sunday...

Alright, I’m throwing in the towel. It’s been 3 months, I’ve lost 20 or so lbs and I just can’t keto anymore. Honestly, I have no idea how people do this as a lifestyle.

So I was keto all week (as usual) and last night I decided to let loose. And when I say “let loose” I don’t mean housing a whole pizza or anything quite at that level..BUT I did have 4 glasses of wine and some crackers with my cheese.

Holy fuck I was SO SICK. Sick to the point where I had to excuse myself from my friends and actually pray to the porcelain god. I was throwing up so hard it was coming out of my nose. My stomach was in knots, and still isn’t feeling well today. As far as I’m concerned FUCK keto. I’m at a loss. I don’t know where to go from here. I think I’m going to still watch carbs, but without the eating high fat piece. I miss my fruits and veggies too much. I’m about to drive to the store right now because it’s been three months since I’ve had a fucking orange and I feel like it will taste like pure bliss.

For real though, I think I’m going to switch it up, incorporate some whole grains and exercise. One thing that was cool about keto was I didn’t work out and still lost weight, but I need to get my lazy ass out there so I don’t sound like I’m going to die after going up the steps.

I planned a cheat day a month ahead of time. When it finally approached, I didn’t by any means go crazy. Literally outside of keto, all I had was beer and tater tots. Do you know just over the course of two days, I gained 7lbs!! WHAT THE FUCK. It’s been a week since my cheat day, and I am STILL not even back down to where I was. Super disappointing. I just don’t know how I feel about a diet that puts weight back on that quickly. Ugh. Anyway, I’ve been Back at it this week, just haven’t posted much. Here are some of my meals.

1. I tried pork rinds as breadcrumb and it was awesome

2. Sausage and Cabbage:

I don’t know anymore.

A Keto taco bowl...aka I got new bowls and so now I keep eating salads.

Blah. My stomach hurts. I’m gonna drink a shitton of water and pretend this isn’t my life.

Here’s the truth.

I didn’t do a weight in yesterday because Saturday & Sunday I broke keto. I had a moment of weakness and just ripped in. I decided not to weight myself yesterday so I didn’t become discouraged. My last weight in was Friday, and that was 194.8. I have promised myself I will not ate on the scale until I am atleast back into ketosis.

With that being said, today I came back with an intermittent fast, and one large keto meal. I made a ketofied pho out of shiritaki noodles. Was absolutely delish, and hit the spot. Also think it helped my sour stomach. I’m not gonna lie, my carb intake Saturday and Sunday really took a toll on my belly. I had so many cramps it was unreal. Not sure what themat really meant but oh well.

I had a pretty big carby meal, and also a few extras :)

I made a spicy shrimp salad, coming in at 9 net carbs. I then indulged a little, and had 2 chocolate clusters (1 net carb each) and a low carb Cosmo (2 net carbs) bringing my total today to 13.

Weigh in day.

Pretty pleased. 3.4lbs gone since last week.

Bringing my total weight loss to 21lbs.

Also I really want a frosty, so there’s that.