#keto progress

Just a friendly reminder (to you and myself): even if you don't see the scale move, you're definitely making progress.

For me personally, a pair jeans I wear has steadily been getting looser. Today I decided they were TOO loose, so I took in a few inches to make them fit better. (Because I'm cheap and will not go out and buy a new pair....these don't even have the thighs rubbed out yet! They're like new! 😂)

Anyway, the first picture is from the middle of June, before I had really recommitted to doing keto again. I was just eating less crap, and was losing a little bit of weight. Kind of pulling on them, I had a few inches of give. The picture on the right is from today. Again, only barely pulling on them, and there's WAY more give.

That makes me feel good, because the scale hasn't really moved in a few days, despite the exercising and sticking to my macros.

This mornings weight was 192.4......whoo hoo

I made it another day obstaining from my keto wraps and Halo Top. My keto buddy and I are officially competing on who can lose more weight and your girl is currently winning. Keto buddy is planning a cheat day and I said maybe I’d have a cheat day too to keep things even but I don’t really want to have a cheat day. I’ve gotten that really good mind over matter mindset of this is how I’m eating, I’ve been stalled in the 190s since Christmas and I really want to finally make my break through to a new lowest weight.

Food today was a massive take out salad with all the meats and only one cup of dressing.....so good. I’d been craving a triple stacker cheeseburger from Burger King for days so I picked one up on my way home and discarded the bun obvs, it was pretty satisfying.

With a 33 pound loss tucked under my belt I thought it was time to visually see how far I’ve come.  

The initial 15 pounds came off within the first four months through lazy keto.  I stayed around 245 all the way from October 2017 through April 2018.  Even though I was “doing keto” I wasn’t counting calories or macros.  There were also many many times where I fell off the wagon throughout that time period.  

The subsequent 15 pounds came off between April - May 2018 through CICO, increasing my walking, tracking everything I ate and staying within my macros.  

Sure wish I had done strict keto since July but that wasn’t the path for me, apparently.  Had to exhaust all the “easy” options first to find out they’re not effective for me.  

I still have a long way to go but I’m proud of my efforts thus far and am enjoying the ride.  I’ve already been able to start wearing clothes I haven’t been able to fit into in over a year and it feels so validating to be able to increase my wardrobe options again.  While I still have a closet of dresses waiting for me to get under 180 they’ll be there cheering me on until I can fit into them again.  

Well y’all, today is officially 1 month keto.

I did a 24 hr fast to celebrate, and I am breaking it with a mozzarella bagel. I need to really make up for it at dinner time, but my fridge took a shit this morning and I’m pretty sure I have to toss out most of my prepped food. Money. Down. The. Drain. One nice thing is knowing that in one month, I’ve lost 15 pounds! I feel like I still look the same, but it’s nice seeing a new number on the scale.