#weight stats

Weigh-In-Wednesday

Original Starting Weight (7.10.17):  260

Restart Weight (4.2.18):  245.7

Last Week’s Weight (4.17.19):  205.1

Today’s Weight (4.24.19):  206.1

Total Weight Lost Gained in 1 Week: 1 pound Total Weight Lost in 1 Year:  39.6 pounds Total Weight Lost in 1.75 Years:  53.9 pounds

Given how low my body fat mass is today I’m honestly not concerned about this gain, it’ll sort itself out eventually!  

Meal planning this week is themed!  All meals this week will be from my favorite keto resource, Keto Connect, starting with last night’s smash success of “Low Carb Kung Pao Chicken.”  Upon my first bite I was hooked and really impressed with the complex Asian flavors coming through.  Kevin was positively raving about this dish so it will for sure be going on a repeat recipe list.  

Unfortunately, due to going grocery shopping after work then making this meal, we didn’t finish eating until after 8 p.m. so I decided to spend my energy cleaning up the kitchen and organizing the fridge instead of walking in the dark.  I did make sure to get my bench press in, though!  The sets I’m doing are still challenging but I can’t get over the physical difference I feel in being able to lift something one more rep than I was just four days prior.  

Weigh-In-Wednesday

Original Starting Weight (7.10.17):  260

Restart Weight (4.2.18):  245.7

Last Week’s Weight (3.6.19):  212.6

Today’s Weight (3.13.19):  212.2

Total Weight Lost in 1 Week: 0.4 pounds

Total Weight Lost in 11 Months:  33.5 pounds Total Weight Lost in 1.5 Years:  47.8 pounds

You know what the best part of Kevin having spring break is?  He’s taking charge of making dinners!  Last night he made this “Halal Cart-Style” chicken dish with the most delicious white sauce.  Instead of making the recipe as stated he used the seasoning that was supposed to go in the rice and added it to the chicken while omitting the rice altogether, because keto.  We happily polished off every last bit as I was continuing to lick my plate clean.  

Happy to see my weight working its way back down and hopefully as soon as shark week is over I’ll get a nice little whoosh bringing me closer to 208.  A girl can dream!  

My walk last night was FREEZING.  

I thought I dressed appropriately with a jacket but unfortunately, I paired it with a tank top underneath and didn’t anticipate the icy wind to pierce through.  By the time I got home I kept trying to warm up but couldn’t.  Even under all the blankets and trying to warm up via skin-to-skin with Kevin it barely made a difference.  Thankfully, I woke up this morning plenty warm which was highly prohibitive from my desire to get the day moving.  

Last night was 80′s night at league volleyball!  Check out our low-level effort at trying to get spirit points!  

My anxiety is always pretty high on Thursdays knowing there’s a game at night.  It’s really challenging that I’m the weakest link on the team, I’m not used to this feeling (which I guess is a positive in and of itself?).  All throughout the game as my heart is pounding through emotions of low self-worth, failure and disappointment I have to continually remind myself that it’s okay.  It’s okay that I suck, truly.  No one REALLY cares.  It would be far more annoying if I was outwardly hard on myself and constantly needed reassuring.  It would also be much worse if my anxiety got so bad that I either puked, pissed or soiled myself and made an entire spectacle so I actively work hard to try and rein in this negative thought cycling.  

After volleyball, four of us went out to a bar for further socialization and that WAS fun!  One of the guys ordered this humongous appetizer sampler for us which included mac & cheese, this giant soft pretzel with beer cheese, bacon wrapped tots, sauerkraut, roast beef, sausage and fried pickle slices.  I started with just one fried pickle and ended up eating around five total, which all in all isn’t that bad considering my love of pretzels.  I also had three small Absolut Crushes throughout our two hours there which I justified as being better carb-wise than beer but apparently not, but they were super tasty!  All in all it was a fun night of socializing and cardio through anxiety.  

Tonight I’m attending my first ever hockey game!  I’ve never watched a game on TV or otherwise so it’ll be an interesting experience.  I’m currently planning to do OMAD tonight so I can indulge in some beer and hotdogs without too much consequence.  

Weigh-In-Wednesday

Original Starting Weight (7.10.17):  260

Restart Weight (4.2.18):  245.7

Last Week’s Weight (1.2.19):  221.9

Today’s Weight (1.9.19):  215

Total Weight Lost in 1 Week:  6.9 pounds!

Total Weight Lost in 9 Months:  30.7 pounds Total Weight Lost in 1.5 Years:  45 pounds

Keto sure has been kind to me my first week back!  My energy levels are high, I constantly feel satiated and my weight is dropping like nobodies business.  

Today is the first day in over 10 days that I feel smaller after my gain.  I remember @zerocarb proclaiming that I’d feel back to feeling good about myself the first day back on keto after my hurricane binge and I told her it would take at least a week to feel that way again.  I was, unfortunately, RIGHT!  

I’m happy to see that I’m now only four pounds away again from my lowest weight on this journey and hope that I can lose at least two more pounds by Sunday so I can end September without a gain.  It’s crazy that my September gain/loss number won’t show what I went through this month, that I actually lost 9 pounds (sure, it’s because I ate like crazy and gained 11).  Oh well, as long as I know.  

Yesterday was BUSY.  I started my day off with a 7:30 a.m. appointment then ran a board meeting at noon followed by another appointment at 4 p.m.  I was in four parking garages yesterday!  Crazy!  At the board meeting I filled up my lunch plate with the smallest chicken breast I’d ever seen, a very dry porkchop, all the spring mix leaves covered with ranch and a green bean, onion and mushroom salad.  I tried not to make eye contact with the fresh rolls and four choices of cakes.  Unf.  

On my way back to the office after the meeting I was greeted by this praying mantis!!  I was walking with one of our senior VPs so I didn’t get a very good picture of the guy but I was proud that I stopped anyway.  She did not seem to even notice or care about this little friend.  Rude.  

For dinner I grabbed two leftover chicken thighs and repeated my non-pictured Wednesday dinner of a fried flatbread with butter and cream cheese - this time topping it with my new Everything But The Bagel seasoning.  I either want to do way more seasoning next time or none at all, it didn’t really help this taste better.  I ended up only caring about my fake bagel and didn’t want to eat the rest of my chicken (weird) so I only ate one and a half.