Thursday, July 31, 2014

Thursday

We went out for Chinese last night, which means weight gain for me - every time. Actually, the whopping 0.4 pounds I gained might be a record - low - in that arena. 152.2 this morning. And I feel bloated a bit - achy in my joints, which always says inflammation and swelling to me.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • 2 pieces of bacon
  • 6-8 macadamia nuts
  • hot and sour soup
  • mu shu chicken, no pancakes
  • a fortune cookie
  • 3 pieces of cheese
  • more tea with cream
I did an approximation of the mu-shu chicken in LoseIt, and after dinner had not eaten much and was showing really low fat (for me, anyway), which is why I added the cheese and cream at the end of the day - and it didn't get things boosted enough for a 70% fat day. So be it. I was at bare Trace ketosis at bedtime again; would love to measure my blood ketones, but don't want to spring for the test strips. For what it's worth, I'm having very mild fasciculation these days - not amounting to any post-sleep cramps, thank goodness.

Sleep was abysmal. No other way to put it. Got to sleep later than usual, woke up at 2:30 for no reason, was still awake at 3:45. Slept through part of the alarm (radio) and woke late when I needed to get up early, of course. Red Bull makes my commute possible this morning. Not good. I finally hit the foam roller for my IT bands this morning - meant to do it last night and forgot. I'm pretty sure it was part of the awakeness issue.

Pot Roast for dinner tonight - the last, supposedly, of our stretch of cold days. The forecast was for clearing skies and scattered showers, but I'm not seeing it yet; it was pretty rainy on the drive. Obviously, we haven't got any exercise done this week. Doing a (potentially stupid) 5K this weekend - the "color run", in which we get doused with powdered paint. It is supposed to infuse joy into us. I'm skeptical.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Wednesday

And, back down. 151.8 this morning.  Sort of an E-ticket ride, my weight. Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • bacon
  • 8 macadamia nuts
  • a chicken breast
  • about 1/2 cup green beans
  • 1/2 cup raspberries with cream (NOT ice cream)
  • 2 pieces of cheese
That was it. A very short list for the day. Trace ketosis at bedtime (not a high fat day, either, although I haven't put it all into my tracker yet, so I don't know where we landed). I slept pretty well - woke up just before midnight very hot, to realize that the heated mattress pad was on and we hadn't turned on the whole-house fan. Once I remedied those issues, the next thing I knew was that the alarm was going off. We're having good sleeping weather - cool and rainy - just now, and I hope to continue taking full advantage of it.

Spent last evening taking in a size 10 dress. I'd bought it to fit my hips, which it did, but it ran straight from underarms to hips, and needed some general definition added. Between side and back seams and added back darts, I think I took in 3-1/2 to 4 inches in the waist, which helped a lot. I'm so glad I can sew. One of the things I've noticed lately is that clothing is being shaped for people with metabolic syndrome - i.e., waist as big as or bigger than their hips - and nearly nothing fits me. So I make clothes, or buy something close and alter it. No other options.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Tuesday

The pattern continues. I hit a low over the weekend, am up a bit, but not discouragingly so, on Monday, and then gain weight for 2-3 days afterwards. 152.4 this morning, the scale said. Maybe it's possessed. Anyway, the leg cramps have disappeared after the weekend, so it's possible that I'm out of the weight loss zone just now. So weird. Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • 2 turkey sausage links
  • 6 macadamia nuts
  • a small handful of cashews
  • 4 pieces of low-carb pizza with just pepperoni on
It worked out to
  • 139 g fat (72%)
  • 39 g carbs (9%)
  • 80 g protein (19%)
That was it. After dinner we went and ran an errand (buying zippers and thread for some sewing projects) and watched a thing about WWI on TV. I took a 10 mg melatonin and went to sleep. Ketosis at bedtime was between Trace and Small, more toward Small, I think.

Sleep last night wasn't great - woke up at 1 because Roscoe had opted to sleep on the bed with us, and I kept colliding with Lee's toenails. Which are sharp. I know I did 2 rounds of one-hour playlists, but think I drifted off in the middle of each, waking up at 2 because the noise stopped. Not terribly helpful.

Monday, July 28, 2014

Monday

151.0 today. And, to my surprise, the lowest weight on my chart so far. I've seen 150.x a couple of times recently, but always on a weekend, and I think, if we had not gone out of town this weekend, I might have seen it this morning. On the other hand, if we had not gone out of town this weekend, I might have spent yesterday either snacking or gardening, both of which tend to add weight. So I'll stop with the "if-only" nonsense. 

I didn't keep strict track of what I ate yesterday, but think it went something like this:
  • tea with milk
  • fruit - primarily strawberries, blueberries, plums and banana
  • a "spinach cheese crisp" with jelly (it was a sort of biscuity thing)
  • an egg casserole with broccoli, tomato, and cheese - and I'm betting, bisquick
  • sausages - 2 links
  • a slice of orange
  • 3 pieces of cheese
  • chicken, bacon, tomato and blue cheese dressing
  • a tiny vanilla haagen dasz with raspberries
  • 2 squares of Lindt 85% chocolate
So kind of a carby day, really.  Breakfast was at a bed-and-breakfast place, so I ate a few non-standard items to be polite; they were delicious, to be sure. And I compensated by not eating until dinner time, pretty much.

Until last night, when I finally broke down and took a Benadryl, I'd had a longish run of crap-sleep nights. Leg cramps, hot flashes, the works. The last two nights, I'd tried to read in bed a little, and fell asleep on the first page - and last night, that was well before the Benadryl kicked in; I think its utility was primarily in keeping me asleep. I am still groggy, but feel much better overall for the sleep. Hoping to keep things on an even keel again tonight.

Ketosis last night was between None and Trace - the test strip didn't match either color. Not too surprising - I suspect the ice cream would have done that. If I opt for berries tonight, I'll just pour a bit of heavy cream on them. I think we're having pizza (LC, of course) for dinner. That's my going-in plan, anyway.

Friday, July 25, 2014

Friday

Well, the pattern is back - Friday is the recorded low day of this week, at 151.8. Good thing, too - I had some pretty extreme leg cramps last night, and am glad to see they weren't in vain.  Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • 2 turkey sausage links
  • about 6 or 8 Macadamia nuts
  • 3 pieces of Kerrygold Dubliner cheese
  • 1/3 cup of cashews
  • a 1/3-pound beef patty with cheese, guacamole, and green salsa
  • a pinch (just what it sounds like) of potato chips - the bag was nearly empty
I think that was it. It worked out to:
  • 132.9 g fat (70%)
  • 32 g carbs (7%)
  • 98.8 g protein (23%)
At bedtime, I was at Small-Moderate ketosis. I drank a lot of tea in the evening and watched videos, and am trying to get off Melatonin as a regular thing, which turned out to be a less than wonderful confluence of circumstances. I was still awake at 11.

No exercise yesterday. I was really tired from the sleepless night the night before. Today will be my usual tea-drinking fest, with snacks and probably taco salad tonight. Tomorrow, we are going on a dinner train thing with prime rib, and I don't know how well that will go for my eating patterns, but I will hope for the best.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Thursday

I ended up not eating dinner last night, because there was nobody home to eat with and I wasn't inspired by anything in particular. Instead, I had cheese and cashews. 152.6 this morning, which I don't ascribe to that odd diet. Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • 2 turkey sausage links
  • 4 macadamia nuts
  • 5 pieces of Kerrygold Dubliner cheese
  • about 1/3 cup of cashews
  • another tea with cream
That was it for the day:
  • 118 g fat (75%)
  • 21 g carbs (6%)
  • 66 g protein (19%)
I got home and had trash cans to bring in, dogs to feed and clean up after, mail to collect, and a walk to take. Managed all of it before 7 pm, I think. I did not get my FuelPoints goal for the day, unless it was via thrashing after 9 pm - and I rather doubt that. I did have a leg cramp at some point last night - they seem to hit just as I'm falling asleep, no doubt to make sure that I don't actually achieve that goal. Sleep last night was dodgy at best; in addition to the cramp, I woke up at 1 for no particular reason, and again at 4. That latter episode turned out to be a good thing as one of the dogs decided to throw up about 1/2 hour later, and I was awake to hear it and clean up after it. I think my problem was heat - we forgot to shift to the whole-house fan at bedtime, so the swamp cooler stopped running once the temp hit some point above where I would best sleep.

Ketosis at bedtime was Small, tending Moderate. My stomach also appears to be in the process of sorting something out, which may lead to a lower weight tomorrow. The meal pattern today shouldn't be all that different, except maybe a burger for dinner.

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Wednesday

I said yesterday that I would wait until the weekend to see if I need to tweak things, and by gum, I will wait until the weekend. This forceful resolution is needed because this morning, despite a day of breakfast and salad and a walk, I'm up almost a pound. 153.6. Grr. Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • 2-1/2 pieces of bacon
  • Red Bull zero
  • 4 macadamia nuts
  • a cobb salad with avocado, bacon, chicken, blue cheese, and blue cheese dressing
  • 3 squares of TJs dark chocolate bar with almonds
In other words:
  • 135 g fat (76%)
  • 30 g carbs (8%)
  • 67 g protein (17%)
Furthermore, I achieved my goal in FuelPoints last night (not that it wants to sync that amount up, but that's another story), not only walking to and from dinner, but doing garden cleanup after we got home. Does this make sense? It does not.

Ketosis was at Small last night; if nothing else, these nightly tests are showing me that I'm still keto-adapted. At least, I hope that's what they're showing. And I got a solid night's sleep without melatonin last night. These are good things.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Tuesday

Weird eating day yesterday. I am wondering if the information in my LoseIt database is correct, because it seemed to think I was way undereating yesterday, and it didn't feel that way at all.  Here's yesterday:

  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • 2 pieces of bacon
  • 2 macadamia nuts
  • Mongolian BBQ with beef, peppers, onions, bok choy, red cabbage, mushrooms
  • 3 squares of TJ's dark chocolate bar with almonds
  • another tea with cream
That worked out to:
  • 64 g fat (65%)
  • 37 g carbs (17%)
  • 41 g protein (18%)
By rights, I should have been starving; it was also (for what that's worth) fewer than 1000 calories. I wasn't - although I was hungry going into dinner, what I ate filled me up just fine. Trace ketosis at bedtime, sleep was utter crap (onions were a mistake, I think), and I'm still at 152.8. So be it. More eggs-and-bacon for breakfast today, and I have the other 10 macadamias if I need them.

Monday, July 21, 2014

Monday

152.8 today. Up from Friday. Up from Saturday and yesterday, as a matter of fact. I'm going to stay the course for this week, see what happens, and make changes if need be next week. I think it's inflammation - lots of aches and pains from gardening over the weekend, starting on Saturday. We did not go to the gym yesterday, but spent over an hour and a half killing weeds (at least, I hope that's the outcome) and pulling stuff out of the ground and deadheading roses and what-not.

I made buckwheat pancakes for Lee yesterday - buckwheat is gluten-free and has shown up on various Paleo websites as an "okay" item. I had 2 pancakes, which were pretty tasty, but very carby - breakfast brought me to 46 grams of carbs, I think. Gardening immediately after probably used up the glucose, but those will be a once a year treat, we agreed. Anyway, with that start to the day, I was over 50 grams by the end of the day.  Here's the log:
  • tea with cream
  • 2 buckwheat pancakes with raspberries
  • 3 tbsp butter
  • a very small amount of syrup (almost not needed, with the raspberries)
  • 3 pieces of Kerrygold Dubliner cheese
  • about a half-cup of macadamias
  • Cobb-salad (chicken, bacon, avocado, blue cheese) with blue cheese dressing
  • 1 salted dark-chocolate almond
A short list, but somehow the non-breakfast part of the day added another 24 grams of carbs. The whole day broke down as:
  • 182 g fats (75%)
  • 68 g carbs (12%)
  • 71 g protein (13%)
Back to normal eating today. Eggs and bacon for breakfast, probably burgers for dinner. I have (exactly 12) macadamia nuts with me, but plan not to eat them unless I get annoyingly hungry.

Friday, July 18, 2014

Friday

I fasted, sort of, yesterday morning - tea with cream only, and some macadamias in case I got hungry later. Which I did - but up to dinner, that's all I had eaten. Got home, had a piece of cheese and went for a walk, followed by a big-ass salad with meat, cheese, and blue cheese dressing. Also raspberries and cream and some cashews. It ended up being 75% fat, 9% carbs, and 67% protein. I was in Small ketosis tending toward moderate at bedtime. Still constipated, though, so 152.6 isn't all that surprising. 

Today is a typical Friday, so far - scrambled eggs and mega-bacon, with tea and cream. I will probably snack a lot. Walks are planned for the weekend, as is a gym trip, probably on Sunday, which will no doubt add inflammatory weight to the first part of next week. That said, I am stronger and feel a lot better these days than I did during the early part of this year, so the gym trips are definitely a good thing.

Ran across a website yesterday that suggested that I'm underweight for my height (5'11") and frame size (small). It seemed to think I should be between 161 and 170-something. Thank you, no. I wouldn't fit into any of my clothes in that range, unless I really started doing a lot of muscle-building. And while I'm doing some, obviously, or I wouldn't be stronger, I don't think I'll end up in the <20% bodyfat range at over 160 pounds any time soon.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Thursday

Still - going with a new term here - costive. And feeling it, so I took an extra Magnesium today. I hope it helps; I'm a bit uncomfortable. 152.8 today. Kept my ratios yesterday again, saw Small ketosis at bedtime (and the night before was actually Moderate). Sleep okay, hot flashes a bit increased in frequency and annoyance - they're getting itchy. Still, no way as disruptive as they had been in the past, so I'll survive.

I put my weight into my spreadsheet today and noticed that, while I was up this week from Sunday (and Monday), the spike for the week was still lower than any previous spike, so the trends are all in my favor. And it's a pattern, for sure.

I skipped breakfast this morning because of the intestinal issues. I have macadamias with me should I manage a hunger at all today. We are hoping for a walk and salad dinner, but the weather has not been cooperating - it's been a rainy summer. Supposedly drying up today - we shall see.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Wednesday

I think it's constipation. Whatever the reason, after a day of eating at my effective ratios, where ketosis was at Small and pushing hard on Moderate last night, I'm at 153.4 this morning. Annoying, but, I think, temporary.

Yesterday was an eggs/bacon/macadamia nuts morning with stuffed peppers for dinner, and a bit of cheese and cashews to round things out. I don't feel like making a list. My stomach feels a bit stuffed up, if that's possible.

All that said, I did some measurements last night for a dress purchase, and found that my waist and hips have both gone down at least an inch recently. My lean mass is up a bit. I credit our walk-to-the-gym trips. And I am feeling stronger - not a huge amount, but a little. I'm wearing pants that were getting somewhat annoyingly short (due to being pushed up by larger hips) over the winter - they are the correct length again. So good things are happening, no matter what the scale is saying.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Tuesday

I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be a better idea to make our gym trip during the week, rather than on Sundays, because the recovery inflammation always is discouraging on Tuesday/Wednesday. And the pattern is so constant. 152.2 this morning. Probably up again tomorrow, then down on Thursday and Friday and over the weekend, so that I'm down on Monday again. I am a bit stiff this morning, and a bit more sore than yesterday in the places affected by weightlifting.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • 2 pieces of bacon
  • 14ish macadamia nuts
  • a giant salad with turkey, bacon, and cheese, blue cheese dressing
  • one small onion ring
  • 1 salted dark chocolate almond
That was it. It worked out to:
  • 113 g fat (73%)
  • 21 g carbs (6%)
  • 70 g protein (20%)
Which is a nice balance, I think.

We walked to dinner, at Rib City, and walked back. While there, we saw another customer who had nearly achieved a spherical body shape. Stopped us eating dinner pretty abruptly, although I knew that what I was eating, at least (bar the onion ring) was not going to set me down his path. Poor guy - could hardly reach the food on the table from where he had to sit. 

The walk got me to my goal on FuelPoints for the day, so that's 3 days in a row. Ketosis at a solid "small" at bedtime, and I slept well - didn't wake up at all until after 4. That said, I would like to douse the melatonin dosage. I may try going back to the 5 mg time-release ones and see if I can get them to work effectively. Wonder if anyone has ever figured out what the body itself secretes as the world gets dark - naturally, I mean, unstimulated by electricity.

Similar breakfast and snack/lunch today, and stuffed peppers for dinner. Which I will watch, since they're carbier than I would have expected.

Monday, July 14, 2014

Monday

I saw 150.4 yesterday. Then I walked to the gym, lifted, and walked home. And today I'm at 151.2. Nice to know it's inflammation.

Not much else to report. Ate reasonably well yesterday, hit my FuelPoints goal both weekend days, no ketosis at bedtime for some reason. Slept well - that's always key. I'm glad to see that our 2 weeks of house guests didn't crater progress. And that's about it.

Friday, July 11, 2014

Friday

And it appears that things are getting back on track.  I got a full night's sleep last night - exhaustion is a powerful force - and am down to 152.4 this morning. My fingers are still a bit swollen, but everything else seems to be better.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • scrambled eggs
  • 3 links turkey sausage
  • 7 strawberries
  • fat-fast broccoli soup
  • lamb burger (1/3 pound)
  • a few tomato slices
  • a few potato chips
  • 2 pieces of cheese
  • a handful of raspberries (they're inundating us at the moment)
  • 3 salted dark-chocolate almonds
  • another tea with cream
That worked out to:
  • 135 g fat (71%)
  • 40.7 g carbs (10%)
  • 81.3 g protein (19%)
We even got a walk in last night - just a short one, but getting back into the routine is key. I'm planning on driving to the golf course with Lee tomorrow and walking home, to get a good solid walk in. 

In order to get sleep last night, I took the "big" (10 mg) melatonin; I need to get some smaller dose ones that are not time-release, because the time-release ones wake me up - or don't sustain sleep past about midnight on the first blast. They're weird.

Hot flashes continue, a little heavier than in the past weeks, but not to the point of being a real problem - yet. I've learned not to expect things to stay the same with this crap.

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Thursday

Apparently, I'm not permitted to sleep just now. Took a 10 mg Melatonin last night, got nice and sleepy, drifted off, and, BAM! My right calf cramped up enough to launch me out of bed. Around 10 pm. At 12:48, I know I was still awake, and think that's when my left calf followed suit. I had a very hard time getting drowsy again, but was, apparently, asleep at 3:30, when Lee woke up for the day. Red Bull on the way to work this morning, and I may wish I had one on the way home. I had to fight to stay awake on the commute home yesterday, which is very much not a good thing.

153.4 this morning; things starting to settle down a bit from last week. Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • 1 piece of thick bacon
  • about 10 strawberries
  • fat fast broccoli cheese soup
  • cobb salad (chicken, bacon, blue cheese, avocado, blue cheese dressing)
  • half a handful of cashews (far less than I usually eat)
  • 3 salted chocolate almonds
  • another tea with cream
It worked out to:
  • 126 g fat (70%)
  • 48 g carbs (12%)
  • 73 g protein (18%)
Today is likely to be similar, with the addition of the Red Bull. Except we're having lamb burgers for dinner, probably with a salad. See how that goes - they're an experiment.

I was at "Small" on the keto-stix last night, so I think we're more or less back in business there. I would like to get the diet a bit fattier, and lower carbs, but I'm still in the basic zone I aimed for.

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Wednesday

Still stiff and sore, and my feet - well, my left foot - look like blown-up surgical gloves at the end of the day. 153.8 this morning. Sleep last night would have been fine but for the dogs and a couple of explosions in our neighborhood. I'm assuming it was fireworks or something un-sinister in nature, because it hasn't been on the news, but it extended the dogs' issues by a good hour, during which I mostly did not sleep. So I'm quite groggy today.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • bacon (2 pieces)
  • fat fast broccoli cheese soup
  • chef's salad with ham, turkey, and cheese, and blue cheese dressing
  • raspberries and ice cream
  • 1/3 cup cashews
  • another tea with cream
In the end, I overtopped the 50 g carbs target - I guess because of the ice cream. Here's how it broke down:
  • 152 g fat (72%)
  • 58 g carbs (12%)
  • 73 g protein (15%)

So the ratios were fine, and I showed up as "Trace" on the keto-stix at bedtime. Hot flashes were more annoying than usual yesterday; I guess something has increased, or decreased, or something, hormonally speaking. Annoying.

We didn't get a walk in, due to having to clean up after our thunderstorm the night before - we had several large tree limbs down, but the roof appears to be okay. Planning on a repeat of the dinner tonight, and the walk.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Tuesday

Yesterday, my weight was a bit mysterious; I didn't feel swollen up or stiff, much. This morning, my fingers are puffy, my elbow is sore, my ankles are stiff, and I have detectable water in my feet. Same weight - 154.6. Go figure. I guess it was in there somewhere. And I guess last week involved a lot of inflammatory eating, or more than I've been doing lately.

Anyway, here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • bacon (2 pieces)
  • fat-fast broccoli cheese soup
  • a chicken breast skewer with curry powder on (ick)
  • a 1" long egg roll
  • the tops of 2 pieces of pizza, 1 pepperoni and 1 margherita
  • 2 pieces of cheddar cheese
  • about 1/4 cup cashews
  • 3 salted dark chocolate almonds
It worked out to:
  • 111 g fat (70%)
  • 37 g carbs (10%)
  • 70 g protein (19%)
which is back in the sweet spot for me. And at bedtime, I was showing "Small" levels of ketones, a first in about 5 days. No exercise to speak of; I'm hoping to get a walk in tonight.

Sleep has been pretty good lately - although I'm taking Melatonin to achieve it. Some hot flashes, but they're not as strong as they were there for a while - the pattern seems to have shifted, so that they don't go away entirely, but they don't bug me as much, either. I can keep this level up indefinitely, although I would prefer not to.

Monday, July 7, 2014

Monday

Last week was a lost week, for sure. 154.6 this morning. And back to it.

I do think some of it is inflammation - I'm still a bit stiff from Friday's race - and some is intestinal distress of a sort. But I definitely had no weight lost last week. Ugh.

I don't think I can list out yesterday's eating; it was a weird day and I just don't recall all of it. Probably wasn't enough fat, for sure. Today, I've had my eggs-and-bacon, and I have fat-fast broccoli soup with me for lunch. Dinner is at some (ugh!!!) retirement planning thing that Lee felt compelled to attend, and will probably involve pasta, which I won't eat.

Anyway, life should be settling back down now. My plan for the week is to get back walking in the evenings, with at least one long walk this weekend, even if it's by myself.

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Thursday

I'm going to count this week a bust for weight-loss purposes. Family in town, lots of eating out, holidays, and what-not. Getting NO exercise, and that's annoying me, which I guess is a good thing.

I put new batteries in the scale this morning and hope it will stop being stupid.  Before the replacement, it told me my weight was: 1) 153.6, 2) 152.4, 3) 153.4. After the replacement, it settled on 153.4 and stayed put, so I'm guessing that's the verdict this morning. I would prefer it were less, but we ate at a fried-chicken restaurant last night, and it's not surprising. Although I did not have chicken; I had turkey and dressing and cranberry sauce. And cottage cheese and bean salad and a corn fritter. I behaved as well as could be expected given the menu - well, almost. They actually had a "no carb" option with meat and a salad that I could have chosen, but I only get their bean salad once or twice a year, and it is delicious, although mildly poisonous (IMO, anyway).

Oh, and there was an employee lunch thing at work, so I had a burger patty with cheese and sauerkraut as well.

So I won't list the day - it could have been better and wasn't. Today is better so far - a normal breakfast and an extra cup of tea with a lot of cream in it on the way to work. Macadamias mid-day, I think - IF I'm hungry, that is. I may not be. And low-carb pizza split among 6 people tonight (I hope to keep it to 2 pizzas, since one of the 6 is a 3-year old). 

No ketosis last night, and no surprise. I slept well, but had another leg cramp overnight - I should probably do a cup of bouillon today, as well.

5K tomorrow morning - I may do it without eating first. Because I can - and sometimes, that's just a good reason to do things.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Wednesday

Exercise are not us this week. I rather suspected it would be the case, although Lee was quite sure we could get walks in. And the women of the family will, on Friday, when we do a 5K.

Anyway, 152.6 this morning - or 152.4. Or, being very pessimistic, 153.6. Our scale has lost consistency. My first step on it registered 153.6, so I got off and tried again. Twice it displayed 152.4. Then, a bit later, I zeroed it out completely, let that set in, and tried a fourth time, when it displayed 152.6. In absolute terms, I guess I don't care what I weigh, but I would like to know whether my weight has increased or decreased relative to yesterday or last week or whatever. That makes this annoying.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs with sour cream and green salsa
  • 2 pieces of bacon
  • 12 macadamia nuts
  • a hamburger patty
  • zucchini parmesan noodles (sour cream, butter, cheese)
  • 5 potato chips
  • 3 strawberries
  • a piece of cheese
  • 2 salted dark chocolate almonds
  • another tea with cream
That worked out to:
  • 125 g fat (71%)
  • 37 g carbs (9%)
  • 77 g protein (19%)
It's getting pretty easy to maintain ratios, and I think having some consistent (bar the scale's vagaries) positive feedback has helped a lot. I know, from reading Jimmy Moore's n=1 ketosis blog entries, that he was running closer to 85-5-10 ratios, and I honestly cannot imagine how. If I stall within the next few pounds, or start reversing at this level, I will try to figure it out, but I hope I don't have to. This feels a lot like what I was eating during my original loss.

Sleep interrupted once by a leg cramp that I had to get up for - haven't had too many of those this go-round. I will try to get a cup of bouillon in today, see if that helps.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Tuesday

Um, nothing is coming to me this morning. Yesterday was an okay day, and I took a 10 mg Melatonin at bedtime, so I got some sleep. Maybe I'm just exhausted. 151.6 today; here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • no supplements (too tired)
  • scrambled eggs with extra yolks (to use them up)
  • 2 pieces of bacon
  • a can of Red Bull (sugar free)
  • 12 ish macadamia nuts
  • chips and salsa (about 5-6 chips)
  • guacamole
  • "steak ranchero" - chunks of steak in green chile
  • the cheese off the refried beans
  • 2 pieces of cheese
That was it. It worked out to :
  • 109 g fat (71%)
  • 27 g carbs (8%)
  • 73 g protein (21%)
Nearly perfect on the ratios, and not too much protein. I started today with eggs and bacon and sour cream and a bit of green salsa. Quite tasty.

No exercise recently; we still have houseguests, and while Lee thinks we will somehow get walks in, it appears he is relying on me to make that happen. And I had production emergencies all yesterday into the dinner hour, so that was not happening. Probably not tonight, either, since he has a golf course meeting at 6. Unless he gets back quickly enough that it's still light out.