It’s been a while again! Unfortunately, my need to pay the bills always wins over my desire to blog regularly. I journal daily, but I can’t tap anyone into that!
The new style of eating has taken its hold in me! It has been a rough road, I have never given up carbs in my life. I just limited them to healthy ones. But it isn’t as bad as I expected at all. I did get a bit of the ‘keto flu’ – waves of nausea, weird aches, sleeplessness. But the hunger from fat isn’t anything close to the hunger from carbs/sugar. You just can’t satiate the sugar as you can fat. I’ve lost hunger in four to five bites of food. I don’t eat until I am full. I eat until I can feel the hunger go away. Then I stop since the stomach takes 20 minutes to register it’s full.
It doesn’t matter, because it is working and worth it! I have lost over 15 pounds since I started. That is six+ weeks without carbs, 7+ weeks without sugar, no alcohol in months and I’ve lost inches off all body parts. Except, always…the waist. I’ve got a plan for that. Thank you 1990’s! But my clothes are much looser, and I feel great! I can see it in my face really, and I don’t normally ever see a slimmer me. Only chubbo.
I’ve managed several ‘overnight fasts’ during my Intermittent Fasting schedule. I am now down to a 5-hour eating window, with 19 hours fasting. I lose the hunger quickly and stop eating. I exercise in a fasted-state and can push my arse soooooo much further and harder now.
An overnight fast is easy when you keep busy. It is technically for 41 hours, but much is sleep. I did it twice in one week. That is until the hormone fairy hit, she brought her cousin hungry and all bets were off. I started eating OMAD (one meal a day) on the days I was trying to overnight fast instead. Once the hormones level, I will try the overnighters again.
If you keep it within a short eating window, with no carbs, you can get your body back into a fasted state quicker. I was told sometimes it takes a few months to become fully fat-adapted, but I can really feel changes happening to my body. I could buy ketone strips and at least see if my body is in ketosis. It doesn’t mean, yet, that you are turning to stored fat for fuel, but signaling to the body to use fat instead. It is tweakable and flexible in how you do it.
I have not cheated or broken down once since, except for the coffee. I always said I could never give it up. And I tried! Two weeks, I tried cold green tea. They even had flavored! Swamp water tastes better cold. One morning, the five pups and I got up at 7 am to snuggle on the couch with Joyce Meyer and drink my swamp water and the next thing I know, my head slumps over and we passed out for two more hours! Morning shot. Give me the JOE. I don’t have time for those shenanigans.
I believe I am up to almost five miles a day powerwalking! I say believe because I cannot really depend on my $4 step counter from Walmart. So, I took several readings and chose the average of them. I bought another cheap one from China, see if it is any better. But I can’t tell you how I can push it further and further. I don’t stop as much and feel stronger.
My nails are also stronger and longer than they have ever been.
I recorded a ‘Day One’ vlog as well. I am on a mission to get my confidence back and charge ahead. I don’t like cameras because I don’t like my looks. I’ve made peace with them, it is genetic and I love my family’s looks. Mine no. But, I want to get over that. I want to share some action on my adventures too. And I am not seeing a lot of folks going through the transformation but rather discussing it afterward. I will record, but not sure about sharing. We shall see. Yes, I have a YouTube channel. I’ve been on YouTube before they were popular. 😀
Ketogenic works. Intermittent Fasting works. I can’t tell you, as usual. I am trying to show you. I should be, by next week, to a class of weight I haven’t seen since my thirties. If that doesn’t tell you? Nothing will.
Here is this guy that I found on YouTube. Unfortunately, I don’t have time for 15-30-45 minute videos. His are usually under 10 and he gets to the point. He knows IF very well. Of course, please like him if you like! And subscribe if you want further information.
Also, everything I am doing is not digging me out of the financial hole I got myself into. So, I have moved onto Plan D. I didn’t want to do it this way, but the universe is prompting me in this direction. My instincts are singing that this is good, and I am getting excited. But I can’t tell you until it is set in stone. But, it is HAPPENING, and in faraway places.
When Jesus arrived at the tomb where Lazarus lay after he passed, he told the people to ‘roll away the stone’ of the entrance. If Jesus was there to resurrect Lazarus, why didn’t he just remove the stone himself? Because God wants us to do what we can do, and God will do what we can’t!