Hey! 👋 It’s been awhile since I’ve shared a each day low carb meals diary, however I assumed that might be a enjoyable method to reconnect and open a dialogue about our spring & summer time objectives. 🙂
I’ve been quiet currently however issues are going very well. 🙌
I sit up for sharing all the excellent news with you! I’m nonetheless not 100% or “properly” – possibly 50% most days 😅 however I’ve skilled such a GREAT leap in my restoration and I’m doing SO significantly better simply within the final couple of months, and particularly these final two weeks. 🤗
That’s been actually encouraging! I’m nonetheless pacing myself, resting lots, doing chilly remedy and maintaining a healthy diet, I’m nonetheless doing my simple “mattress yoga” and in addition in a position to stroll farther and extra usually currently, I lastly received my urge for food again … all good issues! 💯❣️ This too shall cross, they are saying… persistence and style + gratitude have helped me by all these onerous days. 🙏 29 months value (thus far). 👀
It got here up in my Fb recollections this week that I’ve been consuming low carb for 12 years now!
I keep in mind sharing that publish. I began out consuming low carb utilizing the Atkins technique simply to shed pounds. And it labored. 😉 However to start with I really did NOT assume I’d be capable to follow it – or that it might “stick” and finally grow to be a life-style that allowed me SO rather more FUN and freedom!
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12 years! And I caught with it. 😅 🎉 How lengthy have you ever been consuming low carb?
I used to be two weeks into it earlier than I stated something to ANYONE as a result of, properly… worry of failure. I haven’t all the time been the perfect at sticking to objectives, or making main life-style modifications. However low carb has simply been EASY – simple to start out, simple to stay to, and simple to take care of long run.
I particularly like that consuming very low carb places you in dietary ketosis, which is a pure urge for food suppressant (that helps!) and located my cravings simply disappeared – or modified. I had by no means appreciated spinach earlier than (EVER), now I like it. 🤷♀️ Go determine!
My Current 7 Pound Drop ⬇️
For over a yr now I’ve been struggling to lose ANY weight in any respect. Previous to getting sick in late 2020, I used to be simply sustaining my superb weight and in the perfect form & well being of my life.
A couple of yr into my sickness, every kind of unusual issues occurred – together with sudden weight achieve out of nowhere. I actually gained over 20 kilos in a single month: January 2022.
I used to be hardly consuming then! I additionally misplaced my means to sweat and had fixed joint ache, so there was quite a lot of irritation and fluid retention happening, however my general metabolic well being was simply wrecked from being sick.
For the final yr or so, whether or not I ate or not, my weight was simply STUCK and fluctuated between the identical 3 kilos up and down – it doesn’t matter what. I used to be struggling to get 800-1200 energy most days. At one level final Fall I ate “junk meals” and pushed 2000+ energy for just a few weeks, and didn’t even achieve weight. Weird. I used to be simply caught. 🤷♀️
Then a pair months in the past, round mid February, I went by some sort of main shift. My signs improved, I crashed much less usually, my relapses have been much less extreme, my mobility improved, ache ranges decreased, I used to be up and round extra with MUCH higher psychological readability, and many others – and the load simply began melting off of me! 🙌
I’d been saying that to myself this entire previous yr, that the load would come proper again off after I received properly, given I used to be consuming mild – and approach lower than common. And naturally maintaining a healthy diet, low carb, anti-inflammatory, and many others.
It felt like my physique was simply in full misery and holding on for expensive life! 🥴
For a lot of the final yr or so, I’ve actually struggled with my urge for food. I made it a degree to attempt to eat a stable wholesome meal a minimum of as soon as each 24 hours, but it surely was a push to get a minimum of 800 energy a day.
Currently I’ve been persistently consuming round 1200 energy a day (typically extra!), with correct starvation alerts returning, and having fun with my meals once more! That was the primary signal for me that issues have been actually turning round. 😊
I had a bizarre response to eggs that entire time too. They made me really feel nauseous, torpid and simply throughout terrible. Even the scent or sight of eggs was sufficient to close me down. However that was the very first thing I needed after I began feeling higher!
My predominant meal currently is an easy breakfast scramble. 🍳
I saute 2 medium onions at a time so these are ready and available for dinners. Then I scramble 3 eggs in half a tbsp of butter and add 2 ounces of chopped ham, sauteed onions and a palmetto pimento cheese – plus a touch of salt & pepper.
That “homestyle pimento cheese” is SO good in scrambled eggs!
That is the one I get: Pawley’s Island Palmetto Cheese. If you could find it in your shops, their rooster salad and caramelized onion dip are each superb too. 😉
I normally have a protein bar round mid morning, or a minimum of half of 1 most days, so I’m not likely “fasting” – or not deliberately a minimum of. I even have my collagen espresso very first thing within the morning, which has actually helped with the hair loss & intestine well being points.
I like these Almond Butter Brownie bars as a result of they don’t trigger me digestive points, and so they really maintain me over like a real meal alternative. I get these from Excellent Keto, they’re 30% off on this web page whenever you get 3+ in order that’s what I do since I’m utilizing them each day nonetheless.
I additionally began including in an electrolyte drink most days, which was beneficial for power and dysautonomia signs. I don’t actually know why or how, but it surely actually does appear to assist! Plus they’re refreshing and scrumptious. 😉
For the previous couple of weeks I’ve been including that SuperReds Keto Antioxidant powder to my electrolyte drink. Largely as a result of I really like the blueberry taste burst 🫐 (!!) but it surely additionally has tons of fine vitamins, which is nice since I’m nonetheless not consuming a lot – or a lot selection.
That jogs my memory, I shared a fast video chat whereas elevating my legs and having fun with my fruity electrolyte drink on the deck the opposite day!
I order the BodyArmor Lyte on Amazon, after I catch sure flavors on sale. ALL the flavors I’ve tried thus far are nice! 🍑
MyFitnessPal Low Carb Meals Diary
I discussed I’ve been doing even higher the final couple of weeks, persistently bettering (yay!), and getting my urge for food again a bit too, so I’ve been having TWO meals most days currently – plus my morning bar.
That’s a BIG enchancment. It actually frightened me after I was hardly consuming. 😕
Right here’s my meals diary for Thursday. I just about ate the identical issues all week, except for a second meal some days, however I’ve been persistently near 1200 energy, some days just a little extra even!
I don’t actually matter energy, by the way in which. It simply involved me that I wasn’t consuming sufficient after I pushing it to get 800 energy a day.
I’ve been doing good at making the short ham & egg scramble a minimum of as soon as a day. I can’t all the time prepare dinner although, or stand various minutes, so I grabbed some Atkins frozen dinners to have available too. My favourite one is the Atkins Crustless Hen Pot Pie for a fast and simple dinner that’s actually satisfying.
I’ve been having fun with that meal on repeat this week! It jogs my memory of rooster soup with the broth in it, and simply looks like consolation meals. 😊 That’s particularly good after I’m not up for cooking.
That introduced me to nearly 1200 energy, with 76 grams of protein, and solely 19 internet carbs (33 whole carbs). I felt fairly nice yesterday! I used to be completely satisfied to get two full meals in, and I used to be in a position to work the primary half of the day for a number of hours too which was good. I crashed by the afternoon, however simply being up and round, consuming and dealing, that’s an enormous enchancment over a pair months in the past! 🥰
Oh – and I’m again in ketosis, FINALLY!
That’s a complete matter in itself, how this sickness saved my blood sugar elevated and knocked me flat out of ketosis. Even a 72 hour quick didn’t have an effect on my numbers. Loopy, proper? However no matter this shift was that began in mid February… introduced my blood sugar down and ketones UP.
All good issues, however I’ll write extra on that in one other word, as a result of it’s fairly fascinating monitoring all the information factors by my restoration.
Feeling Higher = Residing Higher ✅
I’ve been just about homebound since mid October (once more) aside from my New Years journey, and extra lately a few brief outings, so it’s been SO good to get out some once more currently.
I can’t drive or stroll far, or do a lot, however I’m again on my toes! 🙌
Twice within the final week I’ve been in a position to get to the cascades above Burgess Falls (one in every of my favourite Tennessee waterfalls!) for chilly remedy.
The river is FREEZING proper now. It’s chilly yr spherical, however in April: 🥶 lol.
I’m nonetheless having quite a lot of circulation points, swelling in my left leg and knee, plus lymphatic points. I take advantage of chilly remedy for my neurological signs as properly. Submerging my head in COLD water immediately clears up my cognitive impairment and speech points, and stops my tremors.
Nature remedy is the perfect! 🌞
I level my toes upriver within the rapids for pure therapeutic massage and compression to assist with blood move. And on good days, like this week 🙂 I can use the resistance of the water to do mild workout routines to strengthen my core and legs. I lean again or lay again, interact my core, and slowly open and shut my legs 5-10 occasions, or as many occasions as I can. (I don’t over-do it, I nonetheless have the brief stroll out, lol!)
My purpose is to maneuver as a lot as I can to assist my dangerous knee, and maintain fluid and blood from pooling in my decrease legs. Plus engaged on core power, even when it’s simply “mattress yoga” after I’m homebound, actually helps with my stability.
You in all probability keep in mind how a lot I really like being outside, so along with making me FEEL higher immediately, I get a lot JOY having the ability to sit by the river once more. That’s my completely satisfied place. 😊
I hope right now brings you one thing to smile about that absolutely LIGHTS you up!
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I might love to listen to how issues are going with you, and what your objectives are for this yr. Mine is similar as common, and quite simple: to be the happiest healthiest model of myself – each single day.
That’s not going to look or be “excellent” day by day. Some days it seems to be like JOY or FUN, some days it seems to be like REST or self-care. That’s completely okay. My purpose is dwell every day in the easiest way attainable, making good decisions alongside the way in which (one hour at a time, one meal at a time, one resolution at a time), searching for methods to be of service, and discovering one thing to ENJOY – or a minimum of smile about.
I’ve numerous concepts or theories about why I began feeling higher and why I’m persevering with to enhance currently. I can’t say it was anyone factor for positive, however monitoring the information factors has been attention-grabbing. Every little thing from heartrate to blood sugar to ketone ranges, the 7 pound drop in weight too, plus apparent BIG enhancements in my power and talent, it’s all fairly fascinating the way it strains up!
I’ll share extra on that when you’re … my ideas & expertise a minimum of. However I really feel like I’ve turned a nook lastly and am getting WELL. 🙂
I’d love to listen to from you whenever you get an opportunity. I’ve quite a lot of catching as much as do nonetheless, however I believe it’s time all of us come again collectively for some enjoyable new challenges for the spring & summer time months!
What do you assume? 🙂
Greatest,
Lynn Terry
aka @LowCarbTraveler
p.s. thanks for hanging in there with me over these final couple of years. I don’t know what I might have finished with out you all! 💕 xo
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