Week 3

178lbs (down 7lbs)

• Sooooo, I just realized my carbs need to be around 20! Omgosh!  This is harder than I thought!  I guess ignorance is bliss.  LOL!  But I think starting out slowly helped with not getting the Keto flu and not shocking my system.  It’s been much easier to get into the lifestyle.
• But I am super excited that my joints are not hurting, I don’t feel achy at all.  In fact, I feel stronger and have a ton of energy.
• And to be honest, I’m not 100% sure of my start weight. I don’t own a scale so I only measure when I go to the Dr or to my mom’s house.  I know I weighed 185 2wks before I started Keto, and I wasn’t doing anything to lose weight.  So I feel confident that I was at 185 when I started this journey.  Which means I’ve lost 7lbs.  But the fact that I feel soooo much better is the exciting part.
• Sunday on the way back home from Bryan, TX we stopped at Buc Ee’s. If you’re not from TX, they have a cult-like following, lol.  So I thought I was doing good by getting dried okra.  I have heard about lots of health benefits about okra so I thought it’d be good.  Nope!  Wrong!  There’s 16g of carbs in 1 serving so I only had 3 pieces.  Even that put me over my carbs by 2g.  But I was pretty proud of myself for being able to cut 10g when I thought 30g was hard.
• Mondays are my fasting days so while my calories were up due to the pork ribs at dinner, my macros were spot on.
• Tuesday I went a little over on my fat, but my carbs were only 14g and my calories were 1071. I’m now becoming obsessed with entering my foods.  It’s kinda fun to see how everything adds up.
• Wednesday I thought I was being sooooo good!  I didn’t bring lunch so a coworker and I went to Subway.  I saw they had a turkey bacon & Guac on a tomato basil wrap.  Perfect, the wrap is thinner than the flat bread so it must have less carbs.  WRONG!  It has 58g!!  can you believe it?!?  I only ate ½, but still…  Then I went to a Mexican restaurant and ate charro beans (bean soup).  Omgosh!  What’s wrong with beans?!?  I feel like I’m taking 2 steps forward and 1-1/2 steps backward.  Just when I think I get the hang of Keto, I go and blow it.  I had 59g of carbs today!  Geesh!  No more tooting my own horn.  I’m definitely not as good at this as I thought.  Rookie!
• Thursday I only had 12g of carbs but I met my fat.  I realize I just can’t “wing it.”  I need to plan what goes in my mouth and not think I know what I’m doing.
• Saturday I realized that I also need to read packages before I buy items. My prepackaged seasoned salmon has 11g of carbs.  Really?!?  Ugh!  Thankfully I was able to stay under my carbs but I didn’t meet my fat today.    This week has really been a roller coaster.  Some pretty good ups; but man the downs, were really down.