I have a fear of being frumpy. I have to face that I am in my fifties, there is nothing I can do about that, but I can control the frumpiness.
My weight is headed toward frumpiness (also not in the dictionary). This started about 5 years ago with some rather traumatic events in my life. I won't go into details right now but I started to gain weight - and fast.
After about 2 years and a 20 pound gain I joined a boot camp program. In spite of working out to the tune of 400-500 calories burned about 5 times a week, I continued to gain another 20 pounds over the next 3 years. Something needed to change with the way I was eating.
An internet search led me to decide to adopt the ketogenic diet. The traditional eating and diet plans, tracking macros, counting calories, etc. does not work for me as I have something seriously and metabolically wrong with me.
So, I started a ketogenic diet today and I'm going to use this blog as a way to track meals, glucose levels, emotions, and physical changes.
As you will see, my food choices are boring and probably repetitive but I'm putting this out there and myself out there in hopes that what I'm going through may help someone else.
Meal 1 - 2 pcs of Pederson's uncured bacon
3 eggs, scrambled in the bacon fat
2 cups of spinach
1 cup Tulsi tea with 2 tbsp. of coconut oil
Meal 2 - 2 large organic chicken drumsticks, grilled
1 large hass avocado
Meal 3 - 2 Oscar Meyer Select uncured hot dogs
2 tablespoons regular mustard
2 string cheese
Meal 4 - 1 cup raw ahi tuna, cubed
2 cups spring salad mix
3 tablespoons sesame oil
1 tbsp. green onions
Glucose reading: Unknown
The ketogenic diet is approximately 75-80% fat, 15-20% protein and 5% carbohydrate. This goes against anything a doctor or dietician would probably recommend but I know this way of eating will probably work for me as I was on Atkins 8 years ago and it worked wonders for me!
Today I felt fine all day, all the fat kept the hunger at bay until I got home from work and that's when I had the hot dogs and string cheese because I was starving! The last time I did this I had terrible cravings, headaches, and felt light-headed. It was miserable to be honest, and I wondered why I had done that to myself. After 3 days, I felt much better!
One day at a time...
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