Living that Keto Life!

Holy one year, wow that went fast. Anyway, still fat, and on that struggle bus for the last time. I am feeling motivated, excited, pumped, prepared, just all around ready for this new diet. This magical diet that I have spent the ENTIRE weekend researching. What is that you may ask?

THE KETOGENIC DIET!

WhaaaaaaaaaaT? is that? Well it is a LCHF (low carb, high fat) diet that tricks your body into burning fat instead of carbs to fuel itself.

I did a lot of research about this diet before starting and then decided to jump feet first into giving it a try. I mean a diet that allows you bacon?! All the bacon. All the fat. All the delicious meats, cheeses, proteins, and fat snacks you want. Only thing is, no carbs, or limit carbs to under 20grams per day.

I am on day 2 and so far so good. I started this diet weighing 285.6 and I am going to weigh myself after one week to see how much weight I have lost. One thing I have notices automatically is that I do not feel bloated. Apparently you crave water and also drop your water weight at first which is cause for the rapid weight loss at first. So I have been peeing and drinking more water.

Downsides. I am still hungry, but I am hoping this will change with continued progress. Carbs are in everything, so there are lots of things that I cannot have anymore. Goodbye delicious ice cream...goodbye. But wait! I have researched tons of recipes where I can make my own tweaked versions of my favorites so I can still indulge.

So tomorrow is Monday, going to start this diet during the week and see how it goes. I am feeling confident, a little nervous, but overall pretty good. W

Check out my latest update video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQNGT58_ixQ

Still fat.

It's been 84 years and I can still smell the fresh pain. The china had never been used, the sheets had never been slept in, the---

Oh wait, I'm quoting Titanic again, my bad.

It's been 3 YEARS since I last posted on this blog. When I found it I was excited, then depressed because it reminded me that I've been failing at losing weight for basically my whole life and it has only gotten harder.

Here's un update on the last three years of my life.

Got married, and even though I didn't fit into my original wedding dress and had to buy a new one, my wedding was kick ass and I felt the most beautiful in my life. This October is our third anniversary and married life is pretty awesome so far.

Moved out of mom's house into an apartment, bought our first house, and now I am on my second big kid job as a case worker. I am now working 2 jobs (1 is M-F and 1 is every other weekend F-M) and going to grad school. What up class of 2019?!

Side note: I'm trying to bring back this sarcasm thing and was pleased at my writing from before. But lately my writing is still floating around in the dark abyss somewhere and I've got one of those tiny fishing nets, wishfully scooping around for dem writing skills I used to be proud of. I'll get there!

Bad things are happening health wise:

• Severe back pain: 1 ER visit so far this year, back spasm and stiffness, and I pop muscle relaxers and pain pills like they are in short supply.
• I get short of breath easily and my heart beats fast if I do something as simple as climb stairs.
• Irregular visits from the red devil. Which is probably not a big issue because I'm not about that pregnancy lifestyle right now, but should still be regular.
• Bad skin, dry skin, oily skin
• General discomfort

Lifestyle changes I have made..?

• stopped drinking those god awful AMPs and stopped eating pints of ice cream. Seriously though, I was doing that on the regular and that was no Bueno.

Er..that's about it. Everything else that is bad I still do. I still eat too much, too late, drink my calories, am addicted to mocha iced coffee from DD, don't exercise, and am not active enough.

I do go to the gym more that I used to, which although it isn't much, is a miniscule step in the right direction. My weight according to this blog is still about the same. I hover between 279-285. I remember when I used to weigh 200lbs, some 9 years ago, and I wish I could have froze myself in time.

I have no fashion sense, and frump girl with no sense of beauty with minimal effort, and just feel all around gross. So I decided to make myself some more short term goals that I will try at again. My biggest motivator right now is the fact that I want to have a baby in the next 3 years so I need to get this body ready to do some cookin'. I don't mean to be joking or make light of the situation, but I am facing facts and coping with what I have done to my body these past years.

Goals:

• Workout at least 3 times per week for 1 hour each workout.
• Go to bed earlier to get up earlier
• Cut out iced coffees and stop drinking my calories
• eat breakfast every day
• lose weight (obviously) steadily
• Only weigh myself 1x week
• Only watch TV when working out
• Improve my posture and appearance
• Get back to the old me who actually gave a damn.

I think that's a good start for now. Time to make some changes and become the person I was always meant to be. Got to stay motivated. To keep myself on track, I am going to blog/vlog 1x week.

Week 1 vlog link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-x7GD-mYQk

May 5, 2013

Welcome to the start of new beginnings! I have decided to finally start up my blog again and will complete an entry after every workout. This way I will always remember to do it.
The past year has been full of change and stress and many busy things. I have been working two jobs for the past year and have attended school full time. Needless to say, it has taken its toll on me. I have gained about 30lbs in the last year alone, ever since I stopped working at the animal hospital and took on a sedentary job. I have become lazy and frump girl again and am frankly ashamed of myself. There's no excuse for what I have done, I'm just providing reasons why it happened.
So now that I am officially graduating on May 19th from Purdue University, I will have free time to get my ass in gear. Weight loss is going to be my main priority and with strong perseverance and hard work, I can do it.
Something in me just clicked today. And I don't know why or what or how it happened but it did. I am tired of living my life 50% and I want to experience everything to the fullest. I am only 22 and I feel older than that.
My current weight is 275lbs as of yesterday. I haven't been this heavy since Freshman year of high school which was eight years ago. I regret the actions I have taked to get me here, but I am striving to move forward and not look back.
Oh, and did I mention I am getting married in 5 months to the most incredible man I have ever met? My goal is to be able to fit in my wedding dress by August, so that I will have time to have any necessary alterations done. I'd say I have to lose at least 50 lbs in order for this to happen. Ideall however, I'd like to get down to 200lbs to start, and then break on through after that.
So there are approximately 90 days until we reach August. If I want to lose the full 75lbs, I have to lose an average of .88lbs per day or 6 lbs a week. If I want to lose the 50 lbs, I have to lose an average of .55lbs per day or 4 lbs a week. So I am going to try and strive for 5lbs a week.
I know I can do this, I have done it before. Now I just need to be committed. I love my life and love myself, just not the body I am in. It's time to change. Wedding dress...here I come.

It is time.

Ha, I sound like Rafikki from The Lion King. But seriously. It is time to get my butt in gear. Today I had some really bad abdominal pain and it made me feel so overweight because it hurt to try and suck in my stomach. So gross. My friend Jenille and I are going to organize a workout plan and write down our weight loss goals. I need to get started and need someone to hold me accountable to keep going. I can workout fine, but when it comes to repetition and eating right, that's where I fall short. Tonight we are going out for pizza since Chris is coming back home, but hey, it's okay to celebrate I think. I just want to be beautiful and healthy. I want to be happy and outgoing. Shaycarl from Youtube has really inspired me to get going. He lost 85lbs in just a few months and now he's addicted to working out. I want that to be me! Hopefully this awful stomach cramping will go away. I want to start living my life.

Here's what I ate today:

Breakfast: 2 pieces wheat toast, 1 package instant oatmeal, 1 cup cranberry juice
Lunch: healthychoice chicken tortilla soup
Snack: popcorn
Dinner: PIZZZAAA!!
Misc: lemonade

Tuesday

Today was a short, exhausting day. I didn't have much time to work out this evening as I had homework to do, but I still ran 1 mile, and did arms and abs. I'm not working out as long as I would like to, but at least I'm doing it. That's the first step. I need to gradually get back into it, otherwise I'm going to hate it and resent doing it every night. I'm going to bed, I'm exhausted. I may or may not workout tomorrow as I have hospice volunteer work and its my day off so I like to relax for a while.

Breakfast: cereal with milk.
Lunch: PBJ sandwich, 2 graham crackers, 4 fat free marshmallows, 1 fun size hershey bar
Snack: multigrain cheerios
Dinner: Meatloaf and perogies.
Water to drink.

Monday

I did workout today. I walked on the treadmill and then decided to kick into high gear and ran the rest of that mile. I'm tired today. Not used to getting up early after a relaxing weekend. I ate poorly today, too much, full of fat, shameful. I'm embarrassed. Haven't lost any weight yet, we'll see after tomorrow. I've gained enough this weekend to where it should be relatively easy to get it off again. I ran 1 mile, did 3 miles on the bike and burned about 300 calories. I did some arms and abs also while watching Blood Ties. The gorgeous Henry Fitzroy inspires me to be skinny, or at least his abs do ;) Alas, it is bed time, and I shall post again tomorrow.

Breakfast: cereal w/ milk
Lunch: 2 fried egg sandwiches, water to drink
Snack: PBJ sandwich, water to drink
Dinner: KFC (chicken, biscuit, mashes potatoes w/ gravy, mac n cheese) water to drink
Other: fun size candy (M&M, snickers, Twix), zero calorie gatorade, 5 calorie diet cranapple juice

I'll start Monday

Today was better than yesterday as I had predicted. After I posted I went right downstairs for a fit of dancing and it made me happy. I worked today and went to school, and I'm thinking that if I just continue my regular schedule the rest of the week, I should be fine. Friday morning I will get up early and workout, go get my liscence redone, do some cleaning, pick up Hannah, and it's off to Eastern to see Derek. I really miss him. It sucks being in a long(ish) distance relationship. I wish he was here so we could lose weight together and motivate each other. It's hard to be doing this alone. Anyway I lost a pound since yesterday, but MONDAY I will get started, back in the swing of things. Workouts at night, light dinner after work, burn 500 cals each workout, Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat. and every other Sun. 

Here's What I ate today:

cereal with milk

spaghetti with meat sauce, 2 pieces bread w/ butter, coke zero

3 eggs, 3 pieces sausage, 2 pieces toast, diet cranberry juice,

ice cream

Things I'm giving up: Ice Cream, Pizza, Cheese, Chips