I’m tired of being tired. I want to loose weight and regain energy. So I decided to try the keto diet. Eating the keto way is a very low carb very high fat system that teaches your body to burn fat instead of carbs for energy. Most people who eat this way loose a lot of weight without feeling like they are trying to do so.
It felt like trying to me.
So, now I’m focusing on low calorie plus low carb instead. Very low calorie and very low carb. My goal is to eat about 1000-1200 calories per day with carbs being no more than 20% of my intake. And the weight is falling off.
A typical day:
I tend to sleep from 3 am to noon so my first meal of the day is usually between 1 and 2 pm. Dave chops up two slices of bacon and fries that. Without draining the fat, he adds 2 large eggs, lightly whipped, and cooks it until set. That’s it. That’s about 316 calories which is enough to hold me until my next meal.
We have an unusual living situation in that part of our rent is credit in the in-house restaurant. So my second meal of the day usually happens about 5:15 pm and consists of meat from the restaurant: steak, hamburger patty, scallops, salmon or chicken. No potatoes, rice, or pasta. Rarely vegetables since I mostly don’t care for ones they serve here. Fresh fruit for desert which Dave eats because its mostly melons which my body dislikes.
Then sometime between 7-8 pm we sit down to watch a movie or episodes of a TV series. I sometimes eat an ounce of nuts then but I’m more likely to have an ounce of Ruffles potato chips because being deprived of all greasy/salty/crunchy foods feel to me like cruel and inhuman punishment.
Late night, often between 11 pm and midnight I eat my final meal of the day. Usually that’s either 4 oz of turkey, roast beef, or ham from the deli or it’s a can of tuna, salmon, shrimp, or chicken. Whichever it is, I add lots of fat to it in the form of Primal Kitchen dressing, sauce, or mayo and/or olives or avocado. That holds me the thirteen or more hours until my first meal of the next day.
The restaurant here does not serve dinner on Sundays. So that’s the day Dave fetches fast food for us. Often over my calorie count and carb count for a day. That shocks my system. Which helps it decide maybe this is not a time of famine after all so it stops hoarding the calories I’ve been eating that week and my weight starts dropping again.
People in the know say losing 1-2 pounds a week is the way to go if you want to keep the weight off forever. My graph shows that I’m staying slightly under that goal line. Which means, if I keep this up, in less than two years I will be slender again. I’m really looking forward to buying regular size clothes again. But, still limiting myself to 1300 calories a day since that’s what the charts say I will need to do to maintain that weight loss. By then that should be easy.
TTYL,
Linda
