So, 40 days ago I decided I was tired of how fat I've gotten and I was going to do something about it. I fucking hate working out, and every time I've tried I seem to stop after around 3 weeks tops of hating life and seeing no results. This time I decided I was going to try keto. Sep 1st I was drinking 3-4 64oz soda's a day and eating fast food around twice a day, and Sep 2nd I went directly to water and no carbs. It was rough.
In the first week I went down from 225 to 218, I was using the pee strips and seeing myself in moderate ketosis on day 6. On day 10 I went to a party, and drank 3 glasses of wine... which I was a little much but I thought I would probably be fine. I was mostly out of ketosis the next day, and it took 4 days to get back to where I was, with my weight loss mostly stalling. So by day 14 I was hovering at 216. The next two weeks I would mostly stay med ketosis, but sometimes I would drift into high or low, although I couldn't figure out why, by day 28 I was down to 210. I went to an Oktoberfest party and decided it was once a year and I would have 1 beer and some potato salad, knowing it would set me back a little. Surprisingly it wasn't a bit hit and I was back at Med keto in 2 days. Today is day 40 and I'm at 207 and have been in in heavy ketosis the last 4 days (due to some changes I'll explain). Feeling really good.
I didn't do much research, in fact I still haven't, basically just going "Stop eating carbs!" which isn't the whole picture I now know. The first 3 weeks were harrrrrrd. I felt hungry and shaky a lot, I had constant headaches (something I never have), and just felt groggy and ill, irritable, had a hard time staying focused and was just very foggy mentally. Someone pointed out I had all the symptoms of keto flu and I should get more electrolytes in my diet. I bought 7 bottles of poweraid zero and basically just added a splash to ever cup of water, 1 bottle being defused in over a gallon of water, so pretty minor (its 0 carb anyway). That seemed to massively help and a few days later I felt fine. By week 4 my hunger had subsided, and when I do feel hungry its a lot easier to just kind of ignore it.
I'm kind of surprised I'm not losing weight faster to be honest, because at this point, If you add up everything I eat in a week.. it's probably not a lot more than I was eating ever day or two before. Even what I'm eating now has shifted a lot. When I started I was eating eggs with cheese and bacon for breakfast, and some kind of meat/vegi dish for lunch and dinner, sometimes with almonds or veggies to snack on as well randomly. That pretty quickly started feeling like too much food. I would get halfway through my lunch and feel pretty full, so I would just save it to eat later. Then, I started realizing I wasn't very hungry later anyway and was just kind of eating because it was dinnertime, so I started cutting back on that too. Yesterday, I ate 1 scrambled egg with cheese and half a bell pepper at 2 p.m. and a handful of almonds and 1 piece of beef jerky for dinner at 7 p.m. and I felt fine. I could have eaten more but was just like "meh, I'm cool."
I should look at my bank account.. but I imagine I have saved like $500 in fast food/eating out in the last month, it's crazy when I think about it.
The big thing I'm struggling with now that I've started reading a bit, is fat. It seems like I've mostly gone from high carb, to high protein, med fat. Its looking like I should really be no carb, med protein, high fat. The big issue I have is that I fucking hate avocados, which is the keto super food apparently. I keep looking for alternatives, but everything I read is just saying "Heavy cream, butter, and avocado/coconut oil" but none of that is really food, so I have a hard time seeing how that is a real answer. What I've done the last 3 days is to take a glass, put some milk and heavy cream in it, put a spoonful of coconut oil in it, a splash of vanilla, and then microwave the thing to warm so the oil melts. Chug it down. Its tolerable but not super awesome. I'm guessing that's why I've gone to deep ketosis the last few days, but *shrug* I'm new to all this.
I don't know, what do you guys think? Am I doing fine and just keep doing what I'm doing? Or things you would change? I'm sure the big thing is "Do some kind of exercise", but uhhhg, I already feel like I don't have enough time in the day to do the things I want >_<
