Listen friends, water weight gain will have you down bad. I’ve been snacking too often and the numbers have been climbing and all of a sudden I found myself at 312 pounds on Tuesday. My lowest was in January at 294 pounds, but a lot of that weight loss came from depression…I digress. So I got focused, vented to my besties, got some good advice, and ended with a good calorie deficit which resulted in a huge amount of water loss. My keto buds call this “The Whoosh” where you’re pissing out all the stored water and all of a sudden the scale makes a jump.
The advice I got from my besties was to log everything and get back to keto basics; prioritize fats and chug water. I posted my daily stats on instagram, but for breakfast I put an emphasis on fats. Eggs, avocado, sausage, low carb tortilla, sour cream, a really simple meal but really energizing for my day. I enjoyed a great workout in the evening, but unfortunately MFP won’t show calorie data for logging weight lifting exercises. So the only accurate calorie total came from my cardio, which was a warmup of 10 minutes on the treadmill, and burned 77 calories. Ordered 20 hot wings and ate about 13, which made me feel thrifty because not only did it save me money by providing the next day’s lunch but I saved on calories too. All in all I was at a calorie deficit of 500, but the thing is I wasn’t hungry much. Those morning fats really helped me feel satisfied all day until after my workout. My workout was killer by the way, just felt zoned in, which leads me to…
…my mental health. I’ve had some weird days, but my mentals have been good after some adjustments. Some of the adjustments come in the form of little life hacks i’ve created for myself to eliminate self sabotage. Things like completing adult tasks as soon as possible so it’s one less thing to worry about, or putting away laundry within 24 hours of a wash. Yes it’s extra effort and it’s always another thing on the to do list but it beats having anxiety about it. I feel better when the house is clean, or laundry is done, or I’m fed on time. Ugh, that makes me want to dive into self care but I need to focus on this blog, I’ll write a different one for that later. I have trouble focusing at times…anyway, just doing things to help myself.
Mindfulness is a wonderful thing, I’ve been using it on testing out these recipes I want to try. Coming up with new ideas or looking for ingredients at the store, I’m there, I’m not zoned out. Anxiety kind of fucks with you that way, I find myself zoning out a lot but the more I practice mindfulness, the less time my brain spends thinking. Plus I really enjoy the primal aspect of cooking, people have been cutting food on a wooden cutting board since the beginning of time, and here I am millions of years later, doing the same thing.
God loves me.
The song of the day is I Hear Voices Pt. 2 – 12″ Version by MF DOOM