An interesting trend is developing of late. I am getting to the end of my last meal, looking at my carb count and finding I am way low. This has happened the last 4 days. As I mentioned at the start of this week I am trying to keep my numbers around 19 grams of carbs and 1,900 calories or so. Last week I was at 14 carb grams and around 1,400 calories while only losing 3 pounds and no inches. So this week I am experimenting with a little bit higher levels. Last night I got to the end of my supper and discovered I was only at 11 grams of carbs for the day so I ate some baby dill pickles, which are almost no calories and are about 1 carb per. Hopefully it becomes a little bit easier to integrate carbs into my diet throughout the day as I go along although I am finding that my appetite is down so much that I am literally forcing myself to eat. This may not be the best way to do things. I won't know until my weigh in on Monday. That's the beauty of not weighing daily. I can conduct these 1 week experiments with my numbers to see what affect they have on me without the ups and downs of daily weight swings to discourage me. Who knows, this week I may have had a day where I gained 2 pounds simply because of greater water retention but it came off the next day with a pound lost to boot. I'll never know because I'm not riding the roller coaster of staring at those pounds everyday. Now there will come weeks where I am up or lose no weight. I admit that will be hard but I can handle it. This is a new eating lifestyle, not just a diet.
I mentioned several days ago that I will be on a 10 week cycle with my weight loss in order to try to avoid my metabolism slowing down significantly when I get to my goal. I am also trying to keep my thyroid from being damaged by a straight induction level diet for months on end. Research indicates that your thyroid can't handle induction level carbs for too long. So I have decided I will be changing my diet to the carb addicts diet for 2 weeks at the end of my 8 week induction cycle. Then I will go another 8 weeks on induction level carbs. If you are not familiar with the carb addicts diet I will be mapping it out when I get closer.
I got some good exercise in yesterday with some walking and swimming at the reservoir. I made sure to actually do some more swimming instead of just wading in the wonderful water. It was 110 degrees yesterday in St. George so a 3 hour dip in the reservoir was pretty wonderful. My poor shoulders are starting to peel though so I am a pretty gruesome sight right now. Maybe all that dead skin will amount to another pound lost! Okay, just kidding. Anyway, it was a good day to get some good activity in. I might head out golfing in the morning just to get a little more athletic activity in.
Breakfast - 2 eggs scrambled, 2 pieces of bacon
Lunch - 9 oz hamburger patty, 3 mushrooms, 1/8th cup peperoncini peppers, 1 cup cucumber salad
Dinner - 8 oz ground beef patty, 3 stalks of celery w/organic peanut butter (no sugar added), 7 baby dill pickles
Snacks - AM - Atkins strawberry shake, PM - No PM snack
Total counts for day 18, 18.2g Carbs, 1993 Calories, 146g fat, 128g protein
I had hamburger patty's twice because I had to get it used up before it went bad and I hate freezing beef, it takes all the flavor out. I had a good number of both fat and protein grams and kept my numbers where I wanted them to be for the week. As always I am anxious to weigh in on Monday to see if what I did worked.
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