Sadly, I gained and lost the same 4 or so pounds since starting in the end of February. Same old story that it’s been since I had Logan. The same 5 pounds I gain and lose over and over and over again.<\/p>\n
My friend Debby has been steadily losing weight, which is fantastic! She’s doing Weight Watchers and she swears by it. She says any time she needs to lose weight she goes back to WW and it always works. As she put it–weight loss is about food for her, not exercise. The old adage “You can’t out exercise a bad diet” is very true. <\/strong>Even if I don’t want to admit it!<\/p>\n So recently, once I was feeling better from my plague, I decided to try something different.<\/p>\n I cut out bread, pasta, rice, etc. I decided that I would give this a try and see if it worked.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n *I’m not doing a Low Carb diet.<\/p>\n Not really, anyways.<\/em> But I can easily cut out worthless carbs like bread. Pasta? I rarely eat pasta. The only time I ever eat pasta is in a frozen meal that I’d eat for lunch and I’ve decided to stop doing those. Even though they are quick and easy for work, they aren’t exactly healthy. So for the last month I’ve stopped buying the frozen lunches.<\/p>\n What carbs am I eating?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Sweet potatoes on occasion, fruit, my plain Greek yogurt, beans and hummus. There are carbs in most foods, but I’m really trying hard to keep it to a minimum.<\/p>\n Typical day of food:<\/span><\/p>\n Breakfast<\/strong>: two scrambled eggs with turkey sausage or bacon, coffee with cream.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Snack<\/strong>: fruit, usually an apple or whatever is in season.<\/em><\/p>\n Lunch<\/strong>: Salad with a protein and roasted veggies.<\/em><\/p>\n Snack<\/strong>: Hummus with veggies, usually carrots or cucumbers.<\/em><\/p>\n Dinner<\/strong>: Protein and veggies and salad, for example: chicken thigh, sauteed brussels sprouts with bacon, salad.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Dessert<\/strong>: Depends on what we have, trying hard not to eat it every day.<\/em><\/p>\n The first week was kind of hard. I crashed a few times because I didn’t have enough calories for the day and had a headache and was cranky and hungry. But after that it was ok.<\/p>\n Here is an example of two days:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Right now I’m just paying attention to carbs and calories. In a few weeks I’ll focus on lowering my sugar count. It’s a gradual process.<\/p>\n The hardest part is taking a moment to think what can I have?<\/em> Sometimes you want a quick and easy dinner and you think, hmmm how about a burrito? But then you realize the tortilla has a lot of carbs. Damn. Ok…burrito bowl salad instead!<\/p>\n It also takes time to prep everything. Today I had the typical breakfast:<\/p>\n …and then packed a lunch for work that was kind of labor-intensive. Strawberries for a morning snack; black bean hummus and cucumbers for an afternoon snack; lunch was slices of ham and roast beef rolled up with a piece of pepper jack cheese, olives and pickles. Doesn’t sound like much but it took time to put everything together! Tomorrow I’m going to roast some veggies to take to work–that also takes time!<\/p>\n I\u00a0had one “cheat” meal last week.<\/p>\n Michael made lamb burgers with feta and olives in it and I had it on a bun! With a beer! The beer was amazing. Lots of carbs, yes, but worth it for one day out of the week. The next day I was back on track with low carb.<\/p>\n The results? I lose 2 pounds last week. I’m slightly encouraged–enough to keep trying this diet and see where it goes. But I’m also not that excited about it because like I said, I’ve been gaining and losing the same 5 pounds for a year. So until I see myself lose a few more, I’m not getting too excited yet.<\/p>\n It’s funny…I was talking to Michael about how much easier it was to lose weight the first time…I lost 75 pounds fairly easily. It was slow and steady and took effort and time, but I was really only counting my calories and exercising. I wasn’t TOO restrictive and still had some treats here and there. Then when I got to about where I am at now, the weight loss got REALLY hard. And once again, it’s hard. I don’t know why those last 20-25 pounds or so is the hardest to lose, but it is. It’s so frustrating!<\/p>\n Anyways, that’s the update for now.<\/p>\n QUESTION: If you’ve done a low carb diet before, what were your go-to low carb foods?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I haven’t been around here much lately and there are a few reasons for that. First, (broken record time), I was sick! Yep…mid-February I got a cold that turned into strep throat, then pink eye again (thank you daycare), then another cold that turned into bronchitis and a sinus infection. 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