{"id":51893,"date":"2017-04-10T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T15:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=51893"},"modified":"2017-04-10T08:31:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T15:31:22","slug":"light-carbs-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=51893","title":{"rendered":"Light Carbs Update #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recently I wrote a post about going “light carb<\/a>“. I wanted to do another update post updating you guys.<\/p>\n

A little while ago, we had some friends over for lunch who were in the middle of doing Whole 30. We made steak salad and grilled veggies for lunch. I’ve read a little bit about the diet as it was going around the blog world. Lots of people seemed to like it. Some people lost weight on it. A lot of people said it was a struggle, too much prep-work, and not something they could do long term. Our friends said that they felt less bloated while on the diet.<\/p>\n

But Whole 30 just does not appeal to me. I cannot cut out dairy. If you are a long-time reader, you may remember that I did an experiment a few years ago–going gluten and dairy-free. After a month of doing it, my conclusion was that I could go gluten-free\/low carb fairly easily but I couldn’t go dairy-free. Especially since I didn’t get a big pay-off for it!<\/p>\n

Here are a few posts about it:<\/p>\n

When The Diet Stops Working<\/a><\/p>\n

Mourning Pasta<\/a><\/p>\n

Dairy-Free Conclusion<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, I understand that Whole 30 is only for 30 days but…I tried that with the other experiment. It just didn’t appeal to me. Maybe had I seen some big results I could get behind doing it for a month.<\/p>\n

So I’m eating carbs still in fruit and veggies. I’ve ditched bananas because they are too high in carbs and sugar.<\/p>\n

The second week on the light carb diet I weighed in and was down 2 more pounds, for a total of 4 lost.<\/strong> I had to admit, it was a good jolt of happiness and encouragement! I know that that’s probably bloat\/water weight and I should get too excited yet, but it definitely helped me stay motivated to keep trying.<\/p>\n

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Over the weekend Michael’s dad came to visit for Michael’s birthday so Friday night I had my “cheat meal.” Michael picked up pizza and I had two slices.<\/p>\n

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The three of us split a Bourbon Ball from Papa Haydn’s for Michael’s birthday:<\/p>\n

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So not great on the carb\/calorie front for Friday night but Saturday morning I turned it around. We went out for breakfast and I got scrambled eggs, two sausage patties and instead of potatoes or hashbrowns I got fruit and instead of bread or biscuits, they gave me some extra fruit. I really wanted that biscuit! But I stayed strong.<\/p>\n

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After the gym I had lunch (some low-carb Indian food) and cottage cheese. Dinner was a salad with a cheeseburger (and no bun). It was a pretty good day for limiting my carbs.<\/p>\n

On Sunday I had eggs and side of strawberries for breakfast, went swimming, and then had a salad topped with flank steak for lunch.<\/p>\n

Today I weighed in and saw that I was down another .6 pounds<\/strong>! So slowly but surely I’m starting to see some movement in the right direction.<\/p>\n

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I really hope I don’t yo-yo like I have done for the last year. If I can lose 2 more pounds I will know for sure that this diet is working. I just need to get past that yo-yo threshold I’ve been struggling against since having Logan!<\/p>\n

I also had a non-scale victory–a shirt that I wear fairly often (a large size) was super loose on me this weekend! Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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