Well I ate too much today, but not enough carbs to put me out of ketosis.
Losing 3 this week is what I can hope for.
I'm going to list the food, so I do not bury the evidence. I am not regretful, but I'm not going to make a habit of this
Today I ate:
Half a Choc ginger shake
A piece of salmon with chilli coating
An exante bar
An omelette with salad
A piece of crust less quiche
An Atkins bar
A lump of cheese
I didn't eat the many cupcakes, the fruit crumble or the chocolate ice cream, I'm not so daft as to put myself out of ketosis.
And of course I could have done more damage limitation by not having 2 bars, the salmon or the cheese. But I didn't want to do damage limitation today. Today I was pleased I'd lost 2 stone.
Tomorrow I'm back at work, so it'll be so much easier.
I'm doing lunch again next week, slow cooked beef stew, I'm cooking it, everyone else will have mash with it. I'll have to do some low carb something for myself.
What I won't be doing is having a bar b4 hand or extra protein, I thought having something in my stomach would make me immune to extra portions, nope. I hadn't taken into account my want to indulge when I was still on Holiday. And it was group, social eating....I just find not eating, when a wider social group is eating, very, very hard.
So it'll have to be mint tea until the event, the stew, then home for a shake and a bar.
Tonight I feel comfortably full, rather than not-hungry-just-a-bit-peckish, which is how I experience vlcd and ketosis.
It feels good physically to be full. But psychologically, it feels my bus has stopped. When on a Vlcd I feel my bus trundling at a constant speed in direction of my goal, over eat and feel full? Bus has gone in for a tire change.
Back to moving forward tomorrow. I have at least another 3 stone to lose