Hey guys, didn't get notified about these sorry!!
I LOVVVVEEE the furniture, Mazza!!!! So happy. They didn't deliver the rug but thats coming today. Happy about being 'overweight' too. I will pop over to your diary now too. I don't understand why these emails give up after a while!!!
Hey Sophia, good to see you!! I have had lower loss weeks and a stay the same week during period but mostly a loss every week. I think on page 1 it says what i've lost each week if you wanted to look. Well, once I started weighing weekly anyway lol. I had a lot more to lose than you and the plateaus happen when you have less to lose. I also wonder if my heart rate being too high is contributing to less slowing, but it could just be the amount weight i've had to lose. More = faster with keto stuff I think. Potty is going great! We're now in pants and can go out and stuff. We take the potty with us - need to get a portable one - and so far so good. Shes only been wet one morning (nappy) now in weeks so I think that perhaps I need to be brave and lose the night nappies but I kinda am scared as she's still in my bed and I dont want my mattress ruined or one of those horrible plastic sheets haha. You've lost loads as well!!! Well done!! It's hard to not let the calories creep up isnt it? Especially under the current circumstances, they're so abnormal and stressful. Keep up the good work!!! I thinkI might start keeping a proper journal, not to log caloires etc but as a practice in observing how I feel when I eat certain things, or how eating certain things makes me feel.... see if I can educate myself in myself better haha.
Diary update....
Have been feeling less in control of myself with the diet lately. One nibble here or having something 'extra on plan' another. I haven't sabotaged myself majorly, teetered on the border of ketosis, but my discipline is sliding so I have made a formal plan now haha. No self criticism or blame, just me acknowledging to myself that it's time to properly step up/change and reset. I need more calories a day, my heart rate is high so I am basically exercising all day according to this fitbit. So because I have been a little wandery, I have decided to up to 1000 calories, but not quite the cambridge step 3 as planned to start. I have 3 days left of exante 800 so I will do this. Next I will do exactly the same as exante 800 but I will also have a planned extra 200 calories of protein a day from the lists of either CD or Exante that i've previously posted. I will do this for two weeks with my delivery I am awaiting and see how that is. Then I will transition from that to having less products a day but more food but with the same calories so that I can gradually adjust to being in control where there is much more choice and reintro of proper food. In other words start at 4 products a day and 200cal protein and transition to 2 products a day, a breakfast and dinner and a salad lunch. I used to split my dinner and lunch calories on old CD so i'll prob do that again.
I don't want to get overwhelmed and lose my way! If I feel ok at 1000 calories I will stay there until I have lost another 15-17 kg or so, which will take me out of 'overweight' and on the borderline of healthy. I expect then I will go up to 1200 calories, before if not feeling good at 1000, and introduce some kinda proper exercise routine to start toning and improving health more. By then i'll hopefully have had my consultant (medical not cambidge diet consultant haha) appointment to talk about my HR/POTS/Dysautonomia and testing etc and how to progress with exercise.
As for rewards, I think I am going to buy myself a mitre saw and some timber instead of pans lol. I really want some garden furniture and can't find any I like cheap enough or annnny in stock so I am just going to build some, which will be fun. I've only built from pallets before so it'll be nice to have easy, clean wood! Maybe when I win the lottery tonight though i'll buy pans too. I have pans already but no garden furniture. It will be nicer to eat healthy food in the garden than cook it in fancy pans which wont change the experience of eating healthy at all haha.
This is the furniture I shall make I think but with colourful cushions.
