June 14, 2016
I have survived day one and onto day two.
Coffee one and two are drunk and they were mighty tasty. I'm trying to drink a lot of water and doing my best to psych myself out of the "diet mindset" where my brain decides I'm starving and must eat bad shit. No bad shit!! Well, less than yesterday, that is.
I ended up having a homemade hamburger patty and trail mix from Costco. Holy shit! The trail mix was 1.5c worth and a whopping 1,261 calories and a bucket load of carbs! Okay, so when they say a 1/4 c, they mean it. I know that calories aren't supposed to mean anything on this way of eating and they won't, because after awhile, I'll eat less automatically, but wowzers! 1,260 calories is astounding!
I made bacon and eggs for lunch, with some low carb ketchup and that was pretty good. I know I'll need more in the way of leafy greens, so it's off to the grocery store to get some EatSmart Sweet Kale salad, which has only 8 carbs for an entire big bag, if one doesn't eat the pumpkin seeds and poppy seed dressing. I ended up getting a big bag of that salad PLUS some 18% coffee cream just to see how much I actually used in a big cup of coffee. Well, it's 10 carbs per coffee and that's not counting sugar cubes, so coffee is definitely a no-no. Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh....
I will miss coffee and could change to decaf, but having that many carbs in cream and sugar is my downfall. I can do it, I can do it, I can do it - quit coffee that is. A few rough days and I'll be fine. Herbal tea? Not my cup of tea, so to speak.
All is good. I will get the weight off, build up the miles and be efficient where my body will use my fat for fuel and eventually, I'll add some more carbs back (of the good kind) for long ride fueling. I just have to keep telling myself it takes time and doesn't happen overnight. Why not??? Aaarghhhhh...
I won't post again for about a month.
Monday, 13 June 2016
Day One
June 13, 2016
I'm starting on my way to low carbing, with a view to getting into ketogenesis to lose weight. Yah yah yah, you've heard that before. Go away then.
Still there? Okay, then. I've been on many diets over my lifetime, most of which failed because I chose to stop them, because my addiction to bad carbs and sugar got the best of me, in particular, coffee with cream and sugar. Every morning I start off with one or two cups of coffee (so good too!) with 2 lumps of sugar and creamo and then I'm ready to start the day, whether I'm on a day off or going to work. I commute to work by bike (12 km each way, for a total of 24 km per day).
In 2012, I scrapped my 1994 Ford Explorer and went full time riding my bike. I took transit, as well, occasionally. Husband had a pickup then (he likes to flyfish and has a boat for lake fishing and he likes to camp), so we got down to one vehicle. I still drove, but not much. I found that I actually became addicted to cycling and found driving with other idiots felt more dangerous than cycling.
I was doing great with weight loss and getting fitter, although I needed to start walking more. I had also planned on starting Yoga, which would improve my cycling to a large degree. That was then....
In March of this year, we were given a minivan by my son. It needed work, about $2,800.00 worth of work, before it was safe. It had fairly low miles on it, so we decided to fix it and keep it, along with the Dodge Caravan we'd bought in 2014, as hubby's truck packed it in (bad mechanic). He spent a few months car free as well, taking transit and I used my bike for shopping. It was actually working very well. Shopping a bit each day, with a few big hauls once a month was awesome! I felt it was very empowering, not to be reliant on a vehicle. Husband thought differently. He's from a generation (mine too) that values a person's worth by the vehicle one drives and he was not in a good space without a vehicle, especially having to get up an hour earlier to take a bus to and from work. He could've gotten a ride from his boss, who lives a mile away, but he's got this sense of pride that makes him feel embarrassed for not having a vehicle and accepting rides from people. Each to his/her own.
Since getting the minivan, I have been driving more ... too much actually. I need to get back to riding more to work and back, not just hauling my gravel bike to the dikes and riding there or the occasional ride to and from work. Right now, it's June and it's either hot/muggy or raining. Not the best weather when it's raining, as rain gear makes me sweat so much and then I'm brain drained for the rest of the day. It's a time of year when I'm working 6 days a week or really long days, so it's handy to have the minivan for that, for sure.
Where this is going is that I'm not losing weight now, but eating like I'm riding full time, so I've gained a couple of pounds in the past month and I don't like it. I've decided to get back to basis and go low carb again and holy crap batman! has that ever changed since I did it 25 years ago. I've found I can actually go into Ketogenesis and stay there until I get to within the last 15 pounds of weight loss and then do a variant of carb cycling and I like that idea a lot. The hardest part will be to give up coffee, which I cannot stand without sugar or cream.
I'm using MyFitnessPal to log my entries and keep track of what I'm doing. Today, I kept my carbs down to 79 from an average or over 300, with a view to never going over 22 to get to ketosis and stay there for a few months.
I'm doing this because I'm tired of being fat and making excuses to myself. I also want to ride longer distances and my weight is holding me back from doing that efficiently. I figure I need to lose at least 65 lbs and with that gone, touring with the extra gear on my steel bike I've converted to a tourer will be much less stressful on it and on me. That's what I figure. I love to cycle camp and tour and really really really want to ride my bike to Portland next year.
Leaving coffee behind is going to be the hardest part of this new adventure in my life.
I'm starting on my way to low carbing, with a view to getting into ketogenesis to lose weight. Yah yah yah, you've heard that before. Go away then.
Still there? Okay, then. I've been on many diets over my lifetime, most of which failed because I chose to stop them, because my addiction to bad carbs and sugar got the best of me, in particular, coffee with cream and sugar. Every morning I start off with one or two cups of coffee (so good too!) with 2 lumps of sugar and creamo and then I'm ready to start the day, whether I'm on a day off or going to work. I commute to work by bike (12 km each way, for a total of 24 km per day).
In 2012, I scrapped my 1994 Ford Explorer and went full time riding my bike. I took transit, as well, occasionally. Husband had a pickup then (he likes to flyfish and has a boat for lake fishing and he likes to camp), so we got down to one vehicle. I still drove, but not much. I found that I actually became addicted to cycling and found driving with other idiots felt more dangerous than cycling.
I was doing great with weight loss and getting fitter, although I needed to start walking more. I had also planned on starting Yoga, which would improve my cycling to a large degree. That was then....
In March of this year, we were given a minivan by my son. It needed work, about $2,800.00 worth of work, before it was safe. It had fairly low miles on it, so we decided to fix it and keep it, along with the Dodge Caravan we'd bought in 2014, as hubby's truck packed it in (bad mechanic). He spent a few months car free as well, taking transit and I used my bike for shopping. It was actually working very well. Shopping a bit each day, with a few big hauls once a month was awesome! I felt it was very empowering, not to be reliant on a vehicle. Husband thought differently. He's from a generation (mine too) that values a person's worth by the vehicle one drives and he was not in a good space without a vehicle, especially having to get up an hour earlier to take a bus to and from work. He could've gotten a ride from his boss, who lives a mile away, but he's got this sense of pride that makes him feel embarrassed for not having a vehicle and accepting rides from people. Each to his/her own.
Since getting the minivan, I have been driving more ... too much actually. I need to get back to riding more to work and back, not just hauling my gravel bike to the dikes and riding there or the occasional ride to and from work. Right now, it's June and it's either hot/muggy or raining. Not the best weather when it's raining, as rain gear makes me sweat so much and then I'm brain drained for the rest of the day. It's a time of year when I'm working 6 days a week or really long days, so it's handy to have the minivan for that, for sure.
Where this is going is that I'm not losing weight now, but eating like I'm riding full time, so I've gained a couple of pounds in the past month and I don't like it. I've decided to get back to basis and go low carb again and holy crap batman! has that ever changed since I did it 25 years ago. I've found I can actually go into Ketogenesis and stay there until I get to within the last 15 pounds of weight loss and then do a variant of carb cycling and I like that idea a lot. The hardest part will be to give up coffee, which I cannot stand without sugar or cream.
I'm using MyFitnessPal to log my entries and keep track of what I'm doing. Today, I kept my carbs down to 79 from an average or over 300, with a view to never going over 22 to get to ketosis and stay there for a few months.
I'm doing this because I'm tired of being fat and making excuses to myself. I also want to ride longer distances and my weight is holding me back from doing that efficiently. I figure I need to lose at least 65 lbs and with that gone, touring with the extra gear on my steel bike I've converted to a tourer will be much less stressful on it and on me. That's what I figure. I love to cycle camp and tour and really really really want to ride my bike to Portland next year.
Leaving coffee behind is going to be the hardest part of this new adventure in my life.
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