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Back to Keto

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Now that my birthday month is behind me, I’m ready to get back to intermittent fasting and keto and lose the next ten kilo’s. Do I sound confident? If I do, it’s all a front for my anxiety-riddled feelings about failing this time. There’s a little voice that keeps telling me I’m kidding myself if I think I can be one of the many people who lose all of their excess weight on keto, by sticking to it long term.

I didn’t fail from September 2020 to February 2021, when I ate a low carb diet, fasted for sixteen out of every twenty-four hours and lost those ten kilo’s. But is it guaranteed I’ll achieve the same result if I do the same thing? I hope it does. If you do the same thing, you get the same result, yes? In life, I have found that this isn’t always true, but maybe I didn’t actually repeat the behaviour exactly? It’s possible.

I’ve been saying for six months that I should add some exercise to my weekly routine, but apart from a few walks each week, I haven’t done it yet. COVID19 messed with our gym memberships, and when the gym reopened I didn’t fancy wearing a mask on the treadmill. I’m such a baby, I know. Maybe now Autumn is here I’ll feel more like moving?

I’ve eaten a low carb, keto diet for two days now, and it’s so easy; a chicken or tuna salad for lunch, then meat and one veg for dinner. I don’t get tired of the food at all. In fact, eating like this is a dream come true for me. Simple, easy and yummy, and as soon as I’m back in ketosis, my appetite will disappear again and I’ll care even less. I do love that about keto.

On my way back to ketosis of course I’m probably due for some keto flu symptoms, but until that happens I’ll enjoy this simple keto life.

Be kind to yourself,

Rachel

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I Made Keto Cauliflower Mash

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Chicken thighs roasted in satay sauce and cauliflower mash

I made keto cauliflower mash and it was a waste of perfectly delicious cauliflower. I followed the instructions from a few different recipes; steaming the cauliflower, adding salt and pepper, butter and cream cheese, blending it with a hand stick blender, and it looked great, most importantly not runny. Runny is apparently the devil of cauliflower mash.

Doesn’t the food in the photo look great? I mean apart from that piece of chicken at the top looking like a choc chip cookie, it looks like a potentially delicious meal.

My family liked it and I got requests to add it to the rotation, as we say in my family, but I found it mealy, grainy, and the flavour wasn’t cheesy and it wasn’t like cauliflower. It was a disappointment to me.

Maybe next time I make the mash, I’ll put it in my bullet blender. I don’t want to end up with a puddle of mash, though. These are the trials of the keto diet; grainy mash or a puddle of mash.

I’m fussy about my food, I know that, and being on a keto diet and intermittent fasting, I try to make sure that both of my meals each day are delicious. One unhappy dinner does not derail me, though.

Tonight I’m making lamb chops with peas and it’s hard to go wrong with that.

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I’m Under 100kgs Thankyou Keto

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This morning I weighed in at exactly ninety-nine kilo’s and I’m pretty damn pleased with myself.

I cannot believe I’m saying this but I’m under a hundred kilos. I’d given up on losing weight, because of my thyroid disease and meds I take for mental illness that tend to block weight loss. Apparently keto is king, and will not be beaten.

Having absolutely no appetite is what makes this diet so easy to do, for me. I’m fasting from after dinner one day to lunch the next day, eating under 30 carbs a day, doing some walking about three times a week and doing absolute beginner yoga each morning. That’s it.

I’m not doing clean keto, which is all about wild-caught salmon and organic meats, dairy and produce. I mostly eat meat, dairy, veggies, nuts, seeds, herbs and spices. Yep, that’s about it. The only processed food I’m eating is a little Denada Ice Cream after dinner, which is absolutely delicious. I like the chocolate and the caramel with chocolate chips flavours best. I drink water, coffee with full fat cream, green tea, black tea with a splash of milk, Coke No Sugar, Solo No Sugar and mint tea.

On Monday, I went to a shopping centre and I decided to cheat and have a donut, I love donuts so much. I went to Donut King and scoped the range and nope, nothing called to me. Not one of those creamy, custard-filled, frosted beauties made me want to eat them. This is still incredibly weird to me. I am a lifelong foodie, which I guess I now reframe as a carb and sugar addict, and before keto I could eat all the donuts, all of them. Now I honestly couldn’t be bothered and anyway it would make me feel like crap emotionally and probably physically as well.

Before keto I ate what I wanted, and I ate a lot. I ate McDonalds, Hungry Jacks or KFC once a week. I ate huge platefuls of food and I often had seconds. Since keto, I haven’t eaten any take-away food at all, I eat a smaller amount of food and feel completely satisfied after every meal. Since starting intermittent fasting I’ve only eaten twice a day, lunch and dinner and I’m rarely hungry. I don’t get hangry any more, which is nice for my family.

If you’ve tried everything except a keto diet like me, I recommend you give keto a go. Do what’s right for you, and see your doctor before you do anything like this, but also, give it a go and I hope you get under a hundred kg’s like me.

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5:2

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I’m still doing the 5:2 fasting way of eating. This morning I weigh 94.4 kg, down from 67.6 kg at the start 9 days ago. I’m on a fast day today, so I should drop some more weight soon. Fasting is not as hard as I thought it would be. Today is the first day I’ve woken up keen for my fast day and not scared at all. Being a foodie, I was afraid before that I’d be so hungry I’d get ‘hangry’ which is the word for hungry angry, when you want to do an impression of the Hulk if you see food and you can’t eat it because you’re hungry.

As it turns out, the fast days are easier than the non fast days because I’m still struggling with how many calories to eat on a non fast day. Believe me, there are a variety of opinions on this topic. Some people follow the 500/2000 method. Others do a calculation using their BMI to get to the number of calories they should eat on their non-fast days. This number is usually around 2000 if you’re pretty overweight like me, but it can be much less if you’ve already lost a lot of weight. I know, I’m not being very precise. Some people in the Facebook groups eat only 1200 calories on non fast days, saying this helps them lose regularly. Others say if you eat too few calories you won’t lose weight. Then there’s the clean eating, the fat eating to lose weight, the vegan way, oh wow, everyone has an opinion.

Here’s what I’ve eaten so far, just the dates and the calories: 30/6 500 – 31/6 1594 – 1/8 2072 – 2/8 650 – 3/8 1415 – 4/8 388 – 5/8 1467 – 6/8 1894. It’s easy to see how I keep wavering between wanting to eat 1500-2000 calories. Make a decision, woman, and stick with it!. I did notice someone in one of the groups was eating 1500 some days and 2000 other days. Maybe I’m one of those. Maybe that’s okay. Maybe I need a cup of coffee. I’m hungry. It’s almost time for lunch.