I’ve been gone from this thread for awhile. Dieting just got too hard, as it usually does for me, and I wasn’t seeing results anyway, which was discouraging for me. I’m back up to my original weight, probably heavier. I have decided to try low carb again. I’m not a big fan of low carb because I love snacks like chips and I love bread and pasta. But I have decided to go “low-ish” carb instead of intensely low carb. I’m doing under 100 grams a day. I was eating 200-300 grams a day (yeah I was pigging out
). I’ve done research and people still lose weight at 100 grams a day. My mother in law lost 85 pounds by eating 120 carbs a day for diabetes. So as long as I can sustain it I should be fine. I just have to commit to eating this way. Since I’m allowing myself to have 100 grams a day, I was still able to have taco shells with my tacos last night, along with the meat and cheese and sour cream. Tonight we are having Chinese food and I will have boneless spare ribs and chicken lo mein, but I will only have a little bit of lo mein. Focus on the meat. I’m going to make deviled eggs today for snacks. I bought cheese sticks, baby carrots, and plain Greek yogurt for snacks too. And cheddar cheese babybel and Parmesan cheese chunks. Yeah a lot of cheese lol and yes you can get constipated on low carb 😂. I’ll try to increase my fiber to combat that!
I’ve had good results with this before; I lost nearly twenty pounds the last time I tried. Of course I was eating less than 50 carbs a day instead of 100 but I think if I faithfully stick to it I should be good. We are having a cookout this Saturday to celebrate our new home and that will be hard but I’m going to get a fruit and veggie tray and make dips to go with it. It’ll be ok.
I’m going to try to watch calories too even though on low carb calories aren’t supposed to matter as much. Yesterday I ate a **** ton of food and even though I didn’t go over my carbs I went waAaaaY over on calories and I figure that can’t be good.
So yeah, that’s the journey I’m taking! Looking forward to joining this group again and seeing everyone’s progress!