MY PLACE – POETRY , AFFIRMATIONS & MORE

Okay, so here I am at day 4, my fourth day of intermediate fasting within a 24hr window, and my fourth day of keto eating (under 20 carbs).

Today’s hunger, hmmm, well its definitely much less than yesterday however at this moment it is only noon, so its hard to say how the afternoon will go.

I’ve been tracking my macros on the My Fitness Pal app and of course have been utilizing some face book online groups to stay motivated. I dont remember feeling this challenged the first time however its likely because I now know how to cheat and maintain (mostly) whereas before I had no idea what I was getting into and the weight more or less jumped off me, or at least that is how I felt at that time 3 years ago.

This July challenge in actually from one of my keto groups on facebook and the challenge is is to count full carbs instead of net carbs (which is the carb minus the fiber) and as I a vegetarian Im finding this to be the hardest part of this newest challenge. As I have been living in the lazy keto and net carb world for 3 years (lazy keto maybe last 1.5yrs), my normal go to foods cannot be consumed as I will easily blow over on my carb macros (5% of my daily food intake) , and finding the right protein (45%) that doesn’t boost up my carbs is by far the most difficult thing as an ovo lacto vegetarian. Yes I can easily use cheese to boost my protein, so I thought, however eating too much cheese will increase my fat macro which I am doing my best to keep at 55% , so Im not sure how to work this one out yet, details will follow when/if I find out how to manage this issue.

I also realized this week (while getting back into a tracking carb routine) I’ve been living in the “moderate” carb world instead of the low carb world and fooling myself with believing I was still eating low carb, which I now realize I was not, although I have still practiced several windows of Intermediate fasting. I do plan on going back to net carbs after this month but I will SUCCEED this month at the 20 total carb… I will, I will,  I will ( voice inside needs to be told this hourly).

In terms of my weight, I went down just  0.3lbs since yesterday, so Ill take it!

Written by: Corrina Leblond

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