While my ultimate goal is to maintain a healthy blood sugar level I cannot deny I want weight loss to result in there somewhere. After all, it’s front and center constantly. That’s all you folks talk about. Food, exercise and weight loss. What kind of social network is this?
Okay, tongue in cheek humor over. I recognized I hadn’t weighed in over a month and did the calculation. According to the math I should have lost at least 7 pounds since my last weigh in. Actually, more considering I record my activity as sleeping 24 hours a day. While I’m excruciatingly obsessive recording my intake I post my activity with a ‘worst case scenario’ buffer.
Regardless of the non-math I still seem to be at a pound a week. To quote a movie ‘it’s not sexy, but it’s got teeth’. (And now you know what I watched yesterday.)
So apparently I can’t math my way to weight loss. But I’m not on the ledge yet. I’m rocking the blood sugar and just hoping that losing weight this slowly means it I won’t ever find it again. This was the prelude to my previous journal about having a relationship with weight.
I will say this about LCHF. Ketosis continues to elude me so I’ve stopped sweating when I near the 20 net carb limit. Maybe in a few months and pounds it’ll find me. Or maybe I’ll attempt to meet the macros 90% of the time with a 10% reserved for higher carb days.
I don’t quite totally grasp the whole ‘fat adapted’ concept. I’ll confess I initially thought the theory of eating high fat would make my body use the fat I already had. I now recognize that’s illogical. I will say this method does help me feel less hungry all the time enabling me to maintain a caloric deficit without feeling deprived. And my body is looking different than with previous weight losses. I actually look more muscular somehow. So that in and of itself may be the magic of keto.
I don’t know that I feel any more or any less energy this way. I realize I regularly eschew exercise as if I’m a sloth reclining on a chaise lounge all day. I’m not. I’m actually quite active just nothing structured. But I’m regaining the ability to stand and walk much longer than I could five months ago. In a couple of weeks I’m going to a B&B for the weekend and I have theater tickets. The map indicates it’s a five minute walk. I’m not shaking my head at the idea as I would have months ago. It will all depend upon the street lighting as the program is at night. NSV’s also include being about to bend over in the pedicure chair and touch my toes without straining.
And I’m a thrilled that I’ve been eating at least one serving, sometimes two, of fruit daily without any spikes in my blood sugar. So that’s been nice.
And so concludes another episode of Bellaworld.
