jcmama777's Journal, 04 Sep 19

If you’re new, trial and error. Know that you need more movement and track your foods, log EVERYTHING!! You don’t realize the amount of calories you’re actually eating. Try what others are doing but stick to what works for you!! IDC what WOE(way of eating) it is. I was on a roll even when weight slowed down and guess what???? Plateaus are a real thing and the slower the weight loss the better. I dropped at one point 54 pounds finding what works for MY BODY. What works for MY BODY is LCHF, Mediterranean, eating 2-3 dinners a week like pizza( but I could never eat more than 2 slices and that’s just me), casserole night. A week or more Keto, mostly LCHF. No, I don’t pee on strips and there is nothing wrong if you do. I will NEVER shame your WOE. If you ask for help, I am here. I purposely the last 2 weeks was over the drama of CICO., LCHF, KETO.....all of it. Yes , CICO works if you can do calories in and calories out. CICO is not just counting calories. Counting calories is just counting calories. Flexible eating, it works, for some... Calorie deficit weekly, eat what you want.... ok but what if you don’t go to the gym? What if you’re insulin resistant? What if you’re type II diabetic, what if you’re Type 1??? Move as much to your ability and more, if you’re not disabled. Push yourself!! What if you have a heavy history of both? What if .... what if I found my personal WOE after feeling overwhelmed when I first got here, because people were arguing then too , and found what worked for me within 2 months?? ❤️❤️❤️🤷🏻‍♀️ So, the past 2 weeks, I tried flexible eating, and it wasn’t all bad choices. I did allow cake for breakfast one day at work, when I hardly eat it at my kids birthday parties since joining. Sensible lunch, didn’t know what the heck I wanted for dinner, but knew I didn’t want to be starving late at night. Work had an ice cream social. ( once a year thing) it was a Carmel kind of day, at least for breakfast ( which I did fast) lunch not high calorie, and salted caramel ice cream before 6 pm and omg.... it fit in my weekly deficit!! I also increased sandwich uptake for lunch on freaking 45 calorie a slice bread. If I eat it I log it🙌 look for advice, try different things. I guarantee you that the negativity on here regarding WOE doesn’t apply to YOUR BODY or YOUR Chemical makeup, and thermodynamics ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL. It’s not the first time I have said this. I ate how I ate for 2 weeks and look at my gain and I did IF per my usual, most days of the week. I don’t withhold logging. As of Monday night at dinner, I’m back to doing me. Flex eating and a weekly deficit, look at my weight, by just simply eating whatever as long as I was in a weekly deficit!! . I promised to be more transparent.... well, here you go. Try everything, but don’t regain massive amounts of weight doing it. You will find what works for you. If people want to keep arguing let them. I’m barely 9 months here and I had my Woe after 2 months. IDC if I get ripped apart for this✌️ I’m not pushing a certain WOE on anyone. Different strokes for different folks. I hit a low and now I’m paying for it. Any WOE that works for you and is sustainable, and you’re happy and losing weight and supporting others and offering advice when asked and moving to the best of your ability and if not disabled, push harder, if you’re not doing drugs or vomiting food on purpose or abstaining from eating you can do this. Listen to advice, know YOUR BODY and come to a method that suits you. What’s pathetic is, the argument will go on. Be kind to yourself and your body. Be kind to others. It doesn’t really feel good to be mean or a right sided fighter, and no one here who continues to push a WOE, on any side has come forward as being a physician or human biologist. Btw, me doing what I did the past 2 weeks, results will differ and many will correlate and many will not. I won’t do this again to myself. Mentioning again, that my doing this was based off of the ridiculous arguments. I’m a lover of science, already know our chemical makeup differs, knew what works for me but hey, lets go all in. Got tired of the arguing. Put it to the test for my own self. Either step up with a pertinent degree in human biology.....all sides, or fall back and do you. Now off to Onederland and doing me, it’s my journey 1st because I deserve better health, and my family needs me. It should be all of our journeys for health and wellness and support others. Can’t “ weight” to log in at the end of the month. ❤️💕💪❤️❤️ yourself. Eat accordingly to what works for you..... 🍎🍏🍐🍉🍊🍋🍓🍑🍅🥝🍒🍓🥑🥑🥦🌶🌽🥒🥬🥕🌽🌽🌽🌽🌶🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🍠🥐🥔🥯🍞🧀🥨🥖🦴🥩🥚🧀🍔🥩🌭🦴🥪🥘🥫🥙🌮🍔🌮🌮🍟🍗🍕🍖🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🥗🌯🍜🍝🥫🍣🍣🍙🥮🍡🍘🍱🥟🍥🍧🍤🥠🍨🎂🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🍧🥠🍥🍡🥧🍩🍪🥜🍿🍫🍬🥛🥛☕️🍵🍷🥂🍻🍺🥃🍸🍹🍾🥄🥡🥣. I am carb sensitive, I also know I need to move my ass. I don’t believe in restricting as I never felt like I was dieting anyways because I had a happy and working WOE. Don’t judge someone eating cakes and donuts like 5 in a row as they bust ass in the gym and carbs don’t affect them, and don’t judge bacon and eggs and butter as it’s not the only food LCHF and Keto do. Balance is key and understanding your body is key, the food pyramid is important. It doesn’t mean our flat bottom and the pinnacle top is equal. ☮️❤️ respect and best wishes❤️

98.4 kg Lost so far: 22.0 kg.    Still to go: 7.8 kg.    Diet followed: Reasonably Well.

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559 kcal

Fat: 35.63g | Prot: 26.26g | Carbs: 35.38g.   Breakfast: Pure Blends Avocado Oil Buttery Spread, Folgers Classic Roast Medium Coffee, Cinnamon, McCormick Crushed Red Pepper Flakes, Kroger Vitamin B Complex, Turmeric (Ground), Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Unsweetened Vanilla Milk. Lunch: McDonald's Chicken McNuggets (10 Pieces), Turkey Hill Diet Green Tea, Aquafina Water (16.9 oz). Dinner: Cooked Summer Squash (from Fresh). Snacks/Other: Pure Blends Avocado Oil Buttery Spread, Great Value Almond Milk Vanilla Unsweetened , Folgers Classic Roast Medium Coffee. more...

2529 kcal

Exercise: Squats (Legs) - 5 minutes, Stair Climber (Stepper) - 5 minutes, Resting - 16 hours and 50 minutes, Sleeping - 7 hours. more...