My Low Carb Diary for Day 5 of the Summer Low Carb Mini-Challenge. Join in anytime! I’ll share my meals here every day to give you easy low carb food ideas.
I’m running a little late with this update because I’m baking this morning. 🙂
I decided I wanted blueberry peanut butter breakfast cookies today!
I’ll share the recipe in my next update, so stay tuned for that. YUMMMM
I had good intentions yesterday.
I cooked, I showered (that’s a big deal some days, lol) – but seriously, I showered because I was going to do Mountain Climbers with the Core Discs on video to show you how cool it is.
I did cook. And I did shower. But I didn’t eat my dinner, or work out or make the video… I ended up getting sidetracked and having a full evening (company) so I put my dinner in the fridge – and by the end of the night I just crashed. Without dinner!
That means I have something yummy to eat today though. 🙂
Have you ever done that? I’m not one to skip meals. I do love to eat. But I find myself doing that more than usual lately. It’s almost a flip side of my emotional eating issue, which was a b*tch to overcome.
But now it seems I’d rather NOT eat when I’m stressed or emotional. I’m not sure that’s the best trade-off… I do prefer to fuel my body with healthy foods.
Anyway, below is my low carb diary for yesterday, and what I cooked last night. And stay tuned to see what I just cooked this morning!!
Oh – and my weight dropped again: I’m 141.8 pounds today. That is my all-time lowest weight, but it’s the same as this past Monday (almost a week ago) after crazy fluctuations all week with my coffee experiments, lol.
Not eating dinner helped I guess. I don’t recommend that btw lol. I hear people talk a lot about intermittent fasting for weight loss… but that’s not something I’m willing to do on purpose. I don’t think starving your body is healthy.
Day 5: Saturday’s Low Carb Meals
Breakfast: 1/2 cup pecans, 1/4 cup Daisy brand cottage cheese, 4 small diced strawberries and 1/8 cup (17.5 grams) of blueberries. 6 net carbs, 85% healthy fat.
For lunch I made a quick one-skillet meal of sausage & fried eggs:
For dinner I cooked (but didn’t eat!) low carb bbq chicken using Guy’s Sugar Free BBQ Sauce and skinless, boneless chicken thighs.
Chicken thighs are tastier, more tender, and higher fat than chicken breast. Plus they’re always cheaper! 🙂
I also had a sugar free chocolate pudding cup (Jello brand) sometime in the afternoon, which you’ll see in my MyFitnessPal log below…
Here’s My MyFitnessPal Diary for Saturday:
Tracking Macronutrients (Simple Explanation of Macros)
How To Get Net Carbs in MyFitnessPal
Calories: 1118
Net Carbs: 19
Total Carbs: 28
Protein: 49 Grams
80% Fat, 14% Protein
Exercise: None 🙁
FitBit Steps: 3,044
Water: 48 ounces
Even though I exercised this week, and I’m way more active than I was 3 months ago or 6 months ago… I’m just NOT hitting it hard enough.
I’m proud of myself for exercising consistently now, but it’s not enough to achieve my goals of “getting in amazing shape” – nowhere near it.
Today I start getting SERIOUS with my workouts, and pushing myself harder. 🙂
How are things going for you?
It’s day 6 today – did you exercise this week? What kind of low carb meals are YOU eating? Are you experiencing any challenges or struggles with your goals?
I always look forward to hearing from you! 🙂
Best,
Lynn Terry,
aka @LowCarbTraveler
Discount Code: LOWCARBTRAVELER
Can’t wait for the cookie recipe! I’ve been eating your “cereal ” recipe all week and really enjoy it 🙂 today I may make the peanut butter pecan bars….they look yummy!!
They were good – the cookies. 🙂 Here’s the recipe for the bars in case anyone missed that one: http://www.travelinglowcarb.com/8855/lchf-peanut-butter-pecan-bars/ I need to make some of those this week too!
Those peanut butter pecan bars are really good chopped up in the “cereal” in place of the pecans. 🙂
I have lost 5 lbs this week!! Hey me!!. I have vigilantly posted my meals in myfitness pal and it has made a significant difference. I now see that getting the right amount of fat is essential for me to lose. I think before, even though I was losing so SLOWLY, I did not consistantly keep up with anything but carbs. I began to stall and gain. I believe it was because I was eating too much protein. This challenge I was determined to figure it out. Thanks for all the tips and advice. I don’t alway comment, but have read and enjoyed your many helpful posts. Your blog has been a super help with my progress. Thanks!
Awesome, Tammie – and I am SO glad to hear that! 🙂 Tracking was the KEY for me when my weight loss stalled. It gets really easy when you do it consistently, and like you I discovered I was eating too lean and/or too high protein (you should only eat 20-25% of your calories in protein, low carbing or not!). Anyway, that stalled me out every single time. 😛
Congrats on the five pound loss – that’s awesome!! 🙂
Hi Lynn- IF is not unhealthy at all, just the opposite, it’s very good to give your body a break through fasting. If you think about it most cultures/religions have a fasting period and humans have gone through feast or famine stages throughout history. It reminds me of how many thought low carb was unhealthy when Dr. Atkins reintroduced it to the masses. Dr. Jason Fung is now doing the same with IF. Check out his blog at http://www.intensivedietarymanagement.com.
Take care!
Thank you, Kathi – I’ll check that out! 🙂
I should clarify: it’s unhealthy for ME when I feel sick, weak or shaky. It’s unhealthy for me when I associate the feeling of emptiness and hunger with stress or emotions – like the hunger equivalent of “cutting” for example. I used to eat myself into a carb coma instead. For me it’s about the physical feeling to match the emotional void – so it’s not a healthy mindset.
Hi Lynne,
What do you think your progress would have been had you not exercised this time? I am definitely planning to exercise…at a minimum walk 30 mins per day and doing an upper/lower resistance training a couple of times per week. Just curious how you feel and progress based upon your losing at the start of your program.
Thank you!
And I meant Lynn…oops!
Great question, Kate!
The exercise is helping me tone up and LOOK better. It is definitely making a physical difference – especially in my arms and legs.
I have never lost weight just exercising though. I tested that back when I was going to the gym a couple of years ago. I worked out for an hour 3-5 times a week. Exercising + eating low carb, I lost weight. Exercising and eating whatever, I lost no weight. JUST eating low carb with no exercise, I lost weight.
I lost all of my weight initially just eating low carb. I’m exercising now to tone up and make my leaner body LOOK better. 🙂 I wish I had started sooner though. It really does make a nice difference in your appearance.
But I discovered weights & strength training (even just your body weight, like the Tricep Dips) make a bigger difference faster – versus cardio, I mean. Plus it takes a lot less time to DO than cardio. 🙂
I still like to do brisk walks and “cardio” because it’s heart healthy. But for the purpose of looking better, I’m focused more on “body sculpting.”
The short answer: I think I would have lost the same amount of weight just eating what I ate – over the last 100 days.
I have a Full Body Composition scale – and I haven’t gained much muscle mass at all, I’ve simply lost body weight and fat for the most part.
I am like you, Lyn. I only do IF by accident and i do it a lot sometimes if i get really busy but i do not like the starvation feeling.
i have not been very hungry lately but today i had the low carb chicken club sandwich from Hardees. I love Hardees. They know how to serve up low carb. 🙂
I afraid to experiement with my coffee creamers. I think i will be adding more calories and carbs no matter what else i try
for now it’s the carnation sf creamer. It works for me. I have a ” drinking” problem too. Lol. If it is not coffee, it’s tea or water. Lol. 🙂
I had an accupuncturist tell me once that i tend to hold on to liquids in my tissues. That was before i went low carb. Now it is not so much of a problem only if i have a higher sodium intake so i have to stay away from higher sodium foods.
I want to get that special bathroom scale you posted the link to in the future. That will tell me more about my body composition.
I do love the body composition scale. That really helps when the scales are not moving, or moving all over the place lol.
And yes, Hardee’s / Carl’s Jr – awesomeness!! 🙂
I’m going to work toward drinking less coffee, and using less creamer per coffee. That’s my plan for now. Although I blew that today with 7 TBSP’s of it, lol.
p.s. A ketogenic low carb diet is a natural diuretic so that really helps with water weight and water retention. That part alone makes me feel SO much leaner!! Less fluffy, lol.
Yesterday was another winner for me. Woo hoo! No off plan meals no cheats, so I’m ecstatic especially because I was out running errands and that’s usually when I jack it all up lol.
My meals were:
B: 2 fried eggs, small leftover pork chop
L: coffee, store bought grilled chicken cesar salad (chicken, romaine, Parmesan, cesar dressing), 20oz diet dr pepper
D: 2 Oscar Meyer smoked sausages
S: slim jim, 1/2 coffee
My macros were fat 82%, protein 13%, carbs 3%
My total net carbs were 13 and I drank 40oz of water. I didn’t get a whole lot of exercise but did run around with my kiddos outside in the blazing heat all day. SWEAT= EXERCISE lol…we’ll that’s what I tell myself
Sweat is always good! 🙂 It’s 12:14am here and I still need to do my workout for the day. 😛 And I will, late as it is lol… I am DETERMINED!
Kudos for getting through another low carb day!! 🙂
Can’t get macros to work. Help???
Hi Theresa – which macros, or what kind of problem are you having exactly?