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Below are the low carb meals I had on Monday and Tuesday, plus both of my MyFitnessPal food diaries so you can see how I logged those meals.
I got in some REALLY COOL exercise yesterday too, so I’ll share a few pictures & details with you about that.
Exercise should be FUN!
🙂 🙂
I haven’t really been eating anything too exciting lately. In fact, I’ve been eating a combination of the same foods a lot lately. Mostly out of laziness and just because it’s easy (lol), but I did have a great low carb meal at Cracker Barrel last night…
I’m going to eat some interesting (new) low carb foods today, so stay tuned for my next update! Hint: They are from my Keto Krate box. 🙂
Monday’s Low Carb Meals
Monday was a super busy and LONG work day. I didn’t have a lot of spare time for cooking or eating out, so I just grabbed easy low carb foods.
I had my usual “nuts, berries & cottage cheese” for breakfast. I had sliced chicken, colby jack cheese & pecans for lunch, then I had my “low carb cereal” again for dinner – and an ounce of almonds (28 grams) late that night for a quick snack.
Nothing fancy. 😉 I love that eating low carb can be so EASY when it needs to be.
As for that bite on my leg in the last picture… I have those ALL over. Too much playing outside in the woods, no doubt – lol.
Here’s My MyFitnessPal Diary for Monday:
Macronutrients: Simple Explanation Of Low Carb Macros
How To Get A Net Carbs Column in MyFitnessPal
Calories: 1576
Net Carbs: 21
Total Carbs: 43
Protein: 50 Grams
82% Fat, 13% Protein
Water: 48 ounces
Tuesday’s Low Carb Meals
I realize I eat this a lot… but I was down another pound on Tuesday morning. 🙂 Besides, it’s healthy foods and it has perfect LCHF macros!
It’s 1/2 cup pecans, 1/4 cup Daisy brand cottage cheese, 4 small diced strawberries & 17.5 grams of blueberries. Total: 6 net carbs and 85% healthy fat.
The blueberries were hand-picked then frozen. I love frozen berries for the sweet crunch!! I stir it all together and call it low carb cereal. 🙂
Next I headed out with friends to go hike a historic archaeological area a few towns over. Breakfast was WAY early and I knew it would be hours until the next meal… so I fueled up on the way with some healthy low carb foods.
I had almonds, pecans, a couple of cheese sticks, and a tablespoon of peanut butter. It was a little to-go pack of peanut butter I dipped my pecans in. Yum!
The hike was tons of fun!
As usual I played hard, did some rock climbing, and tested my balance by “walking the plank” across a fallen tree overhanging a 25 foot waterfall. 🙂
We only did about 3 miles of hiking, but there was a lot of climbing and exercise involved – in addition to the actual walking.
Just scaling that tree took ALL the core strength, balance and focus I could muster 😛 lol. My fear of heights makes me seriously woozy!
That was quite the challenge, but a FUN one. Dinner though, proved to be even more challenging. I worked up quite the appetite hiking, so I walked into Cracker Barrel both famished and exhausted (and wet and dirty, lol).
Truth: It was hard to even look at the menu. 😯
I just closed the menu and ordered a la carte: bacon, sausage, eggs & strawberries. Fortunately they serve breakfast any time of day, so that made dinner easy!
That’s cheese on the eggs. Normally I would order fried eggs at a restaurant, because I don’t trust scrambled eggs or omelets. You never know if they put milk in them, or some places even put pancake batter in them to make them fluffier. Seriously.
But at this point, the fact that I didn’t just order pancake batter straight up was a total win 😛 lol, so I didn’t sweat it. They were just plain eggs though…
Here’s My MyFitnessPal Diary for Tuesday:
Calories: 1779
Net Carbs: 19
Total Carbs: 35
Protein: 84 Grams
80% Fat, 16% Protein
Exercise: Hiking
Fitbit Steps: 7,707
Water: 64 ounces
It was nice to get some solid exercise in yesterday. 🙂
When you see in my FitBit report that we did “48 Floors” that means I climbed UP at 10 feet at least 48 times, or 480 feet of climbing. It doesn’t count climbing down, which can often be even more challenging than going up -lol.
I use the FitBit Charge HR which records heart rate, in addition to GPS tracking of your workout, calories burned, sleep quality, and lots of other cool things!
Here’s a cool picture from yesterday’s hike:
There were three waterfalls on the hike, and lots of historic sites to see. Don’t make fun of my fanny pack. 🙂 It’s cool because it’s Fabletics! haha.
This is my invite link if you want to check out Fabletics and browse some of their cool athletic wear: http://www.fabletics.com/invite/lowcarbtraveler/
It IS more comfortable than something over my shoulders, which is cumbersome on steep hikes & while rock climbing. The blue skirt is a new Fabletics piece too. It’s lightweight with shorts underneath, so it’s perfect for wet hikes and swimming!
I’m using a CaliCase Waterproof Phone Case, which has been really handy this summer while playing in and around the water. It was great for caving too, because it was really damp in there.
Those cases were a great find!
My weight loss seems kinda stalled for the last week or two. I’m not sure what’s going on there exactly.
It’s just bouncing around half a pound here and there, finally dropped a pound only to go back up, etc. That’s normal to a point, but not for two straight weeks.
If I had to guess I would say it was the low carb ice cream experiments, the coconut chips, or maybe just stress.
But somehow I’ve knocked myself out of ketosis. I don’t test with strips or sticks but I can FEEL the difference. My feet and ankles even got a little puffy after the big hike yesterday, and they don’t do that when I’m “keto”.
I’ve been staying within my carb and macro limits, so who knows. The fix is to keep it simple and stick to my usual low carb foods, just the basics.
BUT, while I’m out of whack anyway… I’m going to make those low carb brownies that came in my keto box this week. 🙂 YUM! Stay tuned, I’ll let you know how they turn out.
I’m going to finish off the Coconut Chips too. They’re very suspect, lol. They are entirely too sweet and entirely too good to be 5 or 6 net carbs per serving. 😛 But why waste a delicious healthy food, right?! Right, haha.
How are things going for you?
It’s day 10 of the 90 Day Challenge. 🙂 How are you doing with your low carb meals & macro tracking? Any questions or struggles? I would love to hear your results so far.
Leave a comment and let’s talk!
Best,
Lynn Terry,
aka @LowCarbTraveler





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