FINALLY Tex has his cone off. That thing was annoying! I literally have bruises on all over my legs from him running into me.
What’s strange Tex grew again! When we took off the cone. We both swear he is taller now. Lol! Does he ever stop? Too cute and funny he is!
I know it’s the beginning of September but I am getting ready my Halloween folder for scary! I decided I am going to blog on 31 days of scary! And oooo I can’t wait to see Doctor Sleep! I am actually going to go see that in theaters by myself when it comes out. I am waiting to get the book too. The sequel to the Shining! You know I am going to watch the Shining as well. Just have too.
Mom tasked me to plan for her birthday this weekend. Well her bday is the 9th but that is in the week. So so far it’s just me, Jeff, Mom, Dad and my sister and kids. I have no idea if my older brother and family are coming. I will be surprised if my sister in law shows up. She might have to watch Netflix instead. LOL!
For Keto Jeff lost 50 pounds!!! Proud of him. I am still sitting at 11 pounds. However I have lost more around myself. So I am happy with that.
There has been some up and downs on this diet. One of the downs I hated but it’s okay now is when I got my period last month. It was the worst period I have had since I was a teen. It was crazy but this month I had it and it went back to normal (whatever that means for me LOL!)
Last week I decided I am going to try the one meal a day thing. I have read that a lot of people only eat one meal a day. Now I usually don’t eat till noon but eating only one meal is another thing.
Me? Danielle? Eat one meal a day? Is that possible?!
Last Wednesday August 7th I wasn’t hungry so I didn’t eat till dinner time. That is when I decided to try the only one meal a day thing. I have to say I CAN do that! In fact last Saturday August 10 we were out and Jeff got some yummy beef jerky. It was only around 11 in the morning and I just couldn’t even eat it. I couldn’t even force myself to eat more than two. It was crazy!
Who am I? LOL!
What I found out on the diet is, I can’t eat bread like at all. I don’t lose any weight when I do. I don’t anything with sugar what’s so ever. Clarified I will eat anything with erythritol or swerve. Which Swerve is better. What’s nice is though I can drink all the coffee I want. Loving it! I absolute hate almond flour. I have to have my butter coffee in the morning and I came up with my own recipe for it!
Danielle’s Butter Coffee:
Your favorite coffee (I like to use Cameron’s coffee.)
One pad of butter (I use Kerrygold.)
One tablespoon of MCT Oil
Add vanilla (I only add a little bit)
Heavy whipping cream (Put in whatever you desire.)
Blend (Blending it makes it frothy. So good! Also the oil won’t sit on top.)
Heat in microwave (I put mine in for 30 secs. But whatever you think is hot enough for you.)
I am still doing the diet! It’s been hard! I had a dream about chocolate. Where I had to eat a wall of chocolate to get out of this room but I wouldn’t do it because chocolate has too much sugar in it. LOL!
I have had almost all the terrible things happen to me with this diet. I have had stomach cramps, legs cramps, Keto flu, bad skin, diarrhea and moody. You would think my skin would look better but nope. I have had stomach problems sometimes I wake up at night with a sour stomach.
On the good days. I FEEL GREAT! One day I had so much energy and I didn’t know what to do. When I go to the store I don’t think should I get chips? As I said chips are my downfall. I think nope don’t want any of this gross stuff. Strange how the mind changes.
I have noticed that I am losing some of my “love handles” on my hips. I have also noticed that my stomach fat is going too. This makes it worth all the bad days.
The hard thing is what to eat for dinner. So we are going to try some Keto recipes and there is only a ton to choose from. My thing is my diet is just a little different then Jeff’s. I want to eat as little as sugar or none at all. We can have for example Stevia for sweetener. For me I want to not abuse having that. We can have 20 grams of carbs everyday. For me I want to eat less crabs as possible so even though I can have 20 grams I would like to rarely achieve that per day.
I picked this book up at a used book store and it’s the last in it’s series. Anyways don’t have to read the first two before it. This one was actually good. It had a car explosion, gun fight and action! Oh and the romance is pretty good in this one.
Finally another one that is good. There sure is a lot of these that are crap.
Now on to Keto diet. Wednesday I had the Keto Flu. OMG I felt like my head was going to fall off my neck. I had a queasy stomach as well. So basically I felt like crap all day. Thursday though I felt great. I am glad that only lasted one day.
I been having leg cramps. I couldn’t figure it out because I drink a ton of water all the time. I feel hydrated but I have terrible leg cramps in the morning where I feel I can’t walk they hurt badly. Found out I need more magnesium.
However I lost some I should I put it? I guess fat in my breasts. My breasts feel not as big even though they will always be big. lol! Looking forward to buying smaller bras.
For someone who thinks about food a lot. This diet has me not thinking of food. I usually think about lunch then what we are having for dinner. I don’t know why I would think this way. I would think of other things I would like to eat. Seriously I had a problem. I am also an emotional eater which is terrible.
I am influenced by ads. If I see a new chip flavor I want to try it. I say Doritos are my kryptonite. I like Doritos since forever.
Now on the diet I haven’t thought about food. It’s nice! I only eat when I am hungry which is two times a day. I don’t eat breakfast I am not a breakfast person anyways and I am done trying to force myself to eat breakfast. So no problem not eating till noon. I do drink coffee in the morning. Oh it’s so awesome! I have whipping cream instead of milk in my coffee and it makes it taste great. Also don’t really need that much of it in the coffee.
On the Keto diet for dinner my brain switched to I can only have this much to eat and that’s it. Now with the diet I can eat as much as I want for dinner which is all meat, no carbs and no sugar. We did have bacon and eggs one night and get this it was too much! I can’t believe it! One night we just ate bacon. It sounds silly. In fact I eat so much less then I ever have. One day I skipped lunched. It’s crazy to me.
I can’t believe in one week my brain has to switched to food, food, food to I am not hungry. When I see ads on the net or on TV I think POISON! I think this diet I will not cheat is ether. I can’t really without starting over. Nothing is worth eating to start over.
Last Sunday was Father’s day and we had the father’s at our house. Jeff cooked a great meal! We had bacon burnt ends so yummy! Also brats and burgers. We made devil eggs and a Keto friendly dessert that wasn’t that good. lol! My dad liked it though.
Jeff and I decided we are going on the Keto diet. We started on Monday and Jeff already lost 10 pounds even before we started. WTF!!! I am jealous also proud of him at the same time.
It’s strange I woke up today completely full like I just ate. In fact I didn’t eat lunch because of the full feeling. I’ll see how this goes. For the first 2 weeks we are going to have no carbs at all which I thought it was going to be hard. But I am in a great headspace. I really, really want to lose a lot of weight so I am very committed to doing this Keto diet.
My dad has lost 20 pounds and my 18 but what I couldn’t understand why only that amount? Because they have been doing it for awhile. Well found out on Father’s day why so little they cheat. This is a diet where you can’t cheat. Once that happens you have to literally start all over again.
I have big plans when I am small. Like new clothes! Sounds silly but right now clothes shopping for me is my worst nightmare. I hate it because I feel fat (and yes I am fat) and nothing seems to fit me the way I imagine in my head to look. Also feel great in my own skin would be pretty awesome! Just even losing 20 pounds I know I would feel better about myself. And that’s what’s in important on how I feel about myself. I am doing this diet for myself. However it does help that Jeff wants to do this too. We can are Keto buddies!
