Daisy's Wrecking Ball

[DaisyGG]

[DaisyGG]

[COLOR="Purple"]Day 6[/COLOR][COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"]

Cal - 1745
Fat - 128.2
Fiber - 12.6
Carbs - 44.4
Protein - 120.2
Exercise - nothing

I will move my 5th Nordic Track day to Saturday for this week. Gotta stay flexible in my plan or I'll throw up my hands and say, "Why bother"? I don't want to do that! Tomorrow in the a.m.

Just got home from a movie with Pupcake. We saw "Marley and Me." It made me cry!

I'm very tired. I'm going to bed and curl up with a magazine.

I'm glad the weekend is here. What a long week. hehehe[/COLOR]

[DaisyGG]

[DaisyGG]

[COLOR="Purple"]Day 7[/COLOR][COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"]

Day 7! Yay! No stumbles! No cheats! A couple of close calls, but no I didn't!

Cal - 1,863
Fat - 140.5
Fiber - 10.2
Carbs - 42.9
Protein - 116.7
Exercise - Knee stretches and strengthening, Nordic Track.

Pupcake and I just got back from a loooong walk with George. It's snowing and so lovely out. My knee is throbbing a bit right now, but I don't care. It was great getting out and George loved it.[/COLOR]

[Vanessa120]

I am so stealing this......

[DaisyGG]

[COLOR="Purple"]Week 1[/COLOR]

[COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"]One week. Still feeling strong.

I mentioned yesterday in my daily macro post that I hadn't had any cheats. That might not be wholly true if I think about the couple of times I ate nuts and the day I squirted some canned topping. I do believe that those would technically be considered cheats.

I was reading around in here yesterday. There is a lot of different thought processes going on. The best way for me is to pay attention (I keep coming back to that) and really find my place. Not twit around when I see someone else having success in what they're doing. Learn from them, no doubt, but stick with my course, adjust my course as needed, and make a course for me. Me! That's my plan for the next week.

For a first week I feel very good. I kept on track, stayed within my carb amount. Here are my weekly stats.

I do feel I need to watch calories more. That is going to be challenging since I'm trying to stay higher fat. What to do??[/COLOR]

[DaisyGG]

[COLOR="Purple"]Day 8[/COLOR][COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"]

Weird day.

Cal - 1,279
Fat - 91.3
Fiber - 6.4
Carbs - 45.6
Protein - 77.4
Exercise - Day off

Didn't do much today. Mostly puttering around doing a few things in the house. Blerg . . . Don't know why! Just blerg.

Carbs are a bit high. Didn't do good on water! [/COLOR]

[hummingbird11]

nite nite!! sorry ya feel "blerg"

YA!

[DaisyGG]

[COLOR="Purple"]Day 9[/COLOR][COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"]

Cal - 1,856
Fat - 144.8
Fiber - 9.1
Carbs - 32.9
Protein - 114.5
Exercise - Nordic Track

Back to work. Lots of people were still gone. Very smart of them to take Monday off!

I'm happy with my macros I have to say! Weight isn't budging much though. I keep waiting for a woosh. I might be waiting a while!

Good day overall.[/COLOR]

[Vanessa120]

[hummingbird11]

[COLOR="Red"]Good Morning!
I have a doc appt this AM (ortho surgeon) so BBL![/COLOR]

[DaisyGG]

[COLOR="Purple"]Day 10 - [/COLOR][COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"]

Cal - 1,662
Fat - 112.8
Fiber - 10.7
Carbs - 43.3
Protein - 125.2
Exercise - Nordic Track

Not sleeping too good. Could be a combo of the new kitty, Pupcake's propensity to hog the bed, or who knows what? I have trouble sleeping a lot. If there were something I could change that might be it.

I think I figured out how to post my FitDay journal. Let's give it a whirl.[/COLOR]

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[DaisyGG]

[COLOR="Purple"]Day 11 - [/COLOR][COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"]

Stay away from the scale! Grrr.

Cal - 1,618
Fat - 111.0
Fiber - 11.4
Carbs - 39.6
Protein - 115.2
Exercise - Nothing

Pupcake's momma over, I cooked, did dishes, then we watched a movie. Next time I'll excuse myself to workout. I only have so many hours in a day.

Sleep still elusive. George (dog) woke me up at 4:30 to go out. I shouldn't have given him the chicken pan to lick hmm? lol

I made zoodles last night. Wow they were delicious! Sauted mushrooms in butter then added cream and parm then the zoodled zukes. Wow![/COLOR]

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[Vanessa120]

I bought zucchini at the store the other day......thanks for the reminder! I am making zoodles today!

[DaisyGG]

You've made them before? Someone should have told me! They were seriously delicious. I am excited for lunch today because I have leftovers.

Very easy to do too. I don't have a zoodler, but I just used my potato peeler.

[Vanessa120]

I have a Zyliss Julienne Slicer ........ it makes perfect zoodles. Get yourself a 20% of coupon for Bed, Bath & Beyond and got get one.

[DaisyGG]

How does that one work Vanessa? I am going to check it out. I am going to be zoodling a lot.

Have you ever put spaghetti sauce over zoodles?

[DaisyGG]

[COLOR="Purple"]Day 12[/COLOR][COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"]

I didn't really have supper. Just picked at stuff in the fridge.

Cal - 1,488
Fat - 98.8
Fiber - 6.6
Carbs - 33.8
Protein - 119.4
Exercise - Stretches and Nordic Track

Took town the tree finally. We had to get it out front so they would take it away tomorrow! Whew!

Vacuumed up all the needles. I love a live tree, but they sure are messy.

DD2 called to tell me about a kick-a$$ presentation she gave today in front of a bunch of VP's. She was so stoked. She's rockin' her new job.[/COLOR]

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[hummingbird11]

Hi Daisy; Hi Vanessa!

Just popping in to say HOWDY Y'ALL!!

Zoodles ??

oh!! I made zuchini noodles once w/ alfredo carbonara sauce - super yum!

But didn't know there was a little thingy to make 'em for me - yay!

I new kitchen gadgets!

[Vanessa120]

This is a Zyliss Julienne Peeler

It makes "zoodles" that look like this (photo courtesy of Linda Sue's website).

[DaisyGG]

Oh, I see! That looks like it would work so much better. I need one of those.

[DaisyGG]

I had a woosh! Yay! With all my whining and grousing the universe still provided me with motivation. Motivation!

This morning the scale read 192.

Here's the cool part. I have been sleeping horribly. I have trouble sleeping and it's been way worse. Ketosis? Maybe. Calvin (new kitty)? Maybe. George having tummy troubles 2-3 nights in a row? Maybe.

Last night at 2:30 Calvin started jumping on my head and George woke up and HAD to go out. I cranked at Pupcake that he was pretty good at ignoring them. Poor guy. George IS my dog. I had him before we got engaged.

Calvin was Pupcake's idea, but I can see he's just not very good at the daily care involved. That's okay. Plus he's getting into his busy season. Normally I'm fine with all of the pet responsibility. But I was sleeping good! Once I get up and walk about that's it. I'm done. I dozed on the couch for a bit and now I feel like I have a hangover.

But I digress . . . when I first got up and realized I wasn't going back to bed I felt grumpy and tired and felt like I deserved naughty treats. I considered it! Toast, cereal, chips roamed around in my brain.

But I didn't. I grabbed a water. Posted on here for a few minutes. Went into the livingroom, wrapped up in a blanky, and found some dumb thing to doze to. Hooray me! I am huge on the "I deserve a treat - I've had a rough day" syndrome. I'm so happy.

The best news was when I got up around 8:00 and weighed myself and it said 192. I was rewarded for my little step.

I am so happy today. I haven't fallen.

[hummingbird11]

WOW Daisy!! This just made my day!! GOOD FOR YOU!!
Oh I'm a big "I deserve this treat" peep too; so I KNOW!
This is a BIG STEP & yes, the Universe Rewarded you!!!
(I just love reading about George, Calvin and Pupcake!)

ETA: what a GREAT WAY to start the weekend !!
Now KUTGW and keep that resolve in check ~ K?

[DaisyGG]

Thank you HunyBunny (HB - LOL!).

How's it going with the wine? Are you chugging water to compensate or did you come up with something else nummy to take its place?

[DaisyGG]

[COLOR="Purple"]Day 13[/COLOR][COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"]

Cal - 1,364
Fat - 90.1
Fiber - 6.4
Carbs - 33.9
Protein - 106.2
Exercise - Stretches

Day 13 into this. Still having the ketosis insomnia and having less appetite that I'm used to. I'm never not hungry! lol

I've dodged a couple of situations where normally I would just say f-it and eat a bag of chips. I didn't cave. Hooray![/COLOR]

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[Vanessa120]

Hmmmm I actually 100x better now compared to when I was eating carbs. And I am definitely in ketosis!

I am a lot of help, huh?!

[DaisyGG]

Maybe it's just the extra energy I'm getting from ketosis?

I don't know! I'm not loving that part, but everything else I'm loving.

I do enjoy how I feel thinner through my middle when I'm not eating the icky carbs.

You ARE a lot of help Vanessa. Lots of good info from you always.

[speedymagee]

Daisy!!

It's great to see you back here! And you are moved AND you got a kitty!

Are you doing induction to kick start the new year?

I was thinking about your post on goal weights. It is tough to know exactly what's right. 158 seems reasonable and you can always adjust up or down as needed.

I am still doing BFL, but have done some major off plan eating during the holidays. Time to get serious again.

How are you liking the Nordic Track?

[DaisyGG]

Miss Speedy! Good to see you.

Goal weights are so tricky aren't they? I have the kind of body that when I weigh in the 150s I'm pretty slim. Probably an 8-10. Crazy hmm? My bones must be heavy and I'm just a bigger girl all around. Thick legs and all.

I am really liking the Nordic Track! Since my knee troubles I couldn't walk much or very fast so I thought the NT would be the thing. I like it!

I started back on clean eating Dec 29. It feels soooooooooooo good doesn't it?

This is the year!

[WATCH-ME-SHRINK]

Daisy, good work this week! Ketosis is a wonderful place to be, isn't it?

Hang in there and stay focused. You're doing great.