Tuesday, 10 January 2017

Day 15, 2 weeks down, 50 to go.....

Managed a better night's sleep with no children climbing in with us. It was still an effort to persuade myself to get on the bike this morning. It was a bit colder today, 4 degC, put an extra layer on and was comfortable. Again this morning I felt I could push a bit harder in places, trying to keep up with some of the faster commuters only to be dropped 500m later. It is hard work, I keep having to remind myself I am only 2 weeks in. That considered I really should be pretty pleased.

Day 15 metrics                      week/start
Weight                      79.7kg (-0.9/-4.9)
Body fat                    scale did not work
Waking blood sugar 3.8mmol/L 
Waking ketones        3.9mmol/L 
Chest                        105cm (-1/-6)
Waist                         93cm (-1/-4)
Hip                            99cm (-3/-8)
Belt                           95cm (-1/-3)

Breakfast: Broth & butter
Lunch:      Naked "wrap-it-up" (another type of burrito salad, very tasty but not enough salad)
Snack:      Handful of nuts
Dinner:     Butter fried broccoli, red and white cabbage ground beef, cheddar and chilli seeds
Ride:         42km commuting & PT session

So after 2 weeks how are the rest of the stats looking? This week I only lost 0.9kg (2lb), I say only, 2lb a week in anybody's book is great but this is as expected a slow down on last weeks water loss. When you are working hard to get in better shape our scale reading can have a very positive or negative effect on our motivation.
Before Christmas when my eating was out of control and I was "putting weight on" and "getting fat", it was quite interesting that in the same was as loosing weight you can hit plateaus, I was doing the same putting weight on. There were definitely points where my weight was not really changing but my waistline was increasing.
I have, like all of us, been very disheartened when I have not seen the weight fall, I know this has not been the case this time. However look at some of my other measurements, they are massively encouraging too. It is also good to focus on how we feel, this is of course hugely important and fundamentally what we are looking to improve.

My friend Reinette is also trying to find her way to health via ketosis and is also writing a blog of her journey. In addition she has made what looks like and amazing snack/treat that I am going to have to try and make. http://cooperreinette.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/8-january-keto-energy-bars.html Saying that I am sure I would have make an effort to restain myself from over indulging like I do with nuts and nut butters.

Pushed hard on the way home, well for the first half, second half was hard but slow. Little snack when I got home in preparation for my PT session. It's been a while since I had one, so did a more general work out but I think walking might be hard tomorrow, a day off the bike is due.






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