Day 3 of my magic new food eating thing. I fixed the food pyramid for you.
Husband says I should soon experience colitis ... no ... cartosis? What was it? Ketosis. That's is. He's researched all this stuff. He's pretty much an expert (an expert who knows stuff and chooses not to apply it personally. Like a smoker with lung cancer, he is).
Ketosis is the point where your body says, "FINE! You're REALLY not giving me carbs?! Effing Jerk. OK. Fine. FINE!! I will burn off some of that fat cells and then we will see who's sad when it comes time for FAMINE! But don't say I didn't warn you."
Husband says I might be tired and need a nap.So ... I don't think ketosis is here yet. Or maybe I was already there.
Yesterday I ran two miles. Later I went swimming with oldest child (we are in love with the community pool). I consumed 1,352 calories.
This morning the scale said 144.0.
I haven't had any bread or pasta or rice this week. I don't know that my family could or should live on this diet, but I am starting to kind of like it. It's like a challenge to keep my calories down and not feel hungry (tho, I just eat if I feel hungry and stop when I don't); to have a limited (but pretty varied, now) choice of food. For lunch I was gonna eat a cucumber, a green pepper, and some terribly fatty sodium engorged sausages (does the phrase "engorged sausages" mean this post gets flagged for adult content?). But a whole cucumber and a whole green pepper where too much. (I did eat all the .. hmmm ... adult content).
I don't think my body minds much that I have taken away an entire food group. It's almost as though my body has evolved through history to eat mainly meats and vegetables and doesn't need highly processed grain products much at all. Interesting. No headaches (muscle aches from upping the activity levels). No super energy slump around 3. I do take a morning multi-vitamin with 80 mg caffeine (if caffeine is in your vitamin, caffeine IS a vitamin). And I have a 12 oz. can of diet cherry coke diluted in a 32 oz cup of ice. Otherwise it's just water. I should probably include some milk in the mix, for my old bones.
It's just for a month. You could do it too. So far, so good.
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Did you say that you were going to cut out those fatty dairy foods too? I don't remember. I guess that's what the scroll is for. Anyway, if you do, there is a calcium chew at Costco that is really good. It's in a purple bag. But then again, it's covered in chocolate and that's dairy anyway AND some major sweets. SOrry. Maybe try it after your diet. Or maybe that could be your little splurge every day.
I'm keeping the fatty dairy. And upping from 1% to 2% milk. Not worrying too much about fat intake. I am not convinced that fat makes you fat unless you eat a lotta fat.
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