I'm back! And things are happening

(Crippie) #1

Well I haven’t posted in a while. So here is a little update on me and how keto has been treating me (spoiler its been good).

i have been on a solid plateau for almost 10 weeks now. I hit 280 and didn’t drop a pound for weeks. I tried a fast for 3 days which dropped a few pounds that came right back on the days after. So I have been 280 for a long while, and I was planning my next move to try and change it up and get the pounds to start dropping again. Then the California Firestorm hit… That threw everything out the window. As a county worker I was considered a disaster worker and many on my team all helped in the Emergency Operations Center. With evacuations and family losing their homes, losing weight was the last thing on my mind. So I kept it keto and just cruised.

Well by the end of October the disaster was resolving and things were beginning to get into recovery mode, but mentally I was just not ready to keep trying to lose weight, so I kept cruising. Also this lead right into the holiday season, which around my family starts more at Halloween than at Thanksgiving. Since it is my wife’s favorite(and candy). I checked my weight regularly and still just floated around 280-283.

Now that right there is a victory to me. I spent almost a whole month not watching what I ate, or fasting or anything, just eating keto at will and not even having a diet mindset at all, and not a single pound came back on. Back in the old days if I went of a diet for a month I would put on 15 pounds in that time easily and then usually be too discouraged to start up again. Well, moving on…

In all honesty my wife and I have had a few cheat days. Halloween, we splurged, we wanted Candy and to just go hog wild for a day after everything that happened. Well it was nice, but we felt like crap. Right back to keto the next day though. But then… Thanksgiving! Of course we ate carbs like crazy on Thanksgiving, and again felt like crap. We actually ended up extending that day out to a weekend, because…leftover stuffing(also my wife’s favorite Mexican place was closing this week so she had to get her favorite tacos before it was gone for good) Now the worst part of the carbs was the cravings came back, but just kept the carbs out of sight and told myself no, and we got right back on the horse Sunday. Been very strict keto since then and some IFing most days (not yesterday cause I got lightheaded).

Now the second victory. I weighed myself before thanksgiving and had the typical 281 come up that I was used too. Well after the cheat day became a cheat weekend I was scared to weight myself, I knew I would have a ton of water weight and that id be up for sure this time. Well yesterday I felt like I was whooshing, hopefully all the water weight I put on over the weekend, so I decided to jump on that scale and see what it said. BOOM 277.5! New all time low for me, then the next morning BOOM 275! Feels like the plateau may be broken! :slight_smile: Will see in the weeks to come!

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #2

Awesome stuff. You have really been through a lot lately and this is just great. Shows your body is better at this lower weight, 280ish is “normal” for you now.

So keep doing what you are doing and keto downwards some more.

(Crippie) #3

Thanks! Yea its been great just not gaining weight. And now seeing the scale moving again is a huge motivator to get back on the strict horse and focus on an IF schedule and work in some extended fasts.

I think I will probably keep “cruising” for the remainder of the year and really jump back in full force after new years, but still I feel like I am really back at it again :):grinning:

(Ken) #4

Probably the most important thing for you to do now is not to eat unless really hungry. If you can prolong the hunger it’s even better. I recommend adjusting your food intake so that you insure you’re hungry for a couple of hours before you eat your evening meal. Hunger is the best sauce.

(Crippie) #5

Yea that has been my problem the past 8 weeks or so. I just been eating without cause, almost as a comfort. Which is most likely main reason for that my plateau of 2 weeks has extended out to 10 weeks.

I just have been enjoying food and not caring too much, which is great that I can do that and not gain all my weight loss back again. I think the IF i have been trying to work back in is whats really helping the weight come off again, cause as you mentioned I am actually really hungry when I go for that one meal at dinner.

(Michelle) #6

Love this post!!! Thank you for posting and thank you for being a disaster relief worker!! Hats off to you on both that and breaking your plateau.

#7

i also have issue of eating when not hungry, it is the hardest habit to break in my opinion. When you spent your life obsessing over food and have tried other plans in past like weight watchers etc which forced you to eat several times per day and scared the heck out of you for not eating enough. I recall so many plans telling us you HAVE to eat as soon as you wake up to start the fires…sooooooo many years of bad info is hard to break…
I am learning though to KCKO, and forgiving myself for not eating. I notice now that my hunger or should i say hangry pains are getting easier to control as well

(Brian) #8

Something I am wrapping my mind around is the idea that I can obsess over the weight or I can pretty much forget about it. I will have plateaus where the weight doesn’t move for a while. It’s just the nature of the beast. I continue to eat like I know I should and occasionally forget to get on the scale for a few days or a week or whatever. And often, I find a new low has come sometime along the way and I hadn’t noticed. Just kinda roll with it.

So far, the holidays haven’t been much of a problem. Halloween was not an issue at all. Zero candy here. We’re out where there are no trick-or-treaters. Thanksgiving was just a tiny bit more challenging but not really. There was the typical fare here. And I will even admit that I had a TINY portion of my mashed potatoes (that just happen to have a LOT of real butter, cream cheese, sour cream, and heavy whipping cream in them), a TINY portion of my step-daughter’s sweet potato casserole (way too sweet, didn’t want much), and a TINY portion of the traditional cranberry sauce in the shape of a can. The sum total of that would have easily fit on a coffee cup saucer with room left over. But I had generous helpings of turkey, green bean casserole, and broccoli w/cheese. And then I was full. We never really got around to dessert because nobody was hungry enough to want it after the feasting.

So with all of that, I did not have any weight gain. Instead, I noticed my weight drop down from the 240’s into the upper 230’s and I continue onward with my keto WOE.

Christmas will likely be even less stressful than Thanksgiving as it’ll just me me and my wife, at home. (That’s something we’ve wanted to do for years and I think it’s finally gonna happen!) We’ll probably have leftover turkey from Thanksgiving that got put in the freezer because we didn’t come anywhere near eating it all. Plus, we’ll make lots of good keto things to go along with, including a few keto friendly desserts, too. :slight_smile:

New Years will likely be sauerkraut and some kind of dogs or sausage, and some kind of keto friendly veggie or salad to go with, that’s typical for us.

And then we’re good till Valentines day! And I KNOW there will be some serious keto chocolate desserts happenin’ then. LOL!

Keeping calm and ketoing on…

(Rebecca) #9

So you feel like the carb reset got you going again? I’ve been stuck for about 3 weeks now and am considering a carb refeed today to get things moving again.

(Crippie) #10

Could work. It did for me in the short term, between thanksgiving and Christmas went fine but around Christmas the carbs got the better of me and I indulged too much. I ended up going back up to almost 290 in just about a week, but got back on the wagon and been strict Keto the past 2 weeks. Back down around 280 again. I think to really get it moving I need to get strict and start tracking my food again.

Victory tho that even tho I gained some weight between Christmas and new years I was able to get it back off relatively quickly.