Second Quarter 2024 Maintenance Check In

(KCKO, KCFO) #1

This is the first of the quarterly threads. Since we are not daily active, this new format should be appropriate.

I am holding steady. Doing a few OMADs and mainly 2MADs.

How is everyone else doing? Is it easier with Springtime’s arrival?

March 2024 Maintenance Check In
(KM) #2

I can’t believe we’re in the second quarter already.

March was a very stable month for me, I do a daily weigh-in and I don’t think my top and bottom weight for the month was more than 2 lbs apart.

I’m up about a pound but have spent the last 3 days working through a giant pot of chili with beans, so probably out of ketosis. Unusual for me, tomorrow I return to steak and most likely drop it again.

Our weather is still crazy, every time I think I’ll get out and enjoy it, more cold rain or even snow. But I’m feeling spring on the way, looking forward to some nice April days.

KCKO.

(Geoffrey) #3

No change or challenge here. Just status quo with fat, meat, salt and water. Only when I’m hungry and as much as I want until I’m full.
I’ve been at my optimal weight now for over three months. It fluctuates between 170 and 174 on any given day but the average 172. Even though the weight is constant I’m still seeing a little mass coming off. It’s very slow now but still noticeable. The markers on my sleep apnea have gone down from a 22 to 11. So I’ve gone from moderate/ severe to mild. Nice improvement. My cardiologist has now reduced my last heart medication in half and in 90 days we will talk about taking me off of it completely. I have now gone one year without an AFib attack.

(Pete A) #4

Status quo still. 7 years in Sept.

#5

I remembered weighing myself 2 days ago! It was afternoon but I am a morning zombie :smiley: I was 79kg. At some point I went up a few kgs for some reason (it’s annoying as I never did that before and yes, I went off keto as I do it all the time but I ate way more and waaaay worse stuff in the past without any gain but it seems I got older and changed or something. or my body wants to motivate me, who knows? it doesn’t make much sense but I am lost).

I expect April being my best month eating wise, closest to carnivore. As it is one of the months without fruit in my garden (January-May is typically like that, this year we will have strawberries way earlier but they aren’t one of my favs taste wise despite being red) but December is far away. Normally I am all for keto/carnivore in January but I messed up something this time and my citrus-y holiday desires lingered. Oh and I had a baking phase too.
February probably was better but still not good enough. March was better but the bar was low and it still wasn’t really good. But only 2 months are left and I had enough and anyway, the end of March was pretty okay, I felt ready for a carni month! Or 2 weeks or whatever I can do.

It’s pretty good this far but it was only 2.5 days. I have an air fryer now to make things more interesting!

I can eat leaner than ever now! It was hard as I strongly prefer fatty food, I got used to it on high-carb and never could avoid fat overeating for long despite my efforts since many years.
But now it is… easy? I LOVE my lean pork now. Of course I eat fattier things but I need plenty of fat, just not nearly as much as I had when I ate as little as I could before.
So I am pretty hopeful but what I definitely don’t want is gaining fat. I am around my heaviest ever now, maybe a bit below, I didn’t own a scale back then and while I measured 84kg on a digital scale, even that thing measured 82 a minute later… But I probably was a tad fattier. I probably am a tiny bit more muscular now…? I did lift and my weights got much heavier so hopefully it wasn’t all willpower and improved mind-muscle relationship? Surely not, I even see my biceps is bigger now. Still tiny! But curvier :smiley: My arm is the place where I never had much fat and it’s close to my eyes so I see it… :upside_down_face:

Good luck, everyone! Feel better, maintain or lose, gain muscles, whatever is your goals, get closer to them! :heart:

I heard about that from certain parts of the world… Meanwhile our February was warm and it’s warm since, basically. For the month, at least, we just stopped heating, it wasn’t THAT warm before! I don’t even remember when we had frost! We normally have it until May (and a tiny bit even in May sometimes but that doesn’t bother even the sensitive plants like tomatoes)!
We had snow in mid-March some years ago, super cold weather happened on 1st of March 1-2 years ago…? And now it’s very, very warm and I go to walk in t-shirts since several weeks, not all the time just on the warmest days and I don’t feel cold easily but STILL!
We used as much electricity in February as in a normal March (not the cold ones)! We heat with an A/C so it shows how warm the month was…

My garden is FULL with flowers, zillion spring flowers on the ground, (sour) cherry and pear flowers on the trees… Very pretty.

(KCKO, KCFO) #6

April marks my 7 yrs. ketoversary as well Had almost forgotten about it being this month.

Thanks for reminding me and congrats on the longevity. I’m proud for both of us.

(Pete A) #7

It seems funny after all this time to go on about it haha

(KCKO, KCFO) #8

Yea, just the way one lives now.

#9

As I keep forgetting to weigh myself…
My long pants (I rarely wear them now as we have warm weather and the serious black jeans aren’t comfy or needed) are just fine for my morning walks if I use the 5th hole on the belt. We will see if things will progress here.

And it has nothing to do with maintenance but I can’t stand that I only told my SO and the carnivore thread… I have proof my (very very few this far) white hairs manage to go back to dark brown in about a week or maybe 1.5. Tiny thing but wow. I just wondered about this (in either direction). I know it’s a thing that a pigmented hair falls off and grow back white but changing the color during its lifespan? But I have found 2 that did that, changed color in the middle :smiley: Others stayed white (more like silvery, my hair is shiny! sometimes I see a lighter brown and think it’s white but nope, just shiny and lighter than average).
Did you see or hear about such a thing? It was new to me!

(KM) #10

As hair turns gray or white, yes, as long as the hair is still growing, it will change color “in the middle”. I think it’s pretty rare to have it turn back to having pigment though. Congratulations!

#11

Thanks :slight_smile: I heard about it from others on this forum but they are others, not me :smiley: I never had such interesting benefits…

Before this, whenever I have found a white hair, it was all white. I have long hair so I would have a bigger chance to find a dark to white one if that would be common - though I had very very few white hairs this far… I surely will look out for these changes now :slight_smile: Not a big significance but interesting to me.

(KCKO, KCFO) #12

How is everyone doing?

I am doing good. I am however thinking about doing an extended fast since it has been a while since I have done one. Anyone want to join me, I was thinking next week, doing Tues.-Friday? Because Monday is a major eating holiday here.

(KM) #13

Doing well. My weight is stable between 116-119. I’ve been working on intuitive eating a bit, while trying to be sure there isn’t anything I shouldn’t be eating that might trigger a binge lying around. I’ve been visiting and just went on a weekend camping trip (eating out), so the whole thing’s been thrown off a bit. Mom visit = not eating what I shouldn’t which = not eating much = losing 2 pounds. Trip = giving up and eating the carbage = gaining it back. :roll_eyes:

At the moment I’m just settling back to listening to my body, so no fasting yet, but good luck to you!

#14

Weight wise not well, I seem to get slowly heavier and heavier (I mean, a jump in ever few years and stable weight otherwise)… But I will stop it. I am less food obsessed lately and fat fast days seem a superb idea now. Maybe it will finally give me EF too, eventually.

I am around 80kg. It’s about my heaviest ever, at least I had no scale when I weighed above on a very very unreliable one (I weighed myself twice in a minute, there was 2kg difference) and I automatically went down to 80kg again, even I couldn’t overeat to the point to get heavier (I love my genetics sometimes).
I was 69kg (67 without water weight but I probably don’t have water weight changes now) when I went keto several years ago. Since then I had zillion keto days, many carnivore-ish days and some off days (usually low-carb), lots of effort and planning and whatever. When I realized it doesn’t matter how well I get satiated, it’s impossible for me to eat at a deficit due to my high protein need and lowish energy need and taste regarding fattiness of my food, I trained and changed my ways (I buy and eat lean meat despite I like fatty meat - okay, I eat that too but I do my best to eat as lean as I just can, sacrificing some food joy… and even more importantly, I dropped my eggs and dairy, I mean lowered the amount, you can pry them out of my cold dead hands but I eat much less than before) and now added fat fasts so I should expect results this time.
I don’t. I pretty much lost hope. Surely it is somewhere and logic and experience says it will happen… But I just can’t believe it after all this time.

Good thing fat-loss isn’t one of my biggest concern. But I started it 14(?) years ago and I WILL finish. It’s not fun tracking but I can’t stop until I slim down. Just temporarily. I am too curious and want to see my vague numbers. They even help sometimes. At least fat fast is fun and very easy (easier than on vegetarian keto) and convenient. And useful. I think it suits me.

So… Hopefully things will change for the better. They already do, I think less about food especially on fat fast days :slight_smile: Finally.

#15

I’ve been wanting to do one soon to reset my system and maybe kickstart the fat loss cycle. Been waking up hungry past couple weeks and usually I don’t so it’s been annoying me. However, I’d have to time it for a Friday to Monday because I’m working out at a gym 4x week (M,T,Th,F) and I need to follow up each workout with some protein.

(Robin) #16

Weight wise and diet wise, I stay in my sweet spot.
Had a couple hiccups with meds and diverticulitis, but no matter how little or much I eat, I remain about 135.
So… it’s all good. Still on cruise control.

(KCKO, KCFO) #17

I’d be up for fasting Friday night to Monday night the following week.

I just really want to do a fast after the holiday weekend, USA’s Memorial Day, celebrates the beginning of summer cook outs mostly. Lots of grilled meats and salads.

#18

Yes! Same here. Memorial Day weekend so next weekend instead. Sounds great!

(KCKO, KCFO) #19

Had a nice relaxing holiday. Will be fasting in the coming week with Just_Juju. Happy to have others join in too.

Had steak leftover from the holiday meal with my eggs this AM. I might need that combo again soon.

(KCKO, KCFO) #20

Started a fast at 4:30 PM Friday going to see how long I can go now.

Hope others can join too