Little John's trying again. And again. Aaaand again.

Day 3 was better than Day 2. Foodwise, I came in at 10g sugars, 35g carbs total, and under calorie goal thanks to the big row yesterday. Still way low on the fiber front, I might add some flax seed to my diet for the next couple weeks to keep things moving and to help absorb the absurd amounts of cholesterol I've been ingesting.

I rowed 12K in just under an hour, with a 1-minute break at the halfway point. My legs and keister were achy, but I felt good otherwise.

Feeling a little more alert today, I managed to stay awake a little longer last night, but I think I also need to set the alarm for a bit later and leave the iphone out of the bathroom so I'm not dilly-dallying nearly so much.

I'm quite hungry, lunch is just a mere few minutes away!
 
One thing that I learned is that I do much better when I update my diary here. Being honest about my progress - no excuses. I used that as motivation, well until I fell off the wagon that is. Maybe try to use that as an added bit of motivation?! Sounds like you're doing well and you've got a great food plan in place. Keep it up!
 
Wow, that's quite the row! And excellent on the eating front too!
I just had deja vu on your diary in regards to the phone on the toilet. I'm fairly certain we've talked about this before!
 
Yesterday went well - 19g carbs, 9g sugar, rowed 7K. I've opted to take a week off of lifting so I can catch up the miles I need to row. I'll start up the 2015 routine again next week.

Was seriously hankering for something bad last night, but I just had water and went to bad. One change, though, is that is was a hankering, not a compulsion. In other words, I wanted it, but didn't feel like I needed it. So I'm glad that's happening. This weekend is the first big test, as we'll likely go out for lunch or dinner at some point, and I'll be tempted to have a beer/fry/roll/bite-of-someones-food... Can't do that now. I'll up the carbs in two weeks from tomorrow, and then I'll limit them to weekends and occasional weekday meals.

Finding the daily entry is working. Of course I knew it would. Thanks for the kind words!
 
Good work on turning away from the hankering. I had the same thing happen to me. Good will power to take the water instead. I'm sure you'll do just fine at whatever meal you guys decide to go eat. Nice job with the rowing, you're killing it from what I'm seeing with the numbers. I agree with the first few days being the roughest, but you're in a zone. Good job. Good luck this weekend - not that you'll need it!
 
Hmmm, smart planning. I tend to put my diet on hold at parties, I know I can't hold back too much. I'll try to be careful, but I know I need to have some icecream or something else silly from time to time or I'll go insane.
 
Hi folks, I technically did check in over the weekend, I just never posted anything.

Weekend had some goods and some bads.

The bads - I succumbed a little to weakness on Friday night, and had a couple cookies. I succumbed a lot on Saturday night and had a lot of ice cream - a lot of it. Last night I had a slice of pizza. Notice they all happened after 8pm. Sigh...

The goods - I adhered to LCHF very well other than the aforementioned mess ups. I also met my rowing mileage goal for the week. And I weighed myself a couple days early this morning, and I'm at 328.4, nearly 6 lbs in under a week. LCHF, baby! It works, but there are days when I just can't have any more meat and really just want a stack of Triscuits. Anyway, 1 week down, 2 to go, then I can start having some starches instead of cheese.
 
So you're basically admitting that you're human? ;) Don't sweat it. We all have our moments of weekness. It's in the past now. Dust yourself off and move forward. Sounds like you had a great loss last week so your guilty pleasures should balance out. Keep it up. :)
 
MandyH said:
So you're basically admitting that you're human? ;) Don't sweat it. We all have our moments of weekness. It's in the past now. Dust yourself off and move forward. Sounds like you had a great loss last week so your guilty pleasures should balance out. Keep it up. :)
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Not sweating it, I felt my goods outweighed my bads, as evidenced by the scale (and belt!), so it's working well in the end. Still need to be honest with myself, and it helps me to do that when I'm honest to my loyal fans!
 
Hear hear! This loyal fan would like to add that (in my case) "a lot" of icecream equals a liter/half a kilo/1300kcal if it isn´t chocolate-truffle-icecream with liquid caramel pockets (in which case the 1300 kcal would be for half a liter). That´s the kind of thing that has enough influence to be noticed!
 
I think I would always choose a stack of Triscuits over a stack of meat, so I'd struggle a bit on your diet. Say no to the carbs!
 
I'm the opposite of Oaks. Give.Me.Meat!! I do feel guilty about eating meat because I know where it comes from, but damn I love it so much! Especially beef. I could eat burgers and steak everyday and never tire of it. I hope today's a good day for you LJ!
 
LM - sigh, our definition of "a lot" appears to be the same. I started with good intentions and ended with an empty container.

Oaks and Mandy - I love meat, but having this much is a little, well, it's a little much!

Yesterday was rest day on the exercise front, and I accomplished that very easily. Food-wise was a lot of salad. I had a big salad for lunch, and a medium one for dinner. I ended up over goal for sugars and carbs according to MFP, but I'm a little skeptical of that since it's saying turkey breast has 3g of sugar for 3 oz. Either way, I'm not really that concerned.

Day 2 on the 3rd belt notch is going fine - I actually just had to check if I was wearing it at that setting cuz it doesn't hurt.
 
Forgot to add: my sister-in-law and her crew came over for dinner, which included leftover pizza and brownies. I stayed away from both of those, in spite of being left alone in the same room with them, and at one point there being just one, tiny, teeny half-slice sitting all along on the cookie sheet, just pointing at me. I drank a lot of water to fight off that temptation, and ended up waking up several times overnight. But I didn't eat the evil delicious foods!
 
Yay for selfcontrol! (Which always reminds me of this cookie monster clip: ) I love meat too, but I´ve been cutting down on it for sustainability reasons. Not always easy!
 
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