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Challenge has been more to get enough than to eat too many, mostly
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I had the same problem when I kept my carbs really low. So i would keep different nuts around the house. Normally pecans but thats just me.
Im not sure how much meat you eat but they are good for a jump in calories. I'm still reading your diary but I noticed some sausage so guessing meat is on the plan.
Anyways; larger cuts of less processed meat like steak or maybe pork chops or lamb are good for a good calorie punch.
 
Thanks guys :)

Today's been:

Breakfast: 2 thin sausages
Lunch: Some salad w/tuna
Dinner: Mashed peas with a piece of meat

Extra dinner (yeah, I failed resisting temptation): 2 slices of fatty meat. Girlfriend made dinner and it looked delicious
 
I don't sweat much of anything right now, got my exam in less than 2 weeks so I'm being pretty forgiving of myself all around. I'm not weighing myself either up until after the exam. Sure, I'll try to stick to my food plan, but I won't stress over it.

I've promised myself cake when the exam is over. That day I am going to enjoy 2 pieces of my favorite cake + chocolate :D
Makes it easier to keep my motivation up for studying.
 
Lol, have I mentioned how much "prettier" my food looks now? Like this breakfast, with fried ham and egg, decorated with fresh green leaves. It looks gorgeous :p
 
Had some sourmilk for breakfast; was feeling a little queasy.
Had a proper breakfast a couple of hours later with salmon and egg fried together with small pieces of cucumber. Added some leafy greens at the end.

Planning an entrecote with some pea mash and greens for dinner later, and if I get hungry later in the evening I have some naturell yogurt w/ lemon and some sweeteners.

I said I wasn't going to, but couldn't resist weighing myself today. Down to 75.5 kg, so lost another 1.5 in a bit over a week since the last time I weighed myself. It's going downwards pretty steadily, which I like :)

Not sure if I am going to go all the way down to 65 though, which was my original goal. I'm actually already starting to feel pretty content with how I look (when I'm not bloated like heck), and I have no interest in getting too skinny. We'll see when I hit 70, although I do know my so-called ideal weight is supposed to be 60-65. Think I got a bit more muscle than the average girl my size though, so that might be a factor. I don't do a lot of strength training, other than the basic, but an old trainer of mine said I put on muscle easily. Whether that's just bullshit or not, I don't know, but when I hit 70 I think I'll get someone at the gym to do a body fat check, see how much of my remaining extra weight is fat VS muscle.
 
When you get your fat measured, make sure it is done by a trained person with calipers and not just a Bioelectrical impedance analysis. While the electronic device is ok for tracking trends they are very inaccurate. a DEXA scan is the gold standard but costly and not available at the gym.
 
I'll keep that in mind, thank you :)

Had a serious craving for bacon, so bought some low-fat turkey bacon and had that for breakfast with an egg. I allowed myself a bit of caviar on the eggs, because it lifts the taste so much. Tried to keep the amounts of all ingredients down though, it helps using small plates over big ones, kinda automatically limits the amounts. It still ended up feeling like a bit of a "heavy lunch", but I had a reasonably small breakfast, just a bit of yogurt, and I'll be just doing low-fat steak w/some vegetables for dinner. Besides, you got to allow yourself a little treat now and then (as long as it's a sensible treat, and not too sabotaging overall) and I really needed that bacon for my mental health, lol.

So yeah ->
Breakfast: Small portion of yogurt mixed with a few drops of lemon juice and sweeteners
Lunch: 4 slices of bacon and an egg 2 w/ some veggies
Dinner: 150 gr. of steak w/fried veggies
Evening food: (If needed, will skip it if I don't feel hungry) yogurt

I am eating a lot of yogurt these days, but it's yummy and it seems to help my stomach, which sometimes gets a bit constipated.
Though I've been lax with the hydration, so trying to be better with that. Drinking way too much coffee now that I'm studying hard for my exam.

Also noticed that I am getting better and better at positive self-talk. I won't get thinner by giving myself a hard time or calling myself nasty things; so I try to be encouraging and positive about myself. For example, the other day I "felt fat, like I had become fatter overnight". It made me want to eat less. Reading up on it and doing some "internal investigating" I realized that the "feeling of having become fatter" has nothing to do with my body weight, because I've lost weight, not gained. It's basically just about how I feel about everything due to the stress, being channeled into something I feel I can control more -> my feelings about my weight -> my eating habits. "Feeling fat" is just a negative psychological issue, deriving from a stressful everyday life, and doesn't reflect the state of my body. Which is something I think is important to keep in mind. I aim to stay healthy, not to give myself more reasons to feel bad or to deal with negative stress.

So, in a way, guess I'm making both my physical and my mental health more fit, by having the right focus, trying to eat healthily without tying negative things to it and just making this a positive way of life, rather than some sort of punitive cycle. I like my body. I'm going to treat it well and give it healthy food; I am not going to punish it for things outside of its and mine control.
 
Studying for exams can be stressful but worth it in the end, sometime we are all to hard on ourselves, so your doing great !
 
I've been experiencing a "prickling" or needle-poking-feeling in the leg over the last couple of days. I read up on it, and saw it can be tied to vitamin B deficiency. However, I also read that vitamin B is in eggs, meats, poultry and a lot of the other stuff I almost only eat these days. I do take vitamin supplements on the side, and read that prickling and cold feet can also be a consequence of getting too much B vitamins... So, is feet prickling something that's common on low carb, and is it an actual probable thing that I could be taking in too much B vitamin?

Figuring I should take a trip to the doctor and get my levels checked, I just would like to wait with that until Monday, getting that pesky exam over and done with.
 
I think it's worth checking out with your doctor, Nat, rather than Dr. Google. We all do it, but it's not a great idea xoC
 
Haha, Dr. Google.
I quite agree, I just couldn't resist checking (I never do).

It's just 5 days left to my exam, I don't wanna go to the doctor until it's done, lest it's a sign of something serious, hence the googling :p
 
We should have a ha ha option like we do on FB :D
5 days, still the same symptoms......the nagging starts :)
 
I've been gone for a bit, but I've mostly followed the same habits as I did. The exam period was rough though, I had a bit of a depressed period afterwards due to a mistake I did that has made me pretty confident I am going to have to retake the exam. Which pains me, because I worked really hard for this one. In any case, it made me have a week or two in which I wasn't watching what I was eating as closely as I should have. Though, it looks like I only gained 2 kg during this period, so it could have been worse. I'm at 76 kg again now, so still haven't ruined too much. I've been trying to get my mood and my spirit back up to par so I can get really into "the game" again, but until I get the exam result I'll probably still struggle. It'll be easier once I get the result so I can just accept my fate and get on with the hard work.

Had 2 fried eggs with two small stripes of caviar for breakfast, nothing extra.
Lunch was two pieces of thin pork cuts, some red beans and a couple of large green leaves.
Haven't had evening food yet, but I'll probably end up going for some yogurt.

Trying to get back into controlling my portions again. Though I did just start my menstruation, and I've heard you gain a temporary kg or two during the start of your menstruation. So we'll see when I weigh myself next week.
 
That doesn't sound like much food Nat. Fingers & toes crossed that you did better than you thought in the exam xoxo
 
Lol, nope, for some reason I thought I had eaten and written up one more meal than I had. I realized later that evening that I really had to eat something more substantial. So I had some beef and veggies. My head's just not quite there these days. Thank you for the good wishes :)
 
Beanstew w/ greens and pieces of beef for breakfast

A sausage and an egg for lunch

Beef in strips and broccoli for dinner

And probably something light for evening food, will see.
 
Weighed myself today, and apparently those extra kgs were period kg, because now I'm down to not only what I was before the weight gain, but I've dropped a kg extra. The weight said 73.5, as opposed to 76 as it did on sunday. Losing 2 and a half kg in less than a week sounds extreme, but apparently that can easily happen due to periods causing the body to hold more water, hence it's fake water weight that you lose again. In any case, 73 and something kg is wonderful. That means I've got less than 10 kg to go now, to reach my set goal. Just 7 little kg to work down, bit by bit.
Slow but steady wins the race :)

It was kinda nice when I last went home, after losing the initial 12 kg, and my mum and my siblings were all wide-eyed; "you've shrunk!"
My mum said I looked very well, so that was nice to hear. I am slightly worried about how I'll look if I go further down than 70 kg, but we'll see. I don't want to end up looking too skinny or sick, just perfectly normal. However, I kinda do look perfectly normal now, so not sure. My stomach isn't completely flat, but it's relatively flat with just a slight bit of softness to it, as female tummies are supposed to have. How do we decide when good is good enough and stop?

I'm kinda broke, so breakfast, lunch and dinner today will be what's leftover of sausage and soups :p
It's just for today, I get money tomorrow. But yeah, for today my dieting will be aided by a poor economy, lol
 
Breakfast: Two eggs w/ a bit of caviar and some salad leaves
Lunch: Fried sausage w/ broccoli and salad leaves
Evening food: Fried cucumber w/ a salad
 
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