#keto?

[badassque]

I don't care what your Ama says. I'm your Ama now. And I say, you deserve good bread.

[losingitinjersey]

I’m sitting here in a rental house at the Outer Banks working my way through the last three weeks of your Tumblr activity.  Thank goodness for New-xKit helping make this process not nearly as tedious!  

I’d love to tell you that I’ve been super focused on weightloss and exercise during these last few weeks but that has, unfortunately, not been the case!  Hopefully I don’t go TOO overboard food-wise during this lovely extended weekend with Kevin and my in-laws but I make no promises.  Although, I’m not super satisfied with how my clothes are fitting so I’d love to get back into a dieting mindset soon.  His parents are here for TWO WEEKS and usually when they visit I throw my diet out the window.  We’ll see what happens!  

[losingitinjersey]

As you can tell from the photos keto did not happen at dinner last night.  Eeeek, I know.   

After two and a half hours of stop and go traffic we finally made it to Carytown.  I hadn’t eaten much earlier in the day so my head felt fuzzy by the time we arrived at 7.  We quickly dropped our bags off at the cutest Airbnb before walking around the corner to go find some dinner.  

We ended up at Greek on Cary and once I saw the cocktail menu I decided I was going for it and since I was getting a cocktail eating keto went out the window.   We got the appetizer sampler, which turned out to be just a mix of hummus and two baskets of pita bread, then I got a chicken gyro and a side of fries.  Soooooooooo good.  So good!  

To continue to live it up, after dinner we stopped by another restaurant to get two dessert crepes to go.  I got the brownie crepe with a side of vanilla ice cream and Kevin got one with berries and whipped cream.  We waited a few hours after dinner to eat the dessert but man, I felt my heart racing and my stomach expanding.  So.much.sugar.  I thought I was going to vomit all night.  Normally, eating carbs don’t affect me at all but this time it did, hard, and I’m not happy about it.  

When we woke up we both weren’t hungry so we decided to forgo our original plan to eat brunch and instead went to the Italian Cafe and got some coffee.  It was so lovely to just sit in a cafe together sipping coffee and not worry about where we had to be or what we had to do.   

After coffee we hit the road for our four hour drive up to Maryland and made it to the lake where we were greeted by my parents, sister, brother-in-law and their five kids.  We didn’t eat all day except for the coffee until dinner so I feel like I kind of made up for the carb loading the night before, especially since I randomly ended up eating keto for dinner.  

When I found out we were going to Dairy Queen for dinner I was pretty disappointed.  I still hadn’t decided if I was eating keto or not and figured their low carb options were going to suck and the temptations would be overwhelming.  Blizzards, fluffy buns, fried chicken and fries galore!  What did I get?  A grilled chicken BLT salad with ranch.  Why?  I have no idea.  I’m honestly surprised I didn’t get a crispy chicken sandwich with fries.  

After dinner we all went to Walmart to stock up the house with food for the week and we stocked our cart with all keto options.  I don’t know what I’m doing since I haven’t written off carbs for the week.  I’m just going to take it meal by meal and see how it goes I guess! 

[mymindscapeblg]

So, I’ve recently noticed something....

The way I eat, the things I crave while cooking alone, are very specific... they're usually rich in colour, flavour and low in price... but also, Keto.

I’ve honestly never researched the Keto diet, I honestly couldn't care less about it; it is however the way i tend to loose weight.

Never on purpose, anytime I feel that I’m at my healthiest it usually because I’m following the logic of my body, what I crave, what it feels like my body is missing, needing.

Generally, I eat, peppers, onions, anything deep green, ie. zucchini, spinach, broccoli, legumes, eggs, rice and at times cheese and meat. Very specific times, when I get to a really low iron point I crave meat so freaking much. I’m not opposed to eating meat (I will, it just not something I feel should be eaten daily, globally that's such a privileged and unnecessary idea), it just not something i want daily lately, digestively, it doesn't do it for me.

My digestion has become such a focal point of the way I live my life, when I feel that everything is working in unison I feel light, I don't bloat, my mentality feels clear and light as well. When its not, I'm sluggish, sleepy.. no... exhausted emotionally and physically, my depression gets heavier and I loose all creativity.

Why has it taken me this long to realize this. 

I’ve always known what you eat is important, but, listening to my body is so important, I crave what I need, I need to stop listening to others. 

[losingitinjersey]

I HAD SUSHI TODAY.  I’m way too excited about this fact.  

Today was day three of three of this super busy work week.  Two workshops today meant another day out to eat for lunch and my co-worker and I got sushi. Definitely not keto but oh so good.  

For dinner tonight we went out to dinner and I didn’t remember to take a picture until the end!  Doh!  I hate it when that happens.  What you don’t see is a burger with boursin cheese and a balsamic glaze, and the best Caesar salad ever.  

It’s been a great week.  Busy but out of the normal type of busy and quite enjoyable.  Three cheers for it almost being the weekend!!!  

[trashgirlketo]

on today’s edition of “i ate all my carbs in one sitting but it was soooo worth it, fuck a vegetable anyhow”

peanut butter popcorn

i didn’t have any butter left so i used peanut butter. it was really good and i don’t recommend it because you’ll just want it every day after that and you know you can’t do that because it’s literally a bowl of carbs, dude

[trashgirlketo]

an entire day’s worth of carbs in this photo here

but they were soooooo tasty

(battered halibut taco on mission low carb tortilla with jalapeno-dill tartar sauce. also just a pile of fish and tartar sauce next to it because who needs the tortilla even, the little bastards ARE breaded)