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Week 3

Week 3! This week I did not keep up with calories or macros. I weighed in at 157 Friday morning, which is the same as what I averaged last week. I only ate one tub of halo top all week (3 nights worth) instead of 2, so I'm pleased about that. It's still not the occasional treat that it should be, but cutting my intake in half is pretty damn good. Most of our meals were a meat and a veggie, which is keeping me satiated. I did not have to spend any time hungry this week. I continued my 16:8 intermittent fasting and have not had breakfast in 3 weeks. On the weekends lunch can be more like brunch and I can eat something that gives that breakfasty feel like a frittata or something. I don't miss breakfasts; when I used to eat a breakfast on work days it was a power bar or cottage cheese at around 8:00 and by 9:30 I was already starving again. Now I'm fine until I start to get hungry around 10:30 and then I try to wait until at least 11 to eat my lunch. I did snack some

Week 2

Week 2 Lost another 3 lbs this week! Most days my carbs were 70-90g. Still feeling good. Have gotten more compliments at work; people are noticing my weight loss finally! Next week I will report back on Friday after a week of NOT counting calories or macros, just eating low carb foods and exercising.  Going full on keto last week and then learning more about paleo/primal/lowcarb this week taught me a few things. I can lose weight great on <50g carbs.  Staying under 50g of carbs is tricky but doable. Keto is not a lifelong diet change; I need to have veggies and fruits for a diet shift to be sustainable.  If I get all of my carbs from veggies it's easy to keep the carb count low. Dark chocolate is a wonderful treat. Halo top is a sometimes food.  Grain free chips are delicious but still have lots of carbs. Sunday thoughts: Friday night we went out for sushi and I ate a bit of rice along with sashimi. Then I had my halo top treat. Yesterday's 10K went GRE