So I woke up with a huge headache this morning. It is caused by one or two things. The first being that I have not had any caffeine other than my morning drink. I am still having my Starbucks in the morning (more on that later) and that seems to quiet the headache some. I have noticed my head starts getting foggy around 2-3pm and that I get a full blown headache by bed time. When I wake up it is at it's worst. It feels like a hangover, but not the full body kind. The other reason I may be feeling like this is re-adjusting to a severe cut in carbs. I was doing 15-25 carbs a day before my trip to New York. Since Wednesday I have been doing 5-10 carbs a day and trying to reach 0.
Many people, myself included, have what is called induction flu where you body reacts to switching from running on carbs/easy glucose conversion to running off of ketones and mostly fat converted to gluclose. It is much more complicated than that, but my head hurts so that is all the info you get. It is easy to look up if you have some spare google time. Anyway, long story short, for about 1-2 weeks you feel lethargic and have less energy. You mind is a little foggy. This happened to me when I started back in July, but I got over it in about 4 days. You know it is over because you feel like you have TONS of energy. Anyway, I am not there and I feel that it is probably for both of the reasons above.
Anyway, on to the news of the day as it relates to my weightloss. First, what I ate yesterday:
Breakfast:
2 eggs
6 pieces of bacon
Starbucks HC&Splenda (7 carbs)
Lunch:
3 eggs
6 pieces of bacon
Dinner:
2 Hebrew National Hot Dogs (2 carbs)
5 1/5lb burgers
I found out that my coffee itself has carbs in it. Probably 2-3, on top of the splenda and HC I use in it. Very disheartening. I am addicted to it... So I bought some Stevia sweetener packets I found at the store and have started using those instead of Splenda. They suck in comparison, but I will get used to it while my liquid splenda comes in the mail. I order some Sweet Water splenda sweetner off of Ebay yesterday. I should be able to use 1 drop of it (0 carbs) to sweeten my drink. That will make me feel better about having to have it. I want to get to 5 carbs or less a day. I also know there are a few carbs in the eggs I am eating, but that will change soon.
Last night I grilled a ton of frozen hamburger patties and hot dogs for myself and Jackson. That should last me awhile and keep me off of eggs for the time being. I had 3 patties this morning instead of the eggs. The hardest part of the hamburgers is 0 ketchup. I love ketchup more than any other food. For the time being I am not even allowing Low Carb ketchup. I have decided that I need success before I can add things back. Removing things one at a time was not working.
As far as weight goes I weighed in this morning and I was back at 328. I weighed when I got back from NY and was 334 so I have already lost down past where I was before I went. I am still not at my low for being on diet, but this is a good sign that I am back on track. I am hoping by next Friday to have a new low below 325. I better with as much as I feel I am sacrificing.
The goal for the upcoming week is progress/pictorial evidence of my weight. How am I going to get on the Today show without evidence?! I bought a tripod recently so I just have to fiddle with the digital camera and find a place to set it up where I can take daily pictures. Then I have to figure out what to wear in them! I am not up for the undies and no shirt yet, and I know none of you are up for that. =)
Anyway, babbled quite a bit this morning, time to get some work done!
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