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Food Friday 4.04.2014: officially off LCHF

Published on by Margit Partei13 kommentaari

On Food Fridays I will tell you about everything I ate that day. No matter if it is a good day or not: you will see it all. 

Yes, you did read that title right: I’m off LCHF or any sort of low-carb diet. Or any diet for that matter. 

No, I did not “give up”. No, I’m not going to “go crazy” and stuff my face with thousands of calories. I feel stronger than ever before, on a physical, mental and emotional level. I’m ready to achieve my goals the healthy way and be happy while doing it. 

I don’t want to get too much into my nutrition right now. I don’t want to summarize it with any sentences that sound good. I don’t want to have a slogan or a theory behind my eating. I’m still figuring out how things will exactly be. All I can say right now, is that the book “How to Have Your Cake and Skinny Jeans Too” by Josie Spinardi totally revolutionized EVERYTHING. Turns out, all I really needed was some food psychology. My deepest and most honest THANK YOU to the person who recommended it. I don’t know how or if I can ever repay you for that!

 

 

Breakfast: 7.30 AM

This was my quick breakfast before jumping on my bicycle for the first time in 2014 and riding to the city to do some swimming in the pool.

  • 65 grams of full grain oat flakes 

  • 100 grams of 2,5% milk

  • water

  • 25 grams of raisins

  • 60 grams of pear

 

Lunch: noon

  • 150 grams of boiled buckwheat

  • 150 grams of beetroot and garlic salad

  • 225 grams of liver sauce (In Estonian: maksakaste; not sure how to translate this, it’s pieces of liver pan-fried with some onion, then stewed and made into a sauce with some sour cream and flour to thicken it)

 

Dinner: 6 PM

  •  75 grams of dipping sauce (made of kefir)

  • 170 grams of cauliflower

  • 125 grams of preserved pumpkin

  • 30 grams of cheese

  • 50 grams of smoked ham

  • 45 grams of bread

  • 120 grams of 3% cottage cheese

  • 2 teaspoons of homemade strawberry jam

 

Nutrition information

The "Your Goal" is actually not my goal, it's just what LifeSum gives you based on your activity and body stats
The “Your Goal” is actually not my goal, it’s just what LifeSum gives you based on your activity and body stats

I really want to point out that I’m not counting anything (macros, calories) anymore. Today I weighed my food and wrote it down in a notepad only to make this blogpost. I weighed my food, made notes in the Notes app on my phone and put the data in LifeSum app just before making this post. I didn’t track calories during the day or pay any attention to nutrition facts when choosing my food. I just ate homemade food when I was hungry.

 

 

A lot of disclaimers in this Food Friday. I debated long and hard whether to make a Food Friday post today at all. I decided to make one. I don’t know how to introduce my current eating habits (I don’t want to use the words new plan because I see this solution as something different than a plan) with words so let the pictures to the talking 🙂

If you have any questions about my nutrition… well, you can ask but I’m not sure I can answer them all just yet. This is all very new to me. But one thing is 100% sure: I’m not on LCHF anymore. I’m done with dieting. 

Next Food Friday in a week!

 

 

(By the way: the introduction sentence of this post series – “On Food Fridays I will tell you about everything I ate that day. No matter if it is a good day or not: you will see it all.” – doesn’t really suit my philosophy anymore. I mean, I still will tell you about every single bite of food that day but I don’t label days with words “good” or “bad” anymore.)

A healthy eater with UNHEALTHY eating habits?!

Published on by Margit Partei15 kommentaari

I don’t even know how to start this post but I just have a huge need to get things out of myself. 

I caught myself thinking that one day I would just like to wake up and be a person with normal eating habits.

 

 

At the end of last December just before Christmas I weighed around 65,5 kg. I was almost at my goal weight, only 2,5 kg to go. My measurements were pretty impressive, at least for me. Since then I’ve had a couple of better weeks but mostly it has gone all downhill from that point.

Chaos, chaos, chaos.

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Christmas was just bad. I remember eating everything I wanted and so much that my stomach hurt. Just binging everything that tasted great. At the time I just thought to myself: “No regrets. It’s the holidays, you can do that once a year.” I gained 2,5 kg of bodyweight and 7,5 cm in measurements. Some was water but some clearly fat. 

It was hard getting back on track after letting myself go: I remember one day when my eating had been good but then I just binged on gingerbread cookies in the evening. And it wasn’t just that occasion, it has happened more than once.

New Year’s was better for me. I was low-carb, didn’t eat sugar and starch but still consumed too much calories. Calories do matter, whether on low-carb or not. Energy is still energy and too much energy is stored as fat. Period. Gained a little over a kilogram, lost 1 cm.

Then it was just one week before my trip to Thailand. I felt big and fat: not a good thing to feel before getting into a bikini. I went on a strict low carb with reduced calories. I didn’t keep a food diary but lost 4,5 cm and 2 kg that week. I was still 1,5 kg heavier and 2 cm bigger than when I came home from school before Christmas and 4 kg away from my goal weight.

Travelling in Thailand: eat whenever and whatever and as much as I wanted (= too much). Came home and was 1 cm and 1 kg bigger. Which was a miracle because I never would have thought to gain only a kilogram after that kind of eating. But still: weight going in the wrong direction!

And then came the worst week during my weightloss journey. It all started with the idea to keep some carbs in my diet (like oats and fruit) and turned into a whole binge WEEK. I can’t even publicly write about it, I’m that embarrassed… Let’s just say that +3kg and +7,5 cm says everything about that week. And please: do not tell me it was water. I know it wasn’t. That week I also wrote the post: “When easy things become difficult…” I have to tell you: they haven’t become any easier! 😦

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It was so hard to get back on track and stay on it. I failed and failed and failed. 

Then I had one week of low-carbing but still overeating. Would a normal person eat a whole head of cauliflower in one go? Would a normal person eat coconut oil like it’s yogurt? Would a normal person consume 1000+ calories with one meal? No. No. NO!

On the 14th of February in Food Friday I wrote about my feelings and had a new plan. I think it was a good plan, considering my workouts, running plans and bodyweight goals.

First week: great, –2 kg. 

Second week: eating habits OK but too much calories. Gained around half a kg and measurements hadn’t decreased at all…

Third week: OK eating habits and OK calories, under 2000 kcal per day. Gained over a kilogram –> confused.

Fourth week: good eating habits, great caloric intakes –> down 1,5 kg and a couple of cm.

Fifth week aka this week: everything has collapsed again. Portions: too big, eating times: chaotic, calories: sky high. Official weigh in will be on Saturday but today I saw numbers I really didn’t want to see but should have expected. If I think about going to measure my bodyfat percentage, I actually get terrified. I won’t get that done any time soon.

All I can do is sigh… 

 

 

One strange thing: being at my real home (= parents’ house) is so controversial to me. I love being with my family and dog but I overeat all the time when I’m there. Every. Single. Day. Actually I just can’t stop eating when I’m there. OK, Friday’s are the only days I don’t because it’s Food Friday and it motivates me to actually be a HEALTHY Margit, not the binger/snacker/overeater Margit. I do not binge/snack junk, I overdo healthy foods. That’s so weird. It’s like my brain is telling me: “It’s healthy stuff, it’s OK.” But the eating patterns of the healthy stuff is UNHEALTHY.

That’s it! I know my problem. I’m a healthy eater with UNHEALTHY eating patterns and habits.

(Now you can officially make me feel guilty about having a health blog since I fail so much.)

I have a good day, I have a bad day; I have a good week, I have a miserable week… No consistency, no routine, no results. Just a person who keeps getting more and more confused and upset with herself. 

And you know another funny thing? My workouts haven’t changed (except for Thailand) during all this gaining and losing game. I worked out just as hard on the week when I lost 2 kg or gained 3 kg. They do not matter at all when it comes to my weight. 

 

 

Why do I keep doing this to myself?! How come I can’t stay on track? Why do I overeat the healthy stuff? It’s not the plan that isn’t working, it’s ME that isn’t working. Well, maybe the plan needs improving and I’m sure I could theoretically lose weight on low carb, high carb, calorie restriction, Weight Watchers and every other plan IF ONLY I put my mind to it and STICK WITH IT.

But I don’t. I’m just messed up.