Day Fifty One

Food
Breakfast - Coffee, overnight oats
Morning tea - Large capp on almond
Lunch - Mongolian beef with zucchini noodles
Afternoon tea- rest of oats, banoffee with two bananas.
Dinner - Avo pumpkin haloumi chicken salad with a fried egg thrown in. A can of Welder's Dog.

Exercise

Day Fifty

Food
Breakfast/morning tea- serve of the homemade mongolian lamb I meal prepped, coffee
Lunch- chicken avo haloumi roast pumpkin salad
Afternoon tea- soy lime and chilli crisp things
Dinner- pizzaaaaaa
3x Welder's Dog Pea Blossom cans of whatever they are
1 strawberry fat bomb

Exercise
Rest day, but planning on swimming in the canal this afternoon.

Day Forty Nine

Food
Breakfast- half jar of banana chia overnight oats, coffee
Morning tea/Lunch- Eggs Benedict with smoked salmon on sour dough, capp on almond
Afternoon tea- fresh watermelon and pineapple, watermelon tea, coffee
Dinner- 90 second bread with lettuce mix, tomato, veggie chicken schnitzel, sriracha, mayo, fried egg, mushrooms, bounty bite.

Exercise
3.17km in 15 minutes this morning around Westport High oval

Menu Planning for the Week

Zucchini Lasagne

Avocado Pumpkin Haloumi Salad 

Banana Chia Overnight Oats

 Easy Crispy Mongolian Beef

Keto Coconut Bars

Day Forty Eight

Food
Pre-swim watermelon, large capp at the pool
Breakfast nothing
Morning Tea veggie chicken schnitzel and salad on 90 second bread with sriracha and mayo
Lunch- chicken lovers box sushi
Afternoon Tea- mango coconut mousse
Dinner- One of my half-circle mold coconut keto bounty ball things after I finished making it. I used 85% dark and added white chia seeds in with the coconut. I also halved the amount of Natvia in the recipe. Tuna salad (bag of baby spinach, cherry tomatoes, grated cheddar, tin of tun in olive oil). Another bounty bite as I'm now calling them

Exercise
10 lengths of pool, walk to and from bus stop

Day Forty Seven

Food
Breakfast- Coconut cream mango mousse (just those two things in it), and half a chopped mango on top. Coffee
Morning tea- Raw broccoli and hummus, some leftover roast veggies from yesterday. Coffee
Lunch- Chicken salad (half a chicken breast, lettuce, raw green beans, raw broccoli, Green Goddess dressing)
Afternoon tea-Leftover cold roast lamb and some vintage cheddar, the dregs of roast pumpkin and sweet potato.
Dinner-Giant omelette, fresh beans and hummus, 90 second bread

Exercise
Walked to Bing Lee and back to get a new food processor ( got sunburnt too )

Day Forty Six Christmas 2018

Food
Breakfast- Bacon and eggs for breakfast with a coffee, another coffee,
Morning tea- bit of broccoli out of my salad in the fridge, more trifle coz it needs eating. I'm feeling pretty bloated today but I *think* that might be due to PMS.
Lunch- Roast lamb, sweet potato, carrot, potato (two pieces), fresh green beans, roasted bacon wrapped brussels sprouts, mango coconut mousse, 2 gin and sodas.
Afternoon tea- watermelon
Dinner- chicken salad. bit of roast lamb to snack on with dinner.

Exercise
1.7km jog, 10 bench dips, 10 crunch kicks, 10 side kicks, 20 side bends, 15 rear leg raises.


I can't go swimming tomorrow because the pool isn't open til midday. Might just do a half hour walk to rest my legs a bit, or some ZR5K training.

Day Forty Five

Food
Breakfast- bacon and eggs, coffee, more trifle. Yeah I know but there's so much of it and I seem to be the only one eating it.
Morning tea- banoffee
Lunch- leftover salad
Afternoon tea- coffee, broke off a bit of gingerbread
Dinner- Salmon something and salad.. or something, more trifle
two gin sodas with lemon and watermelon balls

Exercise
Rest day, can't be bothered. 

Day Forty Four

Food
Breakfast- banana and raspberry chia seed smoothie pre-workout, coffee post workout
Morning tea-
Lunch- Christmas lunch at Tom's parents. Roast chicken and vegetables, half a glass of prosseco, 2 sugar free lime sodas, a serve of my keto trifle, a small piece of gingerbread.
Afternoon tea- trifle
Dinner-chicken salad and more trifle

Exercise
1 hour walk along the water front. Got to pat a whippet doggo.
Before I went I did
40 crunches
20 starjumps
5 bicep ext. on each arm
10 lateral lifts
10 weighted squats
20 soup tin presses
5 push ups

Day Forty Three

Food
Breakfast- Coffee
Morning Tea- banoffee (yeah I know, but i've been in the kitchen doing food prep and cooking for an xmas lunch all morning)
Lunch- Slice of zucchini sweet potato slice I made this morning, half a chicken breast on a green salad with half a tomato.
Afternoon tea-Piece of veggie slice
Dinner- Pizzzaaaa

Exercise
Interval jogging/walking around my usual track, 40 crunches, 20 bicycle crunches, 15 fly, 40 soup tin presses, 12 bench dips, 20 jumping jacks, 20 squats. 

Day Forty Two

Food
Breakfast- an apple and a coffee
Morning tea- mouthful of mince, wasn't hungry
Lunch- Bacon and eggs
Afternoon tea- square of dark chocolate
Dinner- Big Mac Bites 
After Dinner- heap of huge lettuce leaves dipped in the special sauce for dinner, bit of cheddar cheese. Period is due, got the munchies.

Exercise
Rest day but walked to and from town

Day Forty One

Half a zucchini cheddar muffin, large capp with almond milk, honey dew melon, ceasar salad (no chicken) from in town while I was out, more honey dew melon. Dinner is Thai tonight.

Jogged/walked intervals around the block in 30 degree heat. Walking around town during day doing xmas shopping.

Day Forty

WOW Day 40!!! 20 more days to go and it'll have been 2 months already. Before I know it it'll be 6 months and I'll be able to look back and feel proud of the distance I've come.

I went swimming this morning, 4 laps (or 8 lengths?) of the Olympic pool as per my usual Wednesday routine. No food before I left, just a coffee. Then when I got back I had 3 bits of bacon and a fried egg with a banoffee smoothie. Holy shit banoffee is SO GOOD! One banana, full cream milk, teaspoon of dissolved instant coffee, and ice blended together. Lovely sweet treat loaded with energy. Lunch will likely be the last lost of steak fajitas I have in the fridge, not sure about dinner yet because grocery day is tomorrow, but I should be able to throw something together. The family is having spaghetti bolognese tonight so maybe I'll steal some mince to make up something with.

Food
Brekky- bacon and eggs, coffee pre swim than banoffee after
Morning tea- honey dew melon
Lunch- steak fajita
Afternoon tea- large capp on almond
Dinner- 3 carrots with hummus, tin of tuna, bit of cheddar, 2 strawberry fat bombs

Exercise
4 laps (or 8 lengths) of pool, walking to and from bus.

Hair cut today!! Getting something super different for me.

Day Thirty Nine

Food 
Breakfast- half jar of raspberry banana overnight oats
Morning Tea- carrot sticks and hummus
Lunch- 90 second bread toasted with a tin of smoked tuna
Afternoon Tea-
Dinner- Steak Fajitas and rest of carrots with hummus from earlier.
Cheese for snacks after Christmas lights adventure

Exercise
2 x jogging around Dixie Parks, 1 x walk around, 1 x walk/jog, then walking home.
Also= walked to and from art class

Day Thirty Eight

Food
Breakfast- spoon of chocolate avocado mousse, bacon and an egg
Morning tea- reg capp on almond milk
Lunch- Pork and veggies
Afternoon tea-2 tbs of avocado mousse
Dinner- Steak fajitas with handful of fresh sugar snap peas
Serve of avocado mousse (tastes WAY too sweet, but don't want to waste it) texture is really nice
Bit of cheese

Exercise
Walked the kids to and from day care morning and arvo, did Week 1 Day 1 of Zombies, Run! Couch to 5K which I'll use for cross training days on Monday's. I'll continue training to run harder on running days, and swim on Wednesdays.

Day Thirty Seven

Food
Breakfast- slept through it, had some camembert and cheddar with a little sundried tomato as a snack. Honey dew melon
Morning tea- nothing
Lunch- Oats I didn't have this morning
Afternoon Tea- nothing
Dinner-Mediterranean veggies and pork, avocado mousse

Exercise
1 hour walk today in the rain.

Day Thirty Six

Food
Breakfast- a punnet of raspberries, one strip of bacon, and a mouthful of crumbly cheddar cheese
Morning tea- nothing
Lunch- Going out to the Beach House with boyfriend and his mum for lunch, plenty of keto options on the menu but i'm thinking fish. Ended up having beetroot feta walnut and rocket salad. Wasn't great.
Afternoon tea- nothing
Dinner- Pork Mediterranean veggies in fridge, few slices of camembert, two squares of dark chocolate.
After dinner snackies- 100gm of fresh sugar snap peas. Mmm so crunchy

Exercise
It's a run day today, but it's much too hot to attempt that til late this afternoon.
Ran around my usual path, ran maybe 3/4 of more of it which I'm super proud of!! Nearly able to do it all in one go.

Day Thirty Five

Food
Breakfast- half jar of oats, coffee with cream
Morning Tea- nothing
Lunch- haloumi avo pumpkin salad
Afternoon tea- rest of my lunch, with pulled pork. Coffee with milk
Dinner- Sun dried tomato chicken I pulled out of the freezer

Exercise
Rest day

Feeling really bloated today in the stomach, sore internal organ to the left of stomach.

Day Thirty Four

half jar of oats, oats
large capp with almond milk
haloumi avo pumpkin salad and sparkling water
pulled pork BBQ keto pizza, few forkfulls of pork mixture
advent calendar tea with Natvia


Ran/walked around the school block. Ran the majority, I'm getting better at keeping a good pace for longer.

Day Thirty Three

Food
Breakfast- half jar of strawberry banana overnight oats before swim, an egg and two bits of bacon after swim. Coffee
Morning tea- Piece of cake at art class and a large capp on almond milk
Lunch- creamy sundried tomato chicken
Afternoon tea-haloumi pumpkin salad and sundried tomato chicken
Dinner- veggies from the fridge in some kind of meal I've yet to work out when I get hungry

Me waiting for the bus after going to the pool

Exercise
8 laps of the pool in 15 minutes or so, (a lap being from end to end once), walked into town and back for art workshop.

A lot of walking today

Here's a picture of me today from the art workshop to look back on later 

Day Thirty Two

Food
Breakfast- half jar strawberry banana overnight oats
Morning tea- large capp on full cream milk no sugar
Lunch- Steak Fajitas
Afternoon tea- tried to eat some avo haloumi pumpkin salad but not really hungry
Dinner- two eggs and bacon

Exercise
Some of these steps are me walking around Newcastle, most are me going for a run when I got home around the school block and home again. I managed to run the entire length of a song, 4 minutes. Got divorced today so I wanted to run off some of the residual stress from it all. If I can do that, I can do anything!
Swimming day tomorrow.

Day Thirty One

Food
Breakfast- Chicken kebab (chicken and salad stuff on a plate without the wrap), regular coffee at home before going into town
Morning Tea-Small capp on almond milk
Lunch-Nothing
Afternoon Tea-Nothing too hot and stressed I guess
Dinner-Sun dried creamy tomato chicken
After dinner- cup of advent calendar tea with natvia, a large cut up apple, some sharp and crumbly mersey valley cheddar.

Exercise
Walked kids to and from daycare, was meant to go for a run but I don't want to push myself today with court tomorrow. Bit light headed and too hot today so thought it best not to. Two rest days this week.

Meal prepped avo haloumi pumpkin salads x 3 for the week and 2 days of overnight oats with-
oats
coconut
sliced almonds
cocao nibs
pureed banana and strawberry
milk
chia seeds

had a helper while making salads, she scored a bit of haloumi and kept stealing bits of lettuce out of my containers. she's weird 

Tomorrow I'll be in Newcastle so I'll be taking a salad and a can of tuna with me along with my bottle of water.

Day Thirty and First Measurement Comparison

Measurements Day One
Thigh 71cm
Bum 122cm
Hips 121.5cm
Chest 119cm
Upper Arm 37.5cm

Measurements Day Thirty 
Thigh 69.5cm
Bum 118cm
Hips 117cm
Chest 113cm
Upper Arm 35cm
Waist 96cm (forgot to take waist measurement on day one)

Cm lost so far 
Thigh 1.5cm
Bum 4cm
Hips 4.5cm
Chest 6cm
Upper Arm 2.5cm

Total 18.5cm loss! YAY! 

Food
Breakfast- Half jar of choco coco oats with a peach chopped up on top, coffee
Morning Tea- 1/3 a piece of the chicken I meal prepped this morning (creamy sundried tomato)
Lunch- Steak Fajitas 
Afternoon Tea- Coffee, 1 strawberry fat bomb 
Pre-exercise around 4.45pm half an apple and a small square of dark chocolate
Post-exercise snack around 6pm- crumbly sharp cheddar, camembert, and thin sliced smoked salmon. I was at the shop and wanting an indulgent snack for tonight so I went for the cheese and fish option without crackers. I'm really proud of myself. 
Dinner- Pork steak with salad 

Exercise
30-60 minute walk is on the schedule today, will do that in my new shoes later. Will aim to walk to the fish scaling table today, it's been a few weeks. I don't need to run today but might run for the length of one song anyway and walk the rest. 
Bit stoked that a steady paced walk for about 5km isn't tiring me out anymore. I wasn't out of breath at any point during today's walk. 


I'll prep up my haloumi and pumpkin salads tonight, too. I'll be out a lot this week and will need to be prepared. EDIT- Might do that tomorrow, I'm super tired now. Little bit stressed about court on Tuesday but I'm doing my best to constructively deal with that stress. 

Day Twenty Nine

Food
Breakfast- half a jar of choco coco overnight oats (not sure I like them, banana ones are better)
Morning tea- Regular capp with almond milk from Gloria Jeans
Lunch- Slow cooked steak fajitas and a strawberry cheesecake fat bomb
Afternoon Tea-nothing
Dinner- Garlic prawn entree, then I had prosciutto wrapped chicken with camembert on top, broccolini, potato rosti, piece of garlic bread. 3 gin and sodas with a slice of lemon. I went out to have dinner with friends

I made a big batch of the steak fajitas this morning, it's ok, a little blander than I expected but there was a lot of liquid in there. I portioned it out into 6, had one for lunch, put 2 in the fridge, and put the other 3 in the freezer. I'll make the sun dried tomato chicken tomorrow and portion it all out as well, and make the salads for lunches this week. It's measurement recording day tomorrow.

Exercise
Went for a walk/run to Mandy's house about .8 kms away. Ran halfway. I want to aim to be able to jog the whole length of a song, then increase to two.

Tonight I'm meeting friends for dinner at Tapp Bar, I checked the menu online and found one dish that's keto-friendly, the seared scallops. I'm also planning on having either soda water with lemon, or a gin and soda with lemon. Just one though! I'm really looking forward to getting all dressed up and going out, I haven't seen this friend in a long time.

Day Twenty Eight

Food
Breakfast- Half jar of choco coco overnight oats with two strawberries cut up on top
Morning Tea- Small capp on almond milk at Gloria Jeans
Lunch- Serve of haloumi bake from the freezer
Afternoon Tea- Lime Ball
Dinner- Half a container of the chilli I had in the fridge with half an avo, a large handful of cheese, and an egg scrambled on top of it. Today was a fucking struggle at dinner with everyone else having Maccas. It's fine, they can do that, but I was so hungry and wasn't prepared. Nearly ate maccas tonight. Didn't end up wanting thai, didn't want to spend the money on it.
Advent calendar tea with 3/4 teaspoon natvia and a cheesecake bomb for the cravings.

Exercise
It's meant to be a rest day so no active workouts, but I did walk into town to do some shopping then home again. Kid's have a Christmas party tonight and I'll likely get takeaway for them on the way home for the sake of ease, not sure what i'll have tonight yet, groceries don't arrive til tomorrow, maybe a thai beef salad or something.

On keto you WILL have people tell you that  eating some maccas is fine because someone knows other people on keto and they do it, but yeah those people are definitely wrong. Also it seems while most people will support you through the cravings and feeling like shit, others will just try to convince you they know best when really they're full of shit.

This journey is hard as fuck, but I'm on it now, I've overcome so much to get to this day, and I don't want to fuck it up now.

Menu Planning Meals

Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Chicken 

Slow Cooker Steak Fajita 

Pumpkin Haloumi Avocado Salad

Avocado Mousse

BBQ Pulled Pork Pizza
https://www.simplystacie.net/2013/02/slow-cooker-pulled-pork-recipe/

Day Twenty Seven

Food
Breakfast- Before run 1 lime ball, then at 10am I had half a jar of overnight oats. Cacao, chia, almond, fresh strawberries, banana, almond/coconut milk, coconut.
Morning Tea- 1 peach
Lunch- 90 second bread with half an avocado, small handful of cheese and a fried egg toasted sandwich
Afternoon Tea- Nothing
Dinner-Serve of pork egg roll I had in the freezer (thank Odin!)
2 strawberry cheesecake fat bombs, advent calendar tea with 3/4 teaspoon of natvia

Exercise
1km walk, 1km run. Also I took another photo for progress this morning and put into a comparison so here we go! I'll do measurements again on the 30th day.

Day Twenty Six

Food
Breakfast- Before swim, half a jar of choco coco overnight oats.
Morning Tea- After swim had two lime balls
Lunch- Yellow peach, four strawberries. Small amount of the chilli I'd just finished making. Not too hungry at the moment for much else.
Afternoon Tea-Cup of advent calendar tea with 3/4 teaspoon Natvia. Nomatter how hard I try I just can't have herbal teas without a sweetener of some kind. Guess that's my vice!
Dinner-The rest of last night's salad (baby spinach, cucumber, cherry tomato, green goddess dressing, red onion, spring onion).

Exercise
This morning as cross training day I caught the bus to the pool at 7am for the first time, swam to one end and back 6 times over 15 minutes, got dried and dressed then caught the bus back to get home again at around 8.30am. I was in the slow lane and the old fellas were kinda amused by me because I was slower than them haha. Then we were out of milk so I walked around to Clifton to get that, too. My legs hurt now, and the pain of a new exercise will kick in later or tomorrow, I'm sure. Rest day tomorrow methinks instead of Thursday. Will run on Friday.

Today I'm going to cook up the chorizo chilli. Unfortunately I forgot I had to frozen zucchini slices defrosting on the sink yesterday instead of in the fridge so I'll have to throw them out. Really annoyed I let that happened.
1.30pm me- sweet ever loving fuck I'm tired.

EDIT wont be making that chilli again. Passata is FULL of sugar, as is tomato paste, and I just don't feel good eating that much meat per serving (which I ate too much of) I feel sick and salty and oily now. Didn't need to eat as much as I did. Also had some squares of dark chocolate because it's all I can do against running to Clifton now and getting a tub of ice cream. I ate two servings of chilli without realising and just ate like 1000 calories. I feel like I want to throw it up.

Day Twenty Five

Five more days until my first monthly measurements, and I'm nervous! What if after all the work I've put into changing my diet there are no changes? Is it realistic to expect there to be changes after a month of quitting sugar and doing regular exercise? I think so. I've had results within that time before. I'm just going to be thinking about what those measurements will be in 6 months time as I push to reach running 1km without stopping today. It doesn't matter how slow you go as long as you don't stop!

So some changes I've definitely noticed since beginning this journey-

• My breathe smells worse most of the time, although I read that this is normal when in ketosis
• My nails are fantastic! Nice and healthy and strong
• My hair has been softer and growing a little faster, I know this because the greys at the roots are longer haha 
• I haven't been consistently bloated! That's a nice thing to experience. 
• My mood swings have been minimal, and what I feel is in a normal range of daily feeling. 
• I'm more energetic (though I wish the kids would let me get more sleep in the mornings, the tiredness of waking up so early is definitely there)
• I've been feeling more comfortable to tackle things that make me nervous like finishing my TAFE enrollment and not feeling anxious about my upcoming divorce hearing.  
• I was experiencing a daily bowel movement early in the morning that was diarrhea like (also can be normal on ketosis) but these fast two days I've been a bit constipated, which probably means I don't need to keep taking my iron supplement daily. 
• Willpower is harder to keep up all day every day over a consistent period of time than I thought. I thought I'd just spring into my exercise or turn my head away from tempting foods instinctively but it still needs a daily dose of motivation. Some days are harder than others. I just tell myself that every effort will add up and it's important to keep going now to see a change later. 
• My dandruff is gone. Not sure if that's related, but it's a thing!

Food
Breakfast- Pre-run Cheese and Zucchini muffin
Half a jar of banana chia overnight oats, sugarless instant coffee
Morning Tea- nothing
Lunch- Halloumi Bake
Afternoon Tea-1 lime ball
Dinner-pork egg roll in a bowl with a garden salad and pan fried halloumi
After Dinner- Cup of advent calendar tea with 3/4 teaspoon of natvia, 2 semi-circle servings of cheesecake fat bombs.

Exercise
Did 2km walking/running today. Smashed my first 1km! BARELY. But I got there. 
Tomorrow I've made a plan to go to the town pool and do some laps. I've got to take the bus somewhere I've never taken it to, and make sure I'm on the right side of the road to catch it home, and go swimming on my own in a place I haven't been to for years. But I'm determined to try! 

Day Twenty Four

Food
Breakfast- half a jar of banana chia overnight oats
Morning tea- small capp with almond milk, a lime ball
Lunch- Pork egg roll in a bowl
Afternoon tea- a strawberry cheesecake fat bomb, another lime ball
Dinner- halloumi bake and an egg

Exercise
Walking the kids to and from daycare, might do my Fast Car dance workout this afternoon as well as try some HIIT ahead of tomorrow's run.

Scratch that, my legs need a break. They're stiff and sore and I'm so tired and cranky I just know I shouldn't push it today.

Hey my nails and skin are doing great eating this way! My nails are so strong and aren't flaking at the ends, and my skin is so much clearer.

Day Twenty Three

Food
Breakfast- Slept past breakfast
Morning Tea- Also was asleep.
Lunch- Halloumi Bake and a one of my keto strawberry cheese cake bites
Afternoon Tea- too hot to eat but will have a spinach and cheese muffin before my walk

Dinner- Cold large homemade garden salad with a veggie chicken schnitzel and light greek dressing
After dinner- Cocoa, coconut, lychee, cinnamon white tea with half a teaspoon of natvia and a cheese cake bite
Exercise
30 minute walk and 30 crunches is all the heat will allow me today.

What I'm NOT doing...
Ok, I want to take a second to add something in here about my keto diet. I don't count carbs or sugars or calories in the foods I eat. Frankly that's too much for me to be bothered with doing. I'm not sticking to a recommended food plan. Literally all I'm doing is making as much food myself as I can with approved keto recipes (I check the ingredient list, some say they're keto but sneak in an ingredient or two that's full of sugar), only eating when I actually FEEL hungry, not eating more than I need in a serve (as soon as I feel full, or that I'm starting to verge on overreating for the sake of it I've learnt to stop), and I don't bother reading any of the countless websites that exist saying what IS ok for keto diets and what isn't because they are ALL different. I suppose I'm not on a strict keto diet as such, more that I've quit sugar and most carbs, and I'm using keto recipes all while training to run 5km as personal goal. Why the running goal? Because that shifts my focus from weight loss (which I don't want to become obsessive about) to being strong and healthy. I don't feel like 5km is an unrealistic goal for me, I gave myself until my birthday in April and I'm following a 5km training plan at a very beginner level. I figure the combination of having a fitness goal and learning to eat properly (and well!) after years of relying on food to cope with emotional issues will lead to weight loss but more importantly a long term healthy lifestyle that suits me rather than a short term 'diet' that could leave me yo-yo-ing my weight (and consequently my mental health and self esteem) indefinitely.

Day Twenty Two

Food
Pre-run Cheddar Zucchini muffin

Breakfast-While getting my cheesecake bites out of the freezer I tried one, yummy! They'll make a nice summer treat. It's 9.15 and I'm having a coffee and still not hungry for breakfast of overnight oats so I'll just wait til I am. Other half jar of banana overnight oats

Morning Tea-Nothing, had brekky late
Lunch-Had a few forks of my pork egg roll in a bowl, not really hungry yet so I'll have it later. Did have it later.
Afternoon Tea-1 lime ball

Dinner-Had grilled barramundi with three prawns and creamy garlic sauce with salad at Hog's Breath.
Snuck a spinach and cheese muffin and a cheesecake bite after dinner at home

Exercise
Ran/walked 1.37km around the block twice. Magpie attacks