I'm pretty proud of me.  At this point, I have written on this blog more than any 1 of the many, many journals I collected as a teenager.

Went swimming today.  My arms haven't started to kill me yet, neither have my inner thighs (thank you breast stroke), so that's pretty cool.  I had a lot of other stuff to do, but I still managed to do 25 laps.  I'm shooting for 32 next time :).

I'm officially at 280 lbs, just about to move the 10's digit down for the first time in this new dietary lifestyle- that's pretty exciting.

Yesterday I made costco chicken bakes at home for the boys, and used the Fat Head Pizza crust base for the base/breadding for mine.  I had enough for 2 chicken bakes, and had the other one for dinner tonight while the boys had pizza.  Also, green beans.  Green beans are amazing.

I don't think I've mentioned "the boys" before.  I live with my boyfriend of 10 years and his younger brother (doggie supervisor while I'm in class and the boyfriend is at work).  

Still haven't cheated since the first, disasterous cheat day.  I'm starting to come out of the keto fog I think, energy is starting to come back, and I'm definitely losing weight.

Later guys!

Swimming, swimming, swimming

I've got to admit- I'm kinda proud of me.

I went swimming!  And it was fun! AND- I was bummed to leave.  My poor boyfriend decided swimming with an ear infection was a good idea, and after his initial set of strokes, he got a shit ton of water behind the ear, had some bad vertigo, and general pain.  He held in there, and did some head up swimming (eeeew), but eventually he needed to go.  I only ended up swimming for about half an hour or so, but it was fun, and when I wasn't able to make it yesterday, I was genuinely bummed.

It's on the schedule for Thursday, and I'm super psyched!

Additionally- down like 8 lbs! Wewt!  My biggest slip up this week was drinking a "superdrink" of my boyfriends, and it had like 36 carbs in the whole bottle- luckily I broke it up over like 4 days.  Still, it's a silly place to use up my carbs..I'd rather save it for alcohol.  :D  I'm a grad student, I'm allowed.

I made some keto naan bread that is based on the "whoopsie" bread recipe...it was okay.  It was chewy, and a bit too dense to be naan.  I had it with a slow cooker chicken tikka (I totally cheated and used Trader Joe's masala simmer sauce, instead of my full-blow homemade sauce, marinated chicken), it was okaaaaaay.  My full blown version is way better, but, again.  I'm a grad student, I didn't have time to cook.  I also had cauliflower rice, sauted in some butter, I think that was the best part.

Have a fabulous day, folks!

I told ya!

So...I was totally right.

If I remember properly, I dicked around on the computer and did not go for my walk.  I didn't go for many walks this summer.  My bestest buddy boy, Captain (my 2 year old Golden Retriever), ended up having surgery this summer, and was laid up...and I was honestly pretty freaking lazy.

It ended up being a really...weird summer, but I'm super excited that class has started up again.  I used a pre-quarter trip home to California as a reset on some diet and exercise habits, and I am excited to come back to my blog...of 1 post.  :)

So, I have restarted my ketogenic diet- no carbs for me.  At this point, I'm 2 weeks in, and had 1 slip day...it was not a pretty evening, and I have no desire to go back to carbs at this point.  Of course I say this now.  About an hour ago I had a massive craving for sourdough toast with butter.

One nice thing about going back to the keto diet is a renewed interest in bone broths.  I've made 2 batches of beef broth, and currently have chicken stock going in the slow cooker.  The soup, the soup!  It's soooo good!  Last week I made a low-carb zuppa toscana with my homemade beef broth as a base, YUM!

So, my starting weight was 290...and I'm down to 285.  One day at a time.

Speaking of one day!  The boyfriend and I joined a new gym today, complete with a year round pool. One day, a long time ago I was a swimmer.  Swimming is awesome, I like swimming, sometimes I bitch and moan about swimming.  Also looking forward to the weights.  I have a personal trainer meeting tomorrow, I'll let you know how it goes.