Talking with my good buddy Jack today at the office, and I'm fairly certain he said "Are you insane woman", or maybe he was saying that with the look he gave me...it was hard to tell, when I said that I was eating extremely low calories in addition to low carbs this week to jump start my body after a week of poor eating due to a tooth ache/root canal. I put back on several pounds, which I'm not happy about!
Now some may think that if you have a toothache you really don't eat...and sometimes that happens. I know I barely ate anything one particular day BUT a girl has to eat, and so eat I did...it was just all mushy! Not a dam bit of it was good for me either.
By the time I had my root canal on Wednesday, I wanted to gnaw someone's arm off for real food that I could chew! I stopped at Popeye's on the way home and got chicken tenders, rice & beans, mashed potatoes with that awesome spicy gravy and a biscuit. Yes, I had to chew a little bit but not too much. Most of this was super easy to eat after that root canal. I was feeling no pain!
I started this morning back on track and am doing fairly well. It's after 3:30 PM and I've only had 200 calories and 4 net carbs so far today. I honestly feel pretty good and am not really that hungry. I've drank a lot, A LOT, of water today. Which I know I should be drinking any way.
There are all these little birdies chirping in my ear right now saying "you need to eat more than that", "what you are doing isn't healthy", etc etc etc, blah blah blah.
I KNOW! BUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTT, I need to reset myself and this is the one way that I know to do it. SOOOO, I'm going to eat 20 carbs or less a day and 500 calories per day for a week, then increase my calorie intake to 600 calories per day for a week sticking with the 20 carbs or less per day, until I reach 1000 calories per day. I feel like that was WAAAAYYY to long of a sentence...anyone tired?
It will take about five weeks to complete this, but by that time I should be fully acclimated into the program and should be done all the crankiness. So I think everyone should think positively, stay out of my way, and look forward to June 22nd when I will be at 1000 calories each day. Just a forewarning that Kranky Karen may be upon us very very soon!
The thought process behind this crazy woman's madness....I don't really know that there is a true thought process. HA HA HA HA! See, I can laugh with everyone!
Seriously, I've done the 500 calories a day for several months before when I was on the hCG diet. Now, I was on hCG injections during that time, which were supposed to curb my appetite. I think they helped, but there were definitely days where I was S T A R V I N G!!!!!!!!!! So I figured if I can do that for months with injections, why can't I do it for a week without injections.
The key here is making sure that my blood sugars stay in check and that I don't fall off the wagon again. I need to get off this roller coaster. It's hard!
Of course, I went to my trusty, and oh so fun, Excel skills! I combined my "Weight and BMI Tracking" spreadsheet, with my "hCG Diet" spreadsheet to create something new and improved!
I have graphs, a menu that keeps track of calories and carbs, checks off when I ate what I had planned, tells me if I'm under, over or right on track with my calories/carbs.
It's super duber cool if I do say so myself! I'll definitely be tweaking it as the days go on to ensure I have everything correct and to my liking. I actually enjoy this far more than I do MFP or any other app. I'm thinking that has something to do with me being a spreadsheet junkie.
I also think that since it is going to be extremely crazy for the Bown Family over the next few weeks it was a good time to not think about eating too much. AGAIN, I can laugh with everyone!
It will be difficult to find foods that are low in calories and carbs. It's going to be very very interesting but I'm going to put forth the effort! Is it wrong that I just had the image of an uncrustable float into my head?
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