Week two - 90 day keto challenge

Just so we’re on the same page, it’s only week two yet it feels like I’ve been doing this FOREVER. Haha.

When the scale doesn’t cooperate

I was thrilled last week with my 3.6 lb weight loss. The haters will say it was just water weight. This week things played out a little differently and it was a good reminder of why you cannot use the scale as the only measure of your success.

Reminder, this was my covid weight loss plan

The Goal: Lose 15 lbs in 90 days by following a ketogenic diet, tracking my food intake, and moving my body. 

Diet: Keto with a high protein focus. I will track my macros every single day. I will do some intermittent fasting and extended fasting. Click here for my post on what a full day of following a keto diet looks like for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Exercise: 1,000 jumps a day with my jump rope AND a minimum of 30 minutes additional activity. Example: walking the dog, strength training at the gym, gymnastics (once restrictions lift, I’m registered for a weekly gymnastics class for adults!)

Accountability: I will share an update every week on Sunday evening, here on my blog to let you know how the week went and share a weekly weigh in. Once a month, I will update my photos and measurements with before and after comparisons..

I will be so thrilled with myself when I accomplish these 90 days. I hope you will follow along on my journey!

Click here to see my starting weight, scale metrics, and before photos.

Week Two

Tracking Macros

It’s funny how after years of tracking macros, it can still seem to be the most annoying, repetitive task that nobody really wants to do. I know I don’t really want to do it, but I do.

On Friday, I ate ‘pigs in a blanket’ from Ketolibriyum, a meal delivery company that I partner with and order food from occasionally. First time customers can get free shipping with code: ketoincanada for free shipping. I was so confused by the labelling on the packaging because it said that a serving was 79 calories. I honestly thought it was quite possible that one “pig” was 79 calories. I tracked all 10 that I ate for lunch at just under 800 calories.

I guess I can’t eat dinner tonight…I thought.

Turns out 5 of them were 79 calories (but I’m not sure I believe that either!) but I was thrilled to hear that because I could eat more food.

Tracking is about consistency. No one that tracks their food is likely all that thrilled about it. But it’s really helpful when it comes to weight loss.

Spousal Sabotage

I love my husband. He’s one of the best men you’d ever meet. He loves to help anyone and everyone and is so kind to me. But he’s not proving to be the best weight loss buddy.

Steve struggles with emotional eating. He loves to get food for entertainment and to make him feel happy in the moment. I’m the same.

When you combine the two of us together - it can be tricky to navigate because sometimes his moment of weakness can turn into him trying to convince me to go off plan.

I took the kids to the park the other day and he called wanting to know what was for dinner. Why I’m always responsible for planning dinner is beyond me (mom/wife life?). I muttered something about a salad or reheating something in the fridge when he muttered back something about Wendy’s. Lots of muttering haha.

It’s hard because in these moments after a long day of work, I’m tired. The last thing I want to do is cook a meal and yes, it would be so simple if Steve would just grab Wendy’s for the family on his way home from work.

For my own health and well-being, I need to fight against Steve’s frequent “cheat meal” suggestions, for myself and for him. Luckily, he’s just throwing out feelers and is never really adamant about eating poorly. He just wants to see if i’ll join him in the crappy indulgences.

On Saturday night I decided to go grab a cheese pizza for the kids and when I came home Steve said “I really thought you were going to break and buy pizza for us”. We cooked wings in the oven instead.

You’ll be proud to know that I stuck to my diet this week.

Discovering Pelvic Floor Issues

I shared a video last week about how attempting double unders with the jump rope caused me to pee my pants a little bit. No, this doesn’t embarrass me. I’m fully aware that many women struggle with this issue.

Honestly, I thought it had improved from when I had my son 7 years ago. I’m not sure if I just ignored the issue or wasn’t paying much attention. Suddenly I’ve realized that I have some genuine pelvic floor issues that need addressing.

I will admit I don’t know too much about my pelvic floor or how anything really works but I’m about to learn a whole lot! I have a Doctors appointment booked to get a referral to a Pelvic Floor Therapist. You don’t need a referral, but I have benefits that will cover some of the costs, so I need to sort that out first.

I thought that it was normal to have these issues after childbirth and I never really knew that something could be done to help. I’m excited to learn more and hopefully repair this issue for myself.

Exercise this week

This week has been horrible when it comes to DOMS - delayed onset muscle soreness. My body has hurt every day this week which makes it hard to want to push myself even more in the gym.

I completed my 1,000 jumps every day, yes even when I really didn’t feel like doing it.

I also picked up a new challenge to support my goal of being able to do 50 push ups in a row. It was a New Years Resolution of mine. I don’t know what it is about push ups but, it’s such a big marker of physical strength for me.

The push up program last 6 weeks and is designed to get you doing 100 push ups in a row. You can learn about the program on this web site here should you wish to set a push up goal for yourself.

Last night, I was trying to finish week 3, set 5 and actually had to play motivational, encouraging music and film a TikTok just to get myself to complete it. It’s definitely not always easy to push forward when you’re making your body so uncomfortable!

To round things up, this week I jumped rope, walked on the treadmill, walked the dog outside, strength trained and did a little yoga to help stretch out my sore muscles.

I desperately need to incorporate more stretching into my life, so I plan to make that happen this week and will report back next Sunday. I also start gymnastics this week so I’m looking forward to that.

#90ketodays - week two weigh in results

Starting weight: 161.2 lbs

Week one weigh in: 157.6 lbs

Week two weigh in: 159.2 lbs

Total weight lost this week: NONE Up 1.6 lbs

I ate on plan this week, exercised my booty off and I’m up 1.6 lbs. That’s just the way the cards fall sometimes. I didn’t think I would be reporting a weight gain this week but I’m used to the fluctuations on the scale.

My muscles are dead sore, so I could easily be retaining water. It’s the weight loss over time that I am aiming for, not overnight results.

This is only one measure of success. For me, being able to stick to my healthy eating and keep up my daily exercise is reward enough for me right now. I’m feeling really good in my body and haven’t been craving sugar.

I’m ready to take on week 3!

If you’d like to drop your covid weight you should join me!

Feel free to tag me on Social Media and use #90ketodays so I can check in on your progress! Feel free to start at any date – even if I’ve already completed this challenge.

As always, I appreciate you reading and checking in on my journey! If you have any questions that you’d like answered about these next 90 days, please leave a comment below.

Thanks!

Joanna

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