Here's where I ended up yesterday:
Breakfast- BPC made with my monk coffee, 3 eggs scrambled in 1/2 tbsp each butter and bacon drippings, 1 sausage patty
Lunch- 3 Publix hot n spicy unbreaded wings, 10 green olives, 1 cup Italian blend salad mixed with 1 cup spring mix, 1 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese, 2 tbsp ranch
Dinner- 1 serving Chicken and Bacon Crockpot Chowder, 1 cup broccoli with 1 tbsp Kerrygold unsalted butter, plus salt and pepper to taste
Water count- 152.1 fl oz
Things I'm noticing right now:
My constant fatigue seems to have genuinely melted away within the last two weeks or so. I am not a morning person. At. All. And yet I've woken up at a relatively early hour every morning for the past week, on my own without any alarm, and am not groggy and have no sleepiness at what was my usual nap time. Not that I took a nap, mind you. It was just the time every day that the tiredness had built up so much that I was irritable and desperately in need of one.
I have read this is a sign of keto-adaptation, aka nutritional ketosis.
I'm also continuing to do really well without snacks. I'm eating breakfast somewhere between 9:30 and 10 am, am satisfied until somewhere between 2:30 and 3:30 pm at which point I will make myself a good sized lunch, and a, not hungry again until some time close to 8 pm or after. This is all new to me. Previously I ate as soon as I awoke or else I was hangry, and I was pretty hungry again soon after although I did always try to make it to noon without a snack. Lunch was promptly at noon and I was hungry again in less than two hours, so I would snack between 2 and 3 pm. Dinner was promptly at 6 pm and I was starving, and usually shaking from it by that point, and I always had a snack later because I was hungry again.
So, as you can see, this is a big change in not only my behavior by also my physiological response, and is a huge improvement in my lifestyle. Hunger is not interfering with living. What a freeing feeling that is!
Until tomorrow, KOKO my babies!
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