Crazy February!

I cannot believe February is almost over!  What a crazy month for me!  Work especially… long hours, long spans between days off, stressful audit, but I survived!  Successfully passed a government audit putting my company in great position to increase our revenue by a substantial amount.  For 2 weeks, work and sleep became my priority.  I was not able to get in much exercise at all and my eating… very odd.  I found it difficult to eat.  Mainly because I was so busy, but for several days I would not eat anything until 2pm.  Just didn’t have much of an appetite.  Also, this did not allow me to prepare any meal plans, so I often found myself grabbing whatever low carb item I could find.

 

I did have my Carb Nite on Thursdays throughout Feb, but I’ve been finding I’m not really enjoying it as much as I thought.  The first two were fine, but now I’m finding myself feeling ‘hung over’ on Fridays and it’s getting more difficult to get back into Nutritional Ketosis.  After the 3^rd week, I could not get back into ketosis at all.  For the first time in 9 months I actually saw the scale go up 2 lbs!  Freaked me out!  I know the stress at work has contributed and not tracking has allowed me to carb creep.  My 4^th Carb Nite was last Thursday.   I had breadsticks, pizza, and ice cream and felt so sick going to bed.   So much for just eating real food.  It’s hard to believe I used to be able to eat like this and not feel sick.  I felt hot, which is a common side effect, and then I woke up in a fog.  I did not feel like eating at all, but forced myself to take in some protein and fat throughout the day.  I started to track again and after 3 days of <25 carb grams a day, I am back in ketosis!  Oh how I’ve missed you.  Some people get obsessed over the scale, but I’m finding I’m obsessing over the keto sticks and glucometer.  I just like the feeling of being in ketosis.    To me I feel more in control.  OK, maybe that’s something I will need to work on down the line. 

 

So I’m gonna switch it up a bit and not have Carb Nite every week.  I’m going to schedule them around my fitness events.  I’ve got a 5K this Saturday and then a Tri on 3/24.  I’m also going back to the idea of Carb Nite with real food like banana’s, potatoes, beans, popcorn..   I just can’t stomach grains anymore.  Who was I kidding?