189.8 lbs!!!! (8:30am)

Just crazy to be under 190. =)

191.0 (9:30am)

I am getting really close to the 180s!!! I have been pretty strict with myself the last 3 days because mentally I am sooo ready to be under 190.

That's a picture of the raw pumpkin seed, flax, wheat bran, protein powder, desiccated coconut, blackberry "faux" oatmeal I've been making for breakfast. YUM!

193.8 (9am)

I can wear my Gap 14R jeans now comfortably. The Levi's 555 size 15s are starting to be a tad too loose. Weight loss has slowed down a lot (I am eating more calories than I was a couple months ago), but my skin is rebounding better than I hoped in a lot of areas. I am still hoping my stomach will get better, but I am super happy so far with my progress.

This morning I made some great faux oatmeal with 10 grams golden flax meal, 10 grams raw pumpkin seeds, 13 grams low carb protein powder, 10 grams wheat bran, 10 grams unsweetened coconut and 29 grams frozen blackberries. Oh yeah, and a pinch of cinnamon and a tiny bit of liquid splenda. It was really good. I will have it again in the future.

194.4 (9am)

I continue to plug along this is the 3rd day that I have been at this weight. Once about a week ago and then also yesterday... so I think I can finally say that I am below 195. :) That feels good. When I hit 192.3 it will be a weight I haven't seen since 2002. That will be weird. So my mini focus is getting down to that. In 2001-2002 I got down to 163 from 195ish. I imagine that it will be very difficult for me to get below 163 (if I even can). I am going to try pretty hard to get pretty low though. Supposedly it might help my skin situation. If I get low enough, my skin on my stomach should get thin and lose it's excess subcutaneous fat. It has gotten better there, but it surely will never look as good as it used to. Hopefully, by getting to quite a low weight I can eliminate any of that squidgy stomach thing that some people never get beyond.

I had about 3/8 of a Gala apple last night (3.70 oz to be exact). It was so delicious. Apples are one of the biggest things I miss since eating low carb. That small amount of apple contained almost 15 grams of carbs, so there just isn't a way to normally eat them without knocking myself out of ketosis. I think they can be a partial apple sometimes food though maybe.

198.2 (8am)

The last 2 days I have eaten a little over 3 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate chips each evening. I think I may be out of ketosis? My weight is up about 1.5 lbs today. I am going to be really strict for the coming month (today is October 1st!) and see if I can't get down to 185. That would be a solid size 14. I am comfortably in my size 16 levi's (555s) today. I have been wearing them every day for over a week now. I am afraid to wash them though! So maybe not "comfortably". They will probably be a little tight for a couple hours if I wash them. My plan for the month of October is to average 720 (which is what I did for a long time in August). Same macros as usual. In fact, I am going to go back at fitday and blogger to see what exactly I was doing, as it was working quite well, and weight-loss has REALLY slowed down for me lately. (My calories have been up, even on days when I was sticking to my target macros).