Weight Loss Journey: Weeks 2-4

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Thanks for joining me on my weight loss journey. Today I’m sharing my insights, tips, and changes that I’m making now that I am in weeks 2 through 4.

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Ok friends, here we go: sharing my weight loss journey with you all during the second 2 weeks in January. Things are off to a good start! (Keep reading to see how much I’ve actually lost so far!) I have stayed consistent with working out 5 to 6 days a week and sticking with the keto diet pretty regularly. So, I’m doing something right! There are a few shifts that I have made starting this week, as well a few concerns that I’m going to outline with you all today.

I did have a moment last week where I was just finishing working out and Branden got home from school and came to see what I was doing. Without thinking he made one of those boyish comments without actually thinking it through and then stopped mid-sentence, but the damage was already done. He said: “mom, I don’t understand how you’re always working out and eating so differently than we do, but don’t lose much weight.”

Um, yikes. But I took a deep breath and actually took what he said to heart, not in a bad way, but as a wake-up call. Things need to be done differently this time around. I am finally going to do something that I’ve been meaning to do for way too long: get my thyroid checked. I’m well aware that I’m getting older, but it doesn’t seem right that I can put all the effort that I can into my health and not see much of a difference. This isn’t anything new and has been going on for quite some time, but I’ve always blamed it on lack of consistency.

Also going hand in hand with that, and this might be a little TMI, but I’m going there: I got my period twice in Janaury. I’ve been for the last year and a half getting them very close together, so there are definitely extra hormones running through my body.

Anyways….that’s my first takeaway.

Overall, here are a few more updates:

I’m starting to finally track my calories and daily macros in my carb manager app.
I am taking my exogenous ketones almost daily and I truly feel like they are the key that has unlocked my body to finally losing weight. I’m going to do one big post coming up comparing a few different brands and explaining them more, but if you are interested in trying out my favorite brand CLICK HERE.
I’m working out on average, 6 days per week, alternating between doing this barre workout (I switched it up to a 45 minute one from the last post) and a treadmill and free weights workout. This helps me work on targeted areas of my body without being bored. Sometimes Blake even joins in! And I can already feel myself getting stronger and be able to push through in ways that I just couldn’t two weeks ago. That’s a huge win to me.
I am still intermittent fasting (16/8 method) and drinking at least 100oz of water per day.
I am really, really trying to practice more self love and using this self love checklist to remind myself that I am a work in progress and that each day I am working towards a bigger goal.
I am still as strict as I can possibly be about only weighing myself once a week since I know that the scale fluctuates so much. I am also going to start finally taking measurements of myself since I know that with the keto diet it’s so much more about inches lost than anything, so I’m going to commit to paying more attention to that.