Day 1 Lunch
Still full from brekkie. Lunch was at 1.30pm. Had a tablespoon of kangkung fried with garlic, some grilled salmon with salt and pepper, a spoonful taufu and a plate of garden veg soup with minced pork.
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Day 2 - Dreaming of Food
Woke up with all sorts of food in my mind to eat as CNY is just round the corner. Last night I Googled up keto-friendly bak kwa and meat floss. This morning saw a post on keto salted egg cookies. Wish I can have them now... but will see if I can make some later. What I'm actually craving for now is a bowl of yummy hokkien mee. Yikes... its only Day 2 🙈🙈🙈
Restart Again, Again...
I think today is the most official restart ever. Started with a mini Brie with hot choc made with hot choc, erythriol and whipped cream. Lunch was a bowl of leftover soup with veg and 2 pork ribs. Dinner was roasted chicken leg with an additional 2 tbs of leftover fats. Had cravings so took a small spoonful of leftover homemade ganache consists of 55% choc callets, whipping cream, butter and a pinch of salt. Made these to make truffles for friends but now I know that they can be keto friendly if I sub the callets to a darker one. Ended the day with 1 min plank, 10 pish-ups, 20 triceps dips, 20 squats and a 7 min flexibility stretch routine on YouTube. Gotta keep this up!! Aiming to reduce some weight by CNY2022 which is less than 3 weeks away.
Carb Count - Whipping Cream and Blueberries
Breaking fast at 12.05pm with 40g blueberries (5.8g carb) Coffee with 2 tbs whipping cream (3g carb) No carbs for 1 cup of coffee. Yay!! However, I do feel that I'm extremely tired when I go without coffee these days. Not sure if it's the brand of coffee (Lunarfall) or the lack of sleep is causing it. After coffee, I usually perk up. My cousin bought us a bag of robusta and arabica beans each locally roasted in Ipoh. The robusta is pretty good. Very fragrant. Might wanna cut down on coffee later too.
Yikes.. It's already a week later!
Time flies when you are having fun. Time also flies when you are trying to stay healthy but fail miserably. The past week, I tried avoiding carb. But we went back to Ipoh. Well, I still tried avoiding but I had a lot more carb than I should. Tried some Ipoh goodies like dai kau meen (twice!) famous kaya kok and peanut candy, ice-cream from Inside Scoop while celebrating Daddy's beearlied birthday, and had sauces with the roasted duck and Big Tree's turnip yong tao foo. No chance for dimsum this trip. A blessing? Weight this morning is 59. I don't think it's cause of keto but more of conscientious eating. Well, we are back. Let's continue the journey again.
Let's Start from the Very Beginning
That would be a very good place to start. Even though I've done this before... 2 years.. or was it 3?, ago... So I've been on keto, got into great shape and lost it due to the pandemic which needed me to commit to a lot more work working from home. On top of that, my weighing scale broke down so I had no idea how much inflated I was. Till recently, I've decided to reinvest in another scale and to my horror, I'm back to square one. I know I've been back to my old unhealthy lifestyle of unhealthy eating, lack of exercise and late nights. Grr.. why is it so difficult to live a healthy lifetlstyle and so easy to go back on the dark side??? Anyway, I've had enough and shall embark on keto again to shed off the excess. Get my derierre back in shape too and rid those puffy panda eyes. Easier said than done... but not impossible. This diary will be my accountability partner for now. I've given back most of what I know about keto and will need to start researchin...