I hate this weather!  Yesterday in my house it was 93 and in the one room with a portable AC, it was like 86.  I did not spend my time in there because it feels like a prison.  Thankfully I tolerate heat moderately well with a fan and no movement so I spent my day doing exactly that and watching new movies.  By the end of the day, I was done with being hot and I was happy to go into the AC for a mildly good night sleep albeit not great.  Anyway, this weather makes me not want to go to the gym because everyone and their brother will be there which is not fun.  I don’t even want to move.   The best I can do right now is ride my bike here at the house, run if it’s cooler or I take a walk.

Eating in the summer is awful for me because I don’t want to move but I still like eating.  Fruit on Keto is not good but in 100 degrees all I want is fruit.  Keeping hydrated when you’re hot naturally includes water but when you see a slab of Watermelon sitting in your fridge, before you know it you’ve horked it down like a slob!  It tastes oh so good but there go 40 carbs with ONE THING when you only get 20 for the day!  Grapes are out of the question too not to mention the 12 carbs I consumed with the Nectarine I ate after dinner and well then there was the 92 carb S’mores Blizzard from DQ (that was just my half) that I shared with my husband because it’s just so hot.  so in those three snacks alone, I ate 144 carbs which is AN ENTIRE WEEK’S ALLOTMENT!  Fuck You Summer!  So let us look at this clearly.  My workouts are fewer, my eating has hit Summer mode which all adds up to why my gut is getting bigger and the scale and I are no longer talking.  So not happy.  I have to get myself under control.  I’m headed in the opposite direction of my “50-year-old, in the greatest shape of my life” that I had set for myself.  UGG I’m so disappointed in myself, to say the least.  Today is a new day and no better time to start over than today.

It seems that since I was already doing accidental Keto in part that I must step it up a notch to get rid of the 20# to get to my goal weight.  I must be more vigilant to stay at least at 20 Net Carbs for the day rather than losing traction at night which is my worst time of the day for staying on track.  I see all these people in the groups I follow losing crazy weight and doing no exercise.  I do at least something 4-6 days a week, eat far fewer carbs now than I was doing a few months ago and still my weight does NOT move outside of the 5lb flux I am stuck in!  Today I am just so frustrated with being stuck.  I don’t want to give up everything like the Splenda in my coffee every day.  I think life is short and I should enjoy it without feeling like a prisoner to my diet.  Why is this not working for me?  Is it me?  I can tell you that I am NOT interested in going crazy weight lifting.  I’m older and things hurt regularly not to mention I get far more tired from a hard workout now than I ever did.  I am 50 and will never look like the picture in my head which is ok but I feel like I could look better.  I guess I’ll have a “One day at a time and patience” sandwich for lunch, please.

My Vacation was a killer and I don’t mean in a good way.  Don’t get me wrong, I had a great vacation but I had no workouts for a week so it killed my momentum! Not one workout in a week.  I guess every once in a while that is a good thing to completely rest your body but what it does to your motivation to workout is terrible!  I’m now convincing myself to workout as in run/bike or walk only.  All these things are good but I need to get back to weight training.  I know how important it is to stay strong and running, biking and walking ain’t going to get me there sister!  I have no desire to go to the gym because the weather is just too nice to be inside with the masses there.  I’m just finding it hard to get back on track.  I was so motivated to hit and be in the best shape of my life but that dissipated to not being completely out of shape.  NOT where I want to be at all!  Part of me is afraid to start weights again because of the chest pain issue.  Those episodes went away when I stopped weight lifting although I had 2 while on vacation so it can’t be entirely due to weights, still, I am hesitant to pick them up again.  This is probably why I switch gears every day to just run, bike or walk.  The big question is how do I build strength while not overdoing it?  Can you strengthen and tone with just bodyweight?  I guess the only way to find that out is to do SOMETHING over my nothing of late.  So there is my current conundrum to which I need to find a solution.  It feels more challenging than it probably is

I did some reading up on what lazy keto is and I am definitely doing it.  Basically, all you do is count carbs every day and stay within your allotment and that’s it.  Strict Keto is the kind where you are also staying within your calorie counts.  This is NOT for me because I always find that I hit a wall with carbs but all those luscious calories that I’m supposed to have are just dangling out there in the wind teasing me that I can’t have them.  Dirty Keto involves processed foods and I’m not a fan of those so Lazy it is!    I am sick of eggs for breakfast but I sort of enjoy almond flour keto pancakes with blueberries in them.  They’re powdery for sure but the blueberries help lessen the desert sand effect a bit.

With LK, I am down 2.5 lbs and I have done very little working out.  It must be working because short of doing zero fitness I am putting in the bare minimum effort these days.  I haven’t seen 170 in many months and today the scale said 170.8 which I consider a victory.  My goal weight is 150 and somewhere inside I wonder if it’s possible to get there JUST eating keto and doing little workouts and walking here and there.  I guess we’ll see.

So there you have it!  The only time you’ll EVER hear me use the word Lazy when referring to myself.

I started lifting weights last summer and did an on and off throughout the Fall following Pauline Nordin’s Fighter Diet for quite some time.  After the turn of the new year, I did weight lifting freelance on my own plan and was faithfully committed to my made-up routine of heavy weights and a planned routine 6 days a week.  Then I started having issues with chest pain and as it turns out, as my husband predicted and the doctor confirmed, I have a muscular skeletal problem that is exacerbated with heavy weight lifting. Once I stopped, the pain went away.  Crap!  So I haven’t done weights in a while but something that happened yesterday made me decide to go back to weight lifting in moderation.

Laying in bed yesterday early morning, my husband had a total back spasm.  His entire back seized up causing him great discomfort.  He doesn’t lift weights and he runs here and there but he doesn’t have a regular fitness routine like I do.  Sometimes he will do a Body Pump video but that only lasts a week or so and then he allows himself to get busy with other things.  I know as we age, our bodies get more and more feeble and break down and get weak.  I believe if he did some weight lifting it would strengthen him up and things like a back seizure would not happen.   I for one am NOT going to lay down and watch life kick my butt and whittle me down to nothing and be a weakling.  I feel that I need to get back to lifting to stay as strong as possible.  I did arms yesterday and then rode the bike for 30 minutes and felt really good.  Time to start re-working my daily fitness.