Day 9 It starts here. (the blog posts)

I'm starting this a week and a day in. I'm doing the "low carb" diet. I'm letting you follow me through my journey. I hope it's fun. So far, so good.

I officially started this March 27. I watched a documentary on Netflix called Fat Head (thank you Barbara, you've changed my life). Basically...we American's are being lied to. So I'm changing my habits. Now these next couple of weeks are extreme and I'm not planning on continuing this long term, I'm just getting a jump start. Am I going to eat carbs again? Yes. I just won't be making cinnamon rolls on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and sometimes Saturdays and eating 4-5 each (hehe, yum). Maybe once a month...but not for awhile now.

Last week my diet consisted of as much protein as I could possibly stuff in my face and to keep my carbs under 50 grams. I did pretty well, with one "slacker day" on Sunday. That wasn't worth it.

Friday I was excited and decided to take a peek at the scale. Down 4lbs! --This was after budging for MONTHS of just simply "counting calories" and working out....that worked for me in the past, but wasn't working as of lately. Frustrating indeed. I also measured my waist...down 2 1/2 inches? YES! So I'm feeling pretty good.

I have a hard time with mornings. I like waking up early when I have no reason to. But to get up to go to work? I'm a dark cloud of thunder, just don't talk to me. But the past week, I've been in such a good mood, it's really weird. I think carbs are detrimental to my mental health.

Aside from needing a few teaspoons of Metamucil every couple of days, I feel great! Better than I have in years!

This new week, I've decided to take it up a notch. After talking to a coworker and reading a LOT about this, I've decided to go extreme these next 2 weeks (minimum) and keep my carbs as low as I possibly can...10 max if I can help it. I figure last week was a breeze, I can do even better!

My goal here. To get the government to stop calling me overweight. They stopped calling me obese last Friday. So I'm on the right track!

(FTR that was a joke, I could care less about BMI).

So here we go!