Kat's Health Journey

Welcome to the world of living with anxiety and hypochondria.  I am losing weight, and not even trying hard. (I know, I suck.) I am not depriving myself at all. Mind you, I still am aware of carbs and try to have low carb options when I can. But I have a munchkin or 2 (or 5...) when I feel like it. I have my regular sugary coffee (although with 1 pump instead of the normal 3). I eat bread in a limited amount. I have some mac n cheese when I feel like it. I rarely settle for salads anymore because, well, I don't like them. For a month, I stayed the same. I am now losing weight more than I was when I was trying. And it must mean I have some sort of cancer or illness that I am unaware of because it cannot just be this simple. The only changes I can think of are cutting out the Atkins snacks, which are higher in carb than they advertise. I also am not consuming as much synthetic sweetener. Instead of having Sweet N' Low in my coffee, I have a single pump of the real stuff. I...

I have no excuse for not writing regularly. It seems like I’m either not busy enough and don’t have anything to say or I have so much going on that it gets overwhelming and I have no time to write.  I guess I’ll start with my current schedule. I am now working one of the Shires at the draft barn along with a friend of mine, and we are going to be riding in the Equine Affaire! For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s a horse festival located in West Springfield, MA. Pretty much every horse person I know goes there. I am riding in the Shire breed demo. We just found out last week and poor Quinn is so not in shape. He has such a long mane that we finally untangled and now he looks like Fabio. I, however, call him Fattio. He’s a good boy. So different than Seamus, where he’d rather stand there and not move. He hasn't been in full work for a while and first time sitting on him, we had no fireworks. So we have about 3 weeks to get them in shape for New England to see. We won...

It's been a while, friends. There hasn't been much happening in the diet department. I've been staying relatively the same weight-wise but dropping back into bad habits of eating and I need to get that fire under my ass like I had before. Breakfast: 1/2 cup almonds: 6g net carbs 1 cup whole fat Greek Fage Yogurt: 8g net carbs Berries: ~10g net carbs Snacks: 2 Mini Kind bars: 9g net carbs 2 cups Boom Chicka Pop kettle corn: 19g net carbs Lunch: Omelette: ~5g net carbs 2 pieces of whole wheat toast: ~22g net carbs So, so far today I had a total of 79g of net carbs. My goal is to stay between 100 and 150g net carbs per day. My weight has been ranging from 225-229 within the span of a day, so it's so hard for me to judge where I am at. I might need to invest in a better, more reliable scale because it's been giving me issues lately. It is now later tonight (9:37) and I'm waiting for my dinner of cauliflower pizza to cool enough to eat. I had a coup...