Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Ready or Not...

     Today starts my adventure into the world of ketogenic eating. It was suggested that I look 8nto it by my trainer and I found a good, in depth 30 day meal plan so it's now or never. For those not familiar with it, ketogenic eating is about keeping carbohydrate intake to between 20g and 30g daily. This means your body doesn't have glycogen to use for fuel so it switches to using fat as its main fuel source. I'm hoping this will help propel me over the hump I seemed to have hit. After reading about it though and about something called carbohydrate intolerance,  I'm thinking some of my minor health issues may benefit as well. 
     Although they're not very interesting, I'll be blogging about my daily food intake with pictures where I can. It helps keep me on track. I wouldn't take my counts as exactly on the nose, dome things I've had to guesstimate, but they get me close enough. So without further ado, here's today's eats (so far)
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Coffee w/ 1/2 & 1/2:
42.3 calories
3g fat
1g carbs 
1.4g protein

Breakfast: 4 scrambled eggs with 1c spinach, 2 tbs cheddar cheese:
1326 calories
88.2g fat
10.88g carbs
108.1g protein

Lunch: 2c spinach, 1 can solid white tuna, 1tbs parmesan cheese, 2 tbs ranch dressing:
292 calories
27.4g fat
4.2g carbs
31.9g protein
Something I found interesting and upsetting at the same time was a soup that I had in my desk. I keep it there in case of "emergencies". The amount of carbs in it would be all that I need for the day. It's ridiculous, really, when you start looking at where carbs are hidden in plain sight. 

It's going to be a challenge and test of my will but I really want this. I want to excel and I think this will help me. Ready or not, here I go....


ADDENDUM :
Dinner was inside out bacon cheeseburgers with cheesy cauliflower. 
677.6 calories
52.4g fat
4.4g carbs 
45.7g protein 
That gives me the following totals for the day:
2337.9 calories
171g fat
20.48g carbs
187.1g protein
I don't have my macro sheet right in front of me but I'm pretty sure all of those, except the carbs, are too high. It was, however, a training day so they should be a bit higher, but I think I'm way off. I'm definitely still in the tweaking stages of this so I'm not going to get super analytical about it right now. I'm just happy that I hit the mark with the damn carbs!
I'm tired....time for bed.


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