The Spring Low Carb Challenge just kicked off this month. You can still join us if you haven’t already! 🙂 You can get all the details on the low carb challenge page.
Today is our Week Three Weigh In, so it’s time to check in and share your total number of pounds and/or inches lost since Monday April 3rd!;)
My weight continues to fluctuate a bit, but with an overall downward trend. I’m not sweating it… except to “sweat it out” with as much exercise as I can.;)
I had a very full weekend between work, friends & social outings – so my meals weren’t the greatest…
Still, I made the better of any bad choices available. 🙂
Here’s a quick photo tour of everything I ate over the weekend, plus my MyFitnessPal food diaries for both Saturday and Sunday so you can see how I logged those meals.
Saturday’s Low Carb Meals
My low carb breakfast on Saturday… was delicious. 🙂 lol
I had the Coco Polo Hazelnut Chocolate Bar plus an ounce of Pili Nuts. Coco Polo bars are the BEST sugar free chocolate!!
You can see the ingredients, nutrition facts, and the variety of flavors here.
Pili Nuts are AMAZING, wild harvested, and incredibly nutrient dense – PLUS super low carb! Go to http://www.EatPiliNuts.com to learn more about them – and use code LOWCARBTRAVELER (all caps) to get a special discount. 😉
For lunch I had to grab something on the go…
My girl friend and I headed out of town to go dancing, so we stopped by McDonald’s and I got “3 sausage patties and 3 round fried eggs please.”
Quick & easy, and filling. 🙂
I danced the night away (in 5″ heels!) that night, with my favorite low carb beer: Michelob Ultra. It’s 2.6 carbs per 12 ounce bottle, and my preference of low carb beers. Of course I drank way too many of them. 😛
I got in a great workout at least, and well over 10,000 Fitbit steps!
Here’s my MyFitnessPal Food Diary for Saturday:
Net Carbs: 28 (oops!)
Total Carbs: 42
Calories: 1827
Protein: 66 grams
79% Fat / 15% Protein
Fitbit Steps: 11,234 (yay!)
Water: 32 ounces
Sunday’s Low Carb Meals
Caroline and I stayed over and our hotel offered a free breakfast – which was very limited. So I just raided the condiment rack 🙂 and ate cream cheese & peanut butter. Enough to get by anyway, until we got home and I could make lunch.
My healthy low carb lunch was my favorite “low carb cereal.” It’s 1/2 cup pecans, 1/4 cup Daisy Cottage Cheese & 4 small strawberries. (5 net carbs & 85% healthy fat)
We went back out last night to meet up with one of her friends for dinner, at the El Tapatio Mexican Restaurant. I ordered a Taco Salad with both grilled chicken and grilled shrimp, and avocado instead of guacamole – and ate everything but the shell.
That was delicious! 🙂
Here’s proof – I cleaned my plate and left the shell, lol:
Here’s my MyFitnessPal Food Diary for Sunday:
Macronutrients: Simple Explanation Of Low Carb Macros
How To Get A Net Carbs Column in MyFitnessPal
Net Carbs: 22
Total Carbs: 34
Calories: 1500
Protein: 62 grams
77% Fat / 17% Protein
Fitbit Steps: 6,182
Water: 32 ounces
These were my dancing Fitbit steps (before AND after midnight) on Saturday night. 🙂 It was a GREAT workout, especially in 5″ heels lol. A great time “sweating it out” – and my hips are STILL sore from all that dancing.;)
Did you get your exercise this weekend??
For the week ahead I’m planning to do some heavy work around the house, and also hike at least once – if not twice. My goal is to KEEP MOVING as much as possible! And of course stay on track eating low carb, and making healthy choices for my meals this week.
How are things going for you?
Don’t forget to weigh in, either here (just leave a comment below) or weigh-in in our private facebook group here.
Questions, comments – or struggling with anything?
Leave a comment & let’s talk. 🙂
Best,
Lynn Terry,
aka @LowCarbTraveler
Discount Code: LOWCARBTRAVELER
I seem to be struggling terribly, I thought I’d been doing so well! Do you use a food scale? And I’m thinking of lowering my dairy intake, I’ve only lost 2 lbs in three weeks! Maybe more cardio?
Hi Michelle,
How are you tracking your macros, and what are they usually?
I do use a food scale. π This is the one I use: http://amzn.to/2pR0vz6 It’s small, convenient, inexpensive, and even comes in cool colors!
Was on vacation with the hubby and gained 0.5 lbs. back at 170. Working that off this week!!
How’s it going this week, TT? π
Thanks so much for checking in! I lost 1.5 pounds last week @ 168.5.
Really appreciate the accountability. Focusing on water and getting more active to see greater weaight loss.
Awesome, I’m so glad to hear things are going well! π