July 3rd 2015, Friday ~Homemade DoubleDown Recipe~

Can you believe I can eat this and still lose 15kg in 3 months?! 

I hit my 3 month ketoversary on the first of July and I felt like I'd hit a bit of a funk. So this week I've been putting more effort into making my meals and snacks new and exciting as you will have seen with my mushroom recipe earlier this week.

Today it is the incredible KFC DoubleDown Keto version. All you need is chicken, bacon, cheddar, avocado and a little bit of salt and pepper to taste. I have never tasted something so magnificently satisfying!

I only have one stove top so I whipped out my bacon first and fried it up then left the remaining grease to fry my chicken bun in (a chicken breast sliced in half). 

Once that's done cooking you just need to put it all together with some avocado and cheddar; stand back, take a picture or two and delve into that fat filled meal.

I didn't have any sides with mine (a couple of months of no lunches and small breakfasts makes for a very small stomach) but I'm sure a simple salad would go wonderfully alongside your meaty burger.

Give it a go and let me know what you think! You could add some extra ingredients like some mushrooms in there or a lettuce wrap on the outside. Maybe I'll give that a go next time.

I wonder what my next exciting keto discovery will be!

June 29th 2015, Monday ~Mushroom Pizza Recipe~

Ohoho I have stumbled upon a delicious keto treat! Low carb, vegetarian (if you choose), perfect to make with any leftovers.

MUSHROOM PIZZA

Mushroom pizza! Smells so damn good!

A video posted by Clare (@whatsheepdo) on Jun 29, 2015 at 1:25am PDT

I had seen similar mushroom pizza on Pinterest and always wanted to try it but they always used portobello mushrooms and I don't have access to those here in Japan. I do, however, have access to shiitake and I found some suitably large ones so I thought it was time to give it a go.

June 20th 2015, Saturday

Had a very 'damn I look good moment this morning'.

 And by that I mean I tried on one of my bras and it was so saggy I had to put it aside but the rest of my bras were in the wash or dirty and there were only two left that had never fit me but I had always held onto. And whaddayouknow! Put both on and they both fit. Size 14 (NZ)!

I've never worn this top before either because I was too self conscious but now! Woo!

Ignore the no makeup but this moment had to be captured in a selfie:

Also... I think it's time for some new shorts:

They're falling off me! 

(Sorry about the belly button!)

June 16th-18th 2015, Tuesday to Thursday ~ A Keto Diet Rundown Post ~

So with life being a bit chaotic at the moment and my journals having to remain private for a while I thought I'd address some more keto stuff which (despite the stress and crap going on) I have managed to stick to for the past 10weeks.

I've done updates before but I thought this time I would go into a bit more detail about what I eat and how I keep track of what I'm putting in my body.

You'll have seen in my previous updates this app from my phone. It's MyFitnessPal; possibly the most common and comprehensive diet and exercise tracking tool. As it is I don't track my exercise (mostly walking) but everyday I put in everything that I eat.

Breakfast: Canned Tuna (sea chicken), mixed leafy greens, half an avocado, and some caesar salad dressing.
Lunch: Nothing (if I'm peckish then a couple bits of dark chocolate or a sugar-free polo mint perhaps)

Hand rolled sushi for tonight (no rice of course)
Mayonaise, seaweed, chicken, salmon and
some soy sauce

Looks like I enjoyed some dark
chocolate this day

When you enter everything you eat the data is added and put into a nice summary for you.
You can also custom set your macros to the numbers you need for your diet.
I got my numbers from the keto calculator. However, while carbs look like they have gone
over the limit, the carbs I calculate are 'carbohydrates' minus 'fiber' which equals my net carbs.
MFP is not smart enough to work out net carbs. 

This picture gives me a nice rundown of
how I spent my calories. Mostly on dinner
as you can see.

This pie chart is to show me how I spent
my nutrition today. Mostly on fat, a good
amount on protein and a little on carbs
(although this is still the wrong number of
carbs due to the inclusion of fiber)

Since I wrote this post I actually woke up this morning to a big drop! My scales screwed up yesterday and I couldn't weight in but when I did today I'd hit 14.5kg lost! Crazy! Almost under 90kg.. Just gotta keep calm and keto on.

June 10th & 11th 2015, Wednesday and Thursday

June 4th 2015, Thursday

Dropped a kilo in 48 hours so here's a commemorative selfie:

My clothes are so baggy these days!

Dinner was yum tonight:

May 15th 2015, Friday

It Finally Fits ~OOTD~

6 weeks ago I couldn't fit in this outfit.

The skirt would barely make it over my thighs and it felt far to short to wear outside the home. The top fit, but tightly and I was too uncomfortable to wear it anywhere.

Please excuse my makeup-less face. I just woke up like this

Now, the top is a loose fit and the skirt fits perfectly. 

So excited to be able to start feeling good in clothes again and to rediscover some lost wonders of my wardrobe. 

I can't wait to head out today and feel perfectly happy with how I look.

Top = Who's Henri (size XL)
Skirt = Clette Amazon Store (size 4L) [Japanese]

First Weightloss Goal Conquered! ~10kgs on Keto~

I did it! This number has been eluding me for a few weeks now. Jumping up and down on the scales by 200 to 500grams.

But finally!

This morning I stepped on the scales not hoping to make a big loss but hoping to make a loss nonetheless and there it was!

97.2kg

That's 10kg loss and a WHOOSH of 500grams loss from yesterday. This waiting has been worth it. I can feel the motivation flooding back in.

This means that I am a quarter of my way to my initial goal of a 40kg loss.

It's been only 6 weeks which is hard to believe. I feel like it's been months. But on any other diet/exercise I could only hope to lose that kind of weight in a year... not a matter of weeks.

I'm looking forward to getting further down on the scale and all the benefits that come with; more energy, more clothing options, feeling healthier.

I think I said in my last post about Keto that it's hard to eat out and socialise when you know you need a major fat or protein bomb but don't have access to one. And watching everyone else eat food you love is hard.

When I've talked to people about the diet the response is always "I could never do that. I love carbs too much" or some variation.

WELL GUESS WHAT

I probably love carbs more than you could ever imagine! It was 80% of my diet before this. Potato chips, fries, bread, rice. I love all of it and would eat FAR too much of it. Going to the movies without popcorn, even now, is unthinkable.

But I'm doing it. And it's successful so far. Nobody has ever said losing weight was easy and although I think Keto is the easiest thing I've ever done that doesn't mean it's not hard.

If you really want to lose weight then you will do what it takes to achieve it.

That turned into more of a rant than I was meaning to make...

Anyway, I'm happy! Weightloss is going great! And I see only bright things ahead!

May 2nd 2015, Saturday AND Monday April 27th (missed!)

I missed a day and mucked up all the dates from Tuesday on so here's my attempted to rectify the mistake:

April 28th to May 1st 2015, Tuesday to Saturday

EDIT: ALL these days are off by one day since I missed Monday and didn&t realise it until too late. See my next post for the catch up. I have edited the title to match... SORRY!

Nukumori no Mori:

Calorie Chaos:

Keto Packed Lunch ~Low Carb Sushi~

I am so sick of the same onion filled 7/11 salad. 157 calories of raddish, lettuce, boiled chicken and onion ... I need a change.

So today, I decided to prepare my own lunch. After a bit of searching online I found this recipe:

Simple enough. Ingredients readily available. Can prepare the night before.

PERFECT.

So I made my own version. A little different, I spread the cream cheese on the seaweed first as you would with rice normally then added salmon, cucumber and avocado and rolled.

Super simple but full of good, keto-friendly stuff.

Nutritional statistics:
~296 calories
-Philly Cream Cheese = 45cal
-Smoked Salmon = 117cal
-Avocado = 120cal
-Cucumber = 4cal
-Seaweed (nori) = 10cal


*The Pandas are soy sauce holders ^^

April 25th & 26th 2015, The Weekend

Beautiful weather this weekend:

An avocado filled dinner:

Hitting the Double Digits | A Keto Post

I woke up this morning feeling awake.

I saw the sun peaking from behind my curtains and for once I didn't think "urgh go away you bastard", I thought, "YES. Okay let's go".

The energy I get from Keto is incredible.

My morning routine is simple; bathroom, scales, makeup, clothes, breakfast.

This morning was the same except when I stepped on the scales I saw something very exciting.

99.9kgs.

That's right. I've just barely hit the double digits again.


All that weight I gained from a very stressful job and my agoraphobic tendencies and depression that put me over the edge into triple digit world have gone.

I still have a lot to go until I get back to my comfortable overweight weight and then further down into 'I haven't been this weight since I was twelve' weight.

But I'm claiming this as a small victory for myself.

I can ignore the people telling me I'm depriving myself, or I should eat carbs because they are essential. This is working for me. It's sustainable and giving me more happiness than anything I've ever done before.

This is the best thing I've done for myself.

April 23rd 2015, Thursday

Chicken wrapped in cheddar jackets:

Gilmore girls - one of my favourite episodes:

April 14th & 15th 2015, Tuesday and Wednesday

Dinner on the 14th:

April 13th 2015, Monday

I think I'll do a post dedicated to how I've lost 5kgs in just 13days (another 0.2kg this morning). I'll go get on to that :)

April 9th 2015, Thursday

Lunch and dinner: