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Weddings and Weight Loss Updates

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet/nutritional advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

November 18 2021

I’ve ghosted you guys for awhile, which usually means I’ve fallen off the bandwagon. I haven’t worked out in quite awhile, probably not since my last post about it! Two weeks before my wedding and my dress was a slight bit snugger than I was comfortable with. I decided to switch back to OMAD (one meal a day) until the wedding.

I was down to 169lbs on my wedding day and the dress fit perfectly (thank goodness!). I’ve decided to stick with OMAD for the weekdays again, because it gave me results. The cons are I’m definitely not eating all that healthy. I’m getting a lot of take out and after the wedding I’ve had cheesecake daily (it’s all gone now lol).

I’m hoping to get back into exercise again soon, but haven’t felt like it lately. I know I should prioritize it. I actually pulled a muscle in my chest about a week ago, while I was reaching for something over my head. It hurt for days and I had trouble sleeping. I’ve really gotta give yoga a proper try. I think it would help immensely. I’ve started getting an achy back in the mornings sometimes and I know it’s from being sedentary.

I’ll keep you all updated!

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OMAD Week 5

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

It was a great week for me. I’m now down seven pounds in total and even crossed into the next 10lb section. I hadn’t lost any weight for the last two weeks, so I’m really happy about it. I ate OMAD (one meal a day) Monday to Friday, and then whatever I wanted on the weekend (I did use a little more restraint this weekend). That being said, I still ate pie, cookies, and went to Montana’s for dinner.

I’ve been loving Hello Fresh. The meals were SO good and also really healthy. Unfortunately, it’s just too expensive to continue on, but I’m going to try and keep in the spirit of it and eat less takeout and cook more at home. I do love the idea of someone choosing your meal (especially if it’s full of veggies and healthy) so I can try new things.

So far, I’m loving this way of eating. I still get hungry a lot during the day, but it passes. I haven’t had problems with dizziness in awhile. It’s something I think I will be able to stick with.

I saw a genius post on Facebook with someone using string to measure their waist one a month and comparing the string size. I’m going to do that. I wish I had done that from the start. Here’s to week six!

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OMAD One Month

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

The week had started out great, by Friday I was down a total of two pounds for the week and 7 pounds since I started, but I messed it all up over the weekend. Today I was up almost three pounds making my grand total of weight loss for the last two weeks at only around 1/2 a pound. I don’t to OMAD (one meal a day) over the weekends, only weekday, and then eat whatever I want on weekends. Clearly, I need to quit “whatever I want” on weekends, it’s wrecking any progress I make during the week.

It’s a new week and although I don’t plan on eating OMAD on weekends, I will be behaving a lot more than I have been.

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OMAD Week 3 Roundup

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

I didn’t lose any weight at the end of the week, but I’m not frustrated, just a tiny bit disappointment. It’s early shark week (that’s a period reference) and I always gain a couple pounds beforehand. That’s why I’m not super upset about not losing anything this week.

I definitely need to be better on weekends. Sunday was a free for all eating fest. I made the magic custard cake with a recipe I got from YouTube

It was pretty good and I’m embarrassed to say I ate most of it. Next week I hope to do better.

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OMAD September 14/2020

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

This is what I had for OMAD (one meal a day) today. I used to have spring rolls all the time. I love them so much and they’re really healthy. I’m happy I made them.

Today went really well. Mondays are usually one of the easier days because weekends I tend to eat a lot. I had some coffee and Bubly. I didn’t have any dizziness. I got really hungry around noon, which is normal for me. The hunger faded and came back around 5 with a vengeance.

The spring rolls are easy to make. I just throw shredded carrots and mushrooms, spinach, green onion, and marinated tofu, into some rice paper. I used to make my own sweet chili sauce, but this time I used a commercially prepared one. I plan on making them more often.

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OMAD Week 2 Roundup

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

I finished another week of OMAD (one meal a day). I do OMAD on the weekdays and eat whatever I feel like on weekends. I lost a pound this week. My weekends of bad behavior are really stalling the progress, but at least it was a loss, bringing me to a grand total of almost three pounds.

I have struggled with dizziness on OMAD days. On those days I’ll eat a couple salty crackers and that has helped. I’ve noticed that days I drink a Bubly carbonated beverage, the dizziness hasn’t come. I plan on drinking one every OMAD day. If I don’t get dizzy, I’ll stick to that otherwise, I’ll have some crackers when I get dizzy.

I’ve been on OMAD for a total of two weeks now. I see other people losing much more weight than I am, but I think they are doing it 7 days a week. I am always up two pounds after the weekend. I am going to continue this way unless the weight loss stops. It’s working for me even though the weight is coming off very slowly.

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OMAD September 8/2020

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

Today started out easy enough. I didn’t eat until evening. I had some coffee and tea in the morning. I went out to eat with a friend for dinner. I was doing okay during the day, but by the time I sat down at the restaurant I was starting to get dizzy.

I ordered a pretty healthy meal from the Graffiti Market in Waterloo. I got the Phat Bowl. I found out pickled onion can be super tasty. I liked this bowl and felt good about ordering it. I got some take out for my spouse, a mushroom pizza and I ate almost a whole slice of his pizza. This isn’t ordinary pizza, this is super deep dish (over an inch thick) pizza that was drizzled with truffle oil and cheeses. It was crazy decadent.

I also had a handful of BBQ chips when I got home and chocolate chips. I must be craving sugar because I don’t actually like chocolate chips until they are baked into a cookie. I wanted a peach, but they had already turned. Every peach I buy is rotted in the middle. I’m having no luck with them. Right now I’m enjoying a glass of wine and I’m finished eating for the day.

I think I might bring crackers with me places in case I feel dizzy. I won’t feel bad about breaking the fast in that instance.

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Omad 1st Week Roundup

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

I’m following the one meal a day style of eating (except for weekends). I had some trouble near the end of the week and over the weekend. Thursday and Friday I broke the fast early, Saturday I had what I wanted, and Sunday I skipped breakfast, but ate terribly the rest of the day. I weighed myself today and I’m only down 1.5lbs. I was hoping for more, but glad it was a loss and not a gain.

Today starts week two. It’s a long weekend for me and I’m struggling to wait until dinner. I have the biggest craving for pickled beets. I am going to have them for dinner, probably the whole jar lol. Right now I’m drinking a cherry Bubly and watching a movie with my guy. I worked out this morning, a quick jog. It felt great. It was the first time I worked out in a long time. My week is starting out pretty good.

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OMAD Friday Fail Sept 4/2020

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

I flubbed OMAD today. I felt really crappy yesterday, and woke up with a headache again today, that I thought eating breakfast today was a good idea. I got a Tim Hortons egg and cheese breakfast sandwich, and I felt great after. The plan was to skip lunch, but that didn’t happen. I picked up two of these packs of sushi from the T&T store in Waterloo, for dinner for me and my spouse. We ended up eating it for lunch in the car on the way home. For takeout sushi, this was really good.

While heading over to get my spouse, I stopped at a bakery to pick up some keto treats for my future in laws. The Sconery has my favourite macarons in the whole world – honey lavender. As you can see, I didn’t leave the bakery without getting a couple (they are the same colour, the sunshine skewed the photo). I love love love these macarons. My spouse does not care for macarons, so I also had the both of them on the way home.

For dinner I had a GIANT salad. I thought I had finished eating for the day after this, but I disappointed myself by eating two slices of white toast with butter, that I really didn’t need.

For the weekend, I don’t plan to follow OMAD. Weekends we go out for breakfast with our dog and I always get a breakfast sandwich and latte. Weekends are what people refer to as cheat days. It seems I started early this weekend.

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OMAD Day 4 September 3/2020

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

Today was so hard. I woke up with a splitting headache that lasted all day. By lunch time I felt really nauseated. I decided to break my fast early and got a snack.

I got this granola bar, but I still didn’t feel any better. Later on someone brought cookies for us (I swear I’m a magnet for cookies). They were pumpkin flavoured wafer cookies. They were super delicious too. I had one and still wasn’t feeling any better. Near the end of the afternoon I had two more.

I walked out to meet my spouse and by the time we met up I was feeling really lousy. He had some snacks in the car. Guess what they were. Cookies LOL. I had a couple bites of cookie, probably bringing my cookie total to 5, plus a granola bar.

I got this football sized black bean pattie pita for dinner. It was huge and I ate half of it with an Advil. I still had the monster headache. I must tell you about one of the weirdest sensations I’ve had involving food. I was starving and completely stuffed all at the same time. I’ve never had those two sensations happen at the same time. I ate half the sandwich and still ravenous, but also stuffed. I was so full I was close to feeling uncomfortable and my stomach still hadn’t clued in. It was weird.

It’s later on in the evening I’m feeling much better now. The Advil has kicked the headache and I’ve just finished my other half of the sandwich. It’s rare for me to get a headache. This one was a doozy. I’m not sure if it was from doing OMAD (one meal a day), or because it went from a sunny day to rain. Right now I’m drinking a cherry Bubly and feeling a million times better.