Exhaustion... but not yet!

Aargh!  I feel like if I were to sit still for very long and not do anything, that exhaustion would set in!  LOL  For anyone that cares, we got the mess cleaned up, the holes from the insulation plugged, AND the house wrap up.  I also mowed the front yard and did all the trimming.  Then I came in and did a bunch of cleaning.  Between family being here, working on the house, and just the regular day to day stuff, the house was TRASHED.  I cleaned the dining room, kitchen, and bathroom.  And the kitchen was a pretty intense cleaning.  Some insulation had blown in through a hole we had forgotten about.  Thankfully it's green fiber so it was just paper dust, but still.  So, cleaned all that, washed up the dishes, put stuff away and even cleaned out the fridge.  You'd think after all that I would take today off!  But I can't -- I need to take my oldest to swim and then I have to go to the grocery store.  OY.  I hope I make it through today without dropping!

Now, on to the good stuff!  Even with doing all that stuff, I stayed on plan.  :D  I've been doing LC for so long, I know what I can eat to stay pretty low.  I have decided for right now not to track everything so much, so I am letting the food journal go.  If I know I will be going out or eating something more than normal, I am going to write it down, though.  At home, I know most of the time my meals are around 5g of carbs and that's from veggies and some fruit and occasionally some dairy.  And right now, I feel good with that.  Heck, I overall feel good!  I am hoping some of my annoyance and aggravation was from hormones.  Gotta love hormones!  LOL  Because I am feeling much calmer and in a better place today.  PMS always makes me crazy.  It's true.  It does!  It's been much better over the last few years since I've been watching sugar and processed foods, but I still get a bit looney and emotional.

I am just going to keep sticking it out and I think that maybe carb cycling will work better for me.  Although, if I am honest with myself, I guess that may have been what I was doing years ago because staying 100% low carb all the time wasn't feasible.  I sometimes had 'cheat' days, but they were always a part of my plan to keep me sane.  So, I guess I was carb cycling then and just didn't know the name.  But I feel for me it is something more permanent.  I will never be a full time carb eater again.  I know my body doesn't process them well and with the PCOS, it never will.  But I do like the option to once in a while have something that I normally wouldn't touch like a piece of cake at a birthday party.  Otherwise, I want to have a normal balanced diet of healthy whole foods and not just a crash diet.  Which is why I think some people fail on low carb.  They never learn how to incorporate the foods back in.  And if you've ever read Atkins, that's a must.  You have to learn your limits, and learn to re-incorporate all foods in moderation.  Even junk food!  LOL  Every now and then a bit of junk food is ok once you've hit maintenance.  It just can't be all the time.  And let's face it, we've become a society of junk food.

This touches on what incontrol2day just posted that everywhere you look, there are these 'get skinny quick' things and people tend to get sucked into those.  And she's right -- it IS everywhere!  And people ARE suckered into it.  And I get it -- people get so tired of fighting themselves and so tired of feeling like crap that they put their faith into a pill or laser surgery or some other gimmick.  And all it takes is stepping away from the junk food and getting off of our butts.  And I'm not saying it's not hard -- I'm struggling with my weight daily.  I'm fighting to get this off.  But I know that no pill, herb, surgery, or any of it will get this off of me.  I have to eat healthy, whole foods and stay away from the processed crap.  But for those out there who fall for these gimmicks, I truly do feel bad.  They just want some kind of change and not have to feel like they are giving up everything.  But like incontrol2day said, what does a quick fix actually DO if you lose all the weight but never learned anything along the way?

This got me to thinking about myself.  I may be struggling and I may be losing slowly, but I am LEARNING.  Even if I am not always getting an 'A', I am basically working my way through my own weight-loss class!  And even if it's going slow, it's going!  And it's better than being at what was my highest weight.  Which is why I am going to try to be more positive.  The food journal and the weighing all the time was driving me somewhat crazy and I was too focused on that.  I pretty well know what I should be eating and I know what I should be doing.  So instead of obsessing on it and tracking every little detail, I am just going to DO it and stop frying my brain out!  I know that tracking can be a great tool, and I know that I will probably do it off and on just to make sure I am staying on course, but I am not going to go crazy over every little number.  And starting it off was the carb cycling and not weighing until next Sunday.  I'm not sure what this will bring, but I am hoping good things.  :D

Well, it's after 11 where I am and I need to get up off of here and get going.  I've already done some stuff this AM but I need to do a few more things and then get going on swim and groceries.  Later chickies and hope you enjoyed the shout out Incontrol!  :D