Yeah, it has been and I took an extra day off to extend the weekend to 5 days. So chilling at home in my workout shorts right now about to break my fast.
That was how I felt yesterday. It was a challenge having the family over, and keeping things light hearted for them. I felt like a traffic navigator or something. Trying to steer the conversations away from the sadness we all have to talk about. I wanted to keep the focus on enjoying each other and knowing we are not missing any more moments than we have to with each other.
Agreed, now I have to find some healthy options to cook on there. I will be using mostly avocado oil on it to keep it seasoned and to have a better fat profile than just using saturated fats all of the time. Hard to beat a 500-ish smoke point. I also have a digital read thermometer being dropped off at some point today. I now have a ton of premade low fat high protein bean dip to make tons of meals out of. Going to grill up a couple lbs of chicken breast, and prepare some veggie's today for the rest of the week as well. It is going to be a learning curve but I have youtube to help me out. Give me a month and I will be making all kinds of things with this. Plus if I really need to on a rainy day I can cook in the garage with this bad boy. I think this will be an awesome way to get in more veggies. Just have to tweak my macros to figure things out with higher fats. I will start really looking for some healthy prep options on that bad boy today. I think I may keep a Tbls out there with me to kind of add up how much oil I put on the food/grill to kind of keep an eye on fat content.
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Even though I did not want to because I knew these pictures would not show progress, I took some anyway today. It is still a part of my process and I am trying to be better about it. Even when things aren't going my way. That is indeed what this accountability thread is all about. Doing the right thing when you don't want to with the support of friends.
So here I am in all of my post holiday celebration bloat. I am not upset with this result as it was expected. What was not expected was waking up on Monday after a 40+ hour fast and still being the same weight. So I really didn't have much of an option to see a drop unless I chose not to partake in the celebration which was not going to happen.
5/30/23 - Progress Pics - Morning Weight 206.2lbs.
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I do feel like I am growing a little but this could just be water increases. However my arms and legs have been staying a little bigger even when my weight gets right around 200 I am still stretching the sleeves of my shirts, and legs still feel pretty full in my jeans. As far as I know, I do not have any more reasons to let loose this next coming month. No birthdays, no big celebrations, so I am hoping to see more noticeable changes this next month. I will be traveling to San Francisco for work, most likely the 11th-17th. So that will present a little challenge but I will stick with my fasting protocol and hopefully get all of my sessions in while out there. I want to finish this month up strong, although I gave myself up to 3 months of leaning up to reach my goals, I would like to have some abs by the 4rth of July for my own personal satisfaction.
Also, I really need to get some color on my legs. Looks like they belong on a different body they are so white. LMAO! That's what happens when you walk around shirtless at lunch in jeans.
Maybe I will put some un screen on my upper body then go tan to get my legs to catch up. LMAO!!!