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I’m back.

So, I disappeared for a LONG time there. The reason why? I quit drinking, and quit smoking cigarettes. They say you put down the bottle and pick up the fork. And holy f*ck, is it true. So, I got really derailed. But I’m right around the weight I was when I left. So. Here we go again.  Also, I tried to get into an out-patient program, and they f*cked up my appointment TWICE. Then they just never called again. So yeah. My BED took over, but now I’m back in edtt stage I suppose. So here we go. I’m on day 9 of a fast, but I’m taking my electrolytes, drinking water, walking a little, and super determined and focused.

August 22nd: This happened after (TW HERE) my partner brought home a slice of cookies and cream cheesecake for me from his work, and I opened it up, grabbed a fork and was walking to the table. And I looked down and an earwig crawled out from under the slice of cake, and another was wriggling IN the cake. I just...  -windows shut down sound-  My entire brain just switched straight back into -- “Uh, no.” So now, here I am. I’ll check in more frequently if I can manage.  

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Volume Eating & Ballerina Tea

I’m down 4.2lbs since my last post. I’m staying focused and am trying ‘volume eating’. So like lots of celery and cucumber. It’s been really good. I’m also trying adding 3 Ballerina Tea into my regular routine. If you haven’t looked into it -- take a look. I am HOLLOW. I swear Lord Tundering Jaysus, it just cleaned out my insides. I don’t even think I have organs anymore. lol

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My Recipes

Resharing my recipes to help out some people looking for foods to eat low-carb, low-cal options! <3 <3 <3 

My favourite foods for meals are hard boiled eggs (72 calories a piece - a dash of salt or pepper, as snacks or sandwich filler), tuna (120 calories a can), tilapia (80 calories a fillet), frozen salmon fillets (130/4 oz), romaine lettuce (5 calories for two LARGE leafs/10 for 4) for salads or in replacement of bread.

For tuna wraps (two cans of skipjack drained (240 calories), tbsp of full-fat mayo (80 calories), pepper medley, (you can add chives or celery), wrap in lettuce (head of lettuce - 5 calories for two LARGE leafs/10 for 4) -- makes multiple 'sandwiches'. (325 calories - 205 calories for 1 can) Sometimes I just drain a can of tuna, throw on some Clubhouse ‘La Grille’ Pepper Medley and eat it straight out of the can with a fork. (120 calories)

Egg salad wraps (two-three-four eggs, depends on how hungry you are), tbsp full-fat mayo (80 calories), yellow mustard to taste (0 cals) -- you can add a dash of salt or pepper, wrap lettuce (5-15) around it to make multiple 'sandwiches'. (229-301-373 calories - 2-3-4 large eggs)

I typically boil an entire carton of eggs in one sitting, remember that it takes more time to cook a whole carton. I also get cartons of egg whites (two containers/250g a container/a cup a container), I use a whole carton, microwave for 2 minutes 45 seconds, and then mix in a big tablespoon of peanut butter. It's surprisingly delicious! And low-carb. (206-286 calories if you use 1-2 tablespoons of peanut butter respectively) Veggies with dinner or any meal: Simply Steam Green Giant items (like cauliflower rice and broccoli with cheese sauce, broccoli and cauliflower with cheese sauce, and brussel sprouts in butter sauce). All of them are low-cal and delicious. I avoid corn. I'm more a veggie girl than a fruit girl (I've never really been a fan. I don't know why). (40-50-80 calories for half a package - 80-100-160 calories for a full package) You can even make an egg white omelette with one of those 250g cartons and Simply Steam veggies! Just add one cup/250g of egg whites into a frying pan (115 calories), I typically use the broccoli and cauliflower with cheese sauce package and it comes to 215 calories.

Snacks: Large hardboiled eggs (dash of salt or pepper) - (72 calories a piece), cherry tomatoes, carrots, bell peppers, celery, (all great for salads as well), peanut butter, greek yogurt (don't get sweetened ones, they have a LOT of sugar in them). Sometimes, I just slice up a whole tomato (Beefsteak - 33 calories), and put some salt on it, and eat just that as a snack.

Get full fat dressing of your choice to dip or use as dressing. Smoked oysters (good healthy fat) with Clubhouse “La Grille pepper medley”. (130 calories) However, I get light peanut butter.

You can put peanut butter on your celery. Also, 15 almonds is about 100 calories – if you put them in water and in the fridge, they'll double to triple in size, much more filling that way!

Carbs: Whole grain brown rice (usually Uncle Ben's Express roasted chicken, vegetable medley, or mushroom), ready in 90 seconds! I typically only eat half a bag because the carb count can add up, for the second use -- you add a cup of water in the microwave, and heat up for 45-60 seconds. (130-140-150 calories) / (260-280-300 calories for a full bag)

Feel like pasta? They have low calorie options by Slendier – "Calorie Clever", which is gluten free, low carb, and a source of fiber. An entire package is 25 calories.

Feel like pizza? Get the whole wheat 7" tortilla wraps (the smaller size), a dash of tomato sauce spread around with the bottom of a spoon, mozza fat-free cheese slices (X2), top with low-cal toppings, spinach, chicken – 7 minutes in the oven at 400F. (235 calories)

Dessert or sweet tooth? A big spoonful of peanut butter (80-190 calories), or you can make a packet of maple oatmeal (Quaker), and a cup of cottage cheese, is REALLY good as a dessert. Mix it together, it's creamy-deliciousness! Great as breakfast/lunch/dessert, whenever. (271 calories)

Also, ICE CREAM. Plain. Chocolate. Vanilla. Nothing EXTRA in it, is what I mean. Chapman’s even makes a sugar-free, lactose-free kind. Chocolate and vanilla. And yes, Chapman's makes sugar-free chocolate and vanilla, and even ice cream sandwiches – so those are keto friendly! lol

I'm lactose-intolerant so I tend to avoid dairy products. I -love- ice cream, but ice cream does NOT love me. Chapman's makes sugar-free, lactose-free Chocolate, Vanilla, Maple Walnut, Butterscotch Ripple, and Black Cherry Ice Cream! And they taste AMAZING.

Not only that, I find I urinate most of it out, so it doesn’t add to the scale the following day for me.

Broth – I also like chicken bone broth with turmeric and black pepper. Easy to find on Amazon. I add a little bit of chicken bouillon and it tastes like a mug of spicy chicken soup. (75 calories)

I keep vitamins on hand: Essential Electrolytes, K2, Liquid Vitamin D (the pills don't absorb properly), B6, B12, biotin, and I have Apple Cider Vinegar pills (with 'mother') and Turmeric pills on hand. Keep in mind that for some people ACV helps acid reflux, for others it doesn't.

Turmeric is NOT a supplement. Do NOT take it on an empty stomach. I took two pills, then drank coffee. It was like I ate a ghost pepper, I could feel the heat in my mouth for the rest of the day and my stomach hurt. Only take Turmeric BEFORE you eat a meal. I also only take ACV before a meal. Never on an empty stomach.

Remember that the low-fat options typically have a LOT more sodium/sugar in them!

Drink LOTS of water, and don't count coffee or other liquids as your water intake. If you want to determine the exact amount you should drink according to your body weight, you can follow these steps: Take your weight and divide it in half and translate the lbs to ounces. Done.

Avoid sugar-free gum unless you're going to chew the same piece for 60 minutes + because that's how long it takes to burn off the calories in it by chewing it. If you’re going to exercise -- than sugar-free gum won’t matter, but it slows down your weight loss because it causes an insulin spike. You won’t stay in ketosis because of it. This is the same thing with sugar-free energy drinks unfortunately. I find changing your eating window around helps, because it confuses your metabolism. All of these things are easy to make, because I'm lazy. LOL

P.S. I'm a 'dirty faster', and put sweetener in my coffee, albeit I'm learning not to put sweetener in. And lime in my water (you can use lime or lemon), which is scientifically proven to kick your metabolism in the butt. Cool/cold showers instead of hot ones actually burns calories, and clears up skin from acne as well.

P.P.S. I've actually been clean fasting since early February. So now, black coffee, green tea, and water, are the only thing I intake while I'm fasting.

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NON-SCALE VICTORY!

I can finally button up my winter coat all the way up, and now, it's suddenly too big for me! I never even noticed because I always wore a baggy hooded sweater with it, and left it open. I have even have extra space, and I've lost weight in my shoulders/arms, because now I can't reach the bottom of the danged pockets. LOL

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NON-SCALE VICTORY

I CAN TOUCH MY TOES! OMG!

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Some of ya’ll MFers need to hear this. I was in business as photographer in the ‘Before Times’, but lockdown has changed that. A lot of girls have “thinspo” or “fitspo” or ideas of what they want to look like when they get down to their ‘goal weight’. I just want you to know that 95% of the photos you’ve seen have been shopped (yes, magazines, but especially Instagram these days, videos too!) - they’re only now starting to release natural photos where they don’t shop out stretch marks and so on. I was apart of the problem at one point. I’m not working as a photographer now due to COVID, but when I did, I was in magazines world-wide. And yes, I was paid to create images like the one on the right. Don’t be so hard on yourself, ladies. They’ve created a standard that isn’t possible to live up to. Skin has pores. Women have organs - waists aren’t typically cinched in like they’re wearing an invisible corset. We have cellulite. Scars. Acne. Don’t judge yourself against those images. You deserve to feel at peace with your body and yourself. It is quite literally your vessel. I’m really not one to talk as I fast and restrict carbs, and fight my own body to lose weight, but I get it. Images like the one on the right are triggering. They make people reach for impossible and unhealthy goals.

And you deserve better.

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I Wanna Be Goth Again

The clothes I wanna wear when I reach my goal weight. I wanna wear awesome black clothes and not just wear black because 'it's slimming'.

I wanna be my bad ass goth self again.

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I Made It.

30 Days Sober

#30 #days #sober #one month #one #month #1 #sobriety #nofootprintsinthesnow #no-footprints-in-the-snow #success #victory #the little things #Intermittent Fasting #Intermittent #Fasting #Fast

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I’ve been self harm free for two months and intend to stay that way. <3 Life is worth living, everything has changed. I’m sober, getting healthier by losing weight, and happier, every day. <3

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Day Four

Day 4 finished, and today was easier than ever because I’ve been giddy all day about finally reaching 70lbs of weight loss. I basically just grooved out, and played Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp.

I’m bound up like crazy (freaking NyQuil) -- I actually tried chia seeds, yoga stretches, massaging my stomach/abdomen in a specific way, walking/pacing, and lastly, an actual laxative, because my stomach feels like a damned rock. I usually go regularly. Today, not at ALL. Big uh-oh. Probably TMI, but oh my gosh. This is gonna be bad when I finally can... Y'know.

I’m going to save up some money, and when I lose 100lbs (30lbs to go!), I’m going to buy myself a Nintendo Switch and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. That’s my present to myself. ^_^ I play Pocket Camp, and I think that sitting on me arse is counter-productive, but right now -- it’s the present I want when I reach my next BIG goal.

Technically, I only have less than 2lbs to get out of the DIRTY 30s and into the ROARING 20s. So I have things to look forward to. May the WHOOSH Fairy visit me, and relax my damned bound up intestines!

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I have very thick, and rather long hair. It’s 2 1/2 feet. Which is one inch from being half my height. Sometimes, I want to cut my hair off because it’ll make me lighter for a weigh-in. I had that thought very briefly this morning, and was like, “Uh, no. It’s my favourite feature of myself. Leave it alone.” But yeah, sometimes my brain is stupid.

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WHOOSH FAIRY!

I got visited by the Whoosh Fairy! <3 SQUEE!

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I got bored, and my window was making a weird pattern, so I decided to have some fun with it. I was a photographer/digital artist in the 'before times' and COVID wasn't a problem, but now I moved, and don't have a studio like I used to. So I just played around with my own selfie this time. Oh, I guess this is a face-reveal. Hey. -waves-

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Self-Discipline

Ever heard 'if your left eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away'? The Amazons were like that. Amazon literally means "without breasts" in folk etymology as they were so dedicated to their archery, that they would cut off a breast to prevent it from interfering. I aim to be that disciplined-if something is interfering with my progress, my happiness, moral being, or self-standards, that I will have the strength to remove it.

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