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Created: Thursday, 04 May 2017 05:39

Day 3 -  Acceptance
As soon as a woman accepts she cannot eat the same as her male partner and children, life gets a hell of alot easier! BodybyJo

pic taken Day 1

I would like to thank everyone who has written to me with some advice to help my lack of sleep problem.  Having the options has been brilliant and it is always good to hear of what has worked for some woman and what has not.  I’m definitely no expert on this menopause  subject but I'm learning as I go but I'm happy to say that I have been so much better the last couple of weeks after the hormone support kicked in.  And I know ramping up my nutrition a peg has definitely helped..

My food,  chicken breast, avocado and kale/cabbage salad with balsamic dressing. Marcs food, steak with vegetables with a chilli cream cheese sause.  

I was really pleased to see the scales this morning down to 65.8kgs.  That's a 1kilo  loss on the scales in only 2 days.  But I do need to stress that this is water weight that has been lost but still, it is a huge motivating factor.  

Day 1 - 66.8kgs Day 2 - 66.3kgs Day 3 - 65.8kgs

 I know my clients love to see the weight drop on the scales but really, this isn't what all this is about.  It's about increasing your muscle mass, or dropping body fat without losing muscle mass. When we get to our age, we need to be thinking about filling our skin out as we drop in body-fat and that can only be achieved with an increase of muscle and consistent nutrition and training habits. I have been training for so long that an increase in muscle for me will be unlikely, unless I begin to train super heavy again,  but I can maintain the muscle mass I have by continuing to train as I have been  and by not dieting too drastically - therefore I am not going crazy on cardio. I’m finding balance!

I am not getting on the roller coaster of starving myself and beating myself up physically for 4-5 days then bingeing for 1 day.   That is a cycle I see way too often in my job and it is horrible and soul destroying
I’m not saying to take it all easy, but I am saying that you do not have to kill yourself yourself in the process.
If you are in the gym,  push yourself and perform the best training session that you can do  that day, do the  best cardio session you can regardless of whether that is walking, skipping or doing a class.. And keep your food sensible and balanced.  You will go to bed of an evening proud of your achievement instead of going to bed wishing you hadn't wasted the day by no longer being in deficit.  

My cardio goal today was to burn 300 calories on the Stairmaster.   That is the equivalent to my 30 minute outdoor run but so much harder 

I ensure I hit my macros daily either by documenting my food, or taking pics of the food I have eaten so it is like a photo book at the end of the day.  

Why am I doing the keto diet.  I have always preached that I do not like any diets that restrict any food groups.  To tell you the truth I do not miss carbs, apart from my yummy rice cereal and protein powder breakfast but Im loving my egg+protein pancakes and they are just as good.  The good thing about a Ketogenic diet is you do not get the cravings and no up and down blood sugar levels. Course you will still get hungry as you should be in calorie deficit for fat loss but once you cut your carbs your cravings will disappear.  That doesn't mean to say that you won't drool over the bread section at the supermarket or get the urge to eat half your children’s school lunch box supplies cos you still will drool.  By using your willpower and enforcing with yourself that carbs are not an option the process does get easier.  I think of the salmon steak I can have with a massive dollop of mashed avocado and I quickly forget about the carbs and I also say over to myself time and time again but I am allergic to carbs,   actually I say it so much to myself I actually believe it.  
I will write more about this today.  My choices of meals compared to Marcs are very different simply because I cannot handle the amount of calories he is able to consume while still losing weight.  

One phrase I love to use - As soon as a woman accepts she cannot eat the same as her male partner and children, life gets a hell of alot easier !

luf & muscles Jo