Fatty fat fatness. I fell off the wagon following a miserable heartbreak and hating the world.
I weighed in at 288 lbs.
Wow.
I'm back on high fat. I'm four days in, I'm starting to drop already, and I'm sticking the hell with it.
I realized I fell off last year because I (a) wasn't eating enough salt and (b) was eating too much carb.
I know I definitely wasn't eating enough salt. I was working out in the mornings three days a week, sweating my ass off, and feeling like a sack of shit all day. I even have an older post where I point out that I hit 4300 mg of sodium and I say in the post that it was too much. It's twice the recommended daily intake according to Health Canada. That recommendation, however, turns out to be a fairly poor recommendation. It seems that sodium levels near 4.5 g a day are actually the ideal in terms of heart health, according to an article in NEJM.
O'Donnell et al. 2014. Urinary Sodium and Potassium Excretion, Mortality, and Cardiovascular Events. NEJM, 371(7): 612-623.
Having sodium targets is a thing. Who knew?
Lesson: take in 5 g of sodium a day.
The other thing, the eating too much carbs thing, came about because I was incorporating small amounts of fruit. Well, forget fruit. Fruit doesn't exist for me anymore, unless it's in sugar-free fruit gelatin format.
What did I eat today?
morningtime beverage/noms
1 tbsp of coconut oil before leaving the house
3/4 c of half and half in my morning coffees (3) at work
a few shakes of salt in each cup (salt improves shitty coffee, also, I heart salt)
lunch
5 cheddar cheese sticks
1/4 cup salted roasted macadamia nuts
10 big Brazil nuts
dinnerishness
1/2 cup cream cheese
1 shallot, chopped
2 pieces of artichoke heart (maybe 1/2 a heart?), chopped
2 tbsp shredded parmesan
blended into a dip to eat with
1 head of broccoli
I'm going to have a cup of boullion now.
Numbers of the Day
160g of fat
42g of carbs (10.5 were fibre so they don't count)
52g of protein
3900 mg of sodium
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