I ate fat, and lost fat

I've been following this way of eating for several months now. The novelty of "eat fat, lose fat" should have worn off by now. Sometimes though it just smacks me in the face again with it's astonishing ridiculousness. It's so contrary to EVERYTHING we were ever told in health class, on government pamphlets, by doctors, on the tv news.

Yesterday, I had a cinco de mayo taco meal. The tacos... were made of CHEESE. Full fat cheddar cheese. Stuffed with ground beef and full fat sour cream, and fatty avocados. This morning I hit my 20 lb loss milestone. DOES NOT COMPUTE! I have read the science behind it, but it's hard reversing 45 years of bad information based on a really crappy food pyramid. I eat fat, and I lose fat. I may have a hard time wrapping my brain around the possibilities of it all, but at the end of the day it clearly works.

I have decided with this milestone I am going to try to make a significant (for me) change. I'm going stop daily weigh ins. I think it's time to stop obsessing and relying so much on the scale, and instead enjoy and appreciate all the NSV (non scale victories) in my life. Things like jeans that no longer fit, stairs that no longer feel like a chore to climb, that strange euphoria I experience every afternoon now, the thinner face that's more fun to "make up" in the mirror now, etc. I think I will appreciate these things more, if I stop obsessing so much on scale victories. I'm not tossing it out, but I'm going to take it out of the bathroom and restrain myself to only once weekly weigh ins.

Onto the food now man! Okay in the ketosphere these cheese tacos are all the rage. My opinion was, they were tasty but RIDICULOUSLY filling, and to me the cheese was a little much by the time I finished the first one. I served myself 2, and ended up only eating the "shell" of one, the other I picked out most of the ingredients and ate without the "shell". My non-keto family liked them too but I think they sort of had the same vibe. I think these would be good maybe as tiny mini tacos at a party, or mini muffin taco cups with fillings. I wouldn't say I won't make them ever again, but they won't be a regular part of my dinner line up- tbh I'd rather just eat a taco salad.

For those of you who love lots of cheese though, here you go!

I used this recipe. The process was simple enough. Keep on keto'ing!!

Test taco, was too big.

Drape and let cool, pro-tip, greasy side down so you don't have to hold it.

And ta-da, tacos. With cauliflower rice (taco seasoning and canned tomatoes added)

Surprise! It's a two-fer.

Checking in to check out. I fly out tomorrow morning so my posts will be much less wordy for the next 8 days. I will try to track religiously though, because I think my challenge could benefit others who face it- eating keto when you're traveling and in a holiday environment. There will be restaurants and bars and group eating. I won't lie, it's intimidating to think about. I'm going in with some pretty firm ideas of what to do though. The same old basic stuff as I would eat at home- meat, seafood, dairy, veggies that grow above the ground. I've also got a decent idea of what a proper serving size looks like, that first time I ate an 8 oz ribeye with zeal thinking I was on point- was such a downer when I realized I should have stuck with just 4-5 oz of it. I know better now on these kind of details.

Today's meals are done already. I'm horribly stuffed feeling, I can't figure out if I went wrong somehow or if it's just one of those dinners that makes you feel full but disappears later. Tomorrow's scale will tell the tale.

Lunch:

So good!!! One of my keto bagels cut in half, crisped it in a fry pan on the stove top with butter, also warmed up a slice of ham. Added cheddar. Dill pickle on the side.

Dinner

Steak taco salad. I measured everything very carefully but like I said- I feel super stuffed right now. 2 oz steak browned on stove top with fresh garlic, 1/2 oz green peppers, salt, pepper, onion powder, chili powder in olive oil. On 1 C lettuce, and topped with 1 1/2 oz avocado, 3/4 oz tomato, 1 oz cheddar, 2 tbl sour cream.

Macros as it stands are:

• Carbs- 14 net
• Protein- 55g
• Fat- 94g
• Cals- 951

I imagine there will be more wine later from the bottle I uncorked last night, so expect my cals and carbs to go up a bit to acceptable levels.

Next time I check in, it will be from sunny Florida! Keto on with sunscreen.