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A Memo About Discouragement

So a handful of days ago, we lost our phone. Nobody has returned it, so it is officially gone. No more pictures, no more photos. Just after I threw away our measuring tape because it got stretched out.

Then I bought new measuring tape so we could at least keep track of our measurements. But it seems that the old measuring tape and the new one were VERY different. Even accounting for the stretch, the measurements weren’t adding up. SO! After a VERY frustrating few days, we have decided to wait and do our measurements once a month, so we can see the bigger changes, rather than small ones. And we will get ourselves to a scale at the beginning of this next month so we can recalculate our macros and continue our path onward!

Realizations

When life gives you lemons, it’s so easy to say, “squeeze lemons in life’s eyes” or “make lemonade” or “throw lemons at random passerby.” But it’s not so easy to do. We were really discouraged this past week. We sat together and fretted about not being able to continue recording our progress. We began to feel like we were gaining the weight right back, with no proof of it ever leaving. It all began to spiral downward, until we decided to change. It took a lot of coaxing. I had to talk Charlotte out of her funk, and she had to talk me out of my funk. We tried on our tightest clothes, and saw a difference. We took grainy pictures on a tiny camera that aren’t clear enough to post, but were clear enough to see a difference for us. We talked about food, about ketosis and how even if we were gaining, it was an easy fix. And finally, the mood lifted. It’s hard work.

Life gets hard. Shit hits the fan. Stuff doesn’t work out. And we all fall into funks. There’s no way around them sometimes, but that doesn’t mean  you have to give up. Your support system will be there, be it a spouse, a friend, a co-worker, or that random person on the bus. They’ll be there, and hopefully they’ll support you, and help you see what you can’t. And you’ll be able to keep going.

Support!

If you’re in a funk right now, and you don’t have a support system, I’m telling you right now that you’re in ketosis. And if you fell out of it, you’ll hop right back in. It gets hard, and life gets in the way, I know. But you believe in this, and you want to do right by your body. I believe in you, and hundreds of other keto-friendly people online are cheering for you, as I am. You can do this. Just take those lemons, and look at them. They’re just lemons. I don’t care what you do with them, but let go of them. Plant them, grow a lemon tree, if you want. Then you can throw all the lemons you want at the flamingo decor in your yard.

Looking Ahead

In light of the frustrations, we have been noticing some big changes in our bodies. I am ready to start my strength training…why haven’t I started yet? Well, dear reader, sometimes when a woman sets out to start something fresh, and new, and difficult, her menstrual cycle decides to show up. Sometimes, moving your body around is really good for a girl when she is menstruating, but for me, I didn’t feel like it. And if I don’t feel like it…I’m not going to do it. So, I will start up soon. And I will make a separate post about keto and the menstrual cycle for women later.

Looking towards the future, I am super excited that my wife’s BIRTHDAY is coming up! In the second week of August, we will celebrate my wife turning 31, and I can’t wait! The only problem…what are we going to wear? Almost none of our clothes look right anymore, her shirts fall off her shoulders and mine look so dumpy and lumpy…lol! When we wear clothes, we look worse off than before we started! Time to get some cheap clothes for the interim while we continue to lose, or we’ll start swimming!

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