Goodbye 2015, hello 2016!

Today's weigh-in: 207.0

So...

It's been a little while since my last post, and obviously things have changed a bit.  I have gotten used to the ketogenic diet--I got past the "keto flu" that made me feel so crappy.  I've also gotten used to the occasional plateau that seems to happen frequently with this diet.  I've had several rounds where I've flatlined on the weight loss, or even gained a few pounds, but eventually it drops again.  I even managed to stay on the diet while at my in-laws' house over Christmas, despite a lot of incidental carbs here and there in the food, and ended up losing 2 lbs while I was there.

I don't know what my weight was at the end of 2014, but the last post made that year, at the beginning of November, I was 233.  I know when I started this HFLC (high fat low carb) diet on the Monday after my 41st birthday (October 26), I was about 230.  So I'm officially down 23 lbs since I started the diet, and about 26 lbs (probably) since the beginning of 2015.

The diet has gotten a bit easier.  It helps that my husband has been doing a lot of the cooking.  We are also doing a little better about planning out our meals, and having some ready-made stuff (like egg muffins and pre-cooked bacon) available for those times that we don't feel like cooking.  We're doing pretty well at avoiding eating out and ordering in.  We've also experimented with making some of our previously favorite recipes low carb.  We'll keep working on it.  And it's gotten a lot easier to avoid the kinds of foods I've previously binged on.  I haven't done much overeating, and it seems like the low carb diet is a little more forgiving when I do overindulge.

So I'm cautiously optimistic.  If I can lose 1 more lb, I will officially weigh what I weighed when I found out I was pregnant with Brendan.  So, almost 6 years since I first got pregnant, I will have finally shed the "baby weight".  Then I'll just have to shed the non-baby weight.  In looking back at my blog, I can see that my weight right after we moved to Billings was about 200 lbs, so that of course will be the next "milestone" to hit.  After that, my next big milestone will be about 175 lbs, since I think that's the lightest I got back in 2006 or whenever it was that we had worked so hard to lose weight.

Fingers are crossed.  I hope 2016 is a better year than 2015 was.  Happy New Year!