Cracking the whip

I did some thinking at the gym this morning and I've decided that I'm going to restart the tapering process of the keto diet. The way it's supposed to work is that you incorporate carbs slowly but surely: first seven days off of keto you have 35-40 grams a day, next week you have 70-80 grams of carbs a day, next week you have 100 grams of carbs a day and then you finally plateau and you should NEVER EVER have more than 150 grams of carbs a day. Anything more than that is excess.

When I came to this realization, I stopped by the trainer's office to ask Shane what he thought of the idea. He said that it would be better than just going all sporadic with it like I am now and it probably wouldn't hurt to go with no carbs again (aka back to keto) for 2 weeks before starting to taper. Absolutely. I agree 100%.

Today I'm going to visit my family which means it'll be near impossible to do that, but I now have two more weeks to figure out exactly what foods are 35-40 grams a day, 70-80 grams a day, etc. The hard part will be finding foods taht are low carb enough to divy them up throughout the day. You are never supposed to have a big bulk of them in one sitting because it causes an insulin spike which helps store fat. Bad!

So this is the way to fix what I've messed up. It's bad enough my body is struggling from losing almost 50 lbs but I refuse to help it by screwing up my diet. I can do this with a little more discipline. I can DO this!