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Well, it seems that going for a run yesterday was enough to kick me back into weight loss, but I wonder if that will last.
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Good evening everybody, welcome to day 50 of my carnivore diet
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It's Monday today and I had a day out which is really nice, went into London and spent
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the day with my family. We went to the Battersea Power Station which has recently been refitted and refurbished
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Looks really cool. There's one of the old smokestacks you can go up in a glass elevator and then you can
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sit at the top and you can see what everything looks like and you get this nice panoramic
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view over London, obviously all the way around. And yeah it was really nice, got a chance to go out
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I talked about yesterday about whether I thought that was going to be a challenge on the diet
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or not and actually it turned out to be just fine. We got up early, we went to a cafe that we know and like really well and I just had a
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big breakfast while I was there so I had a couple of eggs, I had some bacon and they
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do these really nice sausages that don't really have much filler in them so that was really
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good and stuck to water all day. I did have a decaf flat white in the afternoon but other than that it was much easier than
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I thought it was going to be. And then we just picked up some steak from the store on the way home so I had a nice
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sort of 300 grams of sirloin this evening and yeah it was really nice
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My birthday is this week and so we were celebrating my birthday a little bit so I had about two
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small teaspoons of vanilla ice cream so just a couple of bites, not even a quarter of a
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single scoop of ice cream probably, just a little bit to have a taste and it was like
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organic made with clotted cream and all sorts of stuff so it's like this really posh ice
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cream so no, didn't have any preservatives or anything in it so that was amazing and
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really nice for a little treat for myself but nothing to really break the diet
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And I think, so let's talk about that, so I guess the other thing is numbers for today
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I know I've been stuck at 95 for over a week but actually this morning when I woke up I
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was in 94.7 which was down basically a pound from where I'd been before so again it's just
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like it's one of those things where it just happens and so if anybody else out there is
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on the diet and you find that you're either taking a step backwards or you're just stuck
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don't sweat it, just stick with it. Consistency is the key so just keep on
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keep on, your body will fight back at different points, you'll reach plateaus
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you'll do stuff but just keep going. I know I did the big run yesterday and everything which
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probably helped to kick that in. If you remember I was curious last night to know whether going
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out and doing a 7k sort of walk run kind of thing would actually sort of kick that off and it seems
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to have done that. I've had loads and loads of water today and I've had some electrolytes so
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we'll see but hopefully that will be consistent all the way through but again I'm not really
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worried about it, it's just going to take care of itself over time. But it is, I do remember this
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from last time and sometimes I would just hit, I would hit weeks and nothing seemed to happen and
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then you'd have sort of a breakthrough and then you'd sort of get to the next stage and it's
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almost like your body, everybody's body is different. Some people will do it at maybe
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20 pounds lost, some will do it at 10, some might do it at 5, like I don't know but for me it seems
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to be around 10 or 12 pounds, I'll lose about that much and then the body kind of fights back a little
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bit and it's just kind of like really are you sure and then if I just stay consistent and keep
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doing it then the body's like okay well I guess this is what we're doing now and then gets with
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the program. The other fallout from the run yesterday is I'm so sore today I can barely
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walk. Again no problem with the knee though so that's fantastic, no soreness in the knee today
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I walked up and down tons of stairs, I was up and down slopes and slants and all sorts of stuff and
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no problem at all. I can't tell you how happy I am about that. My glutes are so sore I can barely
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walk, my left foot has some sort of a, it's all swollen on the outside, it almost feels like I've
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broken a bone but I know I haven't. That sounds a bit traumatic but it's that kind of pain. So I
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find all of that a, hugely amusing because it just shows how out of shape I am from running that I
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used to do because I used to run that course all the time and I wouldn't be sore like this so that
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just proves to me how out of shape I am or how out of running shape I am and I don't mind muscle
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soreness from working out and doing exercise. I'm absolutely 100% happy with that, that doesn't
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bother me at all. So we'll see, it's probably going to be worse tomorrow before it starts to get better
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but I am going to try and go to the gym. I'm back at work, everything's back to normal tomorrow so
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hopefully I'll get a chance to go. I have had an uptick in a lot of work stuff that's come in
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very quickly all at once and so I'm going to need to do a bunch of stuff tomorrow but hopefully I'll
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be able to sort that out. Otherwise I think that's about it. I know I said that I wanted to talk
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about losing weight the first time and how that went and what happened with that and my story
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around that so I'll try and get to that this week sometime. I think it's, how far am I? I'm sort of
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six minutes in already. I'll do that as its own separate episode so look for that maybe tomorrow
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or the next day. But yeah, feeling good other than being sore from running, feeling really good
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You can see I also, this is one of my skinny clothes, jumpers that I don't really like to
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wear unless I'm feeling thin because it always fits really tight. And so I've wore it out all day
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today because I wanted to actually look better than wearing a big baggy hoodie all the time
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So this is getting back into that mental, how it's, you know, I'm feeling better about myself and
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therefore I want to look better. And the other thing was I got a gift for my birthday as well
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and 99% of the time over the, you know, the last year or except for when I lost my weight a couple
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of years ago, I would be an extra large and literally got a hoodie, another hoodie for my
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birthday and it was an extra large and it was literally looked like a sack on me. So that meant
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that felt really good actually. So I'm going to go and exchange that. So tomorrow night you'll
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probably see that because I'm tired of wearing all the ones that I've got. So anyway, that was
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really nice as well. So to kind of feel like, okay, these are actually, I don't need to wear
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these massive clothes anymore. So that's a good positive. And yeah, anyway, that's pretty much it
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for tonight. So I hope everybody had a good Monday and sticks with the diets. Again, please, if you
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and yeah, we'll see you tomorrow. Bye
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