21 Day Keto: Day 4

It's Saturday, and the Hubs is finally home, yay!  After breakfast, I spent the morning working on our meal plan in Pepperplate for next week, and doing some calculations on SparkRecipes to make tracking homemade foods easier. Got meals pre-loaded into FitBit for a few days in advance to make sure we're on target for hitting the <20g net carbs target. Went grocery shopping to load up on the things we'll need for this week's meals. And even made it to the gym!

Breakfast: Breakfast casserole (this is tasty, but after 4 days straight of eating the same thing, I'm ready for a change).  Decided to try to flavor my coffee this morning with a bit of peppermint extract, but I used too much, it was a little overpowering.  Thinking about trying to make some keto-friendly creamer.

Lunch: Egg Roll in a Bowl (portion was on the small size, just because we were both still fairly full from breakfast).  This is super tasty.

Post-gym: Powerade Zero, probiotic, vitamin

Dinner:  Balsamic grilled steak, onions, & mushrooms; bacon and steamed brussel sprouts

This was delicious. I used to make this steak all the time--I should make it more often. (Though we usually have it with mashed potatoes.)  Meanwhile, our kiddo had a relatively well-rounded dinner, chock-full of carbs: half PB sandwich on whole wheat, cottage cheese, grapes, milk, and a few goldfish crackers.  40g net carbs in his.  

Total: 1230 kcal, 92g fat, 16g net carbs, 70g protein

My thoughts: Tracking is kind of time consuming, but I guess at the end of this 21-day period we'll have a better idea of what the foods we generally eat have in them carb-wise, so if we want to eat lower carb (but not actually keto), we can do that. Also, it feel completely impossible to get 25g of fiber (the recommended daily amount), while also maintaining 20-25g net carbs or 5% of your total intake.  

All of the highest fiber vegetables (broccoli, cabbage, kale) have about 2.5-3 g fiber per cup. They ALSO each have about 3g net carbs per cup...So if you eat 10 cups a day and achieve the recommended amount of fiber, you also go over the approved number of net carbs to keep your body in ketosis.  So...that's my rant for the day.

The Hubs' Day 4: 
Note: you'll notice that The Hubs & I still have different foods listed for today and tomorrow--that's because he started 2 days ahead of me. So it's not that we don't eat together, we're just on different days of the diet.

Breakfast at the Hotel: Black coffee with Splenda, egg white omelette, 11g of peanut butter, 2/3 cheese omelette, 5 sausage links (650 cals total)
Lunch: 2 deli roll ups, 1/2 oz pepperjack cheese, some ham, Powerade
Dinner: Taco Bell Power Bowl, Michelob Ultra, 1/2 cup broccoli

Total: 1384 kcal, 8% carbs, 64% fat, 28% protein

DK's thoughts:  It's easy enough to take net carbs under 20-25g, but trying to keep all the other macros in line is really hard.  I don't feel low energy, but I definitely don't want to go run.