The last few days

The last few days of keto, that is. Probably. It's very early on Wednesday (I've had a very odd work schedule for a few days now), and Saturday I'll be going out to eat more or less whatever I want when I get to the restaurant. So that's basically guaranteed to drop me out of ketosis. I've found the keto chow shakes to be very convenient; I've generally been just having three shakes a day, or two shakes and a large salad. I find myself wondering about continuing with keto in a more lax fashion; having more carbs, even enough to drive me out of keto, but still consuming the majority of my calories as fat. People often put a ceiling on carbs for keto of 50 or 25 grams a day, but say you consume 100; that's still 400 calories, WAY less than I burn in a day. So, in theory, I should be able to eat more carbs than a keto diet allows, but still be getting the bulk of my calories from fats. I need to research a bit more.

My new goggles and my swim buoy arrived. The swim buoy is smaller than I expected, but that actually pleases me. It fits well into my backpack. If it works decently to keep half of me afloat while the other half exercises, I'll be very pleased. I'm thinking seriously about trying it tomorrow. Today, I biked to the beach, then immediately to work. A bit shy of 13 miles, just over an hour of actual moving time, and the only issue was a slight increase in breathing difficulty late in the ride (sweat+mask=harder to breath).

Anyway, there will be at least some carbs in a few days. I plan to have a few things that many people would regard as normal foods, or even undesirable, but that I have come to regard as treats. A good slice of rye toast with butter. Pasta; maybe with olive oil and some oysters. Grape nuts on my salad (don't judge). Not a lot; I'm still optimistic about getting down to 180.