Time to buckle down after a crazy summer

This was my craziest summer in a long time! It kicked off by starting the long-awaited renovation on out kitchen. Everything got torn out in mid-July, and it wasn't finally all put back together until the end of August. Between all the dust of sanding new wood floors and refinishing the ceiling, and the clutter of all the kitchen's contents being piled up on the dining room table and living room (under plastic sheets), the house wasn't very conducive to eating healthfully. So, we ended up taking a lot of vacations in those 6 weeks to get out of the house (and a lot of dinners at Pancho Loco). Needless to say, I took quite a break from tracking my macros and keto. 

• ~week at Old Orchard Beach
• long weekend at Brialee campground in our camper
• ~week in upstate NY and Six Flags Great Escape
• long weekend at Six Flags Great Adventure and water park
• 10 days in Orlando (mid-Sept)

While camping, I had a freak food poisoning accident resulting in a major sprain of my right big toe, leaving me barely able to walk around (and with quite a limp).  I was really bummed out because I had been very good about doing the Couch to Half Marathon program and really felt like I was making progress - I was already half-way through! After 3 weeks of waiting for it to feel better, I finally went to the podiatrist, and was prescribed a couple weeks of PT and a regimen of ibuprofen. Remarkably, my toe felt so much better in those 2 weeks that I was able to run my first 10K at the Lake Compounce Roller Coaster Race. I was a bit out of practice after not running for 5 weeks, so I did intervals of 4 mins running/2 mins walking, and finished in 01:19:42. After the run, we did the "Ride" race where we had to ride 5K of roller coaster track - that was actually pretty brutal since the coasters were not very smooth! But I got both of my medals. ;)

After spraining my toe, I also stopped going to CrossFit. Although I've run a few times since the sprain, I still haven't been to CrossFit in a full 2 months. I just don't seem to have the zeal for it that I had a couple years ago. But I do want to go back and hit some weights again. I just dread all the soreness!!! And I dread lacking the stamina I used to have. Hoping that will return once I am fat-adapted.

However, despite all this summer craziness, I'm happy to say that I didn't really gain much weight. I was trying to listen a little more to my body, skipping meals if I wasn't really hungry. I did quite a bit of intermittent fasting in the few days before Labor Day while painting the house like a madwoman (so much trim work all throughout the kitchen, living room, and hallway!), but I still felt fine, and was amazed at how much leaner I felt in just those few days. I'm planning to incorporate some IF regularly once I'm fat-adapted.

For the next few months, I intend to follow the following macros, which were recommended by a moderator on the Facebook KETOGains group. So many people have reported great success in that group. I think I was still eating too much previously, so my weight loss was very slow. So, cutting the calories back a bit to see how I do - hoping for some good progress. I really want to drop 20 pounds and get back into the low 180s for the race in January!

1540 cals: 20C (5%) 100F (68%) 141P (37%)