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The weight has been slowly risen since Jan. 2018. I had managed 8st-8st2lb since Nov. 2016 until Dec. 2017 but I was about 8st 11-13lb on and from mid 2018. There has been certain health issues but I guess I wasn't willing to maintain the weight much. And it always starts that all my clothes become tighter then, I realise I have to loose some weight off. Not only for the appearance and size but also I know that my knee will be start to sore some point from 9st.

Since some point after the wedding, my diet hasn't been strickly in Ketogenic.

I can say it's been more likely normal diet 'all you can eat' but I have tend to stay in low carb with avoiding sugar as much as I can. The good thing is that I don't scare of Fat anymore after the all experience. (To be honest, I never been scare of fat as I hate 'low fat' foods.)

And additionally I learn that fat is good and even better without carb existence.

Summer in 2018 was a very dry and hot in UK. It has never like that since I have lived here and also days by day was breaking the records along in July and August.

I really didn't mean to delay this blog post but I have been busy and al a very lazy.
This has been my draft folder for a while I thought I might skip it.
But still, I like to read over and over again my own stories so I have to post it for later.

My general condition from end of March and April so far has been one of the worst in the recent couple of years.
It was the reason I have doubted LCHF diet but I tried to find the best solution for me.

Now, from the professional's help & advices, my doubt of Ketogenic diet has been slowly faded away.
I am keeping up my diet in low carb diet but I won't avoid a good carbohydrate source of food.

Have you enjoyed PyeongChang Winter Olympic 2018?

It was held in one of the county of South Korea and I was pretty proud of it. I guess because of it, MONOCLE magazine which is one of my favourite was chosen South Korea as the main theme in their March issue.

I was curious.
The main interests was the interview of Mr. president Moon.
And...?...

I still am with so many doubt about keeping this diet in my life.
There are definitely pros & cons but I have got more positive aspects than negatives.
The negative aspects are more about habits and less continence life style.
And of course, the desire for deserts, sweets and crisps.

Now I am less and less obsessed with low carb life style and life is much easier.
I put some weight and I don't feel absolutely great but it is okay.
I am in my mid 30's and I think that Ketogenic diet seems like one of the processes in my life style.
I don't know weather I keep this life style or not but this diet looks one of my experience.
And it is a good one.

As soon as we came back to short break in Brighton, I wasn't feel good.
Then, I had been in the bed about 2 week.

January.

I have decided to keep up with Ketogenic diet but it will be more generous than before.

The carb restriction have been given some negative impact to me so I decided that I have to allow more generous to carb intake.

I am posting the menu which is keto friendly but in reality, I have had what I want to eat. I just have given more freedom to choose the menu.

Yet again, a very late posting of my Ketogenic diet meals in December 2017 is finally here.
Yes, I am still in Keto but I must say I am not 100% in strict diet plan.
I put some weight, about 2-3lb.
To be honest, it happened because I drink almost every day. I don't do binge drinking I just enjoy my wine or beer when I have a dinner and then some more on the sofa after the dinner. It became a habit.
This definitely made me more craving of crips and it stops to burn fat in my body. I knew/know but it was THE time of the year, December, and I thought 'why not? and I can always come back to diet.'.

Apart from alcohol, I tried to keep my carb consumption as low as possible.

I must say I tried.
Low carb lifestyle is not that hard but there are too much good things in the earth.
My taste buds remember greatness & deliciousness of food too well so I struggled a little in the point of view of the ketosis. But I don't regret anything, I just enjoy.

After my family has left London, I tried a very hard to keep on track.
However, it wasn't easy. Mentally, it was hard to find the reason.
I am healthy adult who has no terrible eating disorder.
It was a only reason I have been in ketosis is that I wanted to look nice and slim on my wedding day.

Chinken is almost everyone's favourite!
(I say almost because I have friend who hate the chicken.)

Hot wings ® from KFC with a good beer was one of my favourite meals for Friday evening in before my Keto life started. I missed it so much, so I cheated couple of time before I found this way to fry wings!

It is the same way to cook crispy thigh (Click here) so again, it is a hardly say it is recipe.

1.Remove excess moisture on the skin.

2. Put wing one by one in the smoking hot lard.

Make sure count ten before you put the each wings.

I found it this way is better for making crispy wings than deep fry.

3. Turn the wings when you see the yellowy-brownish colour on side of wings.

It takes about 8-10mins on each side.

4. Again, put generous salt in each side wings.

I still love my coffee with cream in the morning.
It gets even lovelier with local double cream from Blackheath farmer's market.

It is silly to say it's the recipe.

I say that it is sort of my way to fry chicken without batter.

It's a perfectly Ketogenic friendly fried chicken and it is delicious!

My LCHF diet in July is just fine. I wasn't naughty like last previous couple of month.

To look back, I have had sea food more than eat meat or poultry in July.

It has been 9 month in Ketogenic diet.

I have experienced pro and cons from this diet and I still stick with it. The most positive things was weight loss but the lowest weight of my adult life is a very hard to be maintained. The weight just bound back to the starting point as soon as my eating habit comes back. I do not have eating disorder but sometimes I tend to eat too much until I feel a very uncomfortable.

It has been a very very naughty, May.

May 2017, not the current Prime minister.

(Wow... pretty bad joke, Hah!)

I don't know but I have started to lose control of myself and allowed me to have many times of cheating.

I don't want to list it all but I have been a very naughty and even out of ketosis for a while.

3 days continuously craving of bag of crisps, I was definitely out of ketosis. After 5 days hardcore LCHF plan, my Ketostick finally turned to lavender along with mild headache.

Apart from few days of freedom from carb restriction, I have generally stuck to Ketogenic diet with allowing around 50g of carb a day.

Simple pan-fried pork belly with vegitables

Curry powder coated fried pork belly

Steamed then fried pork belly in soy sauce with dripping from steamed pork belly

Simply pressure-cooked pork belly with celery pickles.

I do enjoy celery pickles with almost everything as well as own its on.

Yes, I finally had a pint of larger. Now, I don't desire for this anymore.
It wasn't that good as I expected so I will stick with wine now on.
But I am still very obsessed with crisps.

I finally tried cheese chips. It was delicious but my desire for crisps is not satisfied.
So I decided to eat the crisps with controlling the portion. 1-2 portion(30-60g) when I really want.

The day I finally found out the reason for bloated feeling after the meal. It was the egg.
I am not 100% sure but I never feel bloated and uncomfortable feeling after the meal in my stomach since I stop eating eggs.

I do recomemd waitroase extra virgin olive oil. It is affordable and a good quality supermaket branded. This time, I bought big size.

I pre-made olive oil + lemon juice mixture for many use. I just have it with table spoonful before go to bed and also it is a great dressing for any salad dishes.

I also made ready to eat vegis for me not just for K&L.

This sometimes really helps because when I don't feel cook I just use pre-cooked vegis for quick cooking.

I bought some of keto-friendly snacks to try to be more strict for my Ketogenic diet. But it still doesn't help much for my craving of crisps. So I decided to have it with controlling in portion.

Oh! My! I love brie but this, heavenly!

There are couple of E-numbers added but I don't have it every meals so I guess I can enjoying it with guilty free. Honestly I had it almost half of them once I tasted first.

Than, I make sure I have it not more than 2Tspn at once.

I don't think it is popular in Western people at all but it is seaweed noodle.

There are lots of positive things to eat this sea smelly ribbon. I choose to buy for the first time of my life for remedy for constipation. And it helped! Helped a lot.

I bought the dried one. It is a very easy to cook but need couple of steps before eat.

I dressed the softened seaweed noodles in pre-made lemon + olive oil dressing with some finely chopped chilly.

April had been more likely 'Anti-Keto of the month' so far. I guess I couldn't be bothered it much and I enjoyed all the food around me. So, I gained around 3.5lb of my lowest so far. Funny thing is that I didn't really care and my waist line pretty much same.

So I tried Keto-Friendly smoothie challenge for 5 days and my weight came back to the lowest. But again, it gradually came back to soon I ate normal solid foods but I feel okay. After smoothie challenge, I didn't do my aftercare so I have got a massive acid reflex and I suffered a lot. For weeks of management of my body, I am back to normal. Don't get me wrong, it is a not from the smoothie challenge, condition was caused by entirely my fault.

Overall, since I have had a look around my photo on April while I blog the post, I wasn't that bad. I must say there were 4-5 times of cheating on April.

Avocado & mozzarella salad with lots of olive oil was one of the easiest and simplest meal for LCHF diet.

Again pork belly, steamed, fried or slow-cooked always delicious.

Eggs...

Fried eggs with a crushed crispy seaweed sheet.

Bacon wrapped avocado with egg.

Mr. made for me and apparently, it is an one of popular recipes on Facebook.

Egg york was slightly over cooked but it was delicious.

I think it is a good weekend brunch Keto-friendly menu.

Again, Mr. cooked for me.

Rolled eggs pancake with bacon & seaweed sheet.

I asked him for this and I must say, it was a weird combination.

Water braised slow-cooked chicken.

This I can share with K&L.

Add various vegis and spiced for human.

2017 April was pretty chilly in London except one day.

So, I was still prefer to cook a warm soup based food.

(Water braised) Slow-cooked beef short ribs with egg noodle.

Serve with Keto-friendly picked celery.

I have made a cabbage and celery pickles.

I used cider vinegar, salt, water

and dates (for a little bit of sweetness).

The pickles goes well with everything.

Self-making spring roll day.

I had lettuces instead of rice paper for a roll.

I like Sainsbury's dairy products the most among UK big supermarkets.

I only buy butter from the M&S because Somerset farmhouse butter is my favourite and it only sell at M&S.

I, sometimes, took a handful of serving size of Keto-friendly ingredient when I order in shops and restaurants. I took it for emergency(?). And for sweetener that it is only can seen in central London coffee local shops at the moment, I don't buy sweeteners because I try to adapt myself to live without sugar or sugar substitute but I took it because I want to try it. Since I tried it a couple of times, I want more and more and even I had sugary desert once. So my conclusion is that I avoid it at all apart from natural sugar in foods.

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