lol! what should I call it then haha!

& good for her! what is she doing that's making it work? if you don't mind me asking...

hey i play guitar to sooth myself, in college it was what I did to forget about tests and homework. I want to see if it helps get me off of thinking about food now lol

 

So.. We leave for a cruise next weekend, and my wife wanted to do a shred diet for 10 days, which would have been cool for her, but then she got it in her head that I should do it too. I wasn't on board with it, but she made a chart for me to do it anyway. We started on Monday and I was 217.5, today I was 212.7. I guess it is working, but I am still not excited about it. Of course the first few days of a diet normally do work. Ideally I would like to be sitting at 210 or below by Friday of next week.

 

I weighed in at 211.9 this morning. Of course I could put the 6 lbs back on in no time, I'm sure.

 

Nice work Curt!

Jamie and I are still in maintain mode, keto diet Monday-Thursday and we indulge on fast food and sweet yummies Friday-Sunday. Has been working out really well, I've been able to maintain right at 220 every Friday morning, give or take a pound in either direction.

It's going to be super hard to go back to full-on keto, but I think we're going to give it another try in January and maybe February of next year. I'd like to lose another 10-20 lbs, but I'd be happy with just maintaining where I'm at now too.

 

Yeah, I lost weight fast this time, so its easy to believe it will stack back on fast. I have one more week of this diet, then its belly up to the buffet on the boat.

 

I've been doing well (well ... other than the Chocolate Cake Incident), I've read that 80 to 90 per cent of the people who lose weight gain it all back and more, within 2 years.

That's a pretty depressing statistic.

Don't be a statistic!

 

That's why I step on the scale weekly now, gotta make absolutely sure my hard work wasn't for nothing

 

How tall are you? Height & weight tables tell the tale. I've also read the last 10 pounds are pretty well impossible to lose. I'm thinking maybe to even overshoot the recommended weight by about 5 to 10 pounds and see if that helps maintain the set point easier? Kinda sneak back up on it.

 

This morning I was at 211.0. One more pound and I will reach my short term goal. Maybe by tomorrow. I'm short, I am only about 5'10" or used to be. I am not sure now.

 

i'm just under 5-10 i think!
still hovering around 175 thank goodness, but I'm not at all sure that my body composition is what it was lol

 

i like that pic lol!
what I've learned is that the next 10 pounds are always harder than the last 10 pounds tis true! my last 10 pounds was really an all-out psycho freakout trying to make it happen. now that it has happened and that I've kept it off, i'm NEVER putting myself through that again lol. mark my works!

 

I'd encourage you to read the link I posted earlier (by an actual medical doctor, not a "nutrition coach" or some BS like that) on intermittent fasting. It is very simple, if not necessarily easy. It works for me, as I like to drink coffee. If you kind of play around with the calorie count, after a few weeks you'll get a sense of what your actual basal metabolic rate is, meaning exactly how many calories your body needs just to survive. Anything above this, you will gain weight guaranteed, even if slowly, unless offset by work or exercise. It really isn't any more complicated than that.

From that number, you can figure out quickly that for example if your basal metabolic rate is say, around 1800 calories, a reduction of 600 calories daily - a consumption of 1200 calories a day, you'll lose 2 pounds every 10 days. Mind you this is without any exercise. It gives your body a metabolic work out, and trains the pathways to burn fat for energy, instead of sugar or carbs.

The whole problem with junk food and lots of carbs in particular, is they give a huge sugar "high" that spikes the blood sugar. And then in a couple hours get hungry again - for more carbs! Think about this for a second. Why would an obese person ever get hungry? Why is that happening? It isn't as if there aren't enough fat stores & calories to live for a year.

Intermittent fasting helps with this, it takes a while to get your body used to eating once a day, but if you can gut it out for a week or so it works really good and you'll get used to it. When people get "hungry" they are jonesing for more junkfood and carbs. I have had a couple moments of failure from my routine, but it works really well overall because the tendency overall is still losing pounds even if the rate slows due to ... chocolate cake or whatever.

 

I reached my short term goal this morning by weighing in at 210! Sadistic as it sounds I am preparing myself to put it all back on in a very short time, but hopefully I can control myself while I am gone, and come back not too much over my original weight.

 

Well after last night's midnight snack, Mesquite Barbecue potato chips are on the List of Things Not To Keep Around The House. "About 12" chips are 150 calories. Not 12 handfuls, 12 chips.

 

I weighed in again at 210 this morning. Yesterday was rough, and two cheeseburgers for lunch and a late dinner did not help, but I didn't go up. I am glad I reached my short term goal, because today was the deadline.