And we’re back.
Did you miss me? Maybe you did, since I am kind of addictive.
I took four days off from the blog, and one day off the diet. Why didn’t I write on Sunday when I said I would? Well, I didn’t feel the need to tell you the story about the pizza I devoured on Sunday. Here’s the short story: It was good, but not that good.
The time away gave me a chance to think about what I am doing with this weight-loss plan.
The main problem I have with the first 20 days is the erratic nature of the scale. Granted, I understand variables and have a working knowledge of how weight loss sometimes manifests itself. However, the yo-yoing back and forth has been nothing short of ridiculous. Let’s note the peaks and valleys:
1. Lost four pounds in the first two days.. Awesome, right?
2. Had a terrible binge on Day 3 and gained three pounds back over the next two or three days…sucks, right?
3. Managed to get a few good days in and got down under 290 pounds…fantastic.
4. But, for some reason, kept inching up over 290 pounds for a while…not good.
5. Got explosive diarrhea last week, actually got down to 284…hell yeah! (for the weight, not the diarrhea.)
6. Predictably gained some weight back the next day, and finished 13 straight days of eating a low-calorie, low-fat diet weighing in at 289 pounds.
So here I am, Day 20 in the books, and I have lost 10 pounds. It’s progress, undeniably concrete progress at that. But it’s not the kind of progress I expected with this. (And, as of Monday night, I haven’t weighed myself since Saturday morning. The off-day pizza probably did a number on the scale. I am hoping I countered correctly with a decent, but not great, day of eating and a decent amount of exercise on Monday).
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1 - Hucbald
1] Throw the scale in the trash.
2] Fill a liter mug with ice cubes all the way to the top first thing when you get out of bed in the morning, fill it with water, grab a multi-vitamin while you let the water chill, then drink the water as quickly as is comfortable. Refill the mug until the remaining ice barely floats, and repeat until you have melted all the ice.
3] Eat two hard boiled eggs.
4] Work out for fifteen minutes.
5] Eat a low carb lunch.
6] Repeat 2-4 in the evening, but add something like a ground beef steak.
7] Have a late evening snack. Dry roasted nuts are perfect to aid regularity (I have them for lunch too).
Dieting alone to lose weight is the most inefficient way to lose weight there is. The trick is to get your slothful metabolism roaring along. Making your body warm a lot of 32 degree water to 98.6 is one way, working out for A FEW MINUTES twice a day is another, and eating four times a day is the final piece of the puzzle: If your body feels starved, it will conserve fat as a survival mechanism.
My nickname was fatso as a kid. I know how this works.