Plateau! I'll take it! It's far better than gaining weight. Gaining is for the birds! LOL.
My husband is feeling much better now that he has had an opportunity to speak with his doctor. The doctor was fully on board with the plan to go keto to try to reverse the blood glucose issue. She will follow up with him in three months to see how he is doing.
In the meantime, we have ordered a blood glucose monitor, and we will make sure that he is doing well, and his blood glucose is dropping. He is coping much better with his new diet, too. I'm so glad. I was really worried about that. He was so glum. He was definitely experiencing a bit of mourning.
Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 360.8 lbs
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 359 lbs
I'm hovering just above my next goal weight. I know that it is going to be stubborn. I wonder if my mind can affect my weight loss. Maybe I should stop settings goals. Instead, I could simply record the weight loss as it happens, and have a goal to take photos and measure myself at certain time periods. ]
Speaking of measuring myself, I have taken to measuring myself once a week, and I have done this twice. I've lost inches! So many inches...
All of these measurements are in inches. This is quite a difference. On both my waist and thigh, I lost 2 inches! Each!! And in total, this is 9.7 inches lost overall!
I know that my husband doesn't need to lose much, but he is a big guy. He is around 225 lbs, and he could stand to lose a bit off his belly. I'm sure this diet will help. I'm keeping him fed at more than 2000 calories. I just want to make sure he is getting enough food to remain satiated from one meal to the next. He was trying to fast with me yesterday and do the OMAD thing, but he got really hungry. He worked past it, but I know what a miserable feeling that can be.
I have joined a new Facebook group that focuses on fasting for weight loss, and they follow Dr. Fung. I really like Dr. Fung. He has made it so easy to understand how my body is using the food I take in and why fasting is pretty much a miraculous "magic bullet" for weight loss and health regain. I know that my body is benefiting greatly from fasting and the keto diet. This is fully sustainable, and I don't feel like I am missing out on any foods at all.
I find it difficult to change my thinking about caloric intake, though. I see the science. I know that weight gain and loss is not based solely on the old calories-in = calories-out chestnut, but it's just hard to change the thinking. I have been fully indoctrinated!
I use the caloric values of my foods to calculate the proper ratios of protein and fat, mainly, but I can't help but get a bit wide-eyed when seeing the total calories go up from 1200 to 1400 as I enter the foods I want to eat. So I end up adjusting down to fit within a self-imposed range of 1200 to 1300 calories. I'm much more liberal with my husband's meal plan. Yesterday, it was 2066 calories! he had a double helping of the casserole to start, and then I added some BPC and salad with dressing.
I really, really, very want to do another extended fast. I really seem to enjoy them. I'm pretty sure I can safely fast for a super long period of time, but I am not technically under a doctor's care, so I don't want to do anything too risky. 72 hours seems fine. I'll stick to that once a week for a while and see how it goes. This means that I will have three more days of eating, then I will fast for 72 hours and skip two days of meals.
My schedule is such that skipping just two days of eating gives me a 72-hours fast. That's really interesting. If I start my fasting after my OMAD meal on the 25th, for example, the fast starts roughly around 6:30 AM. Then I skip the meal on the 26th at 6:30 AM, skip it again on the 27th at 6:30 AM, and my next OMAD meal isn't planned until around 6:30 AM on the 28th. And in total, that is 72 hours of fasting.
While I can safely consume fats without technically breaking my fast, that would stop autophagy, so I don't. I drink my own electrolyte water mix. I mix 6 cups of water with 2 Tbps of Magnesium, 1/2 tsp of Potassium, and 1/4 tsp of Pink Himalayan salt. Then I pour 16 oz of that into my ironic pineapple, and I sip that until it's gone. Then I pour some more and keep doing that. In this way, I keep my electrolytes up, and thus my energy. I also prevent myself from being dehydrated. I can also safely say that the weight I lose while fasting is not water weight. It's all fat loss!
My rate of loss is averaging about a half-a-pound per day, and according to Dr. Fung, that's the most I can expect. It is the most that is possible.
I can't wait to do another extended fast graph:
My husband is feeling much better now that he has had an opportunity to speak with his doctor. The doctor was fully on board with the plan to go keto to try to reverse the blood glucose issue. She will follow up with him in three months to see how he is doing.
In the meantime, we have ordered a blood glucose monitor, and we will make sure that he is doing well, and his blood glucose is dropping. He is coping much better with his new diet, too. I'm so glad. I was really worried about that. He was so glum. He was definitely experiencing a bit of mourning.
Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 360.8 lbs
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 359 lbs
I'm hovering just above my next goal weight. I know that it is going to be stubborn. I wonder if my mind can affect my weight loss. Maybe I should stop settings goals. Instead, I could simply record the weight loss as it happens, and have a goal to take photos and measure myself at certain time periods. ]
Speaking of measuring myself, I have taken to measuring myself once a week, and I have done this twice. I've lost inches! So many inches...
All of these measurements are in inches. This is quite a difference. On both my waist and thigh, I lost 2 inches! Each!! And in total, this is 9.7 inches lost overall!
I know that my husband doesn't need to lose much, but he is a big guy. He is around 225 lbs, and he could stand to lose a bit off his belly. I'm sure this diet will help. I'm keeping him fed at more than 2000 calories. I just want to make sure he is getting enough food to remain satiated from one meal to the next. He was trying to fast with me yesterday and do the OMAD thing, but he got really hungry. He worked past it, but I know what a miserable feeling that can be.
I have joined a new Facebook group that focuses on fasting for weight loss, and they follow Dr. Fung. I really like Dr. Fung. He has made it so easy to understand how my body is using the food I take in and why fasting is pretty much a miraculous "magic bullet" for weight loss and health regain. I know that my body is benefiting greatly from fasting and the keto diet. This is fully sustainable, and I don't feel like I am missing out on any foods at all.I find it difficult to change my thinking about caloric intake, though. I see the science. I know that weight gain and loss is not based solely on the old calories-in = calories-out chestnut, but it's just hard to change the thinking. I have been fully indoctrinated!
I use the caloric values of my foods to calculate the proper ratios of protein and fat, mainly, but I can't help but get a bit wide-eyed when seeing the total calories go up from 1200 to 1400 as I enter the foods I want to eat. So I end up adjusting down to fit within a self-imposed range of 1200 to 1300 calories. I'm much more liberal with my husband's meal plan. Yesterday, it was 2066 calories! he had a double helping of the casserole to start, and then I added some BPC and salad with dressing.
I really, really, very want to do another extended fast. I really seem to enjoy them. I'm pretty sure I can safely fast for a super long period of time, but I am not technically under a doctor's care, so I don't want to do anything too risky. 72 hours seems fine. I'll stick to that once a week for a while and see how it goes. This means that I will have three more days of eating, then I will fast for 72 hours and skip two days of meals.
My schedule is such that skipping just two days of eating gives me a 72-hours fast. That's really interesting. If I start my fasting after my OMAD meal on the 25th, for example, the fast starts roughly around 6:30 AM. Then I skip the meal on the 26th at 6:30 AM, skip it again on the 27th at 6:30 AM, and my next OMAD meal isn't planned until around 6:30 AM on the 28th. And in total, that is 72 hours of fasting.
While I can safely consume fats without technically breaking my fast, that would stop autophagy, so I don't. I drink my own electrolyte water mix. I mix 6 cups of water with 2 Tbps of Magnesium, 1/2 tsp of Potassium, and 1/4 tsp of Pink Himalayan salt. Then I pour 16 oz of that into my ironic pineapple, and I sip that until it's gone. Then I pour some more and keep doing that. In this way, I keep my electrolytes up, and thus my energy. I also prevent myself from being dehydrated. I can also safely say that the weight I lose while fasting is not water weight. It's all fat loss!
My rate of loss is averaging about a half-a-pound per day, and according to Dr. Fung, that's the most I can expect. It is the most that is possible.
I can't wait to do another extended fast graph:
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