Empyrean Engine

I hit a new low! 364 lbs even, and this is after the 52.5-hour fast and then a re-feed. It is also after eating my normal OMAD meal this morning of pizza casserole and salad. This WOE is far too easy. Surprisingly it is not too good to be true; it is simply too good. I'm loving this. I can do this. Starting weight:  401 lbs Current weight:  364  lbs   ⇩ Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  359 lbs I have been struggling with whether I should say my starting weight is 425 lbs, 415 lbs, 401 lbs, or 386 lbs. My initial starting weight before Shangri-La was 415 lbs. My highest weight ever recorded was when I was about 26 years old, and I was 425 lbs. I had gotten down to 374 lbs in November of 2017, and then I re-gained back up to 401 lbs by March of 2018. I started to lose again at that point. I brought that down to 386 lbs using Shangri-La concepts, and then I discovered Keto and Intermittent Fasting. So if I am to be absolutely fair and accurate...

My shift changed this week, so today is the first day of my new weekend. I am also still fasting, and I didn't eat until after my husband's appointments. The good news is that I only gained one pound after my re-re-feed. Gain was expected. I was exlecting moe than 1 lb, though, so this snall gain was welcome. I fasted for 52.5 hours! Starting weight:  415 lbs Current weight:  365.2  lbs  ⇧   Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  359 lbs We went to the mall food court, and we ate at Chicago Cheesesteak Company. Apparently they have the #1 cheesteaks. I wasn't all that impressed. I had a large cheese steak sandwich in a bowl without the bread. It consisted of three or four large pieces of thinly sliced lean beef, a few slices of tomato, some sauteed onions, a few pickles, and some shreds of iceberg lettuce all topped with some shredded cheddar. I had them add mayo because I needed a bit more fat. When I tasted it, though, it was sweet as i...

Woo! I succeeded in an extended fast. I decided not to eat anything after work. I didn't really feel like cooking, and I let my husband eat my meal instead. At the moment, it's 2:45 AM, and I'm at work, and I'm 43 hours and 55 minutes into a fast. I haven't eaten anything, and I have oly been drinking electrolytes. I don't feel hungry, and I have had steady energy. This is amazing. What's better? The last weight measurement I did at around noon. Wow! Just look at the data: Starting weight:  401 lbs Current weight:  364.2  lbs   ⇩ Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  359 lbs I lost 2.4 lbs from yesterday to today! I can't believe this! I broke my stall, and I'm well below 366.6 lbs now. I think I may continue losing, too. I bet I drop even more. I shouldn't get ahead of myself, though. I don't want to get disappointed if I stay at 364.2 lbs for a while. I'm just so excited about this progress! I started watching YouTube vi...

Woohoo! I'm down again. And not only am I down, I'm down below where I was at my lowest! This is great. I wonder, though, whether this means I'm about to drop even lower and hit my next goal of getting to 359 lbs or under. We shall see. I'm very hopeful! Starting weight:  401 lbs Current weight:  366.6  lbs   ⇩ Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  359 lbs I feel 100% better. I am not feeling bloated and uncomfortable at all today. I woke up energized. And between you and me, I had a great dream. It was a sexy dream. Eek! LOL. My point in telling you about this is that it was a pleasant dream. It wasn't stressful or scary at all. That was a welcome change. Now, Dr. Berg says that when we have vivid dreams, that indicates that we have a B-vitamin deficiency, so it's not good. We should be forgetting our dreams. So I guess I need to add more nutritional yeast into my OMAD meal to make sure I'm getting enough of it. That's sad, though. I was en...

I feel so yuck today! I don't know what happened. I think it may have been the stevia in the drink I had. I decided to try some of Dr. Berg's Wheat Grass Juice Powder mixed with some of his Electrolyte Powder in my ironic pineapple... along with the electrolyte drink I already had in there consisting of potassium, magnesium, and sodium with no sweetener. My own electrolyte drink is fine. It doesn't break my body. And the Dr. Berg supplement powders shouldn't break me, either. There isn't anything else that I can think of that would have caused this. Starting weight:  415 lbs Current weight:  368  lbs  ⇧   Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  359 lb I gained 1.2 lbs from yesterday, and I'm terribly bloated. I had more fats than I should have, but that would not have caused so much bloat. This seems more like a response to too much insulin. At least, that's what I think it could be according to Dr. Berg's YouTube videos. I had half the salad...

My pizza was missing! What? I went to grab my pizza casserole from the fridge, and it was nowhere to be found. I think someone ate it. I'm so sad about that. So instead of eating that, I had to make myself someone I hadn't planned to eat. So the first step was grabbing my Carb Manager app and manipulate the keto foods I have, checking different quantities, and mixing and matching until I could fall within the range of my caloric goal and still meet the macros. I need 75% of my calories in fats, 20% in proteins, and 5% or fewer in carbohydrates. It was tough, but I did it! Starting weight:  401 lbs Current weight:  366.8  lbs   ⇩ Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  359 lbs Also, the scale has me at 366.8 lbs again today! So that's a victory. Nothing I did yesterday ruined my diet, apparently. That's good to know. So what was this miraculous meal I made for myself? 6 eggs fried in 5 tbsp of butter. 2 tbsp of sour cream 3 slices of the Till...

I didn't eat my leftover pizza casserole tonight. Also, the scale reading went up today.  I don't blame it. I weighed myself after I ate a whole package of beef jerky. I had 4 oz of the stuff. It was good, though. We got the jerky on our way to Tucson from California. We stopped in Quartzite, and Eric thought very seriously about uprooting us to move there. The guy behind the counter of the beef jerky place was very convincing. LOL. Starting weight:  415 lbs Current weight:  367.4  lbs  ⇧   Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  359 lbs Anyhow, this jerky's been waiting for weeks just for me. It has no sugar or carbs, and that's why we bought it. Working it into my OMAD has been difficult, but as we were playing board games (and celebrating our anniversary), I didn't think much about pulling it out as a snack. It was around 2:30 AM when I ate it. it was close enough to my eating window that I didn't worry about it. I pulled out some o...