Diet crap talk

[Geo]

Thanks! I'll be 59 in a few days. It seems I've been turning back the clock this year. I have been free of the spinal pain, and other joints are much better.  I feel about 50 again.

Okay, close but no cigar!
(I'm still on the 7x7 page)

[Rusty Edge]

223.0 on my last weigh in. So nearly stagnant, didn't make my goal. On the other hand, it is a new low, and there have been dietary and exercise exceptions due to travel, hanging out in the skilled nursing facility, and celebrating my birthday. So it still a win. It te // battery failure, next day// On a hunch I weighed in again this morning because I noticed that I was a little smaller while trying to get comfortable in bed. 220.5. BMI 29.9! I am no longer obese, merely overweight. I only care about the Body Mass Index because that's how my doctor judges me. My new goal is 200 by year's end. That's more than a pound per week, so it's a little ambitious, but it should be a better season for weight loss, and it's a lot easier for me to be active now.

[E_T]

Taking a page from [Sleezebag], it would seem... 

Good to here, is good to have progress even when your in a position to not expect it...

[ColdWizard]

Dropped only 1.7 pounds in the last 5 weeks. Still a downward trend despite several setbacks.

[Rusty Edge]

If it were easy, everybody would do it. Well, maybe they do... BUT the important thing is that you haven't given up!

Dropped only 1.7 pounds in the last 5 weeks. Still a downward trend despite several setbacks.

[ColdWizard]

Working in some gym time would be useful to counteract the shouldn't-have-eaten-that times. Perhaps even as a deterrent to the behavior, since my preferred uncrowded late night gym time conflicts with my current asleep before midnight sleep pattern.

I just need to keep focusing on it's a process and there's no cheat code.

[Rusty Edge]

I've gained about 5 pounds. Some of that might be fluid, but I've definitely gained.   I'm away from home and doing more driving than exercising. But, if I'm celebrating the successes, I might as well admit the mistakes. I think the real issue here is that I'm still consuming a lot of food. Sure, I'm still eating healthier, but every pound I lose reduces my calorie requirements. I haven't been shrinking my consumption with the size of my body. I could be cutting the size of my protein servings or nut snacks now, as examples. I could have a meatless day. I could simply skip some meals when I'm not hungry. I could go to bed earlier to convince my body that it's winter, and time to use calories as needed rather than store them.

[Unorthodox]

I similarly hit a road bump.  Almost entirely related to a soda binge brought on by some stressers.  To be perfectly blunt, those stressers are likely to get worse before better. 

[Rusty Edge]

Home again, and back on my "official" scale. A new low of 219.0 lbs. So essentially, my net loss for September was a mere 1.5 pounds, less than the roughly 2 and a half pounds/ week I've been doing in the course of the diet. BUT, I am back on track, and I'm excited. I  had a blood draw for lab work today, my physical follows in a week. I'll be able to walk more here at home, and I have more food options. According to the theory behind my diet, which is based upon convincing the body that it is time to use fat, rather than store it, it should be increasingly easier to do this in the fall and winter, and most difficult in late summer. So, I'm excited.


I hope to be able to drop the statin I'm taking on a trial basis, and I have another appointment soon to find out if I still need the CPAP machine. More importantly, I feel different every time I move. Free is the word that comes to mind. That's all for now.

[E_T]

Fantastic

[Rusty Edge]

Well, last week was a wedding, with a series of events that mostly involved food. Mostly not diet food and drink, either.  So I tried to follow the "Do the best you can with what you've got" diet rule. Not a lot of time to go walking. I'm at 216.4 right now. Hopefully I'll official break the BMI obesity barrier with a fully clothed weigh-in tomorrow. My overall cholesterol is down about 10 points, and my triglycerides are down from 110 to 51. Blood pressure was 122/66 when I donated blood last week. Not sure about that number, but I'll get another reading tomorrow with my physical. 


On the qualitative side of things, I think I lost my side belly, so I wouldn't call it a spare tire anymore, just a gut. Also, I had to find a suit to wear for the wedding. Most of the ones in my closet were too big. One was too small. The one I  wore was the one I wore to my own wedding almost 15 years ago. The difference being that it was a little snug with all of the buttons fastened ( So I left an extra one undone) and I didn't need a belt or suspenders to keep my pants up. That means a couple things- 1) the pants are tighter than when I bought them, 2) I apparently have a waist again if my hips can hold up my pants.

[E_T]

Sounds good. 

[Rusty Edge]

Blood pressure was 112/68 today. I think that is accurate.  My doctor was impressed with all of my test numbers and my weight loss, even if I wasn't. Not enough to ,say, ditch the statin medication, but impressed all of the same. Sugar is no longer a health issue for me.


The exception is the prostate test. My numbers are rising rapidly to meet the age curve, and since my grandfather had surgery around age 65, I'm getting a urology appointment.


Aging is one giant game of wack-a- mole.

[Rusty Edge]

The doctor's visit weigh-in was done with shoes on this time ( for sanitary purposes, I was told), so no official breaking of the obesity barrier.


Today I was 215.3, a new low.  It was a weird week. I caught the family cold, suspended my exercise program, forced a lot of fluids including salty broths and sweet teas. Gained weight, but it seems to have been water because it left as I recovered from the cold and got back to routine.


I'm thinking about curtailing dairy in my diet. According to this diet theory, dairy helps a body grow fast. Fine when you're a kid or an aspiring teen athelete, when your'e a  middle aged guy with a gut or prostate or tumor, not so much. More on that later if and when I do. On the other hand, taking off excess weight is supposed to help with prostate issues, so that should be working in my favor.


This week I should be doing my own grocery shopping, rather than have my wife do it, who isn't on a diet and hasn't read up on it. Last week my wife went shopping after taking her mom to the doctor. It's not that the stuff she picked up was wrong, but she managed to fill the refrigerator and sort of precluded me from supplemental shopping. That's one thing about this diet, stuff tends to be fresh or refrigerated. Not so much in the way of pantry stores, although the meat/seafood can be canned or frozen.

[Rusty Edge]

Today I saw the physician's assistant regarding my CPAP machine. In short I no longer need it, thanks to my weight loss. It's only needs to operate at the lower end of it's air pressure/volume range, and the episodes are 60% below the sleep apnea threshold. In other words, I'm considered normal, and it may have been this way most of my life. My wife says I no longer snore, even without it, and that she has trouble telling if the CPAP is on because it's much quieter now. I realized while filling out the forms that I rarely fall asleep unintentionally during the day any more, regardless of circumstances. I also awake refreshed now.