As of this a.m., I’ve lost 15 lbs. since the start of my Geek Diet (as Margie calls it) a month ago (3/1), dropping from 238 to 223. W00T!
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Weight! Weight! Don’t tell me!
As of this a.m., I’ve lost 15 lbs. since the start of my Geek Diet (as Margie calls it) a month ago (3/1), dropping from 238 to 223. W00T!…
😎
So, do you have a goal or just wait and see?
My goal was to drop 38 lbs. (i.e., to 200), 1 lb./wk. I’m progressing about twice that speed, which would then mean I would get there some time in July, rather than November.
After that — we’ll see. Since I haven’t been under 200 in, um, probably fifteen years, that seems a good milestone.
Great Balls o’ Fire!
That’s lightning speed.
I have two speculations, which actually relate to each other.
First, I’ve discovered (via the Geek Diet, i.e., compulsively recording on my PC or Palm the nutritional info for everything I eat) how many calories I was consuming, on a regular and irregular basis.
Secondly, I have always had a high metabolic rate. I thought it slowed down some time after college.
But it occurs to me that it may just be I simply was able to afford to eat more crap yummy stuff — sodas, desserts, chips, seconds on dinner, etc. — as the years went on, so that it was only my high metabolism that was keeping me from ballooning a lot higher.
And thus, if I keep my intake under control, and throw in a bit of extra walking, my body’s liable to start burning stuff pretty quickly.
I mean, I haven’t started starving myself. I eat a decent-sized lunch, and dinner, and a glass or two of wine, and sometimes some dessert. Just not as much as I did. And some big-calorie items I’ve either eliminated (sugared soda) or cut back on substantially (ice cream, chips, etc. — e.g., I spread a pint of Haagen-Dazs Rum Raisin ice cream over three sittings over a week, rather than polishing the whole thing off in one swell foop.)
Now that I’ve said that, of course, I’ve jinxed it. But that’s the current theory, at least.
http://www.illwillpress.com/fatkins.html
Sweet.