Down another amazing lb! I got really busy yesterday and didn't get to the grocery store so it looks like I'll be having salmon for breakfast again, lol! (Good thing I really like it!) I must make it to the store today!
Week 1: High 220, Low 216
5/3--220
5/4--218
5/5--217.5
5/6--218 TOM
5/7--216
5/8--216
5/9--216 Cheat Day Week 2: High 215, Low 211.5
5/10--215
5/11--215.5
5/12--214.5
5/13--213.5
5/14--213.5
5/15--212.5
5/16--211.5 Cheat Day Week 3:
5/17--213
5/18--211
5/19--210.5
5/20--210
5/21--209.5
5/22--208.5
5/23
Today's Meals: Breakfast:
Canned salmon with mayo
Black olives
Mio water
Lunch:
10 Tyson Anytizer chicken fries
sliced red, yellow, and orange bell peppers
Mio water
Snack:
Handful of pecans
Dinner: (Got to the grocery story )
Hamburger patty
Salad with ranch dressing
Baked beans
Mio water
So hubby and I were going to join the Y in June, but we blew our budget on a new car yesterday! It's a beauty, but now the extra money for the Y has to go toward the car payment. The walk park we go to does have outdoor workout equipment, so I may have to go over earlier than just before dark to check that out. Plus, I'll have to take a look at youtube and see if there are any good at-home videos I could do on there (aka one I would stick to). I really would like to try to build some muscle. Muscle burns fat more efficiently and I'm hoping it will help out a little bit with sagging skin. I know it probably won't do a whole lot for it, but every little bit helps! Hubby and I will take another look at our budget for the Y in the fall when it starts getting colder outside. Next week, I'm going home to Nashville to visit my father, so I'm concerned about getting my basic walking in then. Where he lives is not conducive to walking. However, he has a treadmill tucked away in his basement. I don't know if it still works but I'm really hoping it does!
Today's Exercise:
1.2-mile walk, and I tried each machine that was in the park for a few minutes, just to check it out.
208 today! So I really am keeping up with the first time I did this modified slow carb diet! That's such great news! Last time I lost 12 lbs in a month, and this time I've lost 12 lbs in 3 weeks! Of course, I started out with 10 more lbs to lose this time, so what they say about the more you have to lose the easier it comes off may be true in my case. In any event this week's low is quite lower than last week's low, so I'm happy! And more good news, today is cheat day! You know I got to thinking and earlier this week I said I wasn't going to have wheat bread on this cheat day to see if it would have a positive effect on the aches and pains of my RA, but I wasn't considering that wheat flour is used in so much more than whole wheat bread, and I've already had half a waffle this morning. Oh well! I'm not going to cut out all foods with flour on cheat day, so that experiment may be a bust! I had a really large breakfast today. I think having a breakfast that makes me full really helps me not to want to snack throughout the day. I make an allowance for one snack per day (and as many as I want on cheat day), but I'd rather try to stay away from snacking if I can. I hope everyone has a great weekend! It sure is a pretty day here in Ohio!
Week 1: High 220, Low 216
5/3--220
5/4--218
5/5--217.5
5/6--218 TOM
5/7--216
5/8--216
5/9--216 Cheat Day Week 2: High 215, Low 211.5
5/10--215
5/11--215.5
5/12--214.5
5/13--213.5
5/14--213.5
5/15--212.5
5/16--211.5 Cheat Day Week 3: High 213, Low 208
5/17--213
5/18--211
5/19--210.5
5/20--210
5/21--209.5
5/22--208.5
5/23--208 Cheat Day
Today's Meals: Breakfast:
1 fried egg
3 slices of bacon
3 slices of a tangelo
Half a waffle with syrup
Mio water
Lunch:
Large salad with leftover canned salmon with ranch dressing
A slice of strawberry creme roll (like pumpkin roll except strawberry)
Mio water
Snack:
Handful of pecans (I would have had ice cream, but I was cold much of the day!)
Dinner:
Hotdog cooked over the backyard fire pit, ketchup, mustard, relish, with bun
Macaroni salad
A Redd's Apple Ale
Mio water (after the Redd's)
Today's Exercise:
1.2-mile walk
10 reps on the rower, chest press, lat pull down, vert arm press (what a laugh, I lifted my body weight two inches), and leg press machines, 5 sets of 10 reps each on the eliptical, slalom skier, and cross country skier machines (This is the outdoor equipment at the walk park. )
Now that I am at my Dad's house, using his bathroom scale, I have no idea how it compares to my scale at home, whether mine is more accurate, his is more accurate, or both are aligned together. So his says I weigh 206 today. That could be 209 on my scale for all I know. So I'm going to put parentheses around the weights recorded by his scale as long as I'm here.
Week 1: High 220, Low 216
5/3--220
5/4--218
5/5--217.5
5/6--218 TOM
5/7--216
5/8--216
5/9--216 Cheat Day Week 2: High 215, Low 211.5
5/10--215
5/11--215.5
5/12--214.5
5/13--213.5
5/14--213.5
5/15--212.5
5/16--211.5 Cheat Day Week 3: High 213, Low 208
5/17--213
5/18--211
5/19--210.5
5/20--210
5/21--209.5
5/22--208.5
5/23--208 Cheat Day Week 4:
5/24--209.5
5/25--(206)
5/26
5/27
5/28
5/29
5/30
Today's Meals: Breakfast:
2 fried eggs
2 slices of bacon
Mio water
Lunch:
Large salad with lots of veggies, topped with pecans and ranch dressing
Mio water
Snack:
Dinner:
Bourbon salmon
Broccoli
Mio water
Today's Exercise:
10 minutes of riding my Dad's stationary bike (The seat hurts really badly! I'm either going to have to stand up to ride it tomorrow or dig out my Dad's treadmill, which is covered with boxes in the corner of his garage!)
According to my Dad's scale, I have lost a lb! I'm going to have to figure out my exercise dilemma today. Hubby said he did 2 laps and 5 exercise stations at the walk park back home yesterday, and although I doubt I'll ever be doing 2 laps at the walk park (at least not on a regular basis), I need to try to keep up with the exercise I was doing there!
Week 1: High 220, Low 216
5/3--220
5/4--218
5/5--217.5
5/6--218 TOM
5/7--216
5/8--216
5/9--216 Cheat Day Week 2: High 215, Low 211.5
5/10--215
5/11--215.5
5/12--214.5
5/13--213.5
5/14--213.5
5/15--212.5
5/16--211.5 Cheat Day Week 3: High 213, Low 208
5/17--213
5/18--211
5/19--210.5
5/20--210
5/21--209.5
5/22--208.5
5/23--208 Cheat Day Week 4:
5/24--209.5
5/25--(206)
5/26--(205)
5/27
5/28
5/29
5/30
Today's Meals: Breakfast:
2 fried eggs
2 slices of bacon
Mio water
Lunch:
Large salad with lots of veggies, topped with pecans, ham, and ranch dressing
Mio water
Snack:
Dinner:
Fried chicken without the skin
Summer squash and vidalia onions sauteed in butter
Steamed cauliflower
Mio water
Today's Exercise:
30 minutes on the stationary bike (I didn't stand up. I don't have the muscles for that. I lowered the seat though, which helped a little, enough to keep going.)
Another half lb down! It's incredible that I am still losing so consistently! I may not know my actual weight but I've lost at least 2 lbs according to my Dad's scale. I wonder if stopping Diet Dr. Pepper and drinking more water has something to do with it. Or maybe it has something to do with starting out weighing more than I did last time. It has to level out soon, but for now I'm happy!
Week 1: High 220, Low 216
5/3--220
5/4--218
5/5--217.5
5/6--218 TOM
5/7--216
5/8--216
5/9--216 Cheat Day Week 2: High 215, Low 211.5
5/10--215
5/11--215.5
5/12--214.5
5/13--213.5
5/14--213.5
5/15--212.5
5/16--211.5 Cheat Day Week 3: High 213, Low 208
5/17--213
5/18--211
5/19--210.5
5/20--210
5/21--209.5
5/22--208.5
5/23--208 Cheat Day Week 4:
5/24--209.5
5/25--(206)
5/26--(205)
5/27--(204.5)
5/28--(204)
5/29
5/30
Today's Meals: Breakfast:
2 fried eggs
2 slices of bacon
Mio water
Lunch:
Large salad with lots of veggies, topped with pecans, chicken, and ranch dressing
Mio water
Snack:
Dinner:
Grilled chicken
Asparagus
Mio water
Today's Exercise:
30 minutes on the stationary bike
Unbelievable! I am down another half lb! To tell you the truth, I'm stumped by my continued weight loss, lol! I mean yes, I expect to keep losing weight, but I expect to lose a couple of lbs, then level off for a few days, then lose some more. I've been exercising each morning, but I always weigh before then, because I don't want a false reading based on temporary water weight loss from the exercise, which will just go right back on as soon as I drink some water. I am just so surprised to keep losing day after day! I don't know if I'm doing something differently that is causing it or if it would have gone this way anyway. But I'm thrilled!
Week 1: High 220, Low 216
5/3--220
5/4--218
5/5--217.5
5/6--218 TOM
5/7--216
5/8--216
5/9--216 Cheat Day Week 2: High 215, Low 211.5
5/10--215
5/11--215.5
5/12--214.5
5/13--213.5
5/14--213.5
5/15--212.5
5/16--211.5 Cheat Day Week 3: High 213, Low 208
5/17--213
5/18--211
5/19--210.5
5/20--210
5/21--209.5
5/22--208.5
5/23--208 Cheat Day Week 4:
5/24--209.5
5/25--(206)
5/26--(205)
5/27--(204.5)
5/28--(204)
5/29--(203.5)
5/30
Today's Meals: Breakfast:
2 fried eggs
2 slices of bacon
Mio water
Lunch:
Grilled chicken leg
Steamed cauliflower
Handful of pecans
Mio water
Snack:
Dinner:
Bourbon-marinated salmon
Brussel sprouts
Mio water
Today's Exercise:
30 minutes on the stationary bike
Jacqui, I have been following you. And plan on reading your first post and see if I can join on this thread. My goal was to start adding exercise to my plan June 1st and that is just around the corner.
Interested in finding out why I might still be losing weight at a quick rate, even though I am 4 weeks into my diet, I read an article today about carbs, how the body converts them to glycogen to burn as energy, how it keeps emergency stores of glycogen stored in the muscles and liver for when immediate carbs are not readily available through food, and how every gram of glycogen has four grams of water attached to it. When someone diets, cutting back on carbs, either following a low-carb diet or another diet, the stores of glycogen are used and the water attached to it goes as well. That's the water weight that people quickly shed at the beginning of a diet. After a couple of weeks on a diet, the extra stores of glycogen and water become depleted, and the body starts burning fat for fuel, which is much slower weight loss. So, either I have larger stores of glycogen with water weight, which are taking longer to deplete, or I am exercising and eating fewer calories enough to be losing half a lb each day. Neither of these scenarios seem likely to me! I have never read anything that says initial water weight loss lasts longer than 2 weeks. Everything I've read has said 3 days to 2 weeks, even the article I read today. But I am eating full meals and I don't think 30 minutes of exercising is burning that many calories in a day. So I'm baffled. I'm happy to be losing, but I am baffled. The article today also covered water weight gain after dieting, which is what happens to me as a result of cheat day. If a person goes back to eating "normally," which includes carbs, the body converts the carbs to glycogen and replenishes its emergency stores in the liver and muscles, again with 4 grams of water attached to each gram of glycogen. That means water weight gain. When I eat carbs on cheat day (and I'm talking simple, quick-burning carbs since I eat complex, slow-burning carbs every day), I usually gain up to 2 lbs of water weight. According to this article, the body starts refilling the stores of glycogen when a dieter consumes about 70 grams of carbs. And you know, of all the years I've been dieting--calorie counting, weight watchers, and now slow carb--it never occurred to me that once I finally go off a diet, I will regain the amount of water weight I took off at the beginning of the diet because my body WILL replenish those emergency stores of glycogen and water, a fact the article also stated. I took off 8.5 lbs in the first two weeks of this diet, so when I reach my goal weight and go off the diet to maintenance level, my body is going to add back that 8.5 lbs of water as it refills its emergency glycogen stores in my muscles and liver. So I may get down to 170 lbs, but I should expect to go right back up to 178.5. If I gain more than that, I'm gaining fat. So do I really want to try to maintain starting at 178.5 lbs? It makes me think maybe I should go back to my original goal, 145 lbs, and when I put the 8.5 lbs of water weight back on, I'll then be trying to maintain 153.5. And by "maintain," I mean try to keep from gaining fat. I'd have a maintenance range then of 153.5-164 lbs. (165 lbs is considered overweight for my height.) Hm, I have time to think about this, but it is something I'm going to have to seriously consider. In case anyone is interested, here is a link to the article I read today: http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/43067073.php.
Chickadeee! I'd love to have you join me if you think the diet may be something you want to try! What kind of/'how much exercise are you going to start? (Great idea, by the way!)
Because I haven't done any exercise in so long and my job involves sitting all day, i need to ease into this, treadmill starting slow will see how that goes.
The thing I will have to give up is dairy, I have been eating dairy (yogurt, cheese, milk two times a day) so I will cut that out and have cottage cheese once in a while. Will eat more meat for protein to replace dairy. I already eats of of veggies.
Oh good! I'm glad you're going to give it a shot! When I was researching this diet, I remember reading something about Tim Ferriss, the author of the diet, saying that dairy (except for cottage cheese) raises insulin levels, and that is something I'm definitely trying to avoid. Something is different about cottage cheese so that it doesn't do that. I'm sorry I can't remember the exact details, but cottage cheese is allowed. And yes, start your exercise slowly, as slowly as you need to, and just gradually build up to where you want to be. I started out walking on a track at a walk park in my town. The track is 1.2 miles. I don't know that I would have started out walking that much, especially since there are a couple of hills that took my breath away, but there's a pond in the middle of the track, so I couldn't cut across and shorten my distance, lol! The thing is I don't know if I'll ever decide to walk more than that. Maybe on occasion I'll eventually take 2 laps around, but I don't know. I do want to start some resistance training though. The walk park has exercise machines so I am trying to build up my time on those. Or at least I was before I came to visit my Dad. When I get back home, I'll be working on adding in those machines!
For anyone else who may be thinking about starting this diet but you want to know more about it, look at the first post on this thread and you'll see what I'm doing. (Only I've cut out the Diet Dr. Pepper and I drink double the water this time around!)
Down another half lb! So today was supposed to be cheat day, but my Dad asked me to save it for tomorrow because he wants to make steak and baked potatoes for Sunday dinner. So of course I will wait!
Week 1: High 220, Low 216
5/3--220
5/4--218
5/5--217.5
5/6--218 TOM
5/7--216
5/8--216
5/9--216 Cheat Day Week 2: High 215, Low 211.5
5/10--215
5/11--215.5
5/12--214.5
5/13--213.5
5/14--213.5
5/15--212.5
5/16--211.5 Cheat Day Week 3: High 213, Low 208
5/17--213
5/18--211
5/19--210.5
5/20--210
5/21--209.5
5/22--208.5
5/23--208 Cheat Day Week 4:
5/24--209.5
5/25--(206)
5/26--(205)
5/27--(204.5)
5/28--(204)
5/29--(203.5)
5/30--(203)
Today's Meals: Breakfast:
2 fried eggs
2 slices of bacon
Mio water
Lunch:
Large salad with lots of veggies, topped with ham, pecans, and ranch dressing
Mio water
Snack:
Dinner:
Boston baked beans
2 hotdogs (no bun)
Mio water
Today's Exercise:
30 minutes on the stationary bike
i thought for sure the carbs from the beans last night might cause me to stay the same weight or even go up half a lb, but again I'm down a half lb! And today is Cheat Day!
Week 1: High 220, Low 216
5/3--220
5/4--218
5/5--217.5
5/6--218 TOM
5/7--216
5/8--216
5/9--216 Cheat Day Week 2: High 215, Low 211.5
5/10--215
5/11--215.5
5/12--214.5
5/13--213.5
5/14--213.5
5/15--212.5
5/16--211.5 Cheat Day Week 3: High 213, Low 208
5/17--213
5/18--211
5/19--210.5
5/20--210
5/21--209.5
5/22--208.5
5/23--208 Cheat Day Week 4:
5/24--209.5
5/25--(206)
5/26--(205)
5/27--(204.5)
5/28--(204)
5/29--(203.5)
5/30--(203) Week 5:
5/31--(202.5) Cheat Day
6/1
6/2
6/3
6/4
6/5
6/6
Today's Meals: Breakfast:
2 fried eggs
2 slices of bacon
Mio water
Lunch:
Steak with mushroom sauce
Baked potato with butter
Broccoli
Sliced tomato
Mio water
Snack:
A piece of mint white chocolate candy
Dinner:
Leftover steak from lunch
Leftover baked potato from lunch
Asparagus
Mio water
Today's Exercise:
30 minutes on the stationary bike
I got really busy yesterday and didn't get to the grocery store so it looks like I'll be having salmon for breakfast again, lol! (Good thing I really like it!) I must make it to the store today! 
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So I really am keeping up with the first time I did this modified slow carb diet! That's such great news! 
And more good news, today is cheat day! 
You know I got to thinking and earlier this week I said I wasn't going to have wheat bread on this cheat day to see if it would have a positive effect on the aches and pains of my RA, but I wasn't considering that wheat flour is used in so much more than whole wheat bread, and I've already had half a waffle this morning. Oh well! I'm not going to cut out all foods with flour on cheat day, so that experiment may be a bust! 
I had a really large breakfast today. I think having a breakfast that makes me full really helps me not to want to snack throughout the day. I make an allowance for one snack per day (and as many as I want on cheat day), but I'd rather try to stay away from snacking if I can. 
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Chickadeee! I'd love to have you join me if you think the diet may be something you want to try! What kind of/'how much exercise are you going to start? (Great idea, by the way!) 
