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GORDON wrote: My math is off.

Yes, but not tremendously. Dude's still fat.

Could probably start at 500 pounds, have a slightly easier time of it, and still make it.

Just ate for the first time in 36 hours.

Tuna wrap, at the zoo. Need a few.carbs for the dive at 2.

I feel.fat.

GORDON wrote:
Start - 228
Goal - 199 (29 lbs/40 days)

Day 10: 221.4
Change from prior reading: -.4 lbs
Total loss: 6.6 lbs
Lbs to goal: 22.4
Days to goal: 30
Loss needed per day: -.75 lbs

Start - 228
Goal - 199 (29 lbs/40 days)

Day 15: 219.0
Change from prior reading: -2.4 lbs
Total loss: 9.0 lbs
Lbs to goal: 20.0
Days to goal: 25
Loss needed per day: -.8 lbs

I'm slightly behind my daily loss requirements.

Relevant:

GORDON wrote: Just ate for the first time in 36 hours.

I have done that. It gets...weird...at around 24 hours.

But I"ve been doing the 16/8 fast/eat split for probably 5 or 6 years now.

It wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be. Could have gone longer, but I was about to dive the aquarium and didn't want to get light headed or anything in the tank in front of peeps.

Alright. Vacation and June trips are over, so back on the low carb wagon today.

TheCatt wrote: Alright. Vacation and June trips are over, so back on the low carb wagon today.

Down 6 lbs since 7/1... yay keto!

TheCatt wrote:

TheCatt wrote: Alright. Vacation and June trips are over, so back on the low carb wagon today.

Down 6 lbs since 7/1... yay keto!

Today is the first day I haven't felt like crap in the keto haze. Hopefully a sign that I'm getting over the first hump

You're fat cuz you stopped moving, not cuz you're older.

I figured that out when I got my first desk job.

I've been skipping breakfast---essentially, doing a 16/8 fast/feed cycle. Went on vacation for a week and decided to also skip lunch, so was basically doing a 20/4 cycle. It wasn't as tough as I thought it would be; we were keeping busy.

Lost around 5 pounds.

Alright, ALL Vacations over. Apparently I cannot resist fried shrimp for the life of me.

Restarted 8/21, and am now down 10 lbs. In early July I was experimenting with low/non-exercise keto, and it just didn't do anything for me. I lost those first 6/7 lbs, and then just stagnated for two weeks. I was only watching carbs (not calories).

Since the 21st, I've been watching carbs only, and exercising moderately (either I bike about 60 minutes or I walk at least 5 miles in a day), and weight is falling off like it's supposed to.

One downside, I only eat about 10 foods.

Breakfast: Eggs, bacon, sausage.

Lunch: Steak, chicken, bacon, cheese, peanut butter, avocado/guac

Dinner: Salad, steak, chicken, cheese, bacon, peanut butter, asparagus, broccoli

Snacks: pork rinds, keto ice cream.

On the other hand, meal planning is super easy.

Down 12 lbs.

Yesterday I did an amateur virtual bike race. It was painful; My HR averaged 182 for the 35 minute race. I've been eating carbs when riding hard.

Today, though, I did a 65 minute workout with no carbs. I had to turn down the difficulty several percents, but I made it. Barely.

Cut breakfast today. Went fine.

TheCatt wrote: Cut breakfast today. Went fine.

5th day of no breakfast today. I'm eating lunch, a mid-day snack (3/4pm), then dinner. Nothing else, except when doing hard cardio, which I supplement with simple sugars. I'm doing a bike training series, and racing on Fridays. Sugars depend on intensity, from 0 calories /minute to 4cal/minute.

Weight is dropping much more quickly on the IF.

I'll say this. I'm so full from my first meal + snack, that my dinners have been smaller. I'm too full to eat what I had been eating.

Day 7 of IF. so far, so good. I'm doing 17/7 or 18/6, depending on how the day shakes out. But no eating after 6pm. First meal is either 11 or 12.

Weight loss going well, will update on Friday, the 1 month mark.

Does coffee at 7am count