2012 Survival Monkey Fatty Challenge

The superbowl brought out the cheese curls, then we had a couple birthdays in my family this week.... So not good for weight loss, but still trying.....

 

managed to start getting back into the gym at work (yes, my company has an on site gym and personal trainer). was a rough couple of days to begin with but now I'm feeling better.

hopefully I'll keep it up

 

Weighed myself this morning, still at 238 thankfully. yes thankfully, been off the diet for a while and thought i was regaining some of my weight.

time to step it up in the gym my goal is 230lbs by my B-day in March. May sound easy, but I have "fatty liver disease" which means my metabolism sucks. I need to loose weight to improve my liver, but because of the condition of my liver it's hard for me to loose weight.

Even on a high protein, low carb diet where most people start dropping weight quickly, I was lucky to shed 1 lb a week.

 

1 lb a week isn't bad. Not including carb induced water weight I have never been able to drop more than about a solid 1.5 lbs in a week, usually more like .5 - 1 lbs.

 

Quig that describes my weight loss to a T.

The only "lifestyle" not diet, that has worked for me is the "Miracle Diet", which is basically a modified atkins. Low/no carbs the first 8 weeks, then the next 8 weeks adding a few carbs to the diet, then last 8 weeks is adding the 'healthy' carbs back into your diet gradually.

I'm starting over on the first 8 weeks again, it was during that time that i actually had some weight loss along with a small reduction in my waist size.

 

BT congrats on the 300, now get back into the "2's"! When was the last time you were there?

I've had to switch up my nutrition little bit. I've been pretty animal and nut heavy in the diet lately. I've been adding a lot of veggies and fruits. I've also been trying harder to have some breakfast then virtually nothing but liquids until dinner. (We eat pretty early)

I've noticed that a little bit of beef broth around lunch time makes a HUGE difference. Plus its winter in MI and the warmth helps.

Officially down to 187.5 this morning.

 

I'm now down 60 pounds since September. All of my blood panels are coming back healthy now except for lipids (cholesterol, triglycerides). I think my physician gave me bad advice about eating olive oil being OK. Anyway, I'm more or less eating whole plant foods, almost nothing processed now... no added oils or sugars. No fish, no animal proteins of any kind. My chickens are pets now, and their eggs are used as diplomatic gifts with the neighbors.

Now that I'm getting pretty well settled in with this sort of lifestyle, it does make it harder for me to eat socially with other people, but I think it'll make life easier for me to transition more heavily into eating from the garden & long term stores of grains & cereals.

I'll know in a few more months if I've been able to get my lipids in order without the help of drugs. I was able to hit everything else that was wrong. Weight is still coming off, and I'm close to the halfway mark with that.

I'm eating really well. Not starving or anything. Almost everything I'm eating at this point could be grown in the garden (if the garden were bigger). Everything, that is, minus the grains & cereals.

This is also making deep stores of grains a lot more attractive, since I work with them in the kitchen daily now and I would be storing exactly the kinds of foods that I'm already eating in times of plenty anyway.

 

Haven't weighed myself in a week or so, but I can tell my belt is getting a little loose. I would like to get to 230 on/before March 19th. That would be best birthday present I could give myself

 

in. I started at 6'00" 220# back in october, am now 6"1" 190#.

 

Crafty is now in with his own Lenten, soon to be patented, "ATF Diet."
No alcohol, no tobacco, and cuttin' way back on the food.

 

keep going guys!
I am the turtle.
Slow and steady but no retreat.
Down 2 pounds in 2 weeks. I'll take progress in the right direction no matter how small.

 

slow going for me lately. Down two more pounds, as my low for the week. 185.5.

I should be posting the reasons for slow progress in the beer tents.

 

Keep up the good work. Weight loss is slow for me as well, and beer has nothing to do with it It's just HARD for me to shed the weight.

I managed to ding up my left elbow, have a nerve that is inflamed so it constantly feels like I've bumped my funny bone. That just makes my workouts soo much more fun.