| It’s evening on the end of Day 1 of my latest “Juice” fasting. | |
| I’ve been doing this every year for the eight years or so with varying success – mostly based on duration. Most of the year’s have been short-term – 3 to 7 days, with a few longer ones thrown in. My longest was 42 days, but that was several years ago. | |
| Most of this year I’ve been pretty sedentary because every time I’ve tried to get more active I’ve felt like I’ve had a set back with my heart (AFib). I’ve been in the ER twice this year and back in early April I had a cardiac ablation procedure. I’m well past the 90 day “surgery” recovery window, so there’s little chance I’ll be doing anything to significantly impact the after effects of the procedure. | |
| So, it begins… Slowly. Gradually increasing the walks while starting to build in stretching exercises and ultimately some body weight activity. I did two laps (walking) around the block today and it was the first time my heart rate stayed under 90bpm in more than a couple of years. It felt good – psychologically more than physically. Physically, it didn’t feel like much exercise at all. | |
| My usual goal is a week and then see how it goes from there. That seems like a good starting point this time, too. | |
| Day 1 – starting weight 372lbs; starting (muffin) waist 59 inches. | |
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| Click here (20 August) to see the posts of prior years. I started this blog in late 2009. Daily posting began in late January 2011. Not all of the days in the early years (2009-2010) will have posts. | |
Posts Tagged ‘Diets’
Day 1 – It Starts Again
Posted in Diets, Health, Juice/Blend Fasting, tagged 2023 Day 1 (372), AFib, Diets, Juice Fasting, Juicing on August 20, 2023| Leave a Comment »
On A Diet Of…
Posted in Diets, Music, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged American Radio Listeners, Diets, Frank Zappa, Music, Philosophy, Quotes, The Real Frank Zappa Book, The Ultimate Rule on October 4, 2022| Leave a Comment »
| The Ulitimate Rule ought to be: “If it sounds GOOD to YOU, it’s bitchen; and if sounds BAD to YOU, it’s shitty.” The more varied your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don’t like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of ____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like. | |
| — Frank Zappa | |
| From his book: “The Real Frank Zappa Book“ | |
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| Click here (4 October) to see the posts of prior years. I started this blog in late 2009. Daily posting began in late January 2011. Not all of the days in the early years (2009-2010) will have posts. | |
10 (40)
Posted in Diets, Health, Water Fast, tagged 40Hrs, 5:2 Fasting, Diets, Health, Kidney Stones, Water Fast, Water Pills, Water Retention on May 25, 2022| Leave a Comment »
| This morning I completed my 10th 40hr water fast (at 9:00am) over the last 35 days. A bit of a delay since #9 because of scheduled company over the weekend. My weight has been bouncing around. Fewer visible kidney stone / grains, but still fluctuating water retention (represented by 5± overnight weight gains / losses). The actual full day (yesterday) of not eating didn’t seem particularly difficult. We watched the NBA playoff games last night. The constant food commercials didn’t really set me off on a psychological hunger binge. (That’s good!) | |
| I’ve moved from daily water pills (Rx) to every other day. It doesn’t seem to impact water retention (bloating) as much as eating salty (or sweet) food. I’ve noticed a start of ankle bloating after the two day skip, so it looks like I need the water pill at least every third day. The bloating doesn’t seem to start in my hands on the same schedule. It’s hard to tell because of the variability of food(s). My GP was fairly emphatic to be on them as little as possible, but stay within my cardiologist’s recommendation. | |
| Since my scale doesn’t indicate I’ve had any weight loss, all I can go by is how do I “feel” after and during my water fast days. My body feels good. My head (concentration), less so. Not really headaches or anything, just general fatigue – which is not helped by the frequent night-time “breaks”. | |
| It looks like I may end up with “only” two days a week fasting – in which case, I will probably pick days and build a schedule / lifestyle around it / them. It seems that will be easier than on / off every second day rolling protocol. So, it looks like there may be merit to the “5:2” daily fast regime – although not in the way my general review of the methodology indicates. In any case, my “reality” is I’m sitting pretty close to “5:2” anyway, just because of “life happens” and it interferes with a true “on-again / off-again” 72 hrs rolling protocol. Anyway, slowly… slowly… listen to my body and go with the flow. (“Water retention” pun intended!) | |
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9 (40) – Done
Posted in Diets, Health, Water Fast, tagged 40Hrs, Diets, Health, Water Fast on May 19, 2022| Leave a Comment »
| This morning I completed my 9th 40 hour water fast. It wasn’t “really” difficult. The only “hard” part was watching all of the food commercials during last night’s Warriors playoff win. | |
| I dropped 8lbs from yesterday. Obviously that was just water weight from the 15lbs over-night gain a few days back. I don’t think my kidney grains (tiny stones) are blocking the tubes as much as I think they are simply irritating the filtering process itself. I didn’t weigh myself before bed (I never do), but I was up multiple times during the night with a healthy flow – so that’s where the “weight” went to. LoL… | |
| The good news is that it dropped me into the 340’s at 349lbs. I’m not celebrating (yet); just acknowledging a minor achievement. Slowly, slowly… | |
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| Click here (19 May) to see the posts of prior years. I started this blog in late 2009. Daily posting began in late January 2011. Not all of the days in the early years (2009-2010) will have posts. | |
8 And 9 (40)
Posted in Diets, Health, Water Fast, tagged 40Hrs, Diets, Health, Water Fast on May 15, 2022| 3 Comments »
| Yesterday (at 9am), I completed my 8th 40hr water fast and today (at 5pm) I’m starting my 9th. | |
| Nothing really significant to report about the fast itself – it wasn’t easier or harder, that is. I had a “sudden / overnight” weight gain of 15lbs leading into the start day of fasting. I passed a medium sized kidney grain / stone in the evening and I dropped 7lbs for the morning of the full fast day. Yesterday’s weight was another 5lbs down – so still up 3lbs from the low point (352). Today I was up 2lbs, so I’m 3lbs up from the start of the last water fast. | |
| And after almost 30 days of this water fasting / 40hrs program, I have lost exactly 0lbs and no inches from my “muffin” waist!! | |
| Normally, this would be extremely discouraging… However, in the same period I have had far fewer days of bloating, my clothes are fitting much better, I’ve had to shorten my watch band because it was too loose, and my waist is visibly smaller (the “muffin” top, anyway). And, perhaps most importantly, I “feel” much better – slimmer / healthier – if not lighter. In other words, I’m going to continue the program for a while… | |
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Second 40
Posted in Diets, Health, Water Fast, tagged 40Hrs, Diets, Health, Water Fast on April 24, 2022| Leave a Comment »
| Earlier in the week I completed a 40 hour water fast. My response was good, so I decided to try again next week. A health test has come up, though, for mid-week (two-day cardiac stress test), so I pushed ahead and just completed a second 40hrs from Friday evening through 9am today (Sunday). | |
| I feel terrific (again) today, but I do feel yesterday was somehow a bit more difficult as a “full-day” fast. Maybe it was because I only had a half pot of coffee instead of a full pot. Or maybe, my wife’s cooking just smelled better yesterday than Thursday. (LoL) | |
| Anyway, like I said, I feel good and it wasn’t really any problem, so I’ll probably keep doing one per week and see how it goes… | |
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40Hrs
Posted in Diets, Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Health, Water Fast, tagged 40Hrs, Diets, Family, Health, Water Fast on April 21, 2022| 2 Comments »
| On Tuesday, my sister called me up and asked if I wanted to do a “water fast” with her. I asked what was involved. She said: “We start at 5pm today and go to 9am on Thursday. You can have water, black coffee or straight tea – black, green or herbal.” I said, sure, why not? I’ll try it… | |
| I finished dinner at 4:45pm and “started” the fast. Other than water, all I had to drink was a pot of black coffee (68 ozs). | |
| Initial reaction: It wasn’t anywhere near as difficult as I thought it would be… By starting in the evening, you miss the first day (8 – 12 hrs) of thinking about food. By ending at 9am, you don’t have to do much to end the second day, but wake up. I drank the coffee between 10am and 4pm and except for a rather poor night’s sleep, it didn’t bother me either. I normally drink mostly cold black coffee anyway, so it was no big deal. The coffee substantially reduced my hunger. I don’t know if the late coffee (after 2pm) caused the poor night’s sleep as I’ve been experiencing poor sleep off and on for almost a year. | |
| Post reaction: Well, I dropped three(3) pounds – so that was interesting. With no caloric input to speak of and a “normal” calorie burn of over 3,400, I would have expected a loss of no more than a single pound. (Supposedly, one pound of weight is 3,500 calories.) I didn’t do any exercise other than walking my dog for 20minutes, so that didn’t add anything to the calorie burn calculation. Yesterday was a “water pill” day. I take a water pill for my water retention on alternating days, but I didn’t feel bloated going into the fast and I don’t feel bloated today. (A non-water pill day.) From about 7pm to 10:30pm (last night), I had one of those “clarity” periods, where you feel 10 years younger (and slimmer) and your mind seems totally invigorated – so there is that… | |
| Final thoughts: Given my generally positive physical response, I think I’d like to try it again for a couple of weeks to see if it has any lasting benefits. I think the Tuesday to Thursday protocol is also a good fit for me. I’ll post again if I have another go next week… | |
| Oh, and my sister found it so good / easy, she added a couple of hours and did a 42hr fast! | |
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Diets And Lifestyle Changes
Posted in Diets, Health, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Diets, Health, Leo Tolstoy, Lifestyle Changes, Philosophy, Practice, Quotes on September 1, 2020| Leave a Comment »
| It is far easier to write ten volumes of philosophy than to put a single precept into practice. | |
| — Leo Tolstoy | |
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Promises, Promises
Posted in Diets, Health, OMAD, Quotes, tagged Delay - Don't Deny, Dieting, Diets, Fasting, Fat-Burner, Gin Stephens, Glucose, Glycogen, Health, OMAD, One-Meal-A-Day Fasting, Quotes, Sugar-Burner on September 16, 2019| Leave a Comment »
| Here’s the thing you need to remember: your goal is to start burning your own fat for fuel. The ONLY WAY to tap into that stored fat is to STOP running on glucose / glycogen. You can either be a fat-burner or a sugar burner. The end. Making the transition from a sugar-burner to a fat-burner is the hard art, but once you do it, you will be AMAZED at how good you feel. I promise. | |
| — Gin Stephens | |
| From her book: “Delay, Don’t Deny“ | |
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Day 17/18: That Didn’t Take Long
Posted in ADF, Diets, Health, ITF, Juice/Blend Fasting, OMAD, Workouts, tagged 348lbs, 5/25, ADF, Alternate Day Fasting, Basal Metabolic Rate, BMR, Cheating, Day 17/18: Juice/Blend Fasting, Day 17: Juice/Blend Fasting, Diets, Ending The Blending Fast, Fat Smash Diet, Health, Intermittent Time Fasting, ITF, Lifestyles, MADF, Modified Alternate Day Fasting, One-Meal-A-Day Fasting, Scales on September 15, 2019| Leave a Comment »
| This is a long post! (You’ve been warned…) | |||||
| The end of day seventeen and the morning of day eighteen… Elvis has left the building, folks… | |||||
| Morning weight: 348lbs. (on Day 18) | |||||
| I am down / down “5 / 25”. As in, 5lbs down from yesterday and 25lbs down from my fasting start weight: 373lbs (the morning of Day 1). | |||||
| Yesterday morning (the early morning hours of Day 17), I didn’t sleep well. I got out of bed a little before 3am and by dawn I’d “cheated” on my blend fast by having a two handfuls of nuts. The rest of the day I was able to stick with my juice blend and felt pretty good in saying the cheats were aberrations and I was continuing my fast count. Well, today the desire to chew (and taste something different) got the better of me and I had two slices of toast and two slices of pizza. I said (in yesterday’s post) if I cheated again, I’d have to call the blend fast done, so that’s what I’m doing in this post. | |||||
| The “interesting” thing is I’ve now had two five(5) pound changes in the last week. I gained five pounds overnight a few days ago, and between yesterday and today, I’ve now lost five pounds. It is routine to lose 5 to 7 pounds in the first day or two of a fast. This is due to loss of stomach contact and some initial water weight loss (due to decrease of sugar and salt in the diet). It is not common (in my experience) for this to happen after the first week without some significant change. I have not restricted water or exercised excessively, so I have to assume there is “something” else going on in my body which is beyond my experience. As such, and because of my prior comments about “cheating again and ending the fast”, I’m going to modify my behavior to more moderate eating habits (i.e. I’m going to start consuming / chewing food). | |||||
| Below are the images from my scale to mark the end of the fast: | |||||
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| As per normal, there is a five(5) pounds variance between my “high” and “low” weights. As explained in previous posts, the high is from me pressing my toes and the low is from pressing my heels. When I last took my weight on a digital scale at my doctor’s office, their scale showed two(2) pounds less than my low for that day. I wasn’t pressing forward or backwards. And, again, I don’t know if their scale is programmed to subtract estimated clothing weight (or how much they might have subtracted). As I’ve been using the “high” weigh-in, I feel I’m being conservative (and fair). | |||||
| To summarize: I started my “blending” fast with the parallel goals of completing one week without chewing while sticking to a plant (vegetable, fruit and legume) based liquefied diet; and, to jump-start myself on my Alternate Day Fasting (ADF) diet which I had started way back in February, but had not stuck to fairly. I’ve ended up completing the first of the original goals and, in fact, doubling the time to two full weeks. I said at the end of the second week, I’d like to push through for a third full week, but I was considering the process as “day-to-day” from there on. I ended up making it through two days (Days 15 and 16), and now have cheated on two consecutive days (Days 17 and 18). At this point, I’m calling the fast done and moving on to the second goal: switching to the Alternate Day Fasting (ADF) or a “Modified” ADF or to a Intermittent Time Fasting lifestyle – maybe trying “One-Meal-A-Day” (OMAD). | |||||
| So, which will I choose? I don’t know… I’m not sure I have to choose one over the others. With the exception of having a defined protocol, I’m not sure there is any advantage to picking one of them over the others, so for the time being, I’m leaning to trying a bit of a mix and match to see which “works” for me. | |||||
| Having said that, what will be my criteria: | |||||
| 1) Although only specifically stated for the ADF protocol, I believe it is necessary for me to establish a longer and more consistent sleep period and schedule. I’m therefor committing to trying to get a minimum of seven(7) hours each night. I will set my start time for 11pm and end to 7am. | |||||
| 2) A “strict” ADF or MADF has a low-calorie day and a normal-calorie day, with both tending to use windows to extend the daily fast time period. The preference is to wait until 10am or 11am to break the fast each day and to close the window for eating (and drinking) at least three hours prior to going to bed. For me, this would mean, no more eating or drinking (the exception being the water required to swallow my heart pills and vitamins before bed), after 8pm. This will give me a fasting period of 15 to 16 hours each day, with eating windows of 9 to 8 hours on both the “fasting” and “normal” days. | |||||
| 3) No matter which day or time period, water, black coffee, black tea and green tea are allowed — EXCEPT during the three hours before bed, when I am only allowed enough water to take my heart medications. | |||||
| 4) On “fasting” days I will try to limit myself to between 700 and 1,100 calories per day. These numbers are fairly arbitrary: the low end is the “recommended” fasting number for adult males doing an ADF. The upper number is from my prior experience using the “Fat Smash Diet“. This “high” number is not a caloric limit that many people could live with for very long. I no longer believe dieting is simply “calories in < calories out = weight loss”. I now believe limiting “calories in” too severely, over too long a period of time (one or two weeks), simply tells the body to lower your normal basal metabolic rate (BMR – how many calories you need to sustain life in a state of coma). This makes it difficult to continue to lose weight and even more difficult to continue to keep the lost weight off. It has also been shown that it is much more difficult to restore or raise the BMR to a previous level once you have lowered it than it was to lower it to start off with. Basically, we must somehow lose weight while not lowering the BMR. This means your body must not sense it is ever in a prolonged period of caloric deficit. The “trick” is to lower the average caloric input over time while convincing the body you are never “really” dieting. This is the goal of the ADF and the ITF methods. On ADF, you eat as “normally” as you wish during your eating window. On the ITF, you not only can eat as much as you wish, you can eat anything you wish – as long as you stay within your eating window. | |||||
| 5) I must also maintain a reasonable protocol for increasing and maintaining my “calories-out” portion of the formula. I currently walk my dog each day for 30 minutes (about 1 mile). I also swim a couple of times a week for 60 minutes per session. Our local pool will be closing for the winter soon, so I will need to commit to using a “gym” more frequently. Swimming has a natural advantage over typical gym workouts. I believe the three main ones to be: swimming tends to be a continuous whole body workout; swimming tends to be less damaging to the support joints (feet, ankles, knees, hips, and spine; and, finally, water transfers heat energy significantly faster than air, which means you will burn more calories to maintain your own body temperature in water than you will do in air of equal temperature. The combination of these advantages means I will need to go to the gym more frequently and stay (exercise) longer than I would have to by swimming. The only advantages of the gym (that I know of) are: you can increase your muscle mass to body weight ratio and you can increase your flexibility. Swimming tends to make bodies long and lean, but not strong and flexible. Weights and calisthenics will tend to increase muscle density, muscle size and flexibility (if done in conjunction with proper stretching), but not provide a long and lean appearance. Bottom line: go to the gym 4-5 times a week and stay for 90 minutes, including weights, stretching and cardio work in each session. | |||||
| 6) My new protocol will be a rotation of fast day, eat day, OMAD day. All three will be time restricted, but the window will vary between days: fasting(8 hrs), eating(6 hrs) and OMAD(5 hrs). Most fasting days will be two eggs, beans(1 can / 1.5 cups) and rice(1/2 cup), and fruits and veggies(no limit). Most eating days will be two eggs or oatmeal, salad or fruit(no limit) for lunch, normal dinner. Most OMAD days will be egg(1) and fruit, large dinner (all I can eat / anything I want); if I want a “snack / desert” on my OMAD, it must be eaten 75 minutes to 1 hour before the daily eating window closes. Water, black coffee, and black tea are any day / any time. Fruit juice or veggie-fruit blends are only allowed on eating or OMAD days and only during the windows. | |||||
| I will begin the protocol tomorrow. I will continue to post images on my MADF page each day and my weight on my “Sweat Equity” pages, but I will not be creating a daily post specifically about this protocol. I will try to update (via posting) a couple of times a month if I have anything interesting to say. If I have any significant health changes as a result of the protocol, I will post about those. And, so it goes, a “lifestyle” with the simple acknowledgement that vacations, holidays, birthdays, and exceptions will happen… And, you just deal with them. | |||||
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Day 16: Cheat Day
Posted in Diets, Health, Juice/Blend Fasting, tagged 2/20, 355lbs, Almonds, Cheat Day, Day 16: Juice/Blend Fasting, Dental Hygienist, Diets, Health, Mouthwash, Naked Juices, Remineralize Your Teeth, Sip And Swish, Tooth Enamel, V-8 Juices on September 14, 2019| 1 Comment »
| The end of day sixteen and the morning of day seventeen… Last night / this morning was my first cheat day. 😦 | |
| Morning weight: 353lbs. (on Day 17) | |
| I am down / down “2 / 20”. As in, 2lbs down from yesterday and 20lbs down from my fasting start weight: 373lbs (the morning of Day 1). | |
| The three(3) pounds I had gained two days ago to yesterday is mostly gone. Two(2) pounds of it, anyway. The “high” weight was a loss of 2lbs. My “low” weight was a loss of 1lb. Whatever it was that caused the three pounds gain appears to be sorting itself out and I’ve started going back down. Since I had coffee the last two days, it seems unlikely the coffee (or caffeine) is what caused the uptick. If the weight keeps dropping for the next few days, I’ll just have to leave it as an unresolved aberration in the weight loss pattern. If I spike (bump up) again, I’ll have to consider the cause may be something else. My weigh-in was performed before my “cheat(s)”. | |
| So… The problem wasn’t really yesterday (Day 16), as much as it during the night / this morning (Day 17)… | |
| I woke up at 2:30am last night and couldn’t fall back to sleep. After laying in bed for awhile, I got up and went to log on to my computer to read my ever-growing backlog of emails. Normally, I get up, weigh in, take my BP / HR and walk the dog (1 mile, 30 minutes). Then, I prepare my “daily” blend. “Prepare” means I pour my saved blend into a larger bottle, add two or three goblets of ice cubes and then top up the bottle with fruit or vegetable juice. The “vegetable” juice is “V-8” brand or “Naked” brand, depending on which I have available and my taste for the day (saltier or sweeter respectively). Our neighborhood is not very well lit by streetlights, so we don’t normally walk the dog in the dark. It’s too difficult to see if we’re getting up all of the poop. This morning, that meant waiting until dawn to walk the dog. As it is not practical to drink loads before going out to walk the dog, I was going to be stuck for some time just feeling hungry… | |
| To make a longer story a little shorter, I had a couple of cheats during the wait. I had a palm-full (8 to 10) of almonds about 3:15am and then another about 5am. I walked the dog a little after 6am. So, technically, my blending “ONLY” fast is broken. 😦 | |
| However, being the forgiving person that I am, I’m going to let it slide and pretend it didn’t happen. IF it happens again, I will face up to the “fast” being over. Until then, I’ll just keep counting the days as fasting. | |
| So… How did yesterday go? Not too badly. I am still (after two weeks) missing the act of chewing. Yesterday, I was mostly missing the taste of eating. When I make a week’s worth of blend, there simply isn’t much variety in the taste from one day to the next. (To me, this taste variety is THE main benefit of preparing your juice prior to drinking it or in the morning for that day.) This is why I vary the “juice” I add to the daily bottle a more “straight” fruity juice (apple, pineapple, grapefruit, cherry, etc.) and a more “veggie” juice (the various types of V-8 and Naked juices). Other than the mixture, the only variation is the amount of ice I add over the course of a day. As mentioned above, I start with three 16 ounce goblets of ice cubes, then, depending on the day’s temperature, I will add another one or two goblets of ice. Yes, this makes for a very watery drink for most of the second half of the day, but it has two benefits: 1) it keeps the drink cold; and, 2) it dilutes the sugar and acidic content of the drink. | |
| The benefit of a cold drink is two-fold: 1) it cools you off on a hot day; and, 2) your body has to expend additional calories raising the fluid’s temperature up to your body’s temperature. It may not seem like much, but every little bit helps in the weight-loss process. The benefit of diluting the sugar (by volume) content is obvious. The reduction of acid may be less so to the average person. I have no scientific “proof” of this, but my teeth “feel” different when I go all day drinking an undiluted blend than they do when I drink with continuously adding ice (or chasing with plain water). When I run my tongue over my teeth, the teeth feel cleaner or “rougher” depending on which I do. So, I either dilute during the day or I keep an extra (small) bottle of water and “sip and swish” the water after drinking some of the blend. I also have a separate brand of mouthwash (which I use every second or third day) which is supposed to rebuild / reinforce the enamel on my teeth. (This was recommended by my dental hygienist who said you cannot “repair” lost / damaged tooth enamel, but you can help “remineralize” your teeth with proper brushing and gargling. She relayed the products recommended by the dentist’s office.) I alternate the mouthwash because I am a creature of habit and my regular mouthwash makes my mouth / teeth “feel” cleaner. The “recommended” mouthwash doesn’t have as much alcohol content, so it doesn’t give me that “burned” cheeks, tongue and gums feeling I’ve grown used to over the last 45-plus years. | |
| And, now you know more than you ever imagined you would ever know about my dental hygiene. And, admit it… You are a better person for it! (LoL) | |
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A Lifestyle
Posted in Diets, Health, OMAD, tagged Delay - Don't Deny, Diets, Fasting, Gin Stephens, Health, Intermittent Time Fasting, OMAD, Quotes on September 14, 2019| Leave a Comment »
| In a nutshell, there are two main types of intermittent fasting strategies: Plans you do every day (an “eating window” approach), or plans you implement a certain number of times per week (an “up / down day” approach). | |
| Which approach to intermittent fasting is the best? It’s the one that makes you feel in control and the one that you can follow long-term as a lifestyle. That’s important to understand from the beginning — intermittent fasting is a lifestyle. It isn’t something that you start today and then end when you get to some arbitrary “goal weight.” Something you start and then stop is DIET. Intermittent fasting isn’t a diet — as I said, it’s a lifestyle. | |
| — Gin Stephens | |
| From her book: “Delay, Don’t Deny“ | |
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Day 14: End Of Week 2
Posted in Diets, Health, Juice/Blend Fasting, OMAD, Philosophy, Swimming, tagged 2/21, 352lbs, Day 14: Juice/Blend Fasting, Diets, Fasting, Health, Philosophy, Planet Fitness on September 12, 2019| 2 Comments »
| The end of day fourteen and the morning of day fifteen… | ||||
| Morning weight: 352lbs. (on Day 15) | ||||
| I am down / down “2 / 21”. As in, 2lbs down from yesterday and 21lbs down from my fasting start weight: 373lbs (the morning of Day 1). | ||||
| Well, the good news is I have made it through two full weeks of blended fasting. At 21lbs lost, I am averaging a loss of 1.5lbs per day. This is not terribly good or bad. It’s pretty average for a veggie juice type of fast with moderate exercise most days. I am continuing to walk my dog each day for 30-45 minutes in the morning and going to the pool for a swim (or to tread water) for an hour for ten(10) of the fourteen(14) days I’ve been fasting. All of the swim sessions have been breast stroke and I’m doing between 40 and 48 lengths an hour. (FYI: 1 length = 25 yards; 1 lap = 2 lengths; 18 laps = 1/2 mile.) Basically, I’m swimming 1/2 mile 5 times per week (so far). The pool will be closing for the season in a little over a week, so I will have to make other arrangements to get exercise after that. I haven’t done any treading water sessions since starting the fast, and only a handful of times during this summer season. | ||||
| How am I feeling? Thinner. Which is good! Even though the loss is only a little over 5% of my starting weight, it already feels easier on my knees to get up from a sitting position. That’s the “movement” test. I am also beginning to experience more flexibility and range of motion. The flexibility I’m putting down more to doubling my average number of days of swimming per week (from twice – maybe 2.5 – to five times per week), than I am to fasting. The range of motion I’m putting down to less fat getting in the way of any given stretching action. So, that’s due to the fasting. | ||||
| As promised, here’s the face shots from on day 1, after week 1 and after week 2: | ||||
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| I, for one, am hard pressed to see much difference between the three photos. Of course, it is ONLY two weeks. If anything, there appears to be slight decrease in puffiness in the area of the zygomaticus (major and minor). That’s the upper cheeks between the nostrils and the ears to us normal humans. There (to my eyes anyway) appears to be the start of a jaw line between the face and neck. Of course, both of these changes could just be due to the difference in lighting. And, I could just be seeing what I want to see: my face getting thinner. (LoL!) I guess time will tell… | ||||
| And, here are the images of the scale: | ||||
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| Note: The morning of Day 15 shows 348lbs in the image, not 352lbs. The scale was bouncing between the two weights and I am using the high end for the day’s weight as it is only two pounds less than the previous day. If I used the lower weight, it would mean I lost about 6lbs from the prior day. Thus, the lower limit is unreasonable and why I am using the high end. The photo just happened to catch the bottom end of one of the bounces. | ||||
| What now? | ||||
| I am fairly encouraged, despite my off and on preoccupation (obsession?) with food / chewing. I’m not finding the blend fasting process too bad, although the sense of wanting to chew does seem to be greater than it was during last year’s juicing. As mentioned in prior posts, that may be a side effect of strictly blending rater than strictly juicing or mixing juicing with blending. | ||||
| For now (the afternoon of the Day 15), I have four full bottles of blend left in the refrigerator. That should get me through at least the next three days. After that, if I’m going to continue, I’ll need to restock. Bottom line: I intend to keep going day-by-day / hour-by-hour, and see how far I get. I have now doubled my target (two weeks, instead of a single week), so even if I break my fast tonight, I’ve still had a successful fast. (Yea, me!) | ||||
| In the meantime, I’m giving serious thought to returning to Planet Fitness. I joined last year and haven’t gone since mid-January because I got a bit full of myself and fed up with the New Year’s Resolution crowd. I will have to just get over it (and get over myself, too). We’ll see… | ||||
| For now, I’m just enjoying keeping on – keepin’ on… (I’ll drink to that!) | ||||
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| Click here (12 September) to see the posts of prior years. I started this blog in late 2009. Daily posting began in late January 2011. Not all of the days in the early years (2009-2010) will have posts. | ||||
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