DAY 17 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE

Christmas Eve 2015

Today is Day 17.

Weight goal - 150.8 or lower
Actual weight - 148.4

Blood glucose goal - 89 or lower
Actual blood glucose - 89

Today is a Feast Day!



For me, that means a ketogenic diet - high fat, moderate protein and very low carb.  Each day, I will weigh in, check my fasting blood glucose, find out if I will feast or fast that day, update my chart and post it here on the big blog. Im posting it to motivate myself not to give up, and if I think that anyone is looking at this, it will help to keep me accountable.

According to my new rule of fasting once a week no matter what, I will be fasting tomorrow even if I reach my daily weight and blood glucose goals.

Yesterday, I had bacon and coffee with heavy cream and Stevia for breakfast, egg salad with mayo, dill relish and olives and a few slices of hard salami for lunch, and a new pressure cooker recipe that contained pork chops, heavy cream, lime juice, onions, garlic, parsley, salt, olive oil and butter. It was excellent!  I also had pork rinds with salsa and sour cream.

16 DAYS DOWN.  75 DAYS TO GO.

14 FEAST DAYS AND 3 FAST DAYS.

5.6 POUNDS GONE.  12.4 POUNDS TO GO.  

31% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER ONLY 19% OF THE DAYS!

I made a few charts to track my progress.  The orange lines are my goals. The blue lines are my actual results.  The last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I actually have had to fast to achieve the results I am after.

(click on charts to enlarge)

This is a personal challenge just for me, but if anyone reading would like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.  If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!  Thanks for reading!

To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click here.

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JULY 17 WEEK 122 RESULTS

I tracked my food every day this past week on Fitday.  Here are the averages of what I ate:

I take my full measurements every Sunday.  In the past week:

I lost a total of 1-1/4", which includes:
I lost 0" around my neck
I lost 0" around my bicep
I lost 0" around my bust
I lost 1/4" around my midriff

I lost 5/8" around my waist
I lost 0" around my navel
I lost 1/8" around my hips
I lost 1/8" around my thigh

I lost 0" around my calf

Lost 0.010 points onto my waist-to-height ratio

Lost 0.013 points onto my waist-to-hip ratio

 Lost 0.9 points off my body fat percentage

Gained 0.9 points onto my lean body mass percentage

Lost 1.9 lbs. of body fat

Gained 0.1 lb. of lean mass
Lost 1.8 lbs. on the scale

Here is what I have lost so far, since starting to lose weight in February 2009:

A total of 37.125", which includes:
Neck - 13.75" to 12" - down 1.75"

Bicep - 12.5" to 10.75" - down 1.75"

Bust - 39.5" to 36.25" - down 3.25"

Midriff - 33.75" to 30.75" - down 3"

Waist - 35" to 31.25" - down 3.75"

Navel - 41.75" to 35.875" - down 5.875"

Hips - 45.5" to 39.5" - down 6"

Thigh - 25.75" to 22.25" - down 3.5"

Calf - 15" to 13.5" - down 1.5"

BODY COMPOSITION

TODAY

12" neck
31.25" waist
39.5" hips
0.496 waist-to-height ratio
0.791 waist-to-hip ratio
34.4% body fat


AT THE BEGINNING OF WEIGHT LOSS 2/22/09

13.75" neck
35" waist
45.5" hips
0.556 waist-to-height ratio
0.769 waist-to-hip ratio
44.8% body fat

Since my heaviest weight in February 2009, I have lost 1.75" around my neck, 3.75" around my waist and 6" around my hips.  I have lost 10.4 percentage points on my body fat. 

ONE YEAR AGO

12.5" neck
31" waist
40.25" hips
0.492 waist-to-height ratio
0.770 waist-to-hip ratio
34.4% body fat

In the past year, I have lost 0.5" around my neck, I gained 0.25" around my waist and I lost 0.75" around my hips.  I have lost 0 percentage point off my body fat.


ONE MONTH AGO

12.125" neck
31" waist
39.5" hips
0.492 waist-to-height ratio
0.785 waist-to-hip ratio
33.9% body fat

In the past month, I have lost 0.125" around my neck, I have gained 0.25" around my waist and 0" around my hips.  I have gained 0.5 percentage points on my body fat.

ONE WEEK AGO

12" neck
31.875" waist
39.625" hips
0.506 waist-to-height ratio
0.804 waist-to-hip ratio
35.3% body fat

In the past week, I have lost 0" around my neck, 0.625" around my waist and 0.125" around my hips.  I have lost 0.9 percentage points onto my body fat.


MY NEXT GOAL

12" neck
31.125" waist
39.375" hips
0.494 waist-to-height ratio
0.790 waist-to-hip ratio
34% body fat

To achieve this, I need to lose 0.125" around my waist and 0.125" around my hips.

MY ULTIMATE DREAM GOAL

11.875" neck
26.125" waist
37.25" hips
0.415 waist-to-height ratio
0.701 waist-to-hip ratio
25% body fat

To achieve this, I need to lose another 0.125" around my neck, another 5.125" around my waist and another 2.25" around my hips.

If I reach this goal, I will have lost 1.875" around my neck, 8.875" around my waist and 8.25" around my hips since February 22, 2009.

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THE MODIFIED VIRGIN DIET DAY 17

Yesterday, I completed Day 17 of my modified version of The Virgin Diet. 

MY SYMPTOMS

• Acne - No
• Chronic mucus/stuffy nose - No
• Constipation and/or diarrhea - No, not since stopping the shakes
• Fatigue - Yes - In the afternoons on the days I work
• Food cravings - No
• Gas and bloating - No
• Headaches - No
• High blood glucose - No
• Inability to lose weight - No - Starting weight 147.8 - Current weight 143.8 - Goal weight 136 - To get back to goal, need to lose 7.8 more pounds.  Can button "measurement shorts" with a slight "muffin top".  Weight stayed the same yesterday for a total of 4 pounds in 17 days.
• Insomnia - Yes - Did not sleep very well last night.  Kept waking up.
• Joint pain - No
• Thinning, limp, lackluster hair - Yes
• Muscle pain  - No
• Nausea - No
• Swollen fingers - No

MY MENU

Yesterday, I ate this:

159g fat (80%)
59g protein
33g carbs

I ate breakfast at 5:00 am.  I had a cup of my homemade beef bone broth with sea salt and gelatin.

I ate a snack at 10:00 am.  I had  my special Sunrise Cocktail made of olive oil, MCT oil, cod liver oil, lemon juice and Stevia.

I ate lunch at 2:30 pm.  I had 2 queen-size green olives, three thick slices of bacon, and a salad made with romaine lettuce, grape tomatoes, MCT oil, olive oil, crushed garlic, lime juice, Stevia and onion powder.  I also had three frozen strawberries.

I had dinner at 6:30 pm. I had ground beef, turnips, onions, garlic and sea salt cooked in coconut oil and bacon grease.  For dessert, I had 1/2 cup of coconut milk with cocoa powder and Stevia.

I drank 72 oz. of water, but never within an hour before eating or an hour after eating, in order to not dilute my stomach acid.


MY EXERCISE

I took a long walk after dinner.  A mile or two - not sure.


If you are interested in getting a short synopsis of how this plan works, you can click on the link at the beginning of this post or you can listen to Jimmy Moore interviewing JJ Virgin by clicking here.

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