217 !!

So, for some reason I haven't been posting, yet I've been fasting and losing weight! Very strange, b/c normally my blogging habits (weak as they are) are strongly correlated with my dieting habits (weak as they are).

Anyway, I guess I "snapped" Wednesday morning when I weighed in at 225.25. That's more than I started the year at, and possibly above my average over the past 2-3 years. Sad. I told myself that if my entire 2010 push wasn't going to go down in flames, I needed to find a way to get to 215 by the end of February. The thought being that I then aim for 210 in March, 205 in April, etc. But let's not get ahead of ourselves yet.

The obvious lever to reach for was a nice, long fast. The plan was simple: don't eat until 215 lbs. So I haven't eaten since about 11pm Tuesday night, now 59 hours ago. I think my record is about 67-68 hours? [too lazy to check old posts now] so I may be breaking that today.

I'd initially hoped to get to 215 by last (Thurs) night or this (Fri) morning. But I'm still a step or two away. And of course, doing the math a few times now, I can see that -- absent exercise -- I should soon settle into losing less than a pound a day.

I dropped 4.75 lbs in the first 24 hours (not counting the first 7 hours, during which I was sleeping). Of course mostly water. And then I lost 3.0 lbs in the second 24-hours. So I should be able to make it to 215 by tomorrow morning, but not before.

So far feeling pretty darn good...

222, 222

Stuck on 222 for 2 days.

Backsliding a tad from post-fast.

See what I can do today...

221

Away from scales for a few days.

Weight was sliding up. Weighed 229 (!!!) Tues night.

Fasted Wed.

220.75 this AM.

Still fasting so far. 36 hours...

222

Fasted except for dinner time, but I guess I didn't really eat the perfect meal. Still, 140 will take time.

:)

223

This morning. After a bit of a late-night binge on toast & cheese.

Back to the grindstone.

140 here I come.

221

Yesterday morning. 220.75 in fact -- but I said I wouldn't bore you with fractions or decimals.

223

225 last night, 223 this morning. (I won't bore you with fractions anymore. It's about losing POUNDS.) I fasted (or quasi-fasted, really) until dinner, then "broke down" and had a very small salad and one medium bowl of soup. I call this a success. And 5-lb drop is great of course. But this means nothing. 223 is still slightly on the high side of my average range over the past several months. So if this is a race I'm still just wiggling around the starting line.

If a want to make a permanent change to my eating pattern, then that needs to be based around something like 1500 cal/day. Yesterday was maybe 1200 I'm guessing. So even though it felt like a "near-fast" it was just a tad on the low end of where I need to be.

Let's see how I do today.

228

I see that my last post was in September -- so 5 months ago. As you would expect, the news since then is mostly bad. (Otherwise I would've been posting!)

My new years resolution probably wasn't strong enough, and I haven't been strong enough to fully stick to it anyhow.

I've hit rock bottom, with my post-Super Bowl party weight this morning (yes, this is a morning weight!) 228.25. That's a number I don't think I've seen in a long, long time. (I don't want to check; too painful.)

At my height (6 ft), I'd need to weigh 140 pounds to be at 18.5 BMI, which is probably near-optimal. I think there's little doubt that my truly optimal weight would be south of 150 at any rate. So as of today today I have roughly 80-85 pounds to lose.

Haven't eaten anything since about 9pm last night, so nearly 19 hours. I have weekly weigh-in with the kids tonight. (Since we missed last night.) Today's fast will help there, though evening vs morning will probably still but me above 225 I'm guessing.

Anyway, I need to establish a "new normal" for myself. The fat folk on "Biggest Loser" often lose 80 lbs in 6-10 weeks, though they're all fatter than me I guess, and exercise 8 hours a day or so.

A 140 lb person only needs to eat about 1500 cal/day I think, so one way or the other that's the ballpark where I need to end up. But for now I guess I need to see how long I can fast. And try to eat no more than that when I'm not fasting.

I'll also try to keep you posted semi-religiously.