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This might sound like I'm patting myself on the back but I'm really not fishing for compliments here.
I'm a second time arounder and have just finished my first two weeks. I stepped on the scale today and tah-dah, 10.2 pounds gone. Some folks do better, some do worse, I've hit a statistical average. Here is the thing. I'm more than happy considering the shear amount of food I've been eating. Over the course of the last two weekends, we have eaten out considerably at all you can eat buffets. I stayed on induction only foods and been very faithful in that regard but have literally ate way more than I did (average per day) before I restarted and still managed to lose weight. I would say about 7 pounds the first week and 3.2 the second. Never was I hungry, I've had a lot more energy and I honestly just love induction type foods. I'm going to be staying on induction for a while as the wife has decided to give this a serious try. I hope to be a good support for her.
This is actually not my second time around, it is more like the fourth or fifth but I came to a realization about what I had done wrong the last couple of times when I actually gained weight. Here is my story and maybe it will help some others who are giving it the old college try once again.
The first time I had no idea what I was doing, someone at work gave me a Xerox of the foods list from the 1992 book and I just did an extended induction for a bout three months dropping about 10 pounds a month. Then I sort of backed off and even fell off a few times but still managed to lose about five more pounds over the course of two more months. Then with a vacation looming on the horizon I decided to really crack down and start excersizing and kabamm lost another 13 pounds in about thirty days. I would then go off and on as it suited me but still stayed just a bit above my lowest weight of 197 over the courseof the next four years. It stayed that way until I met the lady who is now my wife. Once we were comfortable with each other we both packed on the pounds and have neither one been able to totally lose it since. I tried to reboot my self a few times but would get discouraged if I didn't lose or stopped losing for too long. I'm fully aware that my age and it being a second time will likely cause me to lose more slowly and have some stalls but I also am not making some of the same really big blunders that I did on attempts two and three.
Here are some things to definately avoid.
This time my body seems to be responding very favorably and I will engage in some of the above again but I won't try to exist on them.
In the meantime I have relearned what it was I loved about this WOE. I can enjoy rich, tasty, whole foods like omlettes, steak, veggies, butter, spinach salads and cheese and lose weight, improve my health and not feel like I'm missing something. I will still have an occasional scotch or martini, low carb cheese cake, etc and they will be all the better because they are the rare treat. During the process I will again start eating to live and stop living to eat, yet not stop enjoying eating either. I will have my low carb cake and eat it too.
Lets all enjoy this ride!
Chris
This might sound like I'm patting myself on the back but I'm really not fishing for compliments here.
I'm a second time arounder and have just finished my first two weeks. I stepped on the scale today and tah-dah, 10.2 pounds gone. Some folks do better, some do worse, I've hit a statistical average. Here is the thing. I'm more than happy considering the shear amount of food I've been eating. Over the course of the last two weekends, we have eaten out considerably at all you can eat buffets. I stayed on induction only foods and been very faithful in that regard but have literally ate way more than I did (average per day) before I restarted and still managed to lose weight. I would say about 7 pounds the first week and 3.2 the second. Never was I hungry, I've had a lot more energy and I honestly just love induction type foods. I'm going to be staying on induction for a while as the wife has decided to give this a serious try. I hope to be a good support for her.
This is actually not my second time around, it is more like the fourth or fifth but I came to a realization about what I had done wrong the last couple of times when I actually gained weight. Here is my story and maybe it will help some others who are giving it the old college try once again.
The first time I had no idea what I was doing, someone at work gave me a Xerox of the foods list from the 1992 book and I just did an extended induction for a bout three months dropping about 10 pounds a month. Then I sort of backed off and even fell off a few times but still managed to lose about five more pounds over the course of two more months. Then with a vacation looming on the horizon I decided to really crack down and start excersizing and kabamm lost another 13 pounds in about thirty days. I would then go off and on as it suited me but still stayed just a bit above my lowest weight of 197 over the courseof the next four years. It stayed that way until I met the lady who is now my wife. Once we were comfortable with each other we both packed on the pounds and have neither one been able to totally lose it since. I tried to reboot my self a few times but would get discouraged if I didn't lose or stopped losing for too long. I'm fully aware that my age and it being a second time will likely cause me to lose more slowly and have some stalls but I also am not making some of the same really big blunders that I did on attempts two and three.
Here are some things to definately avoid.
- Alcohol during induction
- The low carb ice cream
- The Low carb bars
- Too much diet drinks.
This time my body seems to be responding very favorably and I will engage in some of the above again but I won't try to exist on them.
In the meantime I have relearned what it was I loved about this WOE. I can enjoy rich, tasty, whole foods like omlettes, steak, veggies, butter, spinach salads and cheese and lose weight, improve my health and not feel like I'm missing something. I will still have an occasional scotch or martini, low carb cheese cake, etc and they will be all the better because they are the rare treat. During the process I will again start eating to live and stop living to eat, yet not stop enjoying eating either. I will have my low carb cake and eat it too.
Lets all enjoy this ride!
Chris
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