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Down another pound this morning!
After losing 4 stone (48lb) in less than a year my loss rate slowed and almost halted. At 55 thought that might be all that was reasonably achievable. I was now at the weight I held in my early 20s - in round terms about 14.5 stone (203 lb). When I started Atkins at more than 18.5 stone (260lb) I thought "Well maybe I can get back to 15 stone." (210lb) This weight I had held for the greater part of my "mature years".
I was now just below a long term set weight, enjoying everything I was eating half way up the Atkins ladder, very happily cycling at least ten miles a day. My weight was in balance and my appetite was controling this stasis.
As I approached my 56th birthday I began to look more critically at what I was eating. Perhaps I could push below my current weight? It was probably right that after losing so much I let my body rest, but maybe it was time to look more critcally at what I was eating. Carb creep? Up to 80g a day with lots of excercise and staying on the edge of ketosis. Calorie intake? In the early stages I monitored everything daily, and was consuming 1700-1800 calories a day and 20-30g carbs. Later I took the the "spot check", and that came out at 1900-2000 cals and 80g carb with by appetite being the principal arbiter of consumption.
Maybe here I was making mistakes in underestimating my consumption of oily salad dressings and mayonnaise? Maybe my intake was closer to 2500 than 2000 cals. Who knows? I am now watching those fats very carefully, back to strict weighing and measuring, and back to close monitoring with Fitday. It seems to be paying off with nearly another half stone (6lb) gone and the prospect of a target lower than ever I dreamed of at the start of the Atkins project.
The lowest adult weight I ever achieved was 14 stone 2 lb aged 27 shortly after I joined the British Army. Even at that weight and 6 ft 3 in I was chunky, but into 36" waiste trousers (pants) I am almost there again and face the prospect of crashing straight through that lower limit. That's rather exciting.
According to the tables, 14 stone (196 lb) is top acceptable weight for me. The middle of the acceptable range is a stone (14lb) belkow that. The prospect of being a very trim 13 stone (180lb) in 36" or even 34" waist trousers (pants) is utterly amazing, but is beginning to look both a achievable and sustainable now that I have reformed my bad eating habits.But it also seems that I will have to pay great attention to detail if I am to keep the balance tipped in favour of continued sustainable loss down to this mid-range target - I think I have the motivation.
As I advance in years that lower weight would give me a big advantage - and I want to enjoy my British Army pension for a LONG time!
Come on, my well informed friends, let's have some comments.
After losing 4 stone (48lb) in less than a year my loss rate slowed and almost halted. At 55 thought that might be all that was reasonably achievable. I was now at the weight I held in my early 20s - in round terms about 14.5 stone (203 lb). When I started Atkins at more than 18.5 stone (260lb) I thought "Well maybe I can get back to 15 stone." (210lb) This weight I had held for the greater part of my "mature years".
I was now just below a long term set weight, enjoying everything I was eating half way up the Atkins ladder, very happily cycling at least ten miles a day. My weight was in balance and my appetite was controling this stasis.
As I approached my 56th birthday I began to look more critically at what I was eating. Perhaps I could push below my current weight? It was probably right that after losing so much I let my body rest, but maybe it was time to look more critcally at what I was eating. Carb creep? Up to 80g a day with lots of excercise and staying on the edge of ketosis. Calorie intake? In the early stages I monitored everything daily, and was consuming 1700-1800 calories a day and 20-30g carbs. Later I took the the "spot check", and that came out at 1900-2000 cals and 80g carb with by appetite being the principal arbiter of consumption.
Maybe here I was making mistakes in underestimating my consumption of oily salad dressings and mayonnaise? Maybe my intake was closer to 2500 than 2000 cals. Who knows? I am now watching those fats very carefully, back to strict weighing and measuring, and back to close monitoring with Fitday. It seems to be paying off with nearly another half stone (6lb) gone and the prospect of a target lower than ever I dreamed of at the start of the Atkins project.
The lowest adult weight I ever achieved was 14 stone 2 lb aged 27 shortly after I joined the British Army. Even at that weight and 6 ft 3 in I was chunky, but into 36" waiste trousers (pants) I am almost there again and face the prospect of crashing straight through that lower limit. That's rather exciting.
According to the tables, 14 stone (196 lb) is top acceptable weight for me. The middle of the acceptable range is a stone (14lb) belkow that. The prospect of being a very trim 13 stone (180lb) in 36" or even 34" waist trousers (pants) is utterly amazing, but is beginning to look both a achievable and sustainable now that I have reformed my bad eating habits.But it also seems that I will have to pay great attention to detail if I am to keep the balance tipped in favour of continued sustainable loss down to this mid-range target - I think I have the motivation.
As I advance in years that lower weight would give me a big advantage - and I want to enjoy my British Army pension for a LONG time!
Come on, my well informed friends, let's have some comments.
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