And I couldn't be happier with my progress. I have always gotten really discouraged when trying to lose weight if i didn't see consistent weight loss. For example, two summers ago i was told that if I got in 10,000 steps a day I would lose a pound a week without even adjusting my diet. First couple weeks I see some weight loss. After about a month I work up to walking 2.5 miles in the morning and 2.5 at night! I do this for a solid month, and NOTHING, ZERO weight loss. I say fuck it and go eat a whole large pizza! Back up to my starting weight plus a few pounds.
Late last year I catch Mark Sisson on the Joe Rogan pod cast. I get his book and start reading and see the term Ketosis (sounds interesting), so I start researching Ketosis. Which lead me here, were I found a ton of information, recipes and advice. And the thing I think helped me the most The 1 Week Meal Plan!
Start talking to my wife about this diet, I can’t get all my meals together for the week Sat and she won’t have to cook anything special. She makes a deal with my on a weight loss goal (more on this below) and off I go.
By the end of the first week of eating hardboiled eggs I am starting to feel like Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke. Week two I start having bacon and cheese omelets. I add Avocado to the omelets by the end of week two to up my potassium. Avocados in Ohio in mid-winter are either stones or mush, switch to Wholly Guacamole from Cost Co (thanks r/keto)
Lunch the first week was Salisbury Steak and a lettuce and tomato salad with Newman's Creamy Cesar dressing. These are too much hassle to make so week two is 6 oz. burger patties with bacon and cheese. Switch out the lettuce for raw spinach. Week three I ended buy 6+ pound hamburger from Cost Co season and portion it out then freeze what I done need for that week.
For dinners I have Santa Fe Grilled Chicken with broccoli. For the second week I marinade a double batch and freeze one for next week. By the fourth week I don’t really want to mess around with marinating chicken (seeing a pattern), so I get a couple rotisserie chickens from Cost Co and portion those out for 6 meals. The breast meat isn’t enough so I end up including the dark meat as well, something I am not a big fan of. For week five I make sure to get all the dark meat off the chickens because that shit is delicious! I add a couple table spoons of spinach artichoke dip (from Cost Co) to spruce up the white meat.
So that is basically my meals 1,600 to 1,800 calories, I do take a multi vitamin as well as 250 mg of Magnesium Citrate and 500 mg of Krill oil. Occasionally I will have some salted chicken broth, and I am drinking enough water to kill a camel. I don’t feel like I am starving myself, and I don’t find myself foraging in the kitchen an hour after I have eaten. I do miss pizza though!
Again, a big thanks to everyone one here not only for the information and advice but the stories of your weight loss. I see guys my size or bigger losing the kind of weight I want to lose and it gives me hope and inspiration.
And now for a short and long term goals. I think putting them here as well as talking about them with friends and family will make it hard for me to fall of the wagon.
*Under 350 lbs. (this is a personal one)
*Under 340 lbs. – Will be making Fathead Pizza, YEA PIZZA!
*Under 299 lbs. – because fuck weighing 300 lbs.
*Under 290 lbs. – This is the big one, the deal the wife made me was if I lost 100 lbs. I could buy a Harley! After seeing how serious I am about losing the weight this time, she is having second thoughts, they are too dangerous! It appears I have some more negotiations to do on this front.
*Under 25% BMI – I get a discount from my health insurance if I am below this number
*Under 220 lbs. – Final goal weight
Thanks for reading this and for all your support!
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