Day 36

Bollocks. Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks!

As a consequence of being a few minutes late this morning, I left the house without my food packs.

I posted a message on the Lighterlife forum asking for advice, but no one replied in time. I went to the local convenience store and bought three packets of meats, checking the calories and carbs contents of each.

I walked back to work eating them quickly - I didn't want to be seen eating slices of turkey or ham out of the packet, and I would have been at work. I probably bolted my food a little, but I hope its testament to the reduced size of my stomach that I'm feeling pretty bloated at the moment. The only solid food I've had for weeks now has been the daily bar at 3 o'clock, and this lot has replaced both that and the midday meal.

I'm saying bollocks at the top because I'm annoyed at breaking the diet, but I'm not going to beat myself up about it too much. I don't think it should have too much effect, and I should remain in ketosis. Obviously we'll see what happens on Sunday...

Week 5 - Week 5 Meeting

A much better week this week. I knew I was doing better with my water, and I could see the scales at home moving, but I was surprised - I don't trust the scales at home to be completely accurate - to discover that I'd lost 8lbs this week. That means that in five weeks, I've lost just three pounds under three stone in weight.

I've included a new line - in green - that tracks an estimate of my actual weight, since I'm getting weighed wearing jeans with man-crap in the pockets, pants, t-shirt, socks and trainers every week. I estimate they weigh about 6lbs, so I'm only just above 16 Stone now, which is good news. It's been a few years since that was the case!

It's immediately obvious that I've lost weight; my face has changed shape, and my cheekbones are positively angular, and there's clearly less tummy and moobs. People are starting to comment about it now. I'm not particularly keen on talking about it beyond acknowleging that, yes, I have lost weight, but it's all been compliamentary.


Unfortunately, I don't know whether my blood pressure issue has improved or worsened. There's a chap who comes to our group who is a retired nurse, and thus qualified to take BP. He wasn't there this week.

Day 28 - Week 4 Meeting

A disappointing week this week, although it's not really that bad!

As you can see from the graph, I've gone down from 17.7 to 17.4, roughly three lbs. This is disapointing in terms of my recent progress, but pretty good when you consider that most diets aim for about a pound a week. I think I was pretty bad with my water intake this week, and this diet necessitates a regular intake of liquid in which to disolve the sugars from the fats.



The other thing that happened this week was that we checked my blood pressure. Normally on this diet, it would go down. Unfortunately, mine has gone up.

When I started, my blood pressure was 132/72. Now it's 151/85, which is quite a substantial rise. The first figure, the systolic pressure (which is the pressure away from the heart as it beats, is over the top of what's considered healthy of 140. Hmmm. Not good. Better is the fact that my heart rate is now 64 bmp. down from 86 bmp. I need to keep an eye on this.

Day 21 - Week 3 Meeting

Well, here's the results from this week:

Weight

I dropped to 17.7 stone, a drop of 6.2 lbs. In total, I've lost fractionally under two stone in just 21 days of dieting, which is incredible!

My BMI has also improved again. It's now 32.8. At the current rate of improvement, I should be below the recommended 30 in just three more weeks!


I'm going to spread out my posts a little more, so I have more to write about in the week, and because shorter posts are more enjoyable to read!