W373

Week 373 of workouts and diets and everything.  7.17 years if you want to think of it that way.  I've been logging in to MyFitnessPal 786 days this run and over 500 the first time (I missed one login between the two).

May 28th last year I weighed 331 pounds; the heaviest I've ever been.

Today, I weigh 269.4 - a loss of 61.6 pounds. I've dropped several pant sizes. I lost several inches off my waist (49" to 43"), chest (43" to 39.25"), and more specifically my ass (54.5" to 45.5").

I'm the smallest I've been in at least 10 years.

Thank you to those special people who were there with advice and support while I changed my diet and worked out this last year - especially those that "yell" at me because I don't use MyFitnessPal correctly (because I don't).

For some reference, in 2015 here is a table of measurements https://elvisapocalypse.blogspot.com/2015/07/w1d0-babc.html

Here are the measurements from then when I was nearly my smallest from that table (different dates)
Chest - 41.5

Waist - 43.5

butt - 50

thigh - 28.75 (my thighs now are 27.25)

my waist is bigger now, but it doesn't look like it - I look like the Feb 15 pics - I may post pics later. idk.

In any case, my diet is now mosta-vegetarian.  I have rice, lettuce, tomatoes with chilis, black beans, and guacamole a lot of the days of the week - but I don't eat much of it.  I eat a lot of lettuce and drink a lot of water.  If I have meat it's usually chicken, egg, or fish.

W369

I didn't realize it'd been this long since I've blogged, vlogged, or other.  I've just been doing my own thing.

It's been just over 30 weeks (213 days) since I've last blogged.  And nearly a year (Memorial Day last year 339 days ago) that I weighed the most I've ever weighed at 331 pounds.  October was when I dropped down to 288 pounds.

I hovered in that range and down to 280 for a bit, but mostly around 288 to 293 or so for the last 30 weeks.

Two months ago I weighed 295 pounds.  Today I weigh 273.  I've not done much different with my life.  I just have more drive.  I workout five days a week and no more than 2 hours each (1 hour on a bike at a slow to moderate pace while on conference calls and no more than 1 hour of strength - TRX on specific routines I've done and documented in many past posts).  My eating is pretty much salad, water, and I don't watch calories.  I just kind of eat when I feel like it and I don't eat a lot.  Which really means I eat once a day and that's it.  I'm not hungry the rest of the time.

Here are my measurements over the last year.  I could not pull my leg onto my other leg at all.  Like a figure-4.  I can now.  Total weight loss so far from Memorial Day 2018 to today is 58 pounds and I drop size faster than weight these days, which is to be expected.
apr 17 2018 - apr 29 2019 waist - 49 - 41.25 = 7.75" butt/hips - 54.5 - 45.5 = 9" chest - 43 - 39 = 4" thighs - 31 - 27.25 = 3.75" apr 17 - apr 29 2018 I weighed between 315 and 320 may 1, 2019 I weigh 273

imagine having pants that were tight and you couldn't put a belt on and losing 9" off your butt and hips and almost 8" off your waist and now have to wear a belt because those pants and shorts you bought would just fall off? It's a very exciting and confident feeling.

it's also very nice, even at 273, which I weighed in spring 2010, to be the smallest size I've been even before that time. That means that I'm able to wear clothes now, that I had for a smaller me when I weighed like 253-260. That brings up ones confidence level quite a bit.

W339 D2

I am going to start vlogging instead of blogging, but I'll instead add the embedded vlog here with a transcript. I am not sure how I'm going to do that, yet.

I'll give you an update of the last month and then I'll probably give some brief updates here since there are no page views. Or I'll put all of the pages and videos together embedded and then publish all of them at the same time. I'm not sure yet.

In any case --

30 days ago I started PSMF again and dropped several pounds (7 or so). Then switched to potato-centric -- idk what to name that -- and have dropped from 303.4 to 288.8 (14.6 pounds) in the last 15 days. I do not know if this trend will continue or not.

My current eating plan goes as follows:

• potatoes main entree still - I might substitute some steamed rice occasionally
• pepper as a spice only
• spinach as much as I want - I've opted for frozen as it's much cheaper for frozen than fresh and I can keep it longer. For now, it's fine. Later, I'll want to switch to fresh vegetables, but for now it'll be fine.
• multivitamin and B12

Otherwise, that's it. Quick bullet point blogs daily, weekly recaps, monthly recaps, etc.

That's all for now.

W336 D2

I wanted to wait until tomorrow or Wednesday when the actual event happened, but it's inevitable now so I'm going to post last week's progress.

First, the boring part - I've managed to stay between 307 and 317 since I hit the bottom of the weight drop on June 9th. 94 days.

I am 106 days from Memorial Day today. I've somehow managed not to go full-on frontal nudity and eat everything despite every stressor and failure in the last 94 days (that's a success). Last Monday I kicked back into Protein Satiating Modified Fast (PSMF) which is almost entirely protein, as much green leafy veggies I want and I eat however many potatoes I can eat still (which isn't that many). but I only eat really once a day and a smaller snack later. e.g. I'll make a bunch of eggs with potatoes and some bacon and can't finish it. So the 1/4c or 1c that I don't eat for lunch I'll eat at 5pm. and that's it. I drink 8oz or more of water every hour. Not really a new thing for me.

I finally broke 307 and am at 301.6 - I figure tomorrow or Wed I'll break 300 for the first time since august 2017.

W325 D3

I was asked by a friend of mine if you post on Tuesday why is it day 3 - Sunday is Day 1, not Monday.

This.is.day.30. I weigh 307.8 - Memorial Day (28May) I weighed 331.0 - All of this is diet only. I'll get into that in a few minutes.

First, even at almost 308 I feel better than in the 270s. No joint aches, no muscle aches, no migraines, no neck pain, no snoring, lots of other noes in the negative categories that I can't think of. I still have a little fluid build up in my legs. I am not taking the water pills just drinking more water. I do need to get more pills. In any case, lots of good stuff.

Time for some vitals before I get to diet changes. These measurements are listed as current and original one month ago.
neck: 15.5" - 16" = .5"
chest: 41.75" - 43" = 1.2"
waist: 47.25" - 51 = 3.75"
hips: 50.5" - 54.5" = 4"
thighs: 29.5" - 31" = 1.5"

I'll explain the hips one - you all know I've got the jLo. so that is the absolute roundest part of the weeble and the wobble - the apex of the donk on the a and b side coming around to the front. so it's not actually a hip measurement... it's the golden globes measurement. Death Star 1 & 2 circumferencies (not an actual word).

In one month - that's a lot of size. 23 pounds of size (also my arms have a little extra in them too that I never measured).

On to the diet:
I've never really eaten more than once a day since my professional career. It's just kind of the way it's turned out. However, I would snack a few times a day. Since the first two weeks of potatoes, I'm pretty much only hungry once a day. I will have some eggs (or egg white) with a small potato if I'm really really hungry for breakfast. And I'll drink a lot of water. I'm know I'm always a little more dehydrated in the morning. Everyone is.

I don't eat anything that is bread. no taco shells, no burrito flours, burger buns, etc. I have no oils. I don't add anything to my food that's not pepper either. So no salts, sugars, etc. I eat nothing that comes from fast food at all except on Sat night or Sunday since those are my planned times to eat fast food. They're not cheats. As Penn says, I plan to eat crap, that's when I plan to eat crap :) I'm surprised at how little crap I eat.

Mostly, I eat chicken, fish, I buy these bags of shrimp that are 7 bucks and one lasts 2 weeks. I put 4-8 tiny shrimp in with some chicken or fish. I cut up potatoes. I have two med yukon gold with some of these baby reds. I cut them into dice and cook them on the oven and always over pepper them - I need to remember to add less pepper. Then I mix them with some salsa. toss in the chicken, fish, and shrimp. Sometimes I throw in some onions and green peppers with the chicken, fish, and shrimp. and it's not a lot of meat either - it totals less than 3oz total.

Once a week I'll have some steak but I don't add anything to it either. If I have a burger it's on Sunday only. After eating chicken for a month, burgers tasted weird. I can't explain it, but they do.

I don't count anything (calories, sodium, carbs, etc). On Sat night and Sunday I eat or drink whatever I want. The rest of the week I have no desire to eat what I ate on Sat night and Sunday.

Now, could I run very far? or could I lift a bunch of stuff for very long? no. And if you need to, you'd probably have to adjust this a bit. Mentally, am I unfocused? not at all - and all I do is use my brain and type. I'd probably have to add more carbs like corn and beans (green or lentils or something) to my food if I had to stand longer periods of time. But I stood printing t-shirts for 4 hours and didn't have any issues and it was hot so idk.

Right now, having leveled off, I'm losing about a pound a day.

W324 D4

It's been a few days.

Sunday, Father's Day, I ate horribly - and that was my actual 21st day - I got cashew chicken sat night because you never know around here with chinese places - some sunday holidays they're like hell yes we're open and other's they're like "Fu King Hol Day - Closed" I ate half of an ice cream cake - I didn't feel guilty and it was ok... not great... but I didn't think I'd finish it lol. It's not actually a cheat day when it's worked in. it was a planned eat crap day. I had a big roast beef no bun and I can't remember anything else... some chicken I think. Maybe I didn't eat anything else. Idk.

Monday and yesterday I went back to eating mostly meats and veggies and a couple of potatoes.

Today - all potatoes again. I now have three kinds of potatoes. I'm eating some big sunzas, some yukon golds, and some tiny reds. I cut them up cook them in a pan and add some pepper. No meats today. I'll ramp the water back up and probably stick with mainly potatoes for the next two weeks.

My weight is at 313 with the water - without it's about 307-308 so I'm losing about a pound a day. My waist is 47.5-48 which is down from the 51 I started at (granted some is most likely water, but smaller is smaller:)) - my butt is way small. my cargo shorts from Disney would barely fit and now I can turn my fist sideways in the waistband. My pants fit and I can sit down without feeling like I'm being cut in half. I've still got the water retention problem in my lower legs, but I don't take the water pills daily because I literally have to pee 12 ounces every half hour.

I did find out cheese is very bad lol. I ate some string cheese and snored all night Saturday and Sunday... so no more cheese (which is my favorite fruit.

Otherwise, I've been working a lot, not working out still, just working. I'm hauling stuff around and walking a lot to get things done around the house. Hauling tshirts everywhere for orders (since the printer is downstairs I'm hauling heavy boxes of shirts downstairs, printing, then packing, and hauling them back upstairs. So that's kind of a workout.

Otherwise, I feel exceptional - which I have to say even at 313 I feel waaaayyyy better than I ever did even at 270.

Slowly but surely.

W323 D4

I've balanced out at 311-315 for a little bit. I'm hovering for the moment. I'm alright with that for yesterday but not today. If I didn't feel well still I wouldn't be alright with it yesterday.

I have a lot of physical work to do today. I also know that with this past weekends dehydration I'm storing more water still. So, once I've hit a certain point and drop that water my weight will go down. That's not fat. That's not what I want. However, my waist is still getting smaller. So, I'm perfectly alright with my weight maintaining as long as I am getting smaller. My waist is 47.75" so down another 1/4" from the original 51" which is pretty great considering it's been 2 1/2 weeks.

In any case, lots of work today. Hot weather outside. Hot work inside. Potatoes for eating. Lots of water.