Update after 60 days

(Richard M) #1

Well, it will be 60 days this Wednesday, March 3. But, since it is Sunday and the work load is less I better do it now because there is a good chance I will forget.
My goal today was to see under 250. Didn’t see it today, but I did see 248 yesterday morning. So I will consider that a win.
I will echo a lot of what others have said, You eat less but do not have there hunger issues. Without going into my back ground I always considered food as my life preserver. If I didn’t eat 3+ meals a day and a lot at each meal, I wouldn’t have the energy to make it through the day. Well, my thinking has changed ever since i started.There are time when I eat that I need to remind mind self “you don’t have to eat to feed an army”. That has been an issue all my life, When I was younger I got away with that, but old age and that mind frame caught up with to the weight of 290+. My goal for March is to see 230. Since the weather is getting better time to start getting in 10,000 steps a day(well try).

One last thing. Since I am eating OMAD or OMAD every 2 days I don’t buy as much and my fridge and freezers are full.I don’t know if that is a good problem or not. Again, Thanks for all the wealth of knowledge I am getting from here.

(Laurie) #2

Hi Richard. Thank you for checking in. Congratulations on the 60 days and reaching 248!

I used to eat huge amounts too, and I believed I needed to eat every 3 or 4 hours. Now I eat reasonable amounts in two meals a day.

Good luck with your walking project and continued weight loss.

(Robin) #3

Congrats. Isn’t it amazing to not constantly want more, more, more? The loss of “mental hunger” is such a great relief. Keep in mind, the scales are only one snapshot of one moment. There are times the scale will deliver “bad” news. Don’t let it screw with your head. Your body, your clothes, and the way you look and feel are the true test. I try to only weigh once a month, so I don’t make this a head game. You got this! Keep us informed!

#4

Congrats!

But some of us need the same mealsize as ever. It’s fine as long as the total amount is okay.
Small meals rarely work well for me, I easily end up eating too many of them (even if they satiate my hunger as it’s usually not the case) while a bigger meal brings longer term satiation. But a very good woe takes care of everything and I hardly can overeat, no matter the mealsize I happen to have.

But we are all different and it seems your changes are good for you :smiley: That’s great, good luck for March too!

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #5

There are hormonal issues that are responsible for this, principally having to do with insulin levels resulting from the foods we eat. Carbohydrates, being nothing more than various arrangements of glucose molecules, stimulate a significant insulin response, because excessive blood glucose levels damage the body (and chronically elevated insulin can be equally damaging). Fat, by contrast, has almost no effect on insulin, and the effect of protein on insulin depends on the amount of carbohydrate in the diet.

As researchers look more and more into the effects of a well-formulated ketogenic diet, it becomes clear that what we eat is more significant than how much we eat. Our appetite appears to regulate itself much better in the absence of elevated insulin.