Thanks Troutman. I dont think that Im catching up to you because you are not working hard enough. we probably work out about the same but I eat less than you. Its as simple as that. I probably eat less than most people here. An acquaintance asked me the other day what my secret was to be able to lose so much weight so fast. I said: “anorexia.” Even though Im not really anorexic (have to be underweight), there is some half truth to it. I basically designed my diet pretty much after what an individual would be able to eat after a bariatric surgery. There I was sitting at 280#’s thinking “man, the only way out of this blubber is the bariatric surgery.” I looked it up, I qualified to have it done. Im a pretty determined person, so I figured what the hell, if you can do it with the surgery, you can do it without. That’s what Im doing. Of course I don’t follow it exactly, I can splurge occasionally. I can drink large amounts of water or soda (they cant) I don’t even need B12 shots because the part of my stomach that needs to be working to secrete intrinsic factor to absorb B12 is still intact. I just eat about 30-50 Cals/hr…about an ounce of food. Sometimes more if its veggies. And I eat tons of protein and a little carbs. I sometimes have a small meal with less than 200-300 Cals. So my daily average is around 600-700 Cals, sometimes even lower. Yeah, I know its not the most healthy way to lose weight, but I needed something drastic or I would never do it. Ive always been a bit extreme in the things I do. Im a faster too. Ive never mentioned that here before, but Ive been doing fasts for 7-8 years. Most around 3 days. Countless 5 day fasts and one 7 day fast…just to see if I could do it. There’s a hell of a lot of “common sense” anti-fasters, but no real concrete evidence against fasting. There are the well known things like weight gain after fasting and whatnot. To be perfectly honest, I do have very large weight swings, but they don’t seem to be related to my fasts. But I cant say for certain. Anyway…enough of my rant. My point was, I started this weightloss competition with about 5 guys. They knew my technique of eating normal until 5 days before the weigh in, at which time I would start fasting. By the weigh in I would blow them all away. So they made me promise that I would eat every day, no fasting. So I put together all I know about physiology and nutrition and I came up with this diet. I don’t get the “euphoria” associated with fasting, but I can stay on this for a very long time, and the weight is just melting off. Our competition ended March 1st and I REALLY wasted them all. I lost 53 Lbs, the next runner up lost 15 lbs. Ive had no signs of “slowing metabolism.” I have a large appetite of course, but Im not actually hungry all the time, because I eat all the time. Ive had the largest weightloss in my life (right after the largest weight gain) and I have no intentions of stopping any time soon. Is it the healthiest diet? Id have to say no, but neither was my artery clogging, blood pressure raising, joint degrading, diabetes inducing, exercise prohibiting extra 100 lbs of pure fat that I was carrying around (now only 50). Id have to say it’s a healthier option. This is a long post so Im going to stop there.
