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Well I finally got serious about it, stopped making excuses and pretending like I'm not really interested in losing weight yada yada. Its just not true. There comes a time in your life when you finally snap and the smile goes away from your face and the jolly fat guy just wants to be normal, regularly pissed off, man. Thats right, not a guy, but a man, and there is a distinction there.
So I've been fat my whole life, with short break right after 17 and before 20 when I was at BMI of 25 (best shape in my life, and still overweight). Great years those were, but then I got back to my lazy lifestyle, started driving, had a stressful job, yada yada nobody cares if cortisol or evil night time fastfood eating and drinking beer got me here - it happened. It happens to the best of us and its not worth living in the past. I just said to myself enough is enough.
So late September I got serious about weight loss, and I watched some youtube videos and there were couple of people who lost 100+ pounds and I thought thats great, except it took them a whole year. Now I am a patient guy, but a year is way too long. So my goal is 100+ in 6 months. Then I stumbled across a video by a guy who was talking about low carb diet and how exercise can actually make you fat (link removed) and at first I thought what kind of bull-- is that? But then I realized, that at one time I lost 50 pounds from 220->170 I did it in a year but I would eat high carbs after walking for 8-10+ miles. I crunched some numbers and realized what I was doing was totally wrong.
Enter the metabolic pathway chart. Carbohydrates, it seems, are completely pointless. The only organ that needs glucose to survive is the brain and it can get them from proteins. The heart needs fat and ketone bodies to function, and the rest of the body needs proteins for amino acids and hormones and to rebuild muscles, as well as fats for hormones and cell walls and all the nifty fatty acid derivatives, and everything else uses ATP which you can get from proteins or fats. So now the carbohydrates are the enemy. Fantastic, at least I know who the enemy is! Enter insulin into this conspiracy, and it turns out insulin deposits fats when the glucose levels spike, while glucagon encourages your body to burn fats. I get why we eat carbs, they are cheap!
So anyway, long story short, I watched that guy's video, something clicked in my head and I just went on tuna/hummus/nuts diet/eggs diet for 2 weeks. First few days were kind of weird, but not really 'bad' weird, just something different. There was some headache for maybe a day or two, but things started to change.
So today I walked for about an hour, had 2 eggs for breakfast with hummus and some american cheese, I dont know what happened at lunch I wasn't hungry at all, and at 5pm I had pound of turkey and 2 teaspoons of hummus and 2 small chunks of american cheese again. I actually did not want to eat anything, but I figure whatever lets stick with the plan. Generally I try to eat 4-6 small portions a day, keep it under 100 grams of proteins (although i think today i went to 130 grams), under 30 grams of carbs (today its been 20 grams), and well now here comes to weird part.. fat. How much do I eat? I added up the whole day today and its somewhere around 40-50 grams. so thats almost 500 calories from fat, 520 from proteins, and 80 from carbs = 1100 calories. 50% fat : 50% proteins.
I feel great, no food cravings, everything balanced out it seems, and from now on I'm gonna stop eating after 6pm and try to sneak an hour or two of walking a day or every other day. No stress. I'll keep you updated in a week I guess
Ohh and one more thing. If you think you need to lose 100 pounds of weight - keep in mind that half of it is water that stays in 45%-60% proportion to your weight. The rest is fat. So you really only need to lose 50 pounds of fat. At a rate of 2 pounds of fat per week it would take you 6 months.
So I've been fat my whole life, with short break right after 17 and before 20 when I was at BMI of 25 (best shape in my life, and still overweight). Great years those were, but then I got back to my lazy lifestyle, started driving, had a stressful job, yada yada nobody cares if cortisol or evil night time fastfood eating and drinking beer got me here - it happened. It happens to the best of us and its not worth living in the past. I just said to myself enough is enough.
So late September I got serious about weight loss, and I watched some youtube videos and there were couple of people who lost 100+ pounds and I thought thats great, except it took them a whole year. Now I am a patient guy, but a year is way too long. So my goal is 100+ in 6 months. Then I stumbled across a video by a guy who was talking about low carb diet and how exercise can actually make you fat (link removed) and at first I thought what kind of bull-- is that? But then I realized, that at one time I lost 50 pounds from 220->170 I did it in a year but I would eat high carbs after walking for 8-10+ miles. I crunched some numbers and realized what I was doing was totally wrong.
Enter the metabolic pathway chart. Carbohydrates, it seems, are completely pointless. The only organ that needs glucose to survive is the brain and it can get them from proteins. The heart needs fat and ketone bodies to function, and the rest of the body needs proteins for amino acids and hormones and to rebuild muscles, as well as fats for hormones and cell walls and all the nifty fatty acid derivatives, and everything else uses ATP which you can get from proteins or fats. So now the carbohydrates are the enemy. Fantastic, at least I know who the enemy is! Enter insulin into this conspiracy, and it turns out insulin deposits fats when the glucose levels spike, while glucagon encourages your body to burn fats. I get why we eat carbs, they are cheap!
So anyway, long story short, I watched that guy's video, something clicked in my head and I just went on tuna/hummus/nuts diet/eggs diet for 2 weeks. First few days were kind of weird, but not really 'bad' weird, just something different. There was some headache for maybe a day or two, but things started to change.
So today I walked for about an hour, had 2 eggs for breakfast with hummus and some american cheese, I dont know what happened at lunch I wasn't hungry at all, and at 5pm I had pound of turkey and 2 teaspoons of hummus and 2 small chunks of american cheese again. I actually did not want to eat anything, but I figure whatever lets stick with the plan. Generally I try to eat 4-6 small portions a day, keep it under 100 grams of proteins (although i think today i went to 130 grams), under 30 grams of carbs (today its been 20 grams), and well now here comes to weird part.. fat. How much do I eat? I added up the whole day today and its somewhere around 40-50 grams. so thats almost 500 calories from fat, 520 from proteins, and 80 from carbs = 1100 calories. 50% fat : 50% proteins.
I feel great, no food cravings, everything balanced out it seems, and from now on I'm gonna stop eating after 6pm and try to sneak an hour or two of walking a day or every other day. No stress. I'll keep you updated in a week I guess
Ohh and one more thing. If you think you need to lose 100 pounds of weight - keep in mind that half of it is water that stays in 45%-60% proportion to your weight. The rest is fat. So you really only need to lose 50 pounds of fat. At a rate of 2 pounds of fat per week it would take you 6 months.
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