Swampys diary.

JonnyG said:
Welcome back Swampy!

Glad to hear you're back on track and feeling positive again.
Hope to hear more about your journey and how you think these new diet changes could be applied long-term in order to prevent relapses such as the one you mentioned.
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Thank you =). Yup, I can really see myself sticking to this diet. It's not a regular Dr. Atkins diet, but a ton of protein, less than 75g of carbs a day, no sugar. Basically I can only eat organic meats and vegetables. The nutrients (a lot of amino acids, glutamine, etc) and the healthy diet is making me feel better than ever. My depression has lifted a ton. the last time I tried to lose weight seriously (I stopped about 2 months ago) I went back to my normal eating habits because I was still eating pretty crappy.. a lot of sugar. But I would eat less than 2,000 calories a day. This was doing nothing to stop my food cravings. Getting off the sugar and carbs (I only get my carbs from vegetables, really) has helped me a lot with not wanting to eat a bunch of crap.

I am now 251 pounds, which is a new low.. .even from my last really good attempt. I'm so excited to move the big bar of the scale from 250 down to 200.. I can do that in a couple of days :party:. One thing I need to start doing is exercise . I have barely done anything, quite literally. A walk with my dog every now and then but I really need to get back to the gym.

I started, in late November at 273 pounds. With on and off 'dieting', and hopefully now keeping a steady pace am down to 251. That is 22 pounds lost! That is pretty huge if you think about it. But I still have so much more to go it doesn't seem as big as it really is.
 
Woohoo, I am no longer over 250 pounds. I weighed myself and have reached my goal for the past couple months of getting to move the 250 bar on the scale down to 200! I did a happy dance on the scale, I never want to go in that bar's range again!
 
Just a quick update, nothing that exciting. I have been working out and trying to get outside as much as I can now that the weather is warming up. I am down to 248 pounds, and losing about 3-4 pounds a week still. Today it really hit me on how much better I look. I am getting up into the pretty high numbers of weight lost... 25 pounds is pretty darn huge. For this program I am in, I do a water fast for 4 days. I think I start this on Thursday? Anyway, I am really excited for all the benefits of that. I will keep posted on how that goes, probably will be writing very frequently when that time comes around.
 
I start my fast tommorow, nothing but water for 5 days. Just so I don't give anyone any unhealthy ideas... I am doing this with professional help and nutrients to protect my liver and stomach. So don't try this by yourself =P. Anyway, I got some Magnesium Citrate (laxative) to clear my intenstines out tonight, and will start tommorow. I hear the first day is horrible, but after that it is really peaceful. When I am done I will supposivly feel 'as pure as the white driven snow'. I am also going to lose a ton of weight on this, mostly from water being removed from inflamation through my body. I am really excited/nervous to do this, and can't wait to experience the benefits. I will be writing a lot in here during my fast.
 
Day 2 of my water fast, I lost 3 pounds in 24 hours, wow. I'm sure a lot of it will come back once I start eating again in 3 days though. I slept really hard and really long, way to long. But that's ok, since I haven't done it in so long. I go to the center in 3 hours so they can check up on me, and I really don't want to go. I just want to lay in bed and watched all the movies I got. TV is terrible to watch, every other commercial is for something that looks like the best thing in the world to eat. Even though it's only been a little over 24 hours, I have thought of so many awesome healthy ideas for food that I can't wait to eat.
 
Note to self: Don't smoke on a fast. I couldn't resist, worst headache ever.. trying to drink a million gallons of water to make it go away.
 
I broke my water fast a day early. I lasted 72 hours. I feel pretty good from it, but not what I expected. I ate last night, and kind of freaked out on the food. I ate about 600 calories in one sitting (that is horrible for breaking a fast). Oh well though, mistakes happen. Today I have about 1100 calories. I plan on still eating low carbs, but am now also tracking my calories on fitday again. I have found it really helpful and easy in the past and don't know why I stopped. I ran on the eliptical machine for 60 minutes tonight, too. I am feeling tired as crap and am going to take a shower and go to bed.
 
I have stopped losing an incredible amount of weight in small amounts of time, which is probably a good sign because it means I'm not so fat anymore... heh. I weighed myself today and am now down to 239 pounds. Writing that number down and seeing it is crazy, I have done so much work. I started all of this at 273 pounds. Aside from just eating low carb, I am also eating only organic and whole foods still. At 210 pounds, I will start rotating every 4 days good healthy carbs back into my diet, so I can keep it all off without eating meat and vegetables for the rest of my life. I will never stop eating organic foods though, I feel so healthy
 
Just a quick update. I have been slacking on excercise and mostly just been doing some walking, better than nothing. I am still losing weight and am now down to 237. I was getting really discouraged because I was stuck at 239-242 for a good week. I'm used to losing like 5 pounds a week, but now that I've lost so much I realize it won't go that fast. Which is good, because that means I am not intensely overweight anymore. That is now 36 pounds lost total, since January, on and off. This is by the far the longest I have ever sticked to trying to lose weight, and it is becoming second nature by now. I rarely have to think about what I'm going to eat to lose weight, I just do it. This is going into my 7th week, so almost 2 months. I can't wait to see where I am in another 2 months, hopefully below 210 pounds. My new goal is 229 pounds :biggrinjester:. That is going to be even more exciting than hitting 259, 249, and 239.. hehe. Also, since I stopped losing so much fricking weight I will only be weighing myself every couple days, maybe 3-4 days apart.
 
Woot, my new small goal of 229 pounds has been reached. 44 Pounds lost, holy crap. It is really weird how my weight loss has been working. I will be stuck at something (like I was at 242, 236, 233) And then all of a sudden in 2-3 days I will drop 4 pounds off. I can be stuck at a certain weight for up to two weeks. It makes no sense to me, but whatever. They are really discouraging but I know after 3 of these stalls that if I just stick it out the weight will melt off for a couple days again. People are starting to notice a huge difference in the way I look, if I haven't seen someone in a couple months because of college they are just like holy shit. It's kind of akward sometimes, but at the same time it's really encouraging.

My next new small goal is 219 pounds, and I hope to reach it by the end of June.
 
Another update, my last post was almost a month ago and I was at 229 pounds. I started working at UPS which is basically like working out in a hot sauna for 4 hours a day 5 days a week, so the pounds have been melting off. I can see my stomach starting to take a 'normal' shape. I am down to 222 pounds. I'm still losing it really slow, only 7 pounds in about a month... but it deffiantly is coming off.
 
The important thing is that you're headed in the right direction. Way to go on all the weight loss! Stick with it, we'll be watching :sifone:
 
I weighed myself and I am at 219 pounds. Woohoo, my new job has really helped me lose a lot of weight. I can't believe how close I am to 209 pounds, my next new mini goal! It seems like so short ago that 219 pounds seemed so far away. It's going to be scary dropping below 200 pounds, I will probably start crying of joy. Hopefully I can get there by Septermber.
 
Hey everyone, I forgot about this site kind of haha. I am going to start writing in these journals because for a month I got off track (I didn't gain any weight back, but I cheated way to much and pretty much stayed the same way). So July 2nd I was at 219 (my last journal entry). It's september 13th and I am at 209 =/. Kind of sad I wasted all that time but I am going to be going in 'extreme' weight loss mode again because I am so frigging close!

I have only been walking if anything for excercise, with my next paycheck I am going to buy a gym membership. I can't beleive they are almost 40 dollars a month though! Holy crap. So far, in a bout a year (there were a couple month gaps where I gained 20+ pounds back) I have lost 64 pounds, since early april I have lost 54 pounds. I am really getting so used to it now and so close that there is no way I would ever go back to my old eating habbits. I'm kind of past the everyday battle of trying to stay on track. I was doing the atkins diet, and I found that if I would just have any carbs I would gain like literally 2 pounds back. So I'd be on it for 3 days and then eat a sandwich or something at work and would gain the weight I lost the past 3 days, and the cycle continued.

So now I realized how dumb the atkins diet is and am just eating normal healthy food 1800 calories a day. I have been doing this for the past week. A lot of people said the diet switch would cause me to gain 20 pounds back because my body isn't used to carbs at all, but I think the cycle of cheating I was going on helped my body transition... so it wasn't all bad, because I haven't gained any weight and am steadily losing it again. Anyway I used to be really good about writing here and it helped me stay on track. I have been browsing the forums and forgot how inspiring this place is!
 
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