Weighed at 77.1 Kg on Friday and did pretty well until the night. Then my uncle appeared with junk food... I'm sure you know where this is going...
It was a stupid move, but it's done... I've been stuck for a while now and it is really started to bother me. I need to be honest with myself; I don't have much patience at all. I don't work well with a slower approach, I really don't. I can't stick to it!
I NEED to see progress, I need to do it in order to have peace of mind, because if I don't, I'm the best at obsessing and over-thinking stuff. I do it all the time. I've been always MUCH better on thinking and figuring stuff out than on the application of anything. I over-analyze EVERYTHING and can't devote much time to ANYTHING because I'm always analyzing and over-thinking about other stuff!
If you were to ask me how I'm planning to lose weight I could list a bunch of stuff. I've literally considered everything, all the way from just counting calories, to limiting number of meals and portions, to counting bites (You could actually base a diet around this ['5 bite diet'], or at least [and more reasonably] use it when dealing with junk food), to counting carbs, to intermittent fasting, to counting macros, keto diet, Cyclical keto diet to a Warrior-style based diet.
As for on WHAT to base my diet, I've also considered everything all the way from a zero-carb meat-and-water diet to a starch-based 80/10/10 diet, traditional low-carb diet, a primal diet (not paleo), an archevore-based diet (The one I agree the most with so far), to a fruitarian diet, raw paleo, and even raw zero-carb diet.
I spent a lot of time thinking and trying to figure out which one would suit my health better and why. Of course, there is sooooo much bullshit out there, that eventually you don't even know what to do or what to believe. And that doesn't help when you're trying to figure out what is best.
So you see, I'm extremely methodical as well, so not only I wanted to figure out what was best, but also what's is the best way to do it as well. Even for the most insignificant, meaningless detail, stuff such as fasting for 16 hours vs fasting for 20 hours, I'd still want to know which one is best.
So at some point, I lost my focus. At some point, instead of counting calories (or, for that matter, focusing on total intake of food), it became counting carbs. Or avoiding X food. Or eating withing certain time. Or eating X number of meals, in a certain time-window, whilst avoiding certain foods. And in doing so I wasted a good deal of time, essentially being stuck instead of making progress all the while obsessing over meaningless stuff.
And now, after finally coming back to the right path (i.e: Tracking CALORIES), I still struggle with consistency and/or cheating. It wouldn't be a big deal but I've already wasted plenty of time.
From September 28 to November 23 (8 weeks) I lost 12.7 Kg (Probably not all fat but anyway). Went from 97.9 Kg to 85.2 Kg. This time I actually had a good consistency. And then it has taken me over 6 months to lose another 8 Kg. Simply because all that I did during that time was based on the wrong premise AND because I haven't had any consistency at all! Haven't been able to follow through.
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SOOOO, after my little
mea culpa here, I'm ready to seriously commit again this time. No more bullshit or playing around this time, just a serious commitment to finally be done with this and get on with my life.
What I did yesterday was to start a PSMF (Stands for Protein-Sparing Modified Fast). There is actually a book on this (which I sadly cannot get since I'm a teen and have no money), but so far, from what I've been able to gather, it's the following.
* Protein intake is set at 1.2 of LBM. (Mine is around [or little less] than 130, so I'm doing 150g Protein / day)
* Ad-libitum green leafy vegetables [or other low-cal veggies]. (I'm using cups to measure, so I'm doing 3 cups [250 ml] before meals. I'm doing 3 meals so it's 9 cups total)
* Take a multivitamin daily. (Done)
* Take 6 to 10 grams of omega 3 / day. (Also done. I'm doing 6g.)
* No exercise [You can't do it anyway] other than walking and heavy weight training [If you're a bodybuilder who needs to preserve muscle mass].
* There are sodium /potassium recommendations but I'm not aware of the specifics. There is a tendency towards dehydration on low and very low carb. Since I don't know the specifics, I'm just trying to get both of those via salt.
*Get plenty of fluid [IIRC, the recommendation is 1 gallon]. (Not quite there, but working on it).
*There is also a cheat meal and refeed programmed on the book, but again, I'm not aware of specifics. What I'm gonna do is add 150g of carbs / once a week, and every 14 days I'll have 1 day at 2000 Kcal.
And that's it, at least as far as I know. I'm on day 2 today and so far I'm doing fine. Yesterday was no problem. Today I was pretty tired on the morning [This will happen when switching to ketosis], but my energy was normal after that.
As I said, I'm doing 3 meals, and what I'm doing is the following; Drink 2 glasses of water > 3 full cups of vegetables > main meal > 2 cups/glasses of water/tea/coffee. Been doing that to prevent hunger and so far I've had no issue with it.
And so that's it. If you've read my gigantic rambling post, congratulations then!
I AM doing this. This time it's final. Time for me to stop fooling around and be done with this once and for all.
Respice post te! Hominem te esse memento! Memento mori!
) that further reduced my calories for the day > etc.
