As of Week Two:

Bill
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Week 1 - 5/3
Week 2 - ?/3

Buckworks
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Week 1 - 3/3
Week 2 - 2/3

Drastic
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Week 1 - 4/5
Week 2 - 2/5

Ergophobe
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Week 1 - 2/4
Week 2 - 2/4

Littleman
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4

Rumbas
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4

>>Yesterday, a good friend asked if I was okay and said I looked unwell.

My weight loss has been very slow, over  several years, so I don't get this much from people who see me every day, but I have a few relatives I see only once in a while and I get grief from them.  "You're too skinny now"

Anyway, on that note, I am changing gears.  I lost a 100 pounds and now I think it is time to add back some muscle.  I think I'm going to let my weight creep up gradually until spring while lifting and then cut down -- hopefully with a bit more muscle.

That's funny Mr. Mackin.  Sometimes I feel like picking up that brick would be too much work.

@Mackin - until I read the inscription, I thought you were trying to motivate me to build that damn retaining wall before the snow flies. I keep saying that's my autumn workout plan, but my numbers the last two weeks show how successful I've been with that plan.

@Bucky - it's a strange thing, but every woman I know who starts exercising eventually seems to start getting negative feedback (and far more often from other women than from men for some reason). I know you're too sane to do something foolishly unhealthy just to lose weight - stick to sane, healthy weight loss and keep feeling better and better!

@ergophobe: get your shit together. No more 2/4s dammit!

Quotesane, healthy weight loss and keep feeling better and better!

I don't actually notice feeling much different, the change has been so gradual. I've been losing maybe half a pound or a pound a week for over a year now.

I credit the book "Wheat Belly" which I learned about from Tedster. In a nutshell, its thesis is that modern wheat varieties contain compounds which stimulate the appetite beyond what the body actually needs. If you avoid foods made from modern wheat varieties, your appetite will be more in line with your true requirements.

For me that seems to be true.

I haven't completely cut out wheat, but many days I have none, and overall I might consume 90% less than I used to. Social life accounts for most of the remainder! I eat veggies and fruits, other grains, meat, eggs, nuts, legumes, and generally eat what I want when I want, including sinful sweet stuff. Just not wheat.

I haven't set a particular goal weight, so it will be interesting to see how things progress. FWIW my blood sugar was normal last time it was checked.

8/5

1/4

4/4

>>I don't actually notice feeling much different

Maybe so. I remember in the early 1980s when I first cleaned up my diet, I didn't notice anything. Then I went back to school and, the first stressful day I fell back into old "stress" foods - caffeine and ice cream. I felt sick and then suddenly it hit me - I felt like I had every single day before I cleaned up my diet.

I expect bit by bit you'll start to notice things that were hard before that will become easy... and one of these days you'll be walking from the hotel to Pubcon with me and Bob (and Neil one day this year)... if I keep going (didn't find it that fun this year).

>Wheat Belly

I know opinions on nutrition and fat loss are all over the place and that everybody has their own.  That said, I have to chime in on the topic.

Buckworks, I'd take it a step further and say it is all refined carbs, or carbs without fiber, that are mostly to blame  -- it doesn't matter what the original source is, be it wheat, rice, corn, potato or sugar.  Being an over eater by nature I can eat an enormous amount of food with refined carbs before I am satisfied.  That's why the atikins and the calories in and calories out people are both right.  It isn't that carbs make you fat, it's that they make you over eat and the over eating makes you fat.

Those sugar packed drinks have to be the biggest danger these days.  They say that the obesity numbers are leveling off in North America, but I think there's going to be a second wave of increased girth with all the new sugar drinks being mass marketed by McDonald's, Starbucks and the like.

QuoteIt isn't that carbs make you fat, it's that they make you over eat and the over eating makes you fat.

Exactly. And Wheat Belly's thesis is that carbs from wheat are the worst of all for that. Because modern varieties contain appetite-stimulating compounds that older varieties didn't.

Sorry I can't name specifics ... I listened to Wheat Belly as an audio book rather than reading it as a book where I could write notes in the margins!

All I can say is that years of being "plus size" started to reverse when I started cutting out wheat, without consciously cutting back on anything else.

Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 - 3/3

As of Week Two:

Bill
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Week 1 - 5/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 - 3/3

Buckworks
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Week 1 - 3/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 -

Drastic
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Week 1 - 4/5
Week 2 - 2/5
Week 3 - 8/5 (wow!)

Ergophobe
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Week 1 - 2/4
Week 2 - 2/4
Week 3 - 4/4

Littleman
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 4/4

Rumbas
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 1/4

Week 4 - 4/4

Week 3 was bad, but week 4 was cool. I lift things up and put them down and feeling somewhat run over from:

5/4

quite heavy workouts. Feeling good getting into squats, dead lifts and bench pressing again.

>carbs

I totally agree. It's not the carbs per se that makes me fat - it's the sheer volume of them.

I'm like you LM, I can eat a ton of food and will do so if I don't control myself. I simply will empty the plate or the pan if I don't really make effort not to. Also, I can eat 24/7 and sometimes do so - however keeping most of carbs out and fueling my intake with high protein and fat, it seems to fit my metabolism much better. Still hovering around 100kg though, but have moved a lot of fat and replaced it with mucsle - at least that's what the gains in the gym is telling me.

7/5

Lots of vball lately. 5 matches last week (one double header, still counted that night as one tho, 4 vball + 3 gym)

Knees were giving me problems, but doing hack squats cleared that right up.