Dieting Update
Well, two weeks down.
As you might recall I decided to start my diet early and got underway the day after Christmas. Today marks two weeks down. I started off very aggressively to get a kick start with my fat loss. While I didn’t do any cardio, outside of the occasional leisurely dog walk, I did set my calories very low.
Day 1 - 235lbs
Day 14 - 225.8lbs
So a loss of 9.2lbs of weight (of course, not all fat with the water losses). Not bad at all. I also dropped 1.5 inches off my waist in that time span. That also included two fairly good sized cheats - one New Year’s Eve and then one four days after that (traditional Friday night pizza in my house).
Now admittedly, given my carbs have been very low (only carbs have been indirect carbs and fruit), this represents a very depleted bodyweight (so it’s not accurate). Today starts a two-day refeed and then I’ll resume dieting, but with a more sane caloric intake.
Refeed plans today are 800g of carbs and then tomorrow around 400g of carbs. I expect to be around 230 when it’s all said and done, which means probably a good 5lbs of fat loss so far.
My struggle with low-carb eating is that I hate feeling flat. But after two days of big carb eating, I should be nice, full and vascular come Friday. At least temporarily. LOL
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January 11th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Wow! I am so impressed you and Noel have lost so much weight in a relatively short period of time. I am curious though about a couple things: 1) is this a normal rate of weight loss and 2) your weight loss seems to be about twice that of Noel’s is that because you are a guy (hormone thing)? 3) what’s a depleted weight (I ask becuase you said it’s not accurate and I wondered why)?
January 17th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Have you looked into intermittent fasting for fat loss as opposed to dieting?
February 1st, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Hey Matt,
Loosely. A friend of mine, Brad Pilon wrote an ebook called Eat Stop Eat that is based on the IF concepts.
I’ll take a look at your article too.