So as I mentioned in the last weight loss update post, I was really eating way under my basal metabolic rate and knew it was not recommended, but since I didn't feel hungry, thanks to the Phen, I chose to ignore the common opinion and consumed no more than 1000 calories a day. Well, I started feeling more and more dizzy and faint each day and I had this weird olfactory phenomenon where I'd smell what smelled like bath or mineral salts almost all the time. And the smell wasn't coming from my skin, as I'd assumed, thinking it was the salts in my sweat, it was a phantom smell that probably only existed in my brain. Weird. I know if you're in ketosis you can emit an acetone smell...it wasn't that, but now thinking about it, maybe it was and my brain perceived it as a salts smell. I never asked anyone else if they could, well, smell me.
Anyway, I decided to up my calories a bit and now I'm usually able to eat about 1200 to 1300 a day. seriously, I feel like any more would be too much. I get too full. probably because I've eliminated all "bad" foods (except those fish fillets) and eat what my father would call "rabbit food" only. Salads with lots of leafy greens and vegetable soups without meat or starch. I've also cut out most animal products after being influenced by "Foodmatters" and "Forks Over Knives." I'm enjoying tofu again. Well, not really. It still sucks.
I also had a bit of a slip, to be honest, last week. One morning coming home from work I had an irresistible "Miller Time" urge. I was a 1970s steelworker bellying up to the bar with my blue collar manly men friends. In my head, of course. So I had to get some. You know. The Evil Liquid. And a big bag of tortilla chips with salsa! I regretted it well before I got to the hangover phase and threw much of it up, which diminished the severity of the inevitable hangover, but not the severity of my self-disappointment.
I'm well back on track this week though and have finally broken a new record. Now at 277, I believe it's the first time I've weighed less than 280 since at least 2007 likely though it could be as long ago as 2005. You see, I know I weighed well into the 300's in the summer of 2007, according to this post, and I think, as Ric had snidely predicted, that I'd gained several pounds soon after getting my driver's licence back. I can't recall what I weighed in 2006, but it likely was higher than ever before since I was getting rides into work most of the time and I was eating and drinking more. I distinctly remember when I saw this photo, taken in Spring 2006 that I thought I looked much heavier than ever before.
So this endeavor I'm undertaking, aside from all the usual benefits, and believe me, I'm feeling them, is sort of a time machine as well. As I lose more and more weight, I revert to an earlier version of myself. Myself in the past. And it's like I'm going back. Back in time.
Now if only I could do the same about my age!
Anyway, I decided to up my calories a bit and now I'm usually able to eat about 1200 to 1300 a day. seriously, I feel like any more would be too much. I get too full. probably because I've eliminated all "bad" foods (except those fish fillets) and eat what my father would call "rabbit food" only. Salads with lots of leafy greens and vegetable soups without meat or starch. I've also cut out most animal products after being influenced by "Foodmatters" and "Forks Over Knives." I'm enjoying tofu again. Well, not really. It still sucks.
I also had a bit of a slip, to be honest, last week. One morning coming home from work I had an irresistible "Miller Time" urge. I was a 1970s steelworker bellying up to the bar with my blue collar manly men friends. In my head, of course. So I had to get some. You know. The Evil Liquid. And a big bag of tortilla chips with salsa! I regretted it well before I got to the hangover phase and threw much of it up, which diminished the severity of the inevitable hangover, but not the severity of my self-disappointment.
I'm well back on track this week though and have finally broken a new record. Now at 277, I believe it's the first time I've weighed less than 280 since at least 2007 likely though it could be as long ago as 2005. You see, I know I weighed well into the 300's in the summer of 2007, according to this post, and I think, as Ric had snidely predicted, that I'd gained several pounds soon after getting my driver's licence back. I can't recall what I weighed in 2006, but it likely was higher than ever before since I was getting rides into work most of the time and I was eating and drinking more. I distinctly remember when I saw this photo, taken in Spring 2006 that I thought I looked much heavier than ever before.
So this endeavor I'm undertaking, aside from all the usual benefits, and believe me, I'm feeling them, is sort of a time machine as well. As I lose more and more weight, I revert to an earlier version of myself. Myself in the past. And it's like I'm going back. Back in time.
Now if only I could do the same about my age!