[TexasTransplant]

*** “Losing the excess 57 pounds of body fat, well now that will” ***

I’m at 45lbs GONE (8 Months not eating Sugar, Carbs and Veg Oils)... Off all BP MEDS, My Fasting Glucose is normally <85 and I Try to stay under 20 Carbs per day (Keto)
I don’t know if I am Keto but I damn sure am Low Carb < 50 Carbs easy and it Works!
I normally eat 1 meal per day but sometimes I eat a snack (I count it as a meal) of Liverwurst and Hard Cheese. I let my body tell me if I eat 1 or 2 meals.
Yesterday I wanted something “Crunchy” Bacon it is!

[combat_boots]

Well, congrats

But dam-son. Liverwurst! Gag me!

[combat_boots]

You brought back the memory of the 1st way I made any $$. Battling wasps to harvest currants. It was touch and go, but I didn’t get stung.

[Freedom4US]

What surprised me - “I’m only hungry when I eat”; what I mean by that I can fast for 24 hours and not be particularly hungry. This is my routine, 24 hour fast every day. Part of the time I’m hungry, yes. Not what I thought it must be like. Most of the time not at all.

But when I was eating 3 squares a day, snacking, that made me hungry all the time! It’s those glucose blood sugar swings. Like pouring gasoline on the fire. It’s boom and bust.

The next thing that surprised me was just how many calories are in the foods we eat. Peanut Butter is about 90 calories per tablespoon.

So what I used to consider basically a snack - a peanut butter sandwich, tall glass of milk, and a small handful of chips - is 1,040 calories!

It’s a tough sell to tell people they can only eat a peanut butter sandwich today if they want to achieve any meaningful weight loss in a reasonable time period. Tonite I might make a Reuben sandwich. Maybe a hamburger.

[Freedom4US]

Didn't reach my goal by New Years day, but averaged 1.67 lbs a week for the last 6 months, lost 47 pounds so far. Intermittent fasting works great. One meal a day. No exercise to speak of. In fact mostly sedentary. Bought a scale recently and have a better handle on calorie count. Did have, and will undoubtedly have, some setbacks along the way. The Chocolate Cake Incident, and that hamburger casserole... If I could have stayed more focused it would have been a faster rate of loss. More important is gaining the benefits that healthy eating patterns give. (I'm not going to start eating Kale smoothies and dry whole-sawdust toast and all that BS.) But I don't want to become prediabetic or get Insulin resistance or screw up my liver, inflammation and all the weird stuff that happens with being obese. Lots of stuff that I thought was part of aging might be related too, at least anecdotally. Memory seems way better, and focus. Back pain, knee pain and stomach issues, I really recommend this. Thanks for your encouragement and experience. I'll try to stick with this for life.