This morning I finally felt good after a weigh in, but I do not want to get over confident. I weighed in at 217.6 and this is the lowest weigh in of the year. But I have been bouncing around the 218 pound mark for about a week now. I am just going to keep on the low carb diet plan and see what happens. When my son did it, he said that you will go along for a while with nothing happening and then for some reason everything releases and you start losing pounds and inches. I am going to keep my attitude high and keep working the plan. I do feel much better than I did 25 days ago, so there is no reason to stop now.
I hope that you can learn from my experience that it’s not like you are going to be losing 1-2 pounds every day. That will only happen at the very beginning, then your body will start to adjust and wonder what is going on. Once that your body realizes that you are going to stay on this low carb diet, then it will start to give way to those unwanted pounds. Right now my body is probably thinking, “yeah, he has tried different things before, but he always goes back to eating those fattening foods. So let’s hang out and see what happens.” At least that is what I think is going on, I am not a doctor by any means. But it does make sense that the body has to adjust to all of these new changes that you are making to it.
I look at it like a remodel job on a house. First you have to tear away the stuff that you don’t want to make room for the new and improved look. So you have to knock down some walls and rip out the old cabinets and that ugly green carpet. Then you can put in the new improved cabinets, carpet and add some paint and will look great. Just think of yourself in the tear down stage right now. Then the next stage is the installation of the muscle from your work outs and hopefully by the end you will just need a little paint and you will look great. I know, kind of a weird analogy, but I think that it works in a weird way.
So I consumed 1747 calories, 44 carbs and 109 fat grams yesterday. I am keeping up with having breakfast almost every day. Sometimes it is hard to do, mostly because I don’t feel like taking the extra 5-10 minutes to cook a couple of sausage and eggs and sit down and eat them. Last night when I returned home from helping out with the youth ministry at our church, I felt like some chocolate and I knew there was a quarter of a candy bar still in the cupboard. So I went and found it and took a few minutes to eat it. It really hit the spot and it did not make me go over the 50 carb goal. In the past, that would have probably been 1 or 2 bites and now I can turn it into a whole dessert.