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Day 51 Low Carb Diet

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:04:01 +0000

ay 51, February 21^st

I am getting frustrated again. I have been doing a good job of staying on track with my low carb diet and I am exercising every day. Even with all of that I have gained weight every day for four days now. I weighed in this morning at 217.2, so I have gained 1.6 pounds since last Friday and I have been staying pretty true to the low carb diet. I know that I have told you not to get upset at your daily weigh-in and to just focus on the weekly weigh-in.

This has been four days straight having a small increase every day. I am not going to panic and go off the low carb diet. I am going to continue to exercise every day and drink my Gold Standard Chocolate protein Shake every day. I am going to do the right thing throughout the week and hope that by the end of the week I have an overall weight loss for the week. If this happens to you too, do not get discouraged. Keep staying on track and in the long run I think that this is going to work out.

Yesterday I consumed 1896 calories, 40 carbs and 132 fat grams. So again I was under my goal of 50 carbs. In fact, I was only at about 20 carbs for the day, so I decided to have some chocolate at the end of the day to reward myself. It is unbelievable how slow I can eat chocolate now. I take very small bites and let it melt in my mouth and wait until the entire flavor is gone and then I take another small bite and do the same thing over again. It sounds a little weird, since in the past; I would just take one bite after another as quickly as I could.

I am not sure if I did get the whole flavor of the chocolate in the past. If there were chocolate chip cookies that were just cooked, I could eat 5-10 of them in a few minutes. Now if I had a chocolate chip cookie, I think I could take 5 minutes and just eat one and probably am more satisfied that I was in the past. I have heard of people that say they have one cookie a day and just savor it. But I never believed them. I never thought that I could eat one cookie before now, but now I know that I could just eat one cookie. I probably could not do it the first week of the low carb diet, but now I am in a much better place.

For my exercise yesterday, I was back to the stationary bike and the stair stepper. On the bike, I have gone up another degree of difficulty. I know that I am getting better and better at doing this, since I started on level 10 and I am now on level 13. I had to do the stair stepper, because my achillies is still hurting me and I did not want to continue to hurt it.

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Day 50 Low Carb Diet

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:47:43 +0000

I was just a little over my low carb diet goal of 50 carbs yesterday. For the day I consumed 1455 calories, 52 carbs and 95 fat grams. I am not going too excited over being 2 carbs over my goal; I don’t think that is going to make me gain a bunch of weight. I even had a donut yesterday that had 24 carbs in it, so that was almost half my daily carbs. But for me it was worth it. Sometimes you have to have that dessert and just enjoy it.
I think that if you are on the low carb diet and never have any of the foods that you love; it will turn into a bad diet. If you can have something that is not terrible in carbs once in a while, then you don’t feel like you are always depriving yourself. So keep checking the back of boxes when you are at the grocery store or check out your app. See what type of foods that you love to eat and find out which ones are fewer than 30 carbs. That way you can keep your carbs the rest of the day under 20 and then have that big treat and eat it real slowly. I know that donut lasted longer than any other donut that I have eaten.
Yesterday was Sunday, so I did not feel like getting up early to exercise before Church. So I told myself I would do it after lunch. I was lounging around and kind of took a nap and before I knew it, it was 3pm in the afternoon. It was hard to get change my clothes and go downstairs to exercise, I think it would have been better to just do it in the morning. I think when you get out of a routine; it becomes harder to get back into it. I think that next weekend I will just get up early and do the exercise, that way it will be done and out of the way.
I did my P90X:90-Day Extreme Home Workout Program yesterday and it was back to the core. I thought that the core exercise would be a break from the regular lifting weights, pull-ups and push-ups. But in some ways I think that it is harder. I know that I sweat a lot more doing the core exercises than I do on the regular exercises. It really makes me feel a lot stronger throughout my whole body when I do this core. I am glad it is in the series; it breaks up the regular routine and works on a different part of the body.
Yesterday I consumed 1455 calories, 52 carbs and 95 fat grams. I weighed in at 216.8, so the weight is starting to creep up again. I think that my body is just getting used to the lower weight. I hope to lose another pound this week. Even though I am probably not going to hit my goal by the end of the month, I am going the right direction.

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Day 49 Low Carb Diet

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:47:33 +0000

Yesterday was my day off from exercise. It was nice to have a day of rest on not have to do anything, but it was also a little weird. When you are exercising every day, you start to get into a routine. I usually do my exercises in the morning, so it was real nice to just stay in bed a little longer and just relax. This low carb diet has been real good for me so far. I am feeling good and alert and it just keeps getting better.

The other thing is that I never used to have a breakfast. I would just run out the door and wait until lunch. Now on my low carb diet I am having a Gold Standard Chocolate protein Shake every morning along with 2 eggs and either 3 sausages or 3 slices of bacon. I do feel like since I have been doing this, I feel more alert throughout the day. I think that I am getting more accomplished and staying better focused on what I should be getting done.

I don’t know if this all comes from eating a breakfast every morning, staying on the low carb diet or exercising every day. But I do know that the combination is helping me out, so if you would like to be more alert and have more energy. I suggest that you start exercising, eating breakfast and staying on the low carb diet. If you want to sit around and complain about your energy and you weight then you are reading the wrong blog. This is the no-excuse blog, just get off your butt and start doing what you need to do.

Last night I went out with some buddies and had a few extra beers, so I was not perfect on my low carb diet. I consumed 2724 calories, 63 carbs and 154 fat grams, so I was 13 carbs over my goal. Not bad for one day over the 50 carbs and all of the other days under 50 carbs this week.

I weighed in at 216.4 this morning. It is not the lowest I have been this week, but I did lose 1 pound for the week and I am very happy with that. I also did my waist measurement and it was 38”, that is a loss of another ¼ inch this week and I am very happy with that also. I have lost 2” in my waist since I have started my low carb diet and averaging losing a quarter of an inch every week so far. I hope that I can keep this up for the whole 90 days. If I can keep this up I will be real close to my goal of a 36” waist by the end of the 90 days.

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Day 48 Low Carb Diet

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:04:59 +0000

I was back to doing the I was back to doing the P90X for my exercise yesterday. I was working the legs and back. In this exercise plan there are a lot of lunges that are a very good exercise, but my Achilles was still hurting even doing these exercises. I am going to take the weekend off from running and next week I am going to see if I can get an appointment with a physical therapist.
I have tried everything that I know to get the injury to heal and it is not working. I have done nothing and just rested it. I have done lots of stretching exercises. I have gone to many massage appointments, I have run on it, biked on it and it will not heal. Hopefully the physical therapist can give me some good advice, because this is just annoying me. I have lots of goals for this summer, running, biking, triathlons, skiing and more. So I do not want this to slow me down.
Yesterday I consumed 2027 calories, 38 carbs and 127 fat grams. Every day this week I have been under the 50 carb daily goal, so I am really staying on the low carb diet plan. I am seeing good results too, I am losing weight and I think that I am losing inches in my waist. I will find out tomorrow if that is happening. All in all it has been a good week for me with the low carb diet plan. It does not feel like I am depriving myself of anything and I am staying under the goal. In fact, last night I had some ice cream that had 26 carbs in it. But since I was so low for the day, I had no problem with having it.
I weighed in this morning at 216.2, so I gained back a little of the weight loss from yesterday. That was expected, I am not going to lose weight every day. As long as I can end the week with a decent overall loss of weight, I will be happy with my low carb diet.
Just remember that you are in this for the long haul and unless you are as large as the people on the biggest loser. You are not going to be losing 5-10 pounds a week for weeks. You might do that on the first week or two, but then your body starts to adjust and it gets harder to lose weight. Stay on the low carb diet every week and you should lose some weight every week. You did not get fat over night and you are not going to get into great shape over night. for my exercise yesterday. I was working the legs and back. In this exercise plan there are a lot of lunges that are a very good exercise, but my Achilles was still hurting even doing these exercises. I am going to take the weekend off from running and next week I am going to see if I can get an appointment with a physical therapist.
I have tried everything that I know to get the injury to heal and it is not working. I have done nothing and just rested it. I have done lots of stretching exercises. I have gone to many massage appointments, I have run on it, biked on it and it will not heal. Hopefully the physical therapist can give me some good advice, because this is just annoying me. I have lots of goals for this summer, running, biking, triathlons, skiing and more. So I do not want this to slow me down.
Yesterday I consumed 2027 calories, 38 carbs and 127 fat grams. Every day this week I have been under the 50 carb daily goal, so I am really staying on the low carb diet plan. I am seeing good results too, I am losing weight and I think that I am losing inches in my waist. I will find out tomorrow if that is happening. All in all it has been a good week for me with the low carb diet plan. It does not feel like I am depriving myself of anything and I am staying under the goal. In fact, last night I had some ice cream that had 26 carbs in it. But since I was so low for the day, I had no problem with having it.
I weighed in this morning at 216.2, so I gained back a little of the weight loss from yesterday. That was expected, I am not going to lose weight every day. As long as I can end the week with a decent overall loss of weight, I will be happy with my low carb diet.
Just remember that you are in this for the long haul and unless you are as large as the people on the biggest loser. You are not going to be losing 5-10 pounds a week for weeks. You might do that on the first week or two, but then your body starts to adjust and it gets harder to lose weight. Stay on the low carb diet every week and you should lose some weight every week. You did not get fat over night and you are not going to get into great shape over night.

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Day 47 Low Carb Diet

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:02:57 +0000

Yesterday I was back to stationary bike and running. Again the bike was fine again, but my achillies is still hurting quite a bit. It starts to feel pretty good when I am walking around or on the stationary bike. I started running and it was feeling alright for the first half mile and then I had to walk for .05 miles. I ran for another half mile and picked up the speed and it felt fine.
I continued this and everything was going fine until I got to about 2.25 miles and then I felt it tighten up and it really started to hurt. I stopped and then slowed the treadmill down to about 3.5 mph and I was able to keep on going without any pain. I walked the rest of the way until I got to the 30 minute mark. This is not helping me get faster, but at least I am still doing my exercise. I am trying to work my way through this pain, but it is not getting any better. I guess I will wait until the weekend to see if it improves enough so that I can run. Otherwise I will just take the dogs for a walk.
Yesterday I consumed 1613 calories, 27 carbs and 44 fat grams for the day. I had to look again at my stats to see that the fat grams were so low. I guess it was because I had a couple of my Gold Standard Protein Shakes throughout the day. Then for lunch it was a salad and at dinner we had salmon and shrimp made at home. It was both good and low in carbs and fat. A great meal and very delicious, but also good for me. I think that I will have more shrimp in the future.
This morning I hit a new low weight for the year, I am now down to 215.6. Now that feels great, I only hope that if I do the right thing that this will continue. The only time that I have not lost weight on the low carb diet is when I have become discouraged and gone off the low carb diet for a day or two. The key to the low carb diet is to stay on the low carb diet. If you can be consistent, then you will consistently lose weight.
I am feeling better and better about the low carb diet and my exercise program. It is not always easy to do, but when I stick with it then I do see some very good results. So if you have not already started your low carb diet, then why not start today. You have been doing the same thing your whole life with the same results. Why not try something new for just three months of your life. You might see dramatic changes.

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Day 46 Low Carb Diet

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:00:24 +0000

I am over half way through my 90 day low carb diet and things are getting into a groove. I am eating the low carb food like I should be and I have stayed on my exercise program. I had my wife take pictures of me to see if there are any changes. In some ways I can see quite a bit of improvement and in other ways it does not look like much has happened.
I have not posted the pictures yet, just because I am not real proud of the before pictures and I the new pictures do look better, but not great. When I get done with this 90 days and I am looking very fit then I will post everything. I did notice that on my profile picture that my pouch in my belly has gone down quite a bit. When I look at the pictures on the P90X before and after, there is definitely improvement on these people. But a lot of there before pictures look better than what my after pictures will look like. These people look to be in pretty decent shape before they even did the P90X:90-Day Extreme Home Workout Program.
Maybe when I get done with my first 90 days, then I will look like their before pictures and then I will do for another 90 days and look like their after pictures. I guess I am thinking way too far ahead. My main goal is to get my waist down to 36 inches and then I will see where I will go after that. I know that I will look much better going from a 40 inch waist to a 36 inch waist.
Yesterday I consumed 1622 calories, 27 carbs and 100 fat grams for the day. I have finally broken the 217.0 barrier and weighed in at 216.4 this morning, so the low carb diet is working again. I just have to do a good job staying on track and hopefully I will continue to lose weight every week. I am planning on a better weight drop than I have had the past two weeks. I know that if I stay consistent on my low carb diet that I will start to lose weight and then you will be able to see that it does work and then you can do it also and lose some weight.
I was back to the P90X:90-Day Extreme Home Workout Program for my exercise. I is not easy to get motivated every morning to watch the same video and listen to the same routine. But at least there is a different one for each day of the week. Even though it is not easy I have been doing it and I know if you put your mind to it, you will be able to do it also. I am seeing better and better results each week, so it is worth doing it. Every time I get done, I am glad that I did it, so if you are not exercising, get off your butt and start losing some weight.

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Day 45 Low Carb Diet

admin — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:59:17 +0000

My injured achillies tendon is still bothering me. I was hoping that after hurting it again on Sunday it would be healed by now and I could run again. I did all of my stretches and it felt pretty good, then I hopped on the stationary bike and that felt fine. I started the treadmill and was running at about 6.3 mph and it was a little sore, but sometimes when it warms up it starts to feel better.
This was not one of those times. I ran for about a half a mile and it was hurting more and more. So I decided to be smart for a change and I slowed the treadmill down to a walk. Then I sped it up to about 4.3 mph and it was about as fast as I could go without the achillies hurting. I kept this pace for 30 minutes and it was still a decent exercise. It is good to know that even if you are a little injured that you can modify your exercise and keep doing something.
It is always better to do some sort of exercise than to do nothing. It is easy to say to yourself, “I am hurt so I will just take a day off”. Most of the time when you do that, then you do it again the next day and pretty soon you are not exercising on a regular basis. So if the only thing that you can do is walk, then walk, but don’t skip your daily exercise.
Yesterday I consumed 2231 calories, 30 carbs and 146 fat grams. I weighed in at 217.0 again, so maybe I am stuck again. I would like to just lose .2 pounds a day. That would mean that I would lose about a pound and a half a week, which would be six pounds per month. If I can start to keep that up then I will hit my goal.
Even if I do not get all the way down to my goal I am not going to be discouraged. I have set high goals for myself, so if I fall a little short then I will just keep going. There is no rule that says that I have to stop after ninety days. I can go to 120 days or more to achieve my goals. Don’t get down on yourself if you are not quite on track to hit your goals, I know that I am not on pace to get down to 210 pounds by the end of this month.
I am losing weight again, so I am just going to be happy with what I is happening. I have not been totally perfect on this low carb diet, so I cannot expect to get the results I was hoping for. This week I am doing a better job of staying on the low carb diet, so I think that I will get better results this week.

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Day 44 Low Carb Diet

admin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:19:08 +0000

I got a late start this morning, but it was not too late to get my P90X:90-Day Extreme Home Workout Program done. My wife did the exercise with me today. It is kind of weird to exercise with someone else, it is not bad, it is just different. She likes to go faster than they go on the DVD, so she moves ahead and then I start to think it is some sort of competition to get this done as quickly as possible.

Then I thought to myself, why I need to rush through this exercise, just because she is. I decided that I didn’t need to. I would just go at my own pace and get everything done the way I need to get through it. It worked out just fine for the both of us, she was done a few minutes earlier and I took my time and got in all of the reps that I needed to, to get a good work out. When you are exercising with another person, make sure to stay at your own pace and lift your own weight. You are only in competition with yourself and to just keep improving each week on what you did the previous week.

Sometimes I am struggling to do the same amount of push-ups or pull-ups as I did last week. But if I push myself most of the time I can do at least one more and sometimes a few more. Keep pushing yourself each week to do more, lift more and go faster and farther. If you just continue to do what you did the week before you will stay in a rut and won’t keep improving.

Yesterday I consumed 1145 calories, 26 carbs and 108 fat grams and I weighed in at an even 217.0 this morning. Wow, until I just looked at my app, I did not realize how few of calories I had yesterday. For breakfast I was running late so I had my Gold Standard Chocolate protein Shake, then on the way to work I stopped at Carl’s Jr and bought their 2 sausage, egg and biscuits for $2. Then when after my meeting I threw the biscuits away and ate the sausage, eggs and cheese. It was actually pretty good. Then I had a salad for lunch, so there were not a ton of calories in the salad. When I got home last night, my wife had made mahi-mahi for dinner. It was very good and no carbs and low in calories.

When you are on a low carb diet for a month and a half like I am, you start to find new foods that you enjoy with low carbs or no carbs. I used to love bread and I am still sure that a hot piece of fresh bread with garlic butter on it would taste great right now. But the longer I have been on the low carb diet, the less that I crave those types of foods.

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Day 43 Low Carb Diet

admin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:14:34 +0000

I am back on track this week for the low carb diet. I fell off my low carb diet quite a few days last week. But I am determined to stay on it this week. I did not start out great, but I did make it by the end of the day. I started off buying the donuts for our youth group for Sunday morning bible study. I could not resist a chocolate donut that had 29 carbs in it, so I told myself to keep everything extra low carb for the rest of the day.
So lunch I had another I am back on track this week for the low carb diet. I fell off my low carb diet quite a few days last week. But I am determined to stay on it this week. I did not start out great, but I did make it by the end of the day. I started off buying the donuts for our youth group for Sunday morning bible study. I could not resist a chocolate donut that had 29 carbs in it, so I told myself to keep everything extra low carb for the rest of the day.
So lunch I had another Gold Standard Protein Shake and I grilled some onions, mushrooms, turkey and cheese for lunch. It was all low carb and it tasted great. Like I have said before, you don’t have to eat gross food. You can eat some very delicious food and stay on your low carb diet. I am living proof that this can be done almost every day. I know that I have had some lapses though out the process, but if you added up my total carbs for the whole 43 days I think that I have averaged fewer than 50 per day. With that said I still want to keep each day under 50.
I consumed 1904 calories, 42 carbs and 104 fat grams and weighed in at 217.2. I am losing weight slowly now, but at least I am losing weight daily. I don’t know how long this will continue, but I am hoping quite a while. I will just keep staying on the low carb diet and exercising and we will see what happens by the end of 90 days.
I went running for my exercise and it was the first time this year that I went outside and ran. The weather had warmed up to about 40 degrees so it is not too bad to run in. My goal was to run the full 3 miles and not stop and rest and not walk. I also wanted to keep my time less than 10 minute miles. I started off pretty good, since I have a gps watch I know what my pace is throughout the run. At the end of the first mile I was averaging 9:50 minute miles, so I was on pace to hit my goal.
About one and a half miles into the run my stupid achillies started to hurt again. I told myself, even if I have to slow down, I do not want to stop or walk. The achillies just kept hurting more and more as I ran but I did not let it stop me. I made it the entire 3 miles without stopping or walking and I ended up averaging 9:48 minute miles. I am not sure that it was the smartest thing, because now my achillies is hurting quite a bit. and I grilled some onions, mushrooms, turkey and cheese for lunch. It was all low carb and it tasted great. Like I have said before, you don’t have to eat gross food. You can eat some very delicious food and stay on your low carb diet. I am living proof that this can be done almost every day. I know that I have had some lapses though out the process, but if you added up my total carbs for the whole 43 days I think that I have averaged fewer than 50 per day. With that said I still want to keep each day under 50.
I consumed 1904 calories, 42 carbs and 104 fat grams and weighed in at 217.2. I am losing weight slowly now, but at least I am losing weight daily. I don’t know how long this will continue, but I am hoping quite a while. I will just keep staying on the low carb diet and exercising and we will see what happens by the end of 90 days.
I went running for my exercise and it was the first time this year that I went outside and ran. The weather had warmed up to about 40 degrees so it is not too bad to run in. My goal was to run the full 3 miles and not stop and rest and not walk. I also wanted to keep my time less than 10 minute miles. I started off pretty good, since I have a gps watch I know what my pace is throughout the run. At the end of the first mile I was averaging 9:50 minute miles, so I was on pace to hit my goal.
About one and a half miles into the run my stupid achillies started to hurt again. I told myself, even if I have to slow down, I do not want to stop or walk. The achillies just kept hurting more and more as I ran but I did not let it stop me. I made it the entire 3 miles without stopping or walking and I ended up averaging 9:48 minute miles. I am not sure that it was the smartest thing, because now my achillies is hurting quite a bit.

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Day 42 Low Carb Diet

admin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:13:47 +0000

All in all, I think it was a good week for my low carb diet. I fell off the wagon a few times; I got upset with the low carb diet and myself. But the results are in for the week and I have lost another quarter of an inch in my waist, so I am down to 38.25” and I weighed in at 217.4 for a loss this week of .4 pounds. Obviously the week started off bad with a big weight gain, but I was able to rally and take a little off for the week.

This week I am going to try to do a better job of staying on track every day. It is too hard to make up for the mistakes of falling off the low carb diet. If I am hungry I will just drink more of the Gold Standard Chocolate protein Shake and stay away from the high carb foods. It is going to take better discipline than I had last week, but I know that I am up for the challenge.

The other thing that I was happy about is that I lost another quarter of an inch in my waist. I think that is more important that losing the weight. Since I am lifting weights and exercising more than I was, I am going to build up more muscle. Muscle does weigh more than fat, but it is a good weight that I am happy to have. As long as my waist continues to get smaller and my arms get bigger, I guess I will be happy with not losing any weight.

Yesterday I almost went off the wagon once again. My wife and I were out having a glass of wine and trying to decide where we were going to go for dinner. She suggested going for spaghetti and I had been thinking that earlier today. For some reason I had a craving for spaghetti with Mazithra cheese. I checked it out on my app and found out that it was about 75 carbs and I figured what the heck I have already screwed up plenty this week. What harm is one more night going to be? Right when we were going to leave our daughter called us and she was also downtown at a different restaurant, so we decided to meet her there. I ended up having a Caesar salad with chicken that was very low in carbs.

I am glad that we choose to join her, because yesterday I consumed 2545 calories, 27 carbs and 120 fat grams. So instead of being over by quite a bit, I was under by quite a bit. I also lost two pounds in the last day of the week. I think that if I would have had the spaghetti I would not have lost those 2 pounds.

My exercise was back to the P90X:90-Day Extreme Home Workout Program and it was just fine.

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