Afternoon all
Day 9 – another 0.2k loss today, 3.1kgs off altogether which is 6.8lbs.
@floraflo – I would definitely recommend the podcast for reinforcing that it works. It’s just called The Obesity Code, it’s no longer active but there are plenty of episodes to plough through.
I can believe you now when you said a 24hr fast wasn’t that hard – if you’d have said it to me a week ago I’d have laughed you off Mumsnet but I know it's doable now.
I love the better relationship I have with food at the moment. It’s like I have been convinced now that I don’t need refined sugar in my diet anymore and this is the cause of the weight gain I have been hating myself for over the last 20 years so I choose to actively avoid it rather than try to see how much sugar I can get for as few syns/calories as I can. I’m still eating sugar but it’s from berries (only one serving per day, with single cream, eaten as a dessert).
It seems really easy at the moment (famous last words). All it takes is a bit of willpower to get through the morning and then once I’ve had a good lunch I’m not hungry so don’t have the urge to snack.
I am with you on the daily weighing though. I did it for the first week as I was bound to lose water weight if nothing else but I know it will slow down. Even the slightest rise on the scales could knock me off kilter but on the other hand the sensible me knows weight fluctuates daily even for slim people. Even if the numbers did go up, with eating such moderate carbs (I’m not deliberately low carbing) it’s not likely to be fat.
My clothes are definitely looser too. I’ve measured my waist today and have lost 2cm in a week which is about ¾ of an inch. I still don’t need a belt with my jeans yet though.
I’m not sticking to calories – the first time I tracked was yesterday and that was only because I wanted to see how many carbs I had. I had 1780 cals yesterday and today I will have had 1450 cals.
However from the book and podcast – calories don’t matter. The body metabolises fats, protein and carbs differently – if you had a steak at 200 calories and a cake at 200 calories, the good fats and protein will get used (and any excess excreted) from the steak whereas the sugar will produce the insulin which makes excess get stored as fat (or a rough approximation, I’m not an expert). So I don’t know why Michael Mosley says to follow an 800 calorie diet.
In the book, a scientist (he was British thats all I can remember) went on a high protein high fat diet and he was having 6000 cals per day. He was estimated to gain 16lbs in 3 weeks but at the end of 3 weeks he had only gained 3lbs (which was lean muscle) and had lost 1" from his waist. He wondered if he was just a lucky person who could eat what he wanted and not put weight on, so for another three weeks he ate a diet high in carbs and he gained the predicted 16lbs but also put on 3" around his waist.
A lady on the podcast (who had all manner of ills, from memory she had type 2 diabetes, PCOS and later a brain tumour) low carbed for 6 months, her health got better but she stayed the same weight and a body can showed she'd lost a lot of internal body fat and gained lean muscle which accounted for the weight staying stagnant.