My last weight taken with my usual protocol was May 22, at 388 lb. This is on-pace for my 3 pounds per week weight loss targets. My next milestone is 386 lb by June 3, which is still 10 days away. So far I'm ahead of my milestones, and it looks likely to continue. (Though I must keep in mind that the more I lose, the harder it will be to maintain this rate.)
Food-wise I've broken keto a bit. (Oh yeah, I eat keto... lemme come back to that.) This was A Social Exception.
It was my girlfriend's birthday, so I got her a pie and had a piece. (Actually a marionberry gallette from The Village Baker, which was delish.) I was going to bake her a cake, but she wanted pie. [shrug] Anyway, I also had a kind of flatbread/tortilla based pizza at a concert Friday, a "cuban" sandwich on Saturday night, a few sweet potato fries, and some mushroom gravy and fruit with breakfast today. I'm not really concerned about occasional keto cheats like this, though it definitely does have an impact. If I look at my weight loss graph on MyFitnessPal, I have so far consistently seen a weight gain of approximately three pounds for approximately five days following every time I take in significant carbs. This appears to be simply retained water, as the calorie amounts are never anything like what would be necessary to really gain three pounds, so I don't worry about it. It's short-term and the effects thus far are predictable.
As for this Social Exception, my thinking on this is a reasonably close analogy to what Anthony Bourdain is reputed to have said about vegetarians:
Listen, I'm perfectly OK with vegetarians practicing whatever they want to do. I just think they make for bad travelers. That's what pisses me off. If you're eating vegan for religious reasons, fine. What you do in your home — or hometown even — in the industrialized world, I'm OK with that. That's your personal choice. I think the notion that you can travel — and I'm not talking about Rome or Paris, of course you can call ahead and say, "do you have any vegetarian options?" You can't do that in the developing world without offending people ... It's awkward and hurtful to go to grandma's house and turn down the turkey. I just see it as rude and incurious.I practice polite keto. At home, and out wherever practical, I eat my own way. ("Steak and salad, hold the bread and potatoes" works nearly anywhere.) But occasionally it is socially required to try some of grandma's pie, or participate in the pizza party, or have some of the kiddo's birthday cake. And that's okay. It delivers a known, temporary, manageable setback to my weight-loss program, but I still count rough calories so long as I am not doing it all the damn time it's okay.
This weekend was one of those. I let convenience and fun be my guide, and it will likely work out fine. Friday I was very near my target calorie deficit of 1000 calories, while Saturday and Sunday (so far) are each somewhere in excess of 2500 calorie deficits.
I racked up those deficits this weekend through exercise. Each day had a walk of about six miles. I didn't measure on Saturday, but it was along the Deschutes River from Dillon Falls to Benham Falls and back, while today was a loop (with a backtrack) around Shevlin that MapMyRun clocked at 6.4 miles. Even at a pretty slow pace - 2 to 2.5 mph - and no pack, that's a lot of calories expended for a fatass like me.
This weekend also marks my first back-to-back days of long hikes, and aside from being footsore I feel fine.
So, I feel pretty good about the last week.
I should mention though that I felt a bit ill midweek, and actually ditched work a bit early on Thursday to come home and nap. Gut trouble. I think I need to get more fat to keep things moving; fiber is not really doing the job alone, and all the lean pork I've been eating is maybe a bit too... well, not slick enough. TMI, sorry.
Anyway, that's why I have a couple racks of ribs cooking right now.
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