Week 6 Weigh-In

The weight loss appears to be slowing, which is interesting.

I wonder if my metabolic rate is compensating for the reduced calorie intake; or perhaps the fact that I'm getting less exercise right now is affecting the results?

Or perhaps it's just some common-cause variation within the measurements?

We'll see what happens next week. I can report though, that some clothes which were too tight to wear are now baggy again, and my trousers are all a bit loose around the waist!

Weight:    74.6kg / 11st 10lb
BMI:          27.2

New chart:

Week 6 Fasting Days

FASTING DAY #1

Once again, I didn't eat my scrambled eggs until lunchtime. I got a bit peckish around 10:30 / 11:00am, so I drank some water and felt absolutely fine. I could have eaten even later than I did (about 12:45pm), but it's easier to eat at work during my lunch break than afterwards.

No afternoon snack again, just a yummy dinner of tuna and salad with olive oil and mayonnaise!

Total calories today: 578

FASTING DAY #2

Scrambled eggs for lunch, and poached salmon with steamed greens for dinner.

I did have a couple of mouthfulls of my son's pasta with pesto though!

Total calories today: 610

Week 5 Weigh-In

The trend downwards continues, toward my notional target weight of 11 stone.

Weight (without shoes this time!) is 74.9kg / 11st 11lb.
BMI is now 27.1

Progress is steady!

The (corrected) chart now looks like this:

Week 5: Fasting Day #2

I managed, fairly easily it has to be said, to hold out until lunch to eat my first meal, which was scrambled eggs (again). I ate it at about 12:45pm.

Today though, I didn't eat a snack before dinner: we have no bananas today!

Dinner was a luxurious tuna salad, dressed with olive oil and mayonnaise!

Total calories today: 578

I'm going to try to repeat this new regime next week, to see if it can be sustained.

A slightly negative point: the extra energy that I felt I had seems to have gone. I'm not tired or anything, so perhaps it's still there but just not as noticeable as before.

Week 5: Fasting, and New Information

Well, you get the idea by now. My fasting days have settled into a manageable routing that works for me, and it probably won't change much for the time being.

Calories on week 5, fasting day #1 - 615

Interestingly though, Helen (my wife) came across an article about fasting, that provides some pointers as to how to get the most benefit out of it.

http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2012/09/14/intermittent-fasting-benefits.aspx

In summary:

Eating one meal a day (and snacking on whey protein and berries) gives maximum benefit, because your body is actually fasting for a much longer time between meals (around 15 hours). 

Now I'm not prepared to try this (because I want to keep on enjoying fasting!), but as it turns out, my new regime of skipping breakfast goes some way towards it: the gap (fast) between finishing digesting my evening meal from the night before, and eating my first meal, is about 8 to 9 hours. If I had eaten breakfast before I went to work, it would only be about 4 hours.

On Thursday, I'll try to hold out eating my scrambled eggs until the afternoon and see how I get on!

Week 4: Fasting Day #2

I seem to have fallen into a routine of sorts; I'm sticking with the same foods, which a) I enjoy eating, and b) get me through the day with the minimum of hunger pangs.

Today was a little different though: I had a small coffee with a splash of milk and 1/2 a teaspoon of sugar! It did take me slightly over my target of 600 calories though.

Breakfast, 11:00am in my friend's cafe (Slice Sussex on New Church Road in Hove - shameless plug):

Scrambled eggs (3 eggs); no butter - 300 calories.

Cup of coffee mid-afternoon: espresso with splash full fat milk and 1/2 teaspoon sugar - 30 calories

Afternoon snack, 3:00pm:

100g banana - 95 calories.

Dinner, 6:45pm (pretty hungry by this point):

One can of drained Yellow Fin tuna - 128 calories.

Rocket and lettuce leaf salad, no dressing - 10 calories.

1/2 tablespoon Hellmans Mayonnaise - 50 calories.

Total calorie intake today - 613

Slice Sussex
Fresh locally sourced ingredients, a fab menu, great coffee and friendly efficient service!

Mass / BMI Chart Updated

I weighed myself between fasting days this week (no particular reason): I weigh the same this week as I did last week.

This is of no particular importance; however, the reason I mention it is that while I was weighing myself, I realised that I still had my trainers on. Trainers add height, and they weigh almost a kilogram!

I have since measured the thickness of the sole of my trainers, weighed them, and made corresponding adjustments to the Mass/ BMI chart.

Updated chart is here:

http://fastalex.blogspot.com/2012/09/weight-bmi-time-chart.html

From now on, I will be weighing myself sans-footwear!