DAY 51 - 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE

Christmas Eve 2015

Today is Day 51

Weight goal - 144 or lower
Actual weight - 143.2 - NEW LOW

Blood glucose goal - 82 or lower
Actual blood glucose - 79

Today is a Feast Day!



For me, that means a ketogenic diet - high fat, moderate protein and very low carb.  Each day, I will weigh in, check my fasting blood glucose, find out if I will feast or fast that day, update my chart and post it here on the big blog. I'm posting it to motivate myself not to give up, and if I think that anyone is looking at this, it will help to keep me accountable.

It never ceases to amaze me that I go to bed on a day that I have fasted really wanting to eat something and looking forward to breakfast, and then when I get up I don't have an appetite.  And even after I make a nice, big breakfast, I take one bite and think, "I'm full."  I eat it anyway, but it's weird how I don't want to eat after a fast.

Yesterday was only bad in the evening.  I went to bed really hungry.

50 DAYS DOWN AND 41 DAYS TO GO

34 FEAST DAYS AND 14 FAST DAYS - FASTING 27% OF THE DAYS

10.8 POUNDS GONE AND 7.2 POUNDS TO GO

60% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 56% OF THE DAYS

7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 144     7-DAY AVERAGE BLOOD GLUCOSE - 83

I made a few charts to track my progress.  The grey lines are my long term goals. The blue lines are my actual results.  The orange lines are my 7-day average using a trailing stop. The last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have actually had to fast to achieve the results I am after.

This is a personal challenge just for me, but if anyone reading would like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.  If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!  Thanks for reading!

To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click here.