Hi:
I've been on paleo for six months and have lost a lot of weight, so much so that I'm running again. I'm in the process of making my plans for the next six months.
I am five foot nine and started this in April at 190 lbs with a 38 waist. Now I'm 155, albeit with a spare tire, with a less than 32 waist.
DateActual Diff DeltaApril 21 190 N/A
May 20 182 08 08
June 20 172 10 18
July 20 164 08 26
Aug 20 157 07 33 Getting facial and other definition on the back, for example. Spare tire still there.
Sep 20 157 00 00 Leaner forearms, ribs, spare tire still here. Second month of running so doubtless there's more lean tissue.
My weight has been one pound of loss per month for the last two months or so after losing eight to ten pounds a month for several months until I stalled at 157 two months ago. I guess it's a limit of thermodynamics: the fat's pretty much gone. What's left is subcutaneous fat and loose dermis. That extra skin simply works itself off at a much lower speed high speed fast loss and it may take a year or two consume itself.
My university weight was 132 and so I figure I've got a few more lbs to lose but I'm not aiming for a specific target other than a BMI of 21.7 which would put me right in the middle of the 'good' zone and I estimate that would be the low 140s. I've also been experimenting in the last month with intermittent fasting (15 hours, two days a week: no food after lunch until coffee the next day).
- I've eliminated all dairy but have started to fry with butter again because it tastes so goddamned good, particularly with fish. In fact, I no-longer taste the coconut milk as being coconutty, mind you, I'm mixing it with almond milk so perhaps that's making a difference although it's somewhat sweet.
- I will also consider eating fruit again as a 'treat'.
- Another goal is to be a bit less scientific about my diet than I have been (necessarily as there's so much to learn when starting off) to see if I can't maintain the same waist. For example, I've stopped checking my Ketostix readings.
- I'll stick with the intermittent fasting as long as I can. It's actually surprizingly easy, particularly on nights when I am out and about. It's when I'm at home that I find myself wandering into the kitchen a lot and cleaning.
- A just for fun goal is I shall not buy lettuce. If it comes with a meal, I shall eat it, but I shall not purchase it on my own. There are a lot of other veggies -- fennel, bok choi, ocra and others -- and I should probably look into them more than I have in the past. It's just an attempt to widen my horizons and break myself out of a routine. I'm sure most of us wouldn't care if we never saw iceberg lettuce again, actually.
- Finally, I'd like to run a half marathon again in the spring. My current long run is two hours so I can't see why I couldn't. The trouble is, it's hard to do speed intervals up here in the snow and ice.
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