July 23, 2011: Day 55, Post 203 -End of Phase 1 Measurements (Start Phase 2)

 Goal Weight: 188 pounds 

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Today's Weight:        197.6 lbs
Yesterday's Weight:    199.0 lbs
Net Loss/Gain:         - 1.4 lbs

This is my daily weight chart since ending the Slow-Carb diet. July 9 was the 1st measurement for Phase 1 of The 6 week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle. July 23 was the 1st measurement for Phase 2.

             Last week     This week     Gain/Loss
  Weight:     198.6  lbs    197.6  lbs    - 1.0  lbs
  Chest:       39.25 "       39.25 "      - 0.00 "
  Waist:       38.00 "       37.00 "      - 1.00 "
  Hips:        37.50 "       37.00 "      - 0.50 "
  Total in:   114.75 "      113.25 "      - 1.50 "
  % Body Fat:  18.7  %       17.6  %      - 1.1  %

This is a chart of my weekly weight since ending the Slow-Carb diet. July 9 was the 1st measurement for Phase 1 of The 6 week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle. July 23 was the 1st measurement for Phase 2.  

This is a chart of inches lost (sum of chest, waist, hips) since ending the Slow-Carb diet. July 9 was the 1st measurement for Phase 1 of The 6 week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle. July 23 was the 1st measurement for Phase 2.

Today is the first day of week 1 of Phase 2 from The 6-week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle, which, like Phase 1, is 2 weeks long. It is the 55th day since I switched from the Slow-Carb Diet.

A pound down for the week, 6.4 pounds down for Phase 1 (happy dance). % Body fat lower, 2-1/4" lost (dance of joy!). It is going pretty well, I'd say.

And today begins the Phase 2, where I eat a lot of meat, get to drink coffee again, and cut out all dairy, and most carbohydrates.

If I lose as much weight in the next two weeks as I lost in the last two, I will have a cheat day, then repeat a week of phase 1 and a week of phase 2. I'm pretty much assuming that will be the case, and that that will be the end of my trying to lose weight (basically, trying to lose an average of 2.4 pounds per week over the next 4 weeks).

I am really looking forward to reaching my goal and getting back to a more normal style of eating after that.

Food Log

Breakfast

Coffee and scrambled eggs with spinach and sausage (chicken sausage with spinach and feta).

Lunch

Spring Mix and Baby Spinach salad with smoked turkey and balsamic vinaigrette.

Dinner

Half a Caribbean lime rotisserie chicken with Spring Mix greens and Baby Spinach and tomato with homemade mayonnaise.

Liquid Intake

    Coffee:  20 oz,   Water: 132+ oz.