I had a week of a plateau without dropping any pounds. This I believe is where many fail and stop.
So this week I reminded myself that muscle weighs more than fat, and looked it up again to make sure. Yuppers, weighs more per mass so peeps you and I need to look at other things than pure weight.
Down two pant sizes, check. Feel energized and strong along with tightening of the belt, check. All good.
My lifestyle change includes no breakfast or enriched fatty coffee, just herbal tea. (That took me over three months to get over). No coffee or tea with caffeine, I have sadly become sensitive to it and let me tell you, twas hard to stop!
Coffee/caffeine/sugar/carbs all are addictive, you will get cravings and withdrawal symptoms. I looked that up as well. So, the intermittent fasting daily, no eating after 8pm till NOON at the earliest, daily! 16/8 is what it is called, 16hrs of fasting 8hrs to feed. Today I made it to 2 pm before making my brunch.
Even with these new thicker softer orthodics I can only go for a hike every second day. My non walking day now includes working out or Tie Chi again along with a HIIT (high intensity interval training) session that makes your body make some healthy stuff to counteract some other stuff. Very scientific, actually it is I just can’t remember what they are called and that my good people is perfectly acceptable!
The Dr’s and health gurus remember and tell you, I am just reporting my results and my journey, so it is acceptable to not know these things. I just need to know what to do to make my journey better.
HIIT that was recommended for starting is 30-40 seconds of high intensity, as hard as you can go, doing excersise of your choice. So that would mean, 30-40s seconds of fast hard pushup, or body lifts, or crunches, bike time etc with 40 seconds of resting then another 40 seconds and so on. To start it recommended to do 5-6 of these reps one right after the other. Then continue on with workout or cool down and rest. This HIIT (hiit) kickstarts your body to do that remarkable stuff for a good 24-36hrs. Then you need to do it again and again, rinse and repeat for maximum health and weight loss results and benifts.
That is why I was not worried when it did not go down for a week. This morning my scale reported (well shows actually, it is old like me) I had dropped another pound. So at just under 201pnds. For a drop of 18-19 pounds, twelve of which were a direct result of the last diabetic pill they put me on that got me mad enough to look up, ” get off diabetic pills” and “can you reverse diabeties”. Wish I had Googled and YouTubed that many years ago!
Honestly I may switch to Ketovore which is protein heavy or full on meatovore or carnivore. I am having a hard time getting the proportions of fats, proteins and carbs ratios right. It is harder than I originally thought it might be.
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