The Double Diet: Week Four

The Double Diet Week Four.

Weight loss is still happening and the only restrictions are the no carbs after lunch and no snacks. Exercise has not changed 45-60 minutes per day on the exercycle (depending on what I am watching).

Lowest recorded weight 91.1 Kgs - but it goes up and down during the week as all the diets have so far.

Not much to report this week as none of this is new and my partner in crime this month seems to be losing weight too - but she has little to lose compared to me.

I'm thinking this is about my ideal weight now - around the 90 kg mark.

A couple of diets from now (4 to go I think) I will hit a fairly extreme one (the raw food diet) and may lose more - but not expecting that to be the new weight - just more like a new low and then put some back on and come back to around this size which is comfortable.

Next Month either Gluten Free or Intermittent Fasting.

The Double Diet Week Three

The Double Diet Week Three.

Not much to say this week, because I am returning to two old diets doubled up and because I have lost a fair amount already, it's not that this month is either hard, surprising or even that effective - though I am losing weight still it's just much much slower, as it should be as I am around the 91/92 kilo mark which is a pretty healthy weight.

Not sure I agree with the whole BMI thing as I have yet to understand why the BMI is a good weight. It may make mathematic sense, biut you have to take the benchmark for what is healthy and good for your height as a goal? The two may have some bearing on each other in relevance terms, but how that leads to a healthy weight?

Anyway - Max is in Melbourne and still on the diet, bigger lunches and carb free dinners with no snacks. Helps she still has a cold so a bit easier to stick to a diet in a city so driven by food.

Lowest weight for me 91.6 KGs (it goes up and down during the week)

The Double Diet: Week Two

The Double Diet: Week Two.

The Low Carb/No Snack diet continues.

Returning to the no cards after lunch has been harder this time as I have a lost less weight to lose so I feel much hungrier when in the evening phases than I did the first time. That was also a few months and 20-25 kilos ago.

Max has had a rough week of it as she had a nasty cold and still dos so the temptation to eat high carb and snack foods is higher for her, interspersed with periods of not wanting to eat at all due to being ill.

She's coming right and is getting used to the low carb/no carb dinners and snacking is the easy part to cut out, though old habits of long use like a cup of tea and a snack at night is a reflex action. Fortunately since I usually make that tea and snack, thats easy for me to help her avoid.

She has not weighed herself (or if she has she has not told me yet) since beginning but I'd be surprised if she hasn't dropped a couple of K's already from being sick as well as the diets.

Her challenge will be next weekend when she's in Melbourne. All her high carbs will have to be breakfast and lunches, dinners will have to conform. Not that hard to do when you think about it but in a city such as Melbourne where the food is so great that will take some will power.

And big lunches.

Lowest recorded weight this morning 92.2 Kgs.

The Double Diet: Week One

The Double Diet: Week One.

After the success of the dieting up until this point and the relative ease of most of this Max has decided to join me for a diet challenge for this month (on a less extreme version than some of the upcoming diets I have planned).

So with that in mind we are on the Double Diet. It's two people together on two dietary restrictions at once. Two of the more effective restrictions  that do not have a massive effect on any desire to eat or compensate have been locked together so that we can do a month to good effect.

So I am resurrecting the No Carbs After Lunch Rule, and combining it with the No Snack Rule.

Max had a weigh but a gentleman never tells so you'll have to accept my word for any weight loss Max will encounter.

I on the other hand did drop a couple of kilos on the no snack/3 meals a day diet and am around the 93 kilo mark on average. Lowest recorded weight 92.6 KG earlier last week.

Though that diet was impossible to keep to when sick.

3 Meals a Day: Week Four

3 Meals a Day: Week Four.

Have not stuck particularly well to the diet this week, because I had a virus (Norovirus most likely as it was going around) and for a couple of days I barely ate at all - and what went in came out again in short order.

However despite this, because I wasn't eating much for about 4-5 days I lost another 2 kilos - not the best way to lose weight as I felt terrible - which I have avoided on dieting so far.

I also wasn't exercising for those days - I was knocked about fairly hard by the virus.

Next diet starts in 6 days or so.

The Scottish Nana diet - breakfast, main meal at lunch, a lite dinner (soup or salad basically) only.

Lowest recorded weight 92.5 Kilos.

I didn't have a goal weight in mind when I started this, but there is a part of me now very keen to get below 90 kilos again.

It's been a while.

The new pants I bought a week or two ago are now a little looser, not falling off - but definitely loose. Should buy that new belt, none of mine fit.