DAY 18 - 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE

January 11, 2016

Today is Day 18.

Weight goal - 150.6 or lower
Actual weight - 149.2

Blood glucose goal - 89 or lower
Actual blood glucose - 89

Today is a Weekly Fast Day.




For me, that means that all I will have today is water, coffee, tea, or broth, all without caloric sweeteners or fat.  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.

As I mentioned before, I am going to fast one day per week whether I "need" to or not.  My weight this morning was below my goal and my blood glucose was right on my goal, so normally I would be feasting today.  But, since it has been six days since my last fast, today I am fasting.

Yesterday, I had Cheese Baked Eggs and coffee with Stevia and heavy cream for breakfast, egg salad with mayo and dill relish and a cup of Bullet Proof coffee with chocolate protein powder for lunch, and just the toppings (onion, mushrooms, cheese, sauce) off of half of a medium Aurelio's pizza  for dinner.  After dinner, I had 2 large glasses of limeade made with water, Realime juice and Stevia. 

I did have the pizza toppings as a mini-reward for not having to fast for the previous five days.  I knew that there might be some sugar in the sauce, but it did not affect my fasting blood glucose, so if there was sugar, it must have been minimal.  I also had the pizza because I knew I would be fasting today no matter what.  And, I did put on some water weight - I highly doubt that I gained any body fat.  Although I use a lot of sea salt, pizza is notoriously even higher in salt than I am used to.

17 DAYS DOWN.  74 DAYS TO GO.

14 FEAST DAYS AND 4 FAST DAYS.

4.8 POUNDS GONE.  13.2 POUNDS TO GO.  

27% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER ONLY 20% OF THE DAYS! 

AVERAGE WEIGHT SO FAR - 149.8     AVERAGE BLOOD GLUCOSE SO FAR - 88

I made a few charts to track my progress.  The orange lines are my goals. The blue lines are my actual results.  The last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I actually have to fast to achieve the results I am after.

(click on charts to enlarge)

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.