DAY 24 - 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE

January 11, 2016

Today is Day 24.

Weight goal - 149.4 or lower
Actual weight - 149.8

Blood glucose goal - 89 or lower
Actual blood glucose -101

Today is a 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.

So here is the problem:  Even though I ate my regular high fat, medium protein and very low carb food yesterday, my blood glucose continued to go up and so did my weight.

I had BPC for breakfast, a large chef salad with bleu cheese dressing and no croutons for lunch and polish sausage with sauerkraut and onions for dinner.  I also had a small square of 82% dark chocolate in the mid-afternoon, breaking my "no snacking" rule.

It is possible that the salad was so large that it put me over on my carbs, or it could have been the chocolate.  On the other hand, eating too much protein can also cause blood glucose to go up, and I did have a healthier-than-normal portion of the polish sausage.

So today I am fasting.  Once I get back to normal, I will be more careful not to eat as much protein and see if that helps.

23 DAYS DOWN.  68 DAYS TO GO.

19 FEAST DAYS AND 5 FAST DAYS.

4.2 POUNDS GONE.  13.8 POUNDS TO GO.  

23% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 25% OF THE DAYS

AVERAGE WEIGHT SO FAR - 149.5     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.

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.