DAY 53 - 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE

Christmas Eve 2015

Today is Day 53

Weight goal - below 143.7
Actual weight - 142.6 - NEW LOW

Blood glucose goal - below 79
Actual blood glucose - 70

Today is a Feast Day!



For me, that means a ketogenic diet - high fat, moderate protein and very low carb.  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.

I had a decent day fasting yesterday.  I decided to have only one cup of coffee sweetened with Stevia, one cup of beef broth with sea salt and six 8-oz. glasses of water evenly spaced throughout the day.  I was bound and determined to get that water weight off!  And I did, and then some, hopefully fat! 

52 DAYS DOWN AND 39 DAYS TO GO

38 FEAST DAYS AND 15 FAST DAYS - FASTING 28% OF THE DAYS

11.4 POUNDS GONE AND 6.6 POUNDS TO GO

63% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 58% OF THE DAYS

7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 143.7     7-DAY AVERAGE BLOOD GLUCOSE - 79

I made a few charts to track my progress.  The grey lines are my long term goals. The blue lines are my actual results.  The orange lines are my 7-day average using a trailing stop. The last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have actually had 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.

And just for fun, I always think that because I don't get more than a couple comments here and there that it means no one is reading.  It is very motivational to me to know that there are a lot of people reading - according to my site meter, in the past week there have been around 1,900!