DAY 57 - 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE

January 11, 2016

Today is Day 57

Weight goal - below 142.8
Actual weight - 143

Blood glucose goal - below 79
Actual blood glucose - 88

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.

I guess I am just going to have to get used to the fact that artificial sweeteners raise my blood sugar.  Sigh.  I know they are not healthy, but I figured that on the days that I fast I could get away with it.  From now on, I am only going to use Stevia and not have any diet drinks or sugar-fee Jello.

Fasting two days in a row is not fun.

56 DAYS DOWN AND  35 DAYS TO GO

39 FEAST DAYS AND 18 FAST DAYS - FASTING 32% OF THE DAYS

11 POUNDS GONE AND 7 POUNDS TO GO 

61% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 63% OF THE DAYS

7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 143.5     7-DAY AVERAGE BLOOD GLUCOSE - 83

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.