DAY 58 - 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE

Christmas Eve 2015

Today is Day 58

Weight goal - below 142.6
Actual weight - 142.2 - BACK TO 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 was not happy to have to fast two days in a row again.  I was really, really happy to find that today is a feast day!  I sometimes wish that I had made it a rule from the beginning that I would not have to fast two days in a row.

Yesterday, only broth and water all day.  No artificial sweetener.  This may become a new rule for me.

57 DAYS DOWN AND 34 DAYS TO GO

40 FEAST DAYS AND 18 FAST DAYS - FASTING 31% OF THE DAYS

11.8 POUNDS GONE AND 6.2 POUNDS TO GO

66% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 64% OF THE DAYS

7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 143.3     7-DAY AVERAGE BLOOD GLUCOSE - 82

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.