DAY 76 - 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE

January 11, 2016

Today is Day 76

Weight goal - 139 or lower
Actual weight - 140.4

Blood glucose goal - 79 or lower
Actual blood glucose - 91

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 did not do well eating yesterday.  I was excited about getting to eat, and had bought food so I could make a baked egg dish with mushrooms, onions, spinach and cheese.  But when I started to eat, I got a weird burning reaction on the roof of my mouth.  That has happened before when I ate pancakes in the past, and it has happened recently when I ate coconut/almond flour pancakes.  I'm not sure why it happens, but it has never happened when eating eggs.

The pain was so bad it was as though I was eating acid.  I kept swishing my mouth with water, but it did not help.  I had to stop eating, and would only take a little bite now and then to keep the burning down.  I did finally finish my dish, but it took more than an hour.  Weird.

Then, I worked through lunch and only had a couple of slices of deli corned beef and deli smoked gouda cheese that a coworker offered me.  In late afternoon, I had avocado pudding, and then I started feeling sick to my stomach.  We had beef roast and Brussels sprouts for dinner, and I only had a small helping, 4 ounces of beef and several sprouts.

Not a good day of eating, and I gained weight and my FBG went up again above my goal.  At least it was a lower high than the past few times I have eaten.

75 DAYS DOWN AND 16 DAYS TO GO

49 FEAST DAYS AND 27 FAST DAYS - FASTING 36% OF THE DAYS

13.6 POUNDS GONE AND 4.4 POUNDS TO GO

76% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 84% OF THE DAYS

7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 140.3

7-DAY AVERAGE FASTING BLOOD GLUCOSE - 86

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 red lines are my 7-day averages. 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. Click on any chart or photo to enlarge it.

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.