DAY 81 - 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE

January 11, 2016

Today is Day 81

Weight goal - 138 or lower
Actual weight - 139.4

Blood glucose goal - 78 or lower
Actual blood glucose - 75

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.

As you can see by my numbers above, my FBG allows me to eat, but my weight does not, so I am fasting again today.


I have a small confession to make.  Yesterday, my grandkids and I made an Easter centerpiece for my dinette table using peeps and malted milk ball robin eggs.  I ate one of the little eggs.  Bad me!  And it didn't even taste good!

80 DAYS DOWN AND 11 DAYS TO GO

51 FEAST DAYS AND 30 FAST DAYS - FASTING 37% OF THE DAYS

14.6 POUNDS GONE AND 3.4 POUNDS TO GO

81% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 89% OF THE DAYS

7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 139.8

7-DAY AVERAGE FASTING 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 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.