THE 6-WEEK CURE - THE FINAL RESULTS

I finished my sixth and final week of The 6-Week Cure For the Middle-Aged Middle. 

In the past two weeks, I have been under an extreme amount of stress due to my shoulder injury and possibly from the inflammation caused by it.  So my charts look pretty bad, but I know it was not because of the way I was eating.

My final opinion of the 6WC is that I think it can work for people.  It would have worked for me, I'm convinced, had it not been for the upset of the past two weeks.

Do I think that it is any better than any other low carb way of eating?  No.  My results on this diet were not different than doing Atkins.  When things are going well in my life (low stress) and my hormones are balanced, I lose weight on Atkins, too.

Anyway, here are my final charts, and you will clearly be able to see the day that I found out that I had to have shoulder surgery.  Before that, my losses were small but steady, and now I am getting bigger every day.  I'm disappointed that I could not finish the 6 weeks without a glitch, but that's how it goes.

In the past week, I have:

Gained 4.125" total
Gained 0.125" around my neck
Gained 0.25" around my bust
Gained 0.375" around my midriff

Gained 0.375" around my waist

Gained 0.625" around my navel

Gained 0.875" around my hips

Gained 0.5" around my thigh
Gained 0.25" around my calf

In the past two weeks (the stress weeks), I have:

Gained 7" total
Gained 0.125" around my neck
Gained 0.25" around my bust
Gained 0.25" around my midriff

Gained 1.375" around my waist

Gained 2" around my navel

Gained 1" around my hips

Gained 0.625" around my thigh
Gained 0.375" around my calf

In the past six weeks, I have:

Lost 4" total
Lost 0" around my neck
Lost 0.5" around my bicep
Lost 0.5" around my bust
Lost 1" around my midriff

Lost 0.375" around my waist

Gained 0.25" around my navel

Lost 0.375" around my hips

Lost 0.5" around my thigh
Lost 0" around my calf

In the past week, I have:

Gained 0.006 points onto my waist-to-height ratio

Lost 0.008 points off my waist-to-hip ratio

In the past two weeks (the stress weeks), I have:

Gained 0.022 points onto my waist-to-height ratio

Lost 0.015 points off my waist-to-hip ratio

In the past six weeks, I have:

Lost 0.006 points off my waist-to-height ratio

Lost 0.002 points off my waist-to-hip ratio

In the past week, I have:

 Gained 1.4 points onto my body fat percentage

Lost 1.4 points off my lean body mass percentage

In the past two weeks (the stress weeks), I have:

 Gained 2.8 points onto my body fat percentage

Lost 2.8 points off my lean body mass percentage

In the past six weeks, I have:

 Lost 0.9 points off my body fat percentage

Gained 0.9 points onto my lean body mass percentage

In the past week, I have:

Gained 2.4 lbs. of body fat

Lost 1.4 lbs. of lean mass
Gained 1 lb. on the scale

In the past two weeks (the stress weeks), I have:

Gained 4.9 lbs. of body fat

Lost 2.5 lbs. of lean mass
Gained 2.4 lbs. on the scale

In the past six weeks, I have:

Lost 2.2 lbs. of body fat

Lost 0.2 lbs. of lean mass
Lost 2.4 lbs. on the scale

In the past week, I have gained 0.2 points onto my BMI.

In the past two weeks (the stress weeks), I have gained 0.4 points into my BMI.

In the past six weeks, I have lost 0.5 points off my BMI.

Weeks completed: 6

Weeks to go: 0

THE 6-WEEK CURE - THE FINAL WEEK

Today I am starting Week 6 - the final week -  of The 6-Week Cure For the Middle-Aged Middle. 

I'm not going to track this week.  At this point, I am just eating the way that I have been eating for the past two years, with only a few differences.  I have given up dairy fro the time being, and I am also not eating nuts, because every time I have eaten them in the past, I have been unable to eat a small amount, and they awaken cravings for high carb food.

So, basically, I am eating meat, poultry, fish and eggs for my protein, and vegetables and butter, olive oil and coconut oil for my fats.

I'm not going to post daily about the 6WC on this blog, although I will post my charts at the end of this week, which will be Tuesday morning.  I'll talk about the conclusions I have drawn at that time.

THE 6-WEEK CURE - WEEK 5 RESULTS

I finished my fifth week of The 6-Week Cure For the Middle-Aged Middle. 

In this past week, I suddenly gained a few pounds of water weight and several inches, probably due to the stress of my shoulder injury and possibly from the inflammation caused by it.  So my charts look pretty bad, but I know it was not because of the way I am eating.

Each day, I had breakfast, lunch and dinner of real, whole, fresh food.  I did not have any dairy during this past week.  Here is the breakdown of what I ate each day and the averages for this past week:

In the past week, I have:

Gained 2.875" total
Lost 0.125" around my midriff

Gained 1" around my waist

Gained 1.375" around my navel

Gained 0.125" around my hips

Gained 0.125" around my thigh
Gained 0.125" around my calf

(The next few charts should be dated April 12, not April 5.)

Gained 0.016 points onto my waist-to-height ratio

Lost 0.023 points onto my waist-to-hip ratio

 Gained 1.4 points onto my body fat percentage

Lost 1.4 points off my lean body mass percentage

Gained 2.5 lbs. of body fat

Lost 1.1 lbs. of lean mass
Gained 1.4 lbs. on the scale

Gained 0.2 points onto my BMI

Weeks completed:5

Weeks to go:1

THE 6-WEEK CURE - THE "MEAT WEEKS" RESULTS

I finished Weeks 3 and 4 of The 6-Week Cure For the Middle-Aged Middle. 


Each day, I had three full meals of real, whole, fresh foods.  It was a pain to have to plan meals, cook and track on Fitday again, but I got into the swing of it pretty quickly and it was nice to eat regularly again.

Here are the averages of what I ate for this past two weeks from Fitday.com:

1652 calories

115.6g fat (63%)

130g protein

23.1g total carbs

9.1g fiber

14g net carbs

In these past two weeks, I have:

Lost 5.375" total
Lost 0.25 around my bicep
Lost 0.5" around my bust

Lost 0.625" around my midriff

Lost 0.75" around my waist

Lost 1.125" around my navel

Lost 0.625" around my hips

Lost 0.375" around my thigh

Lost 0.012 points off my waist-to-height ratio

Lost 0.007 points off my waist-to-hip ratio

Lost 1.7 points off my body fat percentage

Gained 1.7 points onto my lean body mass percentage

Lost 3.1 lbs. of body fat

Gained 1.3 lbs. of lean mass
Lost 1.8 lbs. on the scale

 Lost 0.4 points off my BMI

Weeks completed: 4

Weeks to go: 2