I have been trying to lose weight since the beginning of this year. It has not been as easy for me as it has in the past. After trying many different methods what is working for me now is eating just one meal a day, six days a week, with one cheat day a week, no snacks, only good food, walking and I recently started back at the gym again. I can only follow this routine because of the cheat day: seeing an SP, having some beer or wine, having a second meal with a dessert. And after six days a week of staying disciplined and being hungry at night, what I do on "Cheat Day" is even more enjoyable. Food is delicious and sex with the right person is out of this world.
The ideas behind OMAD (one meal a day) are calorie restriction and intermittent fasting (IM). With IM your body spends less time digesting food, insulin levels and insulin sensitivity become more optimized, and your body spends more time in "repair" mode. My weight loss has succeeded so far but there have been plateaus. To get through the last plateau I stopped eating oatmeal. I had included it for the fiber (and oatmeal is quite healthy), but I needed to restrict calories a little bit more.
One concept I obsessed over this summer was visceral fat - the really unhealthy fat that accumulates around your organs, pushing your belly out and is a factory for toxic junk. So far I cannot determine if having less visceral fat has benefitted me beyond becoming more slender.
I have had a craving for Popeye's Chicken all week. I find that Popeye's once every two months is ideal - more often than that and it quickly gets boring. Yesterday it was Popeye's, strawberry Haagen Daz, a mix of IPAs and a good time with my favorite. I had also been craving seeing her in a schoolgirl outfit, which she wore for me me yesterday. And I ended up with a very rare good nights sleep. In my old age "Happy Sleep" does not happen often. Next week maybe some beef curry, samosas and chocolate ice cream or a platter from Naan Kabab. What outfit should I request? Maybe Naughty Nurse? The future looks good!
I started the year at 219 lbs (Fat Bastard!, I am 5'10") and I am now down to 188 lbs, and I have lost seven inches from my waist. During COVID I got down to 175 lbs (walking one to three hours per day), which is likely a very healthy weight for me, so that is my goal. Someone asked me how I went from 175 lbs to 219 lbs? The answer is very slowly, so slowly that I just did not notice the changes. Real change is like that, slightly positive or negative, barely noticeable day to day but with dramatic effects over time.
Would I have better results if I did not have a cheat day? Probably, but I actually I do not know. Maybe the body needs variety once in a while? But that is academic, in practice without a cheat day my discipline would quickly run out.
The ideas behind OMAD (one meal a day) are calorie restriction and intermittent fasting (IM). With IM your body spends less time digesting food, insulin levels and insulin sensitivity become more optimized, and your body spends more time in "repair" mode. My weight loss has succeeded so far but there have been plateaus. To get through the last plateau I stopped eating oatmeal. I had included it for the fiber (and oatmeal is quite healthy), but I needed to restrict calories a little bit more.
One concept I obsessed over this summer was visceral fat - the really unhealthy fat that accumulates around your organs, pushing your belly out and is a factory for toxic junk. So far I cannot determine if having less visceral fat has benefitted me beyond becoming more slender.
I have had a craving for Popeye's Chicken all week. I find that Popeye's once every two months is ideal - more often than that and it quickly gets boring. Yesterday it was Popeye's, strawberry Haagen Daz, a mix of IPAs and a good time with my favorite. I had also been craving seeing her in a schoolgirl outfit, which she wore for me me yesterday. And I ended up with a very rare good nights sleep. In my old age "Happy Sleep" does not happen often. Next week maybe some beef curry, samosas and chocolate ice cream or a platter from Naan Kabab. What outfit should I request? Maybe Naughty Nurse? The future looks good!
I started the year at 219 lbs (Fat Bastard!, I am 5'10") and I am now down to 188 lbs, and I have lost seven inches from my waist. During COVID I got down to 175 lbs (walking one to three hours per day), which is likely a very healthy weight for me, so that is my goal. Someone asked me how I went from 175 lbs to 219 lbs? The answer is very slowly, so slowly that I just did not notice the changes. Real change is like that, slightly positive or negative, barely noticeable day to day but with dramatic effects over time.
Would I have better results if I did not have a cheat day? Probably, but I actually I do not know. Maybe the body needs variety once in a while? But that is academic, in practice without a cheat day my discipline would quickly run out.
