80 Pounds Lost In 21 Weeks
PaulChasinDreams
Posts: 439 Member
I'm not done my fat loss yet but I thought I would post up my successful journey so far to this point. I started my fat loss at 274 lbs on Feb 2 2018. Today I am 194 lbs and it's June 29 2018. This works out to an average loss of 3.8 lbs every week.
I have lost this fat while under full supervision of my Dr and a Dietician. I do not recommend anything here by posting this info. Every individual should only ever lose weight under strict supervision of professionals and fully research info on their own. I am posting this so folks can see and review my journey and results so far.
I get blood/urine lab tests every 2 months. All of my health markers have improved greatly. When I started I was pre diabetic, had high blood pressure and the early signs of a fatty liver. Currently I am not pre diabetic, I have perfect blood pressure and my lab results are showing no more signs of a fatty liver. My doctor and dietician have been amazed with the massive health improvements in such a short time as am I and my family.
I have been eating low carb combined with OMAD intermittent fasting. From the beginning till now my one meal eating window has been in a 30 min to 45 minute window. So 23.25 to 23.5 hrs of fast every day. During my fasting hours I have only taken in water, electrolyte powder (zero calories), pink salt, and black coffee. I have not skipped a day in these 147 days of eating this way. My daily carb intake varies from 10 grams up to 40 grams but I never do two 40 gram days in a row. If I eat as high as 40 grams one day I will drop it to 10 to 20 grams the following day. My macros daily run around 10% carbs/30% protein/60% fat give or take a few % here and there. Doing this I have stayed in full ketosis every day. Fully keto adapted. Testing with a blood ketone monitor.
I am not done with my goals yet. My goal is to get to around 14-15% body fat then to adjust my macro's/caloric intake if needed to gain lean mass to further my health improvements and body comp. I will cross that bridge when I get to it.
I have taken tons of pictures along the way so eventually I will update with more pictures but these ones give a good Idea where I started from and where I am today.
**Edited by myself to add the word "fat" that I forgot in my macro percentages.
I have lost this fat while under full supervision of my Dr and a Dietician. I do not recommend anything here by posting this info. Every individual should only ever lose weight under strict supervision of professionals and fully research info on their own. I am posting this so folks can see and review my journey and results so far.
I get blood/urine lab tests every 2 months. All of my health markers have improved greatly. When I started I was pre diabetic, had high blood pressure and the early signs of a fatty liver. Currently I am not pre diabetic, I have perfect blood pressure and my lab results are showing no more signs of a fatty liver. My doctor and dietician have been amazed with the massive health improvements in such a short time as am I and my family.
I have been eating low carb combined with OMAD intermittent fasting. From the beginning till now my one meal eating window has been in a 30 min to 45 minute window. So 23.25 to 23.5 hrs of fast every day. During my fasting hours I have only taken in water, electrolyte powder (zero calories), pink salt, and black coffee. I have not skipped a day in these 147 days of eating this way. My daily carb intake varies from 10 grams up to 40 grams but I never do two 40 gram days in a row. If I eat as high as 40 grams one day I will drop it to 10 to 20 grams the following day. My macros daily run around 10% carbs/30% protein/60% fat give or take a few % here and there. Doing this I have stayed in full ketosis every day. Fully keto adapted. Testing with a blood ketone monitor.
I am not done with my goals yet. My goal is to get to around 14-15% body fat then to adjust my macro's/caloric intake if needed to gain lean mass to further my health improvements and body comp. I will cross that bridge when I get to it.
I have taken tons of pictures along the way so eventually I will update with more pictures but these ones give a good Idea where I started from and where I am today.
**Edited by myself to add the word "fat" that I forgot in my macro percentages.
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incredible!!!6
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Your levels of amazing just keep on increasing. I saw your face and could not NOT pop in to say CONGRATULATIONS!!! Wow!!
Chef extraordinaire with your family eats and hot Dad Bod you morphed yourself into. Clap! Clap! Clap!7 -
777Gemma888 wrote: »Your levels of amazing just keep on increasing. I saw your face and could not NOT pop in to say CONGRATULATIONS!!! Wow!!
Chef extraordinaire with your family eats and hot Dad Bod you morphed yourself into. Clap! Clap! Clap!
Wow thank you so much for that. It put a huge smile on my face reading it. The kind words are so appreciated. Much love to you
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Thank you so muchwillpitt12 wrote: »Your truly enspiring to people who believe it’s too late to get back into shape👍 keep up the good work man Very glad to hear that. I believe it is never too late to get ourselves healthy. I have seen much more overweight folks than myself get back into great health when they buckle down and focus and stay strict and positive along the way. Sometimes the journeys can be tough and long but it is worth it to get our lives back and stick around longer for ourselves and our loved ones.
My best friend of 30 years is very overweight and on a bad road right now and I have kept him in mind this whole time that I'm not just doing this for myself and my family but also with the hopes that it may just inspire even one person along the way whether it be a close friend or someone from across the globe that I have never even met.16 -
Fantastic results! You look amazing and so happy!1
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Thank you Loree! 1
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Your hard work and dedication is an inspiration! Awesome job!1
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Omg. Fricking AMAZING! OMAD?? Not hungry?? So glad to have you in my friend list and look forward to your response/message. This is all such great info though!! Congratulations!!!1
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Great work! I also follow keto and IF (16/8) and I love it! I'm never hungry, and I could easily do OMAD as well. Its amazing how the body adapts.2
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creationscrown wrote: »Omg. Fricking AMAZING! OMAD?? Not hungry?? So glad to have you in my friend list and look forward to your response/message. This is all such great info though!! Congratulations!!!
Thank you for the kind words
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Great work! I also follow keto and IF (16/8) and I love it! I'm never hungry, and I could easily do OMAD as well. Its amazing how the body adapts.
It's amazing how little hunger there is isn't it? I love it too. The only time I'm thinking of food now is cause I just love cooking and trying different recipes from around the world. Lot's of inspiration from cooks posting their recipes on youtube. It's pretty eye opening looking at types of foods and meals other people are eating from countries we don't think about or hear about too often. A lot of them actually eat very similar to keto/low carb and so many wonderful recipes are easily tweeked to fit into whatever macro's you are doing by adding or subtracting some ingredients. I am currently really into Caribbean and Thai food. A lot of great healthy foods/recipes from those countries that are so full of great spices and flavors using lot's of good proteins and fats.4 -
Looking great Paul. As I've said before, a huge inspiration for me 1
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You look fantastic!! Very inspirational!1
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Well done!!!💕💕💕1
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Wow, that sounds very hard! What discipline. On the other hand, what results!1
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drbeanie2000 wrote: »Wow, that sounds very hard! What discipline. On the other hand, what results!
Thank you Not hard at all actually. Hunger goes away after a couple weeks of switching the metabolism over to fat burning rather than glucose burning. For myself fat and protein are much much more satiating than carbs. Some days I forget to eat till my eating window is almost there. Much easier eating one meal a day than multiple meals. 6 -
Congratulations! Well done, you should be so proud. Keep up the amazing work1
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Ohhh *kitten* this is an AMAZZZZZZING transformation! I've considered OMAD since I'm really just not hungry. My concern is not getting enough calories since I'm already a healthy weight. Did you have any issues with eating enough?
Btw, nice tricep pop
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rowemaximus wrote: »Congratulations! Well done, you should be so proud. Keep up the amazing work
Thank you so much. The kind words are very appreciated. 1 -
funjen1972 wrote: »Ohhh *kitten* this is an AMAZZZZZZING transformation! I've considered OMAD since I'm really just not hungry. My concern is not getting enough calories since I'm already a healthy weight. Did you have any issues with eating enough?
Btw, nice tricep pop
Excellent question and thank you very much for the complements!
Yes I do some days find it hard to get all my calories in so after I eat my complete meal I top up my calories with a protein shake and usually something high in fat and calorie dense like my home made sugar free (sugar substitute) chocolate, creamed nuts (mostly macadamia nut, vanilla cups, and/or heavy creams or double devon cream in coffee or homemade sugar free Mexican hot chocolate etc.. As i lost weight I have found it harder to eat the one meal so the addition of the other very calorie dense foods makes it much easier. Putting lots of butter on foods and mayo, etc also help. There's quite a few options out there for calorie dense foods that are very nutritious too. I eat a lot of avocado too
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Hello everyone. Just bit of an update.. It's now been 6 months or 180 days or 25.7 weeks (however you want to calculate it) since I started eating low carb and intermittent fasting. I weighed 274 lbs on Feb 2nd 2018. Today, July 1st 2018 I now weigh 186 lbs. A loss of 88 lbs so far. Which is an average of 3.42 lbs lost per week. As I noted before all my health markers are perfect now. I am no longer pre diabetic, I no longer have to worry about a fatty liver and I feel amazing with loads of energy every day.
Just thought I'd post up a few more pictures with hopes that they may inspire others out there to lose fat to benefit their health.
Day 1, Weight=274 lbs....Feb 2nd 2018:
Day 146 (20.8 weeks in) Weight=195 lbs... June 28 2018
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Well done mate, awesome transformation2
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awesome work im doing keto as well in week 1 so I hope my results are as great as yours2
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Hey there, what electrolyte brand do you use?0
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