My Paelo Journey Thus Far - with comments on juice fasting
dwest1976
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Paelo has worked very well for me, so much so that I thought it might be helpful to share my journey thus far. Here's how it started:
November 10-17, 2012 - went on a vacation and ate like absolute crap. My pants starting feeling tight, I was tired and just not feeling great. I had been reading a bunch of entries on Facebook from old friends who has decided to eat Paleo. I lost weight on Atkins years ago, so decided I would give it a chance. I didn't actually weight myself upon returning, but I am guessing I was about 263-267 lbs based on recent history.
November 18th - without reading much, I just decided to start eating mostly nuts, veggies and meat. Thanksgiving was hard, but I was determined. Meanwhile I started reading some basic Paleo primers.
December 7th - Having lost about 7 lbs quickly, I decided to enter a weight loss contest with some people I do business with. My weigh in was at 256.
December 20th - was down to about 249, but starting to plateau. I read about MFP on a couple Paleo blogs, and since my approach was haphazzard to that point, I decided to start tracking.
January 1st - with guidance from MFP, weight was dropping again, despite all the holiday tempatations. In order to see if a "clean system" might boost the process, I decided to do a 3 day green juice fast. One day with only green juice (and a few almonds) and 2 days with green juice for breakfast and lunch and a small dinner. Weight loss was sent into hyperdrive after that?
For the next severl weeks I decided to try to keep net calories from 1200-1400. While this was not hard to do, I would not recommend it. I was probably a little tired from it. Nonetheless, I was determined to win the contest!
February 3rd - another round of the green juice fast - I felt really good after it this time, and it helped me drop that last 5 lbs for the contest.
February 7th - the end of the contest, and I won with 13.28% weight loss in 2 months. the last 2-3 pounds was "fake" due to an 18 hours fast at the end, but I stabalized at about 225 lbs over the next week.
Here is the crazy thing....since the end of the contest I have upped my calorie intake to about 1800 net, and after a week or so, I started losing weight again, almost at the same rate. At the beginning, I thought that "with my frame" I should end up at about 220 or 210. Now I can clearly see that should try to get to at least 200.
The increased caloric intake feels so much better. Not that I was hungry before, but my energy is much improved.
Stats for the journey thus far: Weight from 263 to 221, Jacket size from 50 to 46, Pant size from 43 to 38.
I see a lot of talk on here about IF, etc., but haven't seen much on juicing or juice fasting. I am no expert, but it seemed to work really well for me.
Hope all of rambling is worth something to somebody!
November 10-17, 2012 - went on a vacation and ate like absolute crap. My pants starting feeling tight, I was tired and just not feeling great. I had been reading a bunch of entries on Facebook from old friends who has decided to eat Paleo. I lost weight on Atkins years ago, so decided I would give it a chance. I didn't actually weight myself upon returning, but I am guessing I was about 263-267 lbs based on recent history.
November 18th - without reading much, I just decided to start eating mostly nuts, veggies and meat. Thanksgiving was hard, but I was determined. Meanwhile I started reading some basic Paleo primers.
December 7th - Having lost about 7 lbs quickly, I decided to enter a weight loss contest with some people I do business with. My weigh in was at 256.
December 20th - was down to about 249, but starting to plateau. I read about MFP on a couple Paleo blogs, and since my approach was haphazzard to that point, I decided to start tracking.
January 1st - with guidance from MFP, weight was dropping again, despite all the holiday tempatations. In order to see if a "clean system" might boost the process, I decided to do a 3 day green juice fast. One day with only green juice (and a few almonds) and 2 days with green juice for breakfast and lunch and a small dinner. Weight loss was sent into hyperdrive after that?
For the next severl weeks I decided to try to keep net calories from 1200-1400. While this was not hard to do, I would not recommend it. I was probably a little tired from it. Nonetheless, I was determined to win the contest!
February 3rd - another round of the green juice fast - I felt really good after it this time, and it helped me drop that last 5 lbs for the contest.
February 7th - the end of the contest, and I won with 13.28% weight loss in 2 months. the last 2-3 pounds was "fake" due to an 18 hours fast at the end, but I stabalized at about 225 lbs over the next week.
Here is the crazy thing....since the end of the contest I have upped my calorie intake to about 1800 net, and after a week or so, I started losing weight again, almost at the same rate. At the beginning, I thought that "with my frame" I should end up at about 220 or 210. Now I can clearly see that should try to get to at least 200.
The increased caloric intake feels so much better. Not that I was hungry before, but my energy is much improved.
Stats for the journey thus far: Weight from 263 to 221, Jacket size from 50 to 46, Pant size from 43 to 38.
I see a lot of talk on here about IF, etc., but haven't seen much on juicing or juice fasting. I am no expert, but it seemed to work really well for me.
Hope all of rambling is worth something to somebody!
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Nice work! I can't speak for others but when it comes to fasting, I'd tend to just stick with water. Not that juicing wouldn't work too, I just don't like juice enough to go through the trouble.
As far as input on drinking juice whilst eating paleo: I tend to to think juice as not very paleo. The food it comes from maybe perfectly paleo but the sheer amount strikes me as not paleo. You could eat a tomato or two, for instance, but you could drink probably seven or eight in juice form all the while probably not even feeling as satiated as just eating 'em whole.
Anyway, those are just my amateurish thoughts on juice. If it makes you happy and it works, keep it up.0 -
Thank you for sharing your story! Did you juice fruits and vegetables yourself? I very much enjoy juice but have been keeping it out of my diet due to sugar and not having a juicer to make it raw. I'm wondering if buying one would be worth it or just another appliance on my kitchen counter!
Great work by the way and good luck with the rest of your journey!0 -
Thanks for the comments! As for juicing, I bought a Breville juicer and did it all myself. A lot of spinach, kale, chard, parsley, green pepper, fennel bulb, cucumber, etc. with some lemon to take the edge off and occasionally some apple.
I would usually get up 30 minutes early in the morning and make a big batch for breakfast, lunch and snack and then make a fresh juice for dinner on the juice only day.
Sometimes I break out the juicer when I have extra veggies around that I cannot eat before they go bad. You can take down a ton more in a day through juicing.0 -
The veggie juice seems ok to me, so long as you're still eating veggies as well to get the fiber.
If you were juicing fruit, I think that would be counterproductive, as those are awfully sugary.0 -
sweet!! thanks for sharing your story..VERY MOTIVATIONAL!!
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Thanks for sharing... Veggie juice is awesome...0
