brittdee88 wrote: »

Congratulations!!!
I also am considering going raw at least once a week. I went completely raw for 2 months and that was literally the best I have ever felt in my adult life. It just got SO expensive for me. I would like to incorporate it, though. Maybe the day before weigh-ins hahaha.

I would like to go fully raw for a couple months just to have the experience, not now in the middle of a weight loss phase though, that would be impossible on OMAD since the volume of high carb food necessary to get enough calories can't be eaten in one meal

also the logistics of having fruit ripe at all times is more complicated than throwing rice beans and potatoes in a pot and cooking them haha

WK........ Weight.....Week Chg.....Total......To Reach Goal
0.............238.6.................................................... 78.6 ....(started plant based diet) 03/06/17
1.............237.4...............-1.2..........-1.2..............77.4
2.............232.6...............-4.8..........-6.0..............72.6
3.............229.0...............-3.6..........-9.6..............69.0
4.............224.8...............-4.2..........-13.8............64.8
5.............223.8...............-1.0..........-14.8............63.8
6.............223.0...............-0.8..........-15.6............63.0
7.............221.8.............. -1.2..........-16.8.......... 61.8 ....(started OMAD) 04/24/2017
8.............218.4...............-3.4..........-20.2............58.4
9............214.8...............-3.6...........-23.8............54.8
10...........211.0...............-3.8..........-27.6...........51.0
11...........208.2...............-2.8..........-30.4...........48.2
12...........204.4...............-3.8..........-34.2...........44.4
13...........201.6...............-2.8..........-37.0...........41.6
14...........199.2...............-2.4..........-39.4...........39.2
15...........197.0...............-2.2..........-41.6..........37.0
16...........192.4...............-4.6..........-46.2..........32.4
17...........193.2...............+0.8..........-45.4..........33.6
18...........194.0...............+0.8..........-44.6..........34.4
19...........192.0...............-2.0..........-46.6..........32.4
20...........187.8...............-4.2..........-50.8..........27.8
22...........185.2...............-2.6..........-53.4..........25.2

ok a little story time now,

Im so stoked with my workout earlier this morning, first time in 7 plus years I could do body weight pull ups with no assistance

1st set assisted 8 reps(15 lb resistance band)
2nd set 8 reps body weight pull ups
3rd set assisted 10 reps( 15 lb resistance band)
4rd set 10 reps body weight pull ups

in my opinion , the ultimate test of strength is the deadlift (my fav exercise btw), there is no cheating the deadlift, you either pick up the weight and lock out on top or you don't, however in my opinion again, the ultimate test of fitness is body weight pull ups with good form

when I started my weight loss journey weighting about 240 lbs , I could only do pull ups for reps with a 120 lbs resistance band and a 50 lbs resistance band both combined to help pull my fat as$ up

I gradually have been decreasing the resistance and for the last few weeks I noticed the smallest band I was using(15 lbs) was getting kind of easy to do, but in my mind I'm still a fat person so there's no way I can do a a body weight pull up

so today, I was like you know what, I think I'm gonna try to do 1 pull up, "is gonna be hard though since I'm still fat" I said to myself

I hop into the bar and bang do the first one, LIGHT AS A FEATHER, bang another one, light as a feather ok finished the 8 reps and to be completely honest I choked a bit with emotions, shell shocked I wanted to do a little dance out of happiness, have you ever seen a fat person cranking body weight pull ups with good form?yep I don't think so

I mean I'm still not lean as I want to be , but fatland is over for me, now I'm REALLY motivated to get shredded af, single digit body fat here I come

week 17 completed

tonight's OMAD



white rice
red beans
tortillas(lots of them)
guac
mamey

I have been hitting the vegan processed foods fairly hard(pasta,tortillas,bread), my strength have been increasing at the gym(adding weight to the bar) which is a good thing, but not a good sign for weight loss, since when you lose body mass overall you usually lose strength

tomorrow weight in will settle the score for good, in any case I'll probably do 2 more weeks like I have been doing lately and then tighten up my diet again with whole foods only ,this mini maintenance experiment was fun but I still have a long way to go to get to the 160's

lets see what the scale shows tmw

I'm baaack in the OMAD train, turns out I let myself go a bit, bread/tortilllas/coconut vegan Ice cream etc etc, in other words, I gained weight (around 200 lbs now)

I still didn't mind much because I was training hard in the gym and getting stronger but now I hurt my right elbow so I need to cut back with the lifting, so. perfect time to drop the weight

I never got to the 160 lbs goal, the lowest I got was around the high 170's, maybe this round I'll get there

I'm on my 3rd day back OMADing so facing a. serious extinction burst, hungry af, just gotta hang in there

will be updating with weekly weigh ins, and pics of my plant based vegan feasts

stay tuned...