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    Jim's Progress Thread

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    • Posts: 3,863 Member
      brittdee88 wrote: »
      Wow. It's 80 degrees here.

      Im on my way ;)
    • Posts: 251 Member
      edited April 2018
      brittdee88 wrote: »
      Wow. It's 80 degrees here.

      Oh yeah, rub it in why don't ya.☺
    • Posts: 1,873 Member
      Sorry! You can all organize a field trip here o:)
    • Posts: 4,372 Member
      How's it going Jim!
    • Posts: 4,372 Member
      Jim_fbr wrote: »
      Monthly Weight (ave of last 7 days of the month)
      August....184.2
      Sept........178.8
      Oct.........176.7
      Nov........176
      Dec........173.2
      Jan.........172.4
      Feb........171.6
      Mar........173.6

      Odd that after mid month hitting my absolute lowest weight of my adult life, that I ended up rebounding a bit towards the end of the month to post a little gain. On the 11th and 12th I weighed in at 169 and change. Not sure why there was so much up and down this month but not too worried about it either.

      It has been exactly 6 months for me in maintenance and on a carnivore diet.
      It's also six months exactly since I ran my first 5K race, so yesterday I ran another 5K as a way to evaluate my progress over the winter.
      On October 1st I ran it in 29m 36 sec.
      Yesterday I ran it in 26m 52 sec
      An improvement of 2 min 44 seconds and I am simply over the moon about that. It's practically 1 minute faster on my mile pace.

      If you want to hear more details I put up a vlog regarding the race yesterday and which also looks at other details about my last six months.

      https://youtu.be/YDYAimpbdow

      Liked your video. Didn't see that when I read that before. Your blood pressure is really low, that is awesome how much you have changed!
    • Posts: 251 Member
      Thanks Bob. I'm doing well. I've done a little intermittent fasting over the past two weeks (fasted two days per week) and this morning hit a new all time adult low of 165 pounds.
      Just wanted to move the needle down a bit before getting back into sustaining mode.
      After not doing any fasting for the past seven months or so, I'm thinking going forward I might work in a couple fasting days per month just to keep things in check and to stay on the lean side of things.
    • Posts: 3,863 Member
      165, that's great Jim :)
    • Posts: 231 Member
      wow, nice results! I am interested, it might be too far outside my comfort zone to give up all veggies, but I am thinking of adding more meat and fat to my diet. my other concern, is if it works so good that it becomes popular, it might be unsustainable for the planet. Though that might be offset by eating less food overall via IF or OMAD
    • Posts: 1,709 Member
      Wowy Jim!
    • Posts: 543 Member
      Spectacular!
    • Posts: 251 Member
      Thanks all, it was really no big thing. I just figured out that I need to stay in touch with the fasting side of things. Just to remind my body that it's not going to be a feast every day. A schedule of cycling between feasting and fasting has always been something that made sense to me.
    • Posts: 1,590 Member
      You're an inspiration for sure Jim!
    • Posts: 737 Member
      Awesome!
    • Posts: 251 Member
      Monthly Weight (ave of last 7 days of the month)
      August....184.2
      Sept........178.8
      Oct.........176.7
      Nov........176
      Dec........173.2
      Jan.........172.4
      Feb........171.6
      Mar........173.6
      Apr........168.9

      Used some intermittent fasting in April and consequently saw a loss for the month.
      My goal for some time has been to ultimately maintain in the mid 160's so I'm getting close to that now after not making much progress for many months.
    • Posts: 231 Member
      nice work! congrats!
    • Posts: 1,590 Member
      When you say "intermittent fasting" are you talking about some longer fasts or just a different window than OMAD?
    • Posts: 251 Member
      minigrrll wrote: »
      When you say "intermittent fasting" are you talking about some longer fasts or just a different window than OMAD?
      I'm always doing OMAD, what I mean by IF is that I fasted a couple times per week for a few weeks.
      Essentially I skipped eating on Tuesday and Thursday so it gave me a couple of 48 hour fasts during the week.
      I'm just not into any longer fasting than that at this point. Skipping a day here and there isn't too hard though.

    • Posts: 3,863 Member
      edited May 2018
      Jim you made it into the 160's, Awesome!!! :)
    • Posts: 1,873 Member
      Nice work, Jim!
    • Posts: 231 Member
      I saw your video onthe diet dr. page today, wow that is aswesome! well done!
    • Posts: 251 Member
      DarthWaderMT wrote: »
      I saw your video onthe diet dr. page today, wow that is aswesome! well done!

      thanks Darth, here is the link in case others want to check it out.
      https://www.dietdoctor.com/member/success-stories

      FYI at the end when I'm talking about how I can't stop because it's so simple I was talking about OMAD but they cut out the part where I said OMAD so it's sort of not clear what I was talking about.
    • Posts: 251 Member
      Monthly Weight (ave of last 7 days of the month)
      August....184.2
      Sept........178.8
      Oct.........176.7
      Nov........176
      Dec........173.2
      Jan.........172.4
      Feb........171.6
      Mar........173.6
      Apr........168.9
      May.......165.3

      Been focusing a lot lately on slowing down when I eat, and I think it has had an effect.
      I tend to eat too fast and over run my body's satiety signal.
      Once I give enough time to digest it is often the case that I fill up sooner and eat less.
    • Posts: 1,150 Member
      I’m not sure if the rules let me answer on your thread, but I just wanted to say that yep. The slower I eat, the more I appreciate my food. The more I appreciate it, the less I seem to be able to eat :smile:
      Win win :smiley:
    • Posts: 251 Member
      Karen_can_do_this wrote: »
      I’m not sure if the rules let me answer on your thread, but I just wanted to say that yep. The slower I eat, the more I appreciate my food. The more I appreciate it, the less I seem to be able to eat :smile:
      Win win :smiley:
      On my thread all comments are welcome!
      Thanks Karen. :)

      Slowing down definitely increases the appreciation of the food, and that is a good thing.
    • Posts: 543 Member
      Jim, you are very consistent. Having issues with portion sizes and quantity, I understand.
    • Posts: 231 Member
      I hate eating when I am in a hurry too, I feel much better taking my time. nice job on the steady monthly weight loss.
    • Posts: 1,873 Member
      Awesome, Jim!!!! I am going to start implementing the slow eating rule from now on!
    • Posts: 3,863 Member
      Jim_fbr wrote: »
      Monthly Weight (ave of last 7 days of the month)
      August....184.2
      Sept........178.8
      Oct.........176.7
      Nov........176
      Dec........173.2
      Jan.........172.4
      Feb........171.6
      Mar........173.6
      Apr........168.9
      May.......165.3

      Been focusing a lot lately on slowing down when I eat, and I think it has had an effect.
      I tend to eat too fast and over run my body's satiety signal.
      Once I give enough time to digest it is often the case that I fill up sooner and eat less.

      You just keep going down down down, awesome!!! :)
    • Posts: 4,372 Member
      Doing any running?
    • Posts: 218 Member
      Great job
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