New Start at 285 lbs Dec 13, 2019
I have a 190 days until I go to Cocoa Beach in Florida for the family vacation. If I lost 3.7 pounds a week I would be 185. I am 285 right now. Time to get radical again. I actually ate Captain Crunch for breakfast with 2 tablespoons of sugar in my coffee. I’m 52…
Click to read the full post . . .Week 35
Weight Loss: 0 lbs
( 252 lbs – 254 lbs )
Average Miles/Day: 2.64
Total Miles: 18.5
In the Gym: 1 days
Calories per day: 4000 guessing
Week 34
Weight Loss: 0 lbs
( 250 lbs – 252 lbs )
Average Miles/Day: 2.90
Total Miles: 20.28
In the Gym: 3 days
Calories per day: 4500 guessing
Week 22
Weight Loss: 0 lbs
( 254 lbs – 254 lbs )
Average Miles/Day: 0
Total Miles: 0
In the Gym: 0 days
Calories per day: 1450
Day 20181003 Walk
Weight 248 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) I fell off the wagon the last two weeks. Normal for anyone on a diet. The good thing is I didn’t put the pounds back on. I was 256 Sunday morning September 30th. I was eating like a horse the last two weeks and my body was full…
Click to read the full post . . .Week 7
Weight Loss: 0 lbs
( 254 lbs – 254 lbs )
Average Miles/Day: 0
Total Miles: 0
In the Gym: 0 days
Calories per day: 1450
Week SIX
Weight Loss: 2.6 lbs
( 256.6 lbs – 254 lbs )
Average Miles/Day: 1
Total Miles: 7
In the Gym: 0 days
Calories per day: 842
Day 20180920 Walk
Weight 255 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Make Keto Coffee instead of Bullet Coffee Keto Coffee Your favorite coffee 16 ounces 1 TBS of Cocoa Powder MTC Oil (Almost the same things as Coconut Oil) Ghee Butter Put it all in a blender and whip it. Very good. Gave me a real boost and stopped…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180919 Walk
Weight 254.0 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) I am starting to drop the ball, but not from a lack of motivation. I am working from home all week. My work spot is next to the kitchen and I am tempted to think about food all day. Yikes! Also, I took a few days off walking…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180918 Walk
Weight 254 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Went frisbee golfing with Tom Talen at the East Roswell Park. Walked 4.5 miles on my foot that had the steroid shot Monday. Uneven ground has got it all irritated. Had a blast. Lots of fun. Very hot and was pouring sweat. Smelled really bad afterward. Maybe a…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180917 Walk
Weight 255 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Went to the doc and they shot my foot with a steroid and told me to stay off my foot for the day. So, no walking this Monday. Below is a video of a fun couple who shop at Publix, like me, and they live in Georgia so…
Click to read the full post . . .Week FIVE
Weight Loss: 4.2 lbs
( 260.8 lbs – 256.6 lbs )
Average Miles/Day: 4.49
Total Miles: 31.39
In the Gym: 0 days
Calories per day: 805
Day 20180916 Walk
Weight 256 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) I had a slow day and didn’t do much. Jenn made an amazing dinner and we watched movies. This is the first day I didn’t walk. Right foot has planters fasciitis and I have an appointment tomorrow Monday to get it treated. Breakfast Calories Carbs Fat Protein Cheese,…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180915 Walk
Weight 257 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Eli and I walked to McDonalds from our home. About 5 miles round trip. Last little bit we got a ride from my wife. Didn’t mind. Very hot in the sun. Vulchers were fighting over a dead possum. Smelled nasty. Eli rushed them, but they flew away quickly.…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180914 Walk
Weight 257 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Have an appointment with a podiatrist Monday to get some help with my plantar fasciitis. Excessive walking isn’t making it go away. It’s getting more difficult. I walked twice Friday. Second time was 3.66 which was late at night. Together was just under 5 miles. Right knee had…
Click to read the full post . . .Bacon, Mushrooms, Tilapia over Romaine Lettuce
I am trying to eat just one meal today. Probably not enough for the whole day. I am going to get hungry. 211 calories is awesome. Felt very full until about 2:00 PM when I ate a chicken finger from Publix. This was a great Keto meal though. High fat and lots of greens. I…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180913 Walk
Weight 258 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Switching to one meal a day is making a huge difference. I feel my body making fast progress. Stomach is shrinking. Pants are loose. Weight was almost a pound and a half lower. Broke away from the 260 plateau fast. Added three snacks to my food pantry. My…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180912 Walk
Weight 259 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Simple day. Walked around Walmart waiting for my suburban to get an oil change. Walked around Buford while the kids were at church youth group. The tracking on my phone stopped working a couple times. My weight loss is really slowing down. When I was in college I…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180911 Walk
Weight 259 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Spent 90 minutes playing 18 holes of Frisbee Golf with my good friend Tom Talen at East Roswell Park. Our phones both tried to track our walking in the woods and we added 3.6-3.7 miles to our daily totals. Awesome. Thanks to Tom for a great idea. Breakfast Calories Carbs Fat…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180910 Walk
Weight 260 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Feeling very confident. High level of confidence in my goals and plans. Five miles hurts the next morning. Muscles ache. Wondering if I will be able to get trail hardened without muscles aching. Problem is, next week is six miles a day and then seven miles a day…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180909 Walk
Weight 260 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) My body entered Ketosis last week. I know because I had the runs for a few days. Sorry for that TMI. On of the signs though that your body has switched from burning glucose to fat for energy. I ate a good amount of crackers and cream cheese…
Click to read the full post . . .Week FIVE Face Pic
This is the beginning of week five. I have lost 31 pounds. Feel very good. Eat super healthy. I’ve had four people tell me they have either lost their gallbladder or had a freind who lost their gallbladder. Terrible reality. Doesn’t seem to happen for people on the Keto diet. Watch the video below. Still,…
Click to read the full post . . .Week FOUR
Weight Loss: 5 lbs
( 265 lbs – 260 lbs )
Average Miles/Day: 4.08
Total Miles: 28.59
In the Gym: 1 days
Calories per day: 1,049
Day 20180908 Walk
Weight 261 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) I started out Saturday morning at 261.3 which I thought was good. I won’t be 258 Sunday morning, but I will be lower than the 265 which is where I started the week. I was hoping to lose another 7 pounds this week like all the other weeks,…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180907 Walk
Weight 261 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Well, I knew my body just needed an extra push to get off 263. Did so this morning when I dropped to 261.7 which is still a pound more than I hoped to be by this Friday. Working to get down to 258 by Sunday morning. I don’t…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180906 Walk
Weight 263 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) I am bewildered by my stagnate weight of 263. I’ve been that number since Sunday, which is five days ago. I’ve eaten about 1,350 calories per day and I’ve walked 4 miles per day. What is going on? Is my scale broken? Am I going to wake up…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180905 Walk
Weight 263 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Ate a high carb protein bar for breakfast because I was late for work. Atlanta Bread Company for lunch. Omelette. For dinner I had an avocado with chopped onions and a few chips. I’ve been stuck on 263 since Sunday morning. Weird. Just staying on the plan and…
Click to read the full post . . .Week FOUR Face Pic
Hope you can tell how much my face has slimmed down. Alright, I have new details of my plan. A friend, Tom Talen, asked me to consider buying some vitamins and specifically add glucosamine with chondroitin to my plan. I had done so a few years back, so I was already predisposed to his suggestion.…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180904 Walk
Weight 263 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Ate asparagus with an egg and a sausage patty for breakfast. Perfect Keto percentages. 78% fat. 15% protein and 7% carbs. Then for a late lunch I had a 12 oz. steak all by itself. Too many proteins makes my day look like I am on the Atkins…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180903 Walk
Weight 265 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) I was a third day at the same weight, 265, even though I was under 1,500 calories every day. So, I am not going to panic. The weight will come off, just not in equal amounts every day. Ate dinner at Red Robins and they had a burger…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180902 Walk
Weight 265 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Starting the week 26 pounds down from my start of 291. Knees where a little weird walking this morning. Not tight. I read that a mile walking is the same as three miles biking. I might need to take a week off my feet and move to spinning.…
Click to read the full post . . .Week THREE
Weight Loss: 7 lbs
( 272 lbs – 265 lbs )
Average Miles/Day: 3.09
Total Miles: 21.69
In the Gym: 2 days
Calories per day: 1,185
Day 20180901 Walk
Weight 263.5 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Eli wanted to buy a Nerf gun, so I made him walk with me for 3 miles. Hehe . . . I didn’t feel strong. Felt slow and weak with less than 600 calories for the day. My phone stopped tracking my walk once I got inside Walmart…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180831 Walk
Weight 265 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) I tried walking my 3 miles while waiting for my car to get fixed at Kauffman Tires, but my GPS stopped working. I could get it to work while walking one direction, but not when I did my return. I tracked 1.56 miles one way, and each time…
Click to read the full post . . .Eggs, Arugula, Colby Cheese and Bacon
This is brilliant. Lots of fat to enhance the taste. Will make me very fully, almost too much. Could have shared this with a friend. Big meal. Calories Carbs Fats Protein Breakfast Coconut cooking oil , 2 Tbsp 260 0g 2g 0g Onions, raw, 0.6 cup, chopped 38 9g 0g 1g Silk – Cashew Unsweetened…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180830 Walk
Weight 268 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Felt really good this morning. Didn’t really eat yesterday evening and I slept great. Woke up and was down some more weight. Ate breakfast at 10:30 AM. Made fish with grilled onions over arugula. Super awesome. Ate dinner around 4:00 PM and it made me feel slow and…
Click to read the full post . . .Did Tony Really Do a Selfie?
I have no desire to ever have those weight loss belly shots you see in adds or on YouTube videos. Seems a little too private to show a huge belly to the world. So, I am taking an occasional face shot. If I stay on plan it will show the same kind of changes over…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180829 Walk
Weight 269 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Walked around the Publix shopping center to finish my .9 miles for the day, but the GPS didn’t track me. Oh well. Walked 2.1 in Holcomb Bridge during lunch. Feeling great! Breakfast Calories kcal Carbs g Fat g Protein g Fiber g Sugar g Death Wish Coffee Company…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180828 Walk
Weight 270 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Walked around the ATA Karate Strip Mall for three miles. Felt great. Breakfast Calories kcal Carbs g Fat g Protein g Fiber g Sugar g Generic – Avacados, 1 Whole 232 12 21 3 10 1 Jimmy Dean – Sausage Pattie, 1 pattie 145 1 13 6 0…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180827 Walk
Weight 271 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Walked around the ATA Karate Strip Mall for a mile and a half, then did the same distance in my neighborhood. Feeling good. Working out. Trying to eat less than 30 carbs a day. Very hard to figure that out. Breakfast Calories kcal Carbs g Fat g Protein…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180826 Walk
Weight 272 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) I had an interesting day. Started out feeling really crappy. Muscle aches and unmotivated. Ate a very small breakfast. Lunch was after church and we had hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill at our home. Very good salad from the neighborhood dinner club Saturday night: spinah and…
Click to read the full post . . .Week TWO
Weight Loss: 7 lbs
( 279 lbs – 272 lbs )
Average Miles/Day: 2.17
Total Miles: 15.22
In the Gym: 3 days
Calories per day: 1,459
Day 20180825 Walk
Weight 273 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Started Keto diet today. Went to Walmart and bought a bunch of stuff. Bacon, fish, eggs, sour cream, cream cheese, avocados, almond milk, heavy cream, etc. Ate my first breakfast and freaked out that it was so many calories. Then by the early evening I was drained. Keto…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180824 Walk
Weight 273 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Dropped off Caleb to the Orthodontist at 2:00 PM and went for a quick 2 mile walk. Wasn’t too warm. Right leg is still cramping up on the shin area. Makes me limp. Everything else is good. Looking forward to the 3 mile increase Sunday! Breakfast Calories…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180823 Walk
Weight 275 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Left the house around 8:45 PM and walked the neighborhood. Nice walk. Cool. Not much to report. Watched Caleb for a minute in his window playing on his tablet. Funny. Called him and said, “got to bed turkey!” He called me a Peeping-Tom. =) Breakfast Calories kcal Carbs…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180822 Walk
Weight 274 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Dropped the kids off at church youth group, and instead of going home for an hour, I walked. Dropped from Zion Hill Baptist to the Kroger, then walked Hamilton Mill and came back to Ridge. Walked up to the other side of Glenn Middle School and turned around…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180821 Walk
Weight 275 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Tried to run. Didn’t work. Too heavy. Need to be less heavy. Seriously! Crazy heavy right now. Exercised during the hottest part of the day. Still fell good. Walked out of the office and walked up Crabapple to the corner of Lebanon’s property. Took a left and went…
Click to read the full post . . .My Gear: BLITZU Compression Socks
So I noticed in the picture of my shoes that you could see black socks under my jeans. It’s true! I wear black socks with my blue jeans. Sad . . . LOL I could get arrested by the fashion police! My daughter freaks out when I wear the pink ones. These are the best…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180820 Walk
Weight 277 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Dropped off Eli at Chorus at 7:10 AM so I got to Roswell at 8:30. Went to Planet Fitness and did arms and full squats. Worked it hard for 25 minutes. Also did my walk, even though it was late at night. My whole body is starting to…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180819 Walk
Weight 279 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Week #1 Summary Weight Loss: 12 lbs Average Miles/Day: 2.04 Calories per day: 2,034 In the Gym: 1 day Walk felt fine, but my right leg has a shin muscle that cramps up. Hurts. Mike Pfender stopped me to say congrats on meeting my goals. He is doing…
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