Everyday Systems

Graham

Saturday 11st 4 1/2lb, 39 3/8", BMI 24.4, WHtR 58.3%, Body Fat 32.8% I've decided to modify one of my modifications. I've had 5-a-day on my HabitCal for a long time. A worthy aim - except that, on fasting days, and less frequently on N days, it sometimes obliges me to eat more than I otherwise would...

Graham

11st 6 1/2lb, 39 1/2", BMI 24.8, WHtR 58.5%, Body Fat 32.6% # This will be a light fast - I ate late, I have an extra choir rehearsal tonight from 7:30 so I'll definitely want to eat before that, around 6pm. It will have to do. I feel a bit adrift on fasting days, without a solid routine to connect ...

Graham

11st 7 1/8", 40 1/8", BMI 24.9, WHtR 59.4%, Body Fat 34% # Continuing to go in the wrong direction, losing control. Eating with SO has been a problem once again - strawberries for a dessert I didn't need - but then belatedly enjoyed. We grew them, harvested them, seems mad not to eat them - growing ...

Graham

11st 5 3/4lb, 39 7/8", BMI 24.7, WHtR 59.1%, Body Fat 33.8% # Digital scale continues odd behaviour: says "11st 7lb" then jumps to "11st 5 3/4lb". Is the second figure accurate/trustworthy? Old mechanical scale said "11 stone" - but it is pointless to keep swapping scales, except to ensure I'm not b...

Graham

Interesting tale. As an ex-smoker I'm a little suspicious. I have two suspicions about the tobacconist's loose cigarettes: 1. they contain more nicotine than the packaged ones, hence less are needed/desired. 2. the tobacconist may be using the trick Orwell mentions in "Down and Out in London and Par...

Graham

11st 6 1/4lb, 40 1/4"* BMI 24.8, WHtR 59.6%, Body Fat 34.6% *Different tape measure, it is out by about 1/4", I think, also measured after a cup of coffee, not sure how quickly that affects the waist. * the tape is out by 1/8", but the effect of the coffee I cannot quantify. Also strange - I went fo...

Graham

11st 6 3/4lb, 39 3/4", BMI 24.9, WHtR 58.9%, Body Fat 33.2% #

New battery in my scale will cure the vanishing fractions, I believe.

Graham

11st 8lb, ?waist - 39 3/4 or 40" . Here again. And when I cycle - something suspiciously like angina. I really didn't want to get back here, and yet, here I am. How much to say? This site is about No S and other Everyday Systems - not a confessional, not a place, perhaps, where it would be appropria...

Graham

11st 5 3/4lb, 39 3/4"

Graham

KCCC, thank you for your concern (and Sonya, I forgot to respond to your posting, meant to say thanks to you too.) However when you say I've come a long way ... I seem to have gone about halfway to where I wanted to be, and then come nearly all the way back to where I started. I have other challenge...

Graham

11st 5 3/4lb*, 39 1/2" Not fasting, *weighed myself clothed. (fed up)

Graham

11st 5 3/4lb, 39 3/4", BMI 24.7, WHtR 58.9%, Body Fat 33.5% #

Graham

11st 6lb, 39 1/4", BMI 24.7, WHtR 58.1%, Body Fat 32.1%

Graham

11st 8lb, 40", BMI 25.1, WHtR 59.3%, Body Fat 33.5% I am now within 4lb and 1/2" of where I was when I started No S and ESE. A year of struggle. And my sore nose/throat is STILL coming back! Does that mean the "fasting makes my health worse" theory wrong? I am stressed from different directions, it ...

Graham

My current thinking on fasting, after a year of experimentation, is that you can't have a view on dieting or fasting without considering other aspects of your life. Fasting, done in a positive spirit, with a sense of the good it is doing you, may be well tolerated and productive. Without that frame ...

Graham

11st 7 3/4lb, 39 5/8", BMI 25, WHtR 58.7%, Body Fat 32.6% Rainy weather kept me home, munching, instead of out and active. Didn't hit my 5 a day - did graze on such things as a whole packet of biscuits, some childish sweets (a 5 pack of my favourites in local supermarket enabled that excess), Pancak...

Graham

11st 4 1/2lb, 39 1/2", BMI 24.5, WHtR 58.5%, Body Fat 33.1% These are discouraging figures. I am losing the battle. Not only weight-gain but a sore throat that has dogged me for days. I'll take vitamin C to stay on top of that, but what of the rest? What can I do? I was treated to a big lunch - but ...

Graham

It is a year - but is it a No S testimonial? If you read these testimonials to be encouraged, this probably won't help much. As one point on the graph, I thought it worthwhile to give a truthful account (so far as my flaws permit) I don't do vanilla No S, I tried that for a month without any product...

Graham

11st 3 1/4lb, 39 1/4", BMI 24.3, WHtR 58.1%, Body Fat 32.8% After ending the fast around 7pm, I did not, as I half expected, eat again - nor did I quaff milk - I stuck to No S without signal difficulty - and yet, I'm one pound heavier . It was physically demanding, mentally distracting, subversive -...

Graham

11st 2 1/2lb, 39 1/4", BMI 24.2, WHtR 58.1%, Body Fat 33% # Fasting Sore throat this morning. More generally I'm noting temperature fluctuations, feeling chilly during the day, then waking in the night feeling too hot. I was mindlessly snacking last night. I know it's partly the result of just sitti...

Graham

11st 3 1/4lb, 39 1/8" BMI 24.3, WHtR 58%, Body Fat 32.5% # No S compliance is becoming ever more difficult. It is about resentment as much as anything. At dance class, everyone else is having tea and biscuits, and someone has brought strawberries - and I want them too. I imagine I would have coped b...

Graham

11st 4lb, 39 3/8", BMI 24.4, WHtR 58.3%, Body Fat 32.9% I didn't eat to suspicious excess at any point yesterday - but there was the allotment harvesting and transplanting, then choir, biscuits and pub, finally late eating - it was probably a No S F day, having too little for breakfast may have been...

Graham

How about harvesting strawberries on the weekend, eating your fill as you go, and picking some extra for during the week? I already do that - but just harvesting on the weekend isn't often enough - strawberries ripen on a daily basis- left ripe on the plant too long, snails eat them, so I have to h...

Graham

11st 3 3/4lb, 39 1/4", BMI 24.4, WHtR 58.1%, Body Fat 32.7% After 7 hours sleep, felt cold, - metabolism still down-regulated post fast? Breakfast lacked bread, mushrooms. (3 sausages, egg, onion and apple, ketchup). And it wasn't enough. Like I wanted more. And I waited for that to pass, and bread ...

Graham

11st 4 1/4lb, 39 1/4", BMI 24.5, WHtR 58.1%, Body Fat 32.5% Fasting

Reluctantly responding to the trend - it's fasting misery or fat-person misery. And it's raining.

Graham

11st 3 3/4lb, 39", BMI 24.4, WHtR 57.8%, Body Fat 32%

Graham

11st 3 1/2lb, 39", BMI 24.4, WHtR 57.8%, Body Fat 32.1% # Odd eating yesterday. Sometimes trying to hit my 5-a-day leads me to eating when not really hungry. I'm seeing the figures and thinking No S was the more important compliance, the one to prioritise, if mindful at the critical juncture. Also: ...

Graham

11st 2 1/4lb, 38 3/4", BMI 24.2, WHtR 57.4%, Body Fat 31.7% Fraction reappeared - (11st 3lb briefly then 11st 2 1/4lb). I feel it not ideal to fast today. Lots of stress, unpleasant things to do, unpleasant reflections on my life - not the time to add the stress of fasting. It is a beautifully sunny...

Graham

11st 2lb*, 39", BMI 24.1, WHtR 57.8%, Body Fat 32.5% *no fractions

Graham

11st 3lb*, 39 1/4", BMI 24.3, WHtR 58.1%, Body Fat 32.9% #

*Scale ignoring fractions again. A choir night - eating times disrupted and some beer. Leafleting at the station improved my mood.

Graham

11st 2 3/4lb, 38 3/4", BMI 24.2, WHtR 57.4%, Body Fat 31.6% My worst month for HabitCal compliance draws to a close. Resumption of yoga at home is a positive - I'm beginning to feel the benefit of at-home practice and it is sorely needed. It is one of the healing things, an answer to so much in this...

Graham

Sun: 11st 2lb, 39", BMI 24.1, WHtR 57.8%, Body Fat 32.5% Mon: 11st 3lb, 38 1/2", BMI 24.3, WHtR 57%, Body Fat 30.9% Fasting Should I go on fasting? Any chance I'd manage better if I didn't? I'd stop one sort of suffering - but what would replace it? Unsolved food=love issues are one complication. An...

Graham

Fr:i 11st 2lb, 39 1/4lb, BMI 24.1, WHtR 58.1%, Body Fat 33.1% Fasting Sat: 11st 3lb, 39", BMI 24.3, WHtR 57.8%, Body Fat 32.2% # Desire, discipline, declining immune system - juggling, fumbling. To say differently - see how my body has adapted, anticipated, adjusted. Wait - this is not only my body....

Graham

11st 1lb, 39 1/4", BMI 24, WHtR 58.1%, Body Fat 33.4% Waist? Answers? Struggling with No S compliance. I think breath mints are a problem - zero calorie but maybe causing confusion for the habits. Food on show, too much time in the kitchen. Plus being disorganised, dysfunctional. Growing rift with S...

Graham

11st 0 1/2lb, 39", BMI 23.9, WHtR 57.8%, Body Fat 32.9%

Choices: bread or veg. Suspect the veg way better choice for gut size and nutrition, just more time consuming. Bread is a convenient calorie supplier.

Graham

11st 2 3/4lb, 39", BMI 24.2, WHtR 57.8%, Body Fat 32.3% # I didn't stick to No S after my fast last night. My one-plate meal had been a little underwhelming despite its generous size. Too little flavour, soggy and under-spiced, contributing to that sense of post-meal disappointment despite being nut...

Graham

11st 4lb, 38 3/4", BMI 24.4, WHtR 57.4%, Body Fat 31.3% Fasting # There seems to be no safe way for me to have biscuits in my home, and being slack about No S between my bi-weekly fasts seems another telling vulnerability. I won't explore possible emotional/existential contributors to current trends...

Graham

Saturday: 11st 0lb, 38 5/8", BMI 23.8, WHtR 57.2%, Body Fat 32% Sunday: 11st 2 3/4lb, 39" BMI 24.2, WHtR 57.8%, Body Fat 32.3% On Saturday, an outdoor choir performance with pizza and a beer. Evening party with cocktails and finger food. Felt odd on Sunday, ate badly, sadly, most of the day - biscui...

Graham

10st 13 1/4llb, 38 3/8", BMI 23.7, WHtR 56.9%, Body Fat 31.5% fasting Yesterday's evening meal was unusual - a little bread and 3 pieces of chicken (@ 1lb with bones)- too tired and rushed to cook any veg. Is this why I'm suddenly 2 1/2lbs lighter and 1/2" slimmer? Can't be fat loss - nothing to get...

Graham

11st 1 3/4lb, 38 7/8", BMI 24.1, WHtR 57.6%, Body Fat 32.2%

Graham

11st 1 1/2lb, 38 5/8", BMI 24, WHtR 57.2%, Body Fat 31.6% #

Spicy food is more-ish. Dal would be dull without spices, but with them, the appetite is provoked. Breakfast of lentil dal with boiled eggs on buttered toast was a fine idea, now the lingering spices keep me focused on food.

Graham

11st 3 3/4lb, 39 1/2", BMI 24.4, WHtR 58.5%, Body Fat 33.3% A different fast ending meal: chickpea curry with rice and broccoli - and buttered bread. It's the second time I've had a pulse and rice fast-ending meal. Though it is more economical than eating meat, it appears not to be helpful for weigh...

Graham

11st 2 3/4lb, 38 7/8", BMI 24.2, WHtR 57.6%, Body Fat 31.9%

Witnessing a trend of gradual weekly weight gain. Fasting today. I set just one goal for today: to make progress in my life, to be happier by this evening than I am now.

Graham

11st 1 3/4lb, 39", BMI 24.1, WHtR 57.8%, Body Fat 32.5% I could cite "exceptional circumstances" - but any save the dullest life is full of "exceptional circumstances". (Choir performance followed by pub and food) The trend is climbing weight and waist, and 2 fasting days a week are barely holding i...

Graham

*11st 0 1/2lb, 39"* BMI 23.9, WHtR 57.8%, Body Fat 32.9%* # overnight volunteering with tea & biscuits distorts measurements. No idea how effective the fast was. I note this, for the first time I had lentil dal and rice as my fast-finishing meal. With broccoli. Missed my 5-a-day, but I did not feel ...

Graham

@Wosnes - So, towards the end of the month, you have peasant (higher carb) meals which you enjoy, but, as you said earlier, you tend to lose weight when you eat that way. That is just what I've been hypothesising - peasant food is less likely to provoke eating to excess. I'm not saying one can't enj...

Graham

@Who Me? & Wosnes - are you saying you find a food such as polenta, or grits or rice - without any added items or flavourings (which is the point I was trying to make) interesting? I was thinking the carbohydrate elements of peasant diets were a bit like lab chow for rats - sufficient for bodily nee...

Graham

How "bad" carbs are (for you) seems to depend on 3 factors: First, where they come from: carbs from vegetables have a more beneficial impact than those derived from heavily processed grains. Second, how active you are. Most of the healthy high carb eating populations are eating a peasant diet - but ...

Graham

Thu: 11st 1lb, 38 78", BMI 24, WHtR 57.6%, Body Fat 32.4% # Fri: 11st 0 1/2lb, 38 5/8", BMI 23.9, WHtR 57.2%, Body Fat 31.8% Strange days: eating full-plate meals and still feeling ravenous afterwards. I couldn't figure that out, but there's been some weight-loss, so maybe that was real unsatisfied ...

Graham

11st 1 1/2lb, 38 7/8", BMI 24, WHtR 57.6%, Body Fat 32.3% # Choir resumed, post-choir issues: happens when I'd normally eat my evening meal, has a snack break in the middle, and pub afterwards where I'm likely to drink alcohol and find snacking very tempting, also with a desire for extra food afterw...

Graham

Sunday: 11st 1lb, 38 3/8", BMI 24, WHtR 56.9%, Body Fat 31% Monday: 11st 1 1/2lb, 38 5/8", BMI 24, WHtR 57.2%, Body Fat 31.6% Tuesday 11st 1 1 1/4lb, 38 3/4" BMI 24, WHtR 57.4%, Body Fat 32% Monday's fast was interesting. I'd eaten "well" on Sunday - ice-cream, chocolate truffles etc. I managed to s...

Graham

10st 13 1/4lb, 38 1/4", BMI 23.7, WHtR 56.7%, Body Fat 31.2% Yesterday a fast after a week's break. I tolerated it well, (protein intake had been higher than usual over the preceding 2 days) and enjoyed the post fast meal. I can't say it was "no seconds", though I could have fitted all I ate onto on...

Graham

11st 0 1/2lb, 38 1/2", BMI 23.9, WHtR 57%, Body Fat 31.5% Fasting. A difficult week. Keeping to No S rules has been challenging - a combination of hunger and lack of clarity, of weakened habits requiring more exercise of will. I was ambivalent about fasting today, now I've had my black coffee I'm mo...

Graham

Tue: 11st 2 1/4lb, 38 3/4", BMI 24.4, WHtR 57.4%, Body Fat 31.7%
Wed: 11st 0 1/4lb, 38 1/2", BMI 23.9, WHtR 57%, Body Fat 31.6%
Thu: 11st 0 1/2lb, 38 3/4", BMI 23.9, WHtR 57.4%, Body Fat 32.2%

Graham

11st 1 1/4lb, 38 1/2", BMI 24, WHtR 57%, Body Fat 31.3%

Graham

11st 2 3/4lb, 39", BMI 24l.2, WHtR 57.8%, Body Fat 32.3% Ill if I do it but I can't seem to do without the fasting. What do I decide? I could have decided to let myself have a sore throat on Friday, perhaps developing a full-blown cold and chest infection, and kept my weight down. Otherwise what? As...

Graham

11st 1 1/4lb, 38 5/8", BMI 24, WHtR 57.2%, Body Fat 31.7% So, fast skipped, without too much damage. The nose throat infection hair-trigger still present. Sunshine permits an allotment trip, potatoes and onions, maybe beans as well? And when am I going to try swimming again? It has been many years s...

Graham

11st 2lb* 38 1/2", BMI 24.1, WHtR 57%, Body fat 31.1% Iffy scale, and another sore nose/throat so I won't be fasting today. Working within tighter limits. Not so important as developing a clearer understanding of the way the world works, but I wonder increasingly at my apparently faltering immune sy...

Graham

11st 0 1/4lb, 38 5/8", BMI 23.9, WHtR 57.2%, Body Fat 31.9%

Graham

11st 0 3/4lb*, 38 1/2, BMI 23.9, WHtR 57%, Body Fat 31.4% * weighed at home after coffee, boiled egg and toast and a short bike ride. Not sure how much to add for all that. I have been feeling slimmer and healthier. 1:06pm I am SO hungry! Breakfast was too light, early lunch and I am STILL hungry! (...

Graham

11st 0 3/4lb, 38 1/2", BMI 23.9, WHtR 57%, Body Fat 31.4% Interesting fast - I did two hours on the allotment digging - it wasn't easy by the end, physical stamina curtailed, unsurprisingly - but present. Perhaps it explains why the monster meal at 8 still left me feeling peckish around 11, so I had...

Graham

11st 1 1/4lb*, 38 1/2", BMI 24, WHtR 57%, Body Fat 31.3% *weighing done at home after some coffee/tea/bike ride but the tape is truthful. For various reasons I'm very conflicted about fasting today, but so far, I am fasting. I wish I were wise. Perhaps I may yet gather a little sense. I am lighter t...

Graham

10st 13 1/2lb* 38" BMI 23.7, WHtR 56.3%, Body Fat 30.4% No scales available. Saturday was busiest day at allotment so far this year. Digging. Snacking - biscuits, chocolate, wish I had a scale but waist says I did more good than harm on balance. Staying at SO's is good for me, despite the arguments....

Graham

11st 0 1/2lb, 38 1/2", BMI 23.9, WHtR 57%, Body Fat 31.5% Fasted yesterday, sore throat now. It is mild, just a hint, a warning. I'll take plenty of vitamin C today, it will fade, but it warns me I'm living on the edge of what my immune system will tolerate. Pathetic, really, but there it is, and I ...

Graham

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Graham

The good social network, spirituality and activity levels are all suggested factors contributing to Okinawan longevity. I imagine a fulfilling social context reduces the need for comfort eating, thus contributing to the low BMI. Returning to the original question, is a higher BMI healthier? - perhap...

Graham

11st 0 1/4lb, 38 3/4", BMI 23.9, WHtR 57.4%, Body Fat 32.2% How did I get to think whole leaf stevia extract was super-sweet? It took me 30 drops to get close to the sweetness of 2 regular sweetener tablets, and it is a cloying sweetness, a bit like liquorice. I think I'll have to check different br...

Graham

Thanks for posting that link - it's a really good article, solid information and inspiring. However, perhaps like ThomsonsPier, I frequently got fed up waiting for the author to get to the b****y point!

Graham

How much protein is too much does seem to be very individual, it is worth experimenting to find one's own best diet. On the blue zone people - some - the Okinawans, for example, are fond of meat - they are very keen on pork, their cuisine is as famous for that as it is for tofu. And the Masai, as I ...

Graham

Interesting to hear the "organic is no more nutritious" statement appear from time to time. Depends on what and how you measure. For example, ketchup made from organic tomatoes turned out to have much higher levels of lycopene than any non-organic ketchups. Lycopene has a role in protecting men from...

Graham

Is a lower BMI more healthy? I got interested in "blue zone" information a while back (these are the places with unusually high numbers of centenarians), Okinawa is one of the blue zones. Okinawan centenarians have BMI's between 18 and 22. It's part of a bigger picture: see here: http://www.okicent....

Graham

I'm wondering about the scales used. I weigh daily using electronic scales. I sometimes wonder if the batteries, as they age, produce quirky scale behaviour, including somewhat wilder weight fluctuations.

Graham

11st 0 3/4lb, 38 1/4", BMI 23.9, WHtR 56.7%, Body Fat 30.8% Allotment & No S without the nonsense yesterday. Finally - I have Stevia! Legal too! It is whole leaf extract drops or very fine powder of whole leaf. How cost-effective is it? @Â£10 for 120ml of drops - how much is a drop? 40+ drops to swe...

Graham

11st 1 3/4lb, 38 1/2", BMI 24.1, WHtR 57%, Body Fat 31.2% 7:45am. Mild headache, mild soreness of nose/throat junction - I only mention them because they are not my normal state but occur frequently just after fasting. It seems to indicate some latent vulnerability triggered by the fast. It makes me...

Graham

11st 3lb, 38 1/4", BMI 24.3, WHtR 56.7%, Body Fat 30.2% Feeling so clogged up, I can't not fast today. Strange, troubled dreams of food and bizarre eating regimes. The cleansing feeling of a fast is so attractive today, the weight issue seems secondary. Not sure if I'll be at the allotment today, SO...

Graham

11st 1 1/2lb, 38", BMI 24, WHtR 56.3%, Body Fat 29.9% Friday fasting didn't happen. No S is barely happening, though it is still the context of my thinking on food intake, alongside IF and still, if I could figure out how to do it safely, so would be low-carb. Assumptions: I assumed, once I'd lowere...

Graham

Wed 11st 1 1/2lb, 38 1/8", BMI 24, WHtR 56.5%, Body Fat 30.3%
Thu 11st 1lb, 38 3/8", BMI 24, WHtR 56.9%, Body Fat 31%
Fri 11st 2lb, 38 1/8", BMI 24.1, WHtR 56.5%, Body Fat 30.1%
Sat 11st 2 1/2lb, 38 3/8", BMI 24.2, WHtR 56.9%, Body Fat 30.7%

Graham

11st 0 3/4lb, 38", BMI 23.9, WHtR 56.3%, Body Fat 30.1% In the mirror this morning I thought "I look pregnant". Yet I'm 1/4" down on yesterday. I am also 2lb HEAVIER. The fast-breaking meal around 8pm was a No S buster - and I hadn't been very active. I got 8 different fruit and veg in that one meal...

Graham

10st 12 3/4lb, 38 1/4", BMI 24, WHtR 57.1%, Body Fat 31.3% 10st 12 3/4lb, 38 1/4", BMI 23.6, WHtR 56.7%, Body Fat 31.3% - revised figures for corrected height - probably 5' 7 1/2" Sunday was very active - 6 hours at the allotment plus cycling around, patchy eating - I think now I should have done le...

Graham

10st 13lb, 37 13/16" BMI 24, WHtR 56.4%, Body Fat 30% A comprehensive fast-ending meal - hard to avoid, I went beyond No S through slack planning (no bread, so I had yoghurt dessert). Slight weight loss and waist loss, let it be genuine fat loss, not water or muscle! Here I am, climbing the same str...

Graham

Sat 11st 0 3/4lb, 38 3/8", BMI 24.3, WHtR 57.3%, Body Fat 31.1% Sun 11st 1lb, 38", BMI 24.3, WHtR 56.7%, Body Fat 30% Mon 11st 0 1/2lb, 37 7/8", BMI 24.2, WHtR 56.5%, Body Fat 29.8% Tue 10st 13 3/4lb, 38", BMI, 24.1, WHtR 56.7%, Body Fat 30.4% Wed 11st 0 3/4lb, 37 7/8", BMI 24.3, WHtR 56.5%, Body Fa...

Graham

11st 0 1/4lb, 38" BMI 24.2, WHtR 56.7%, Body Fat 30.2% Not sure what to make of your last comment BA - this has been getting me down - or perhaps this is just part of a bigger picture. I am fed up, and I don't want to control myself today, I want to get off this treadmill, and for now I see that pro...

Graham

10st 11 3/4lb, 37 7/8", BMI 23.8, WHtR 56.5%, Body Fat 30.5%

Graham

10st 12 3/4lb, 38", BMI 24, WHtR 56.7%, Body Fat 30.6% Limits look like this: high fat seems to have provoked some scary symptoms, high protein - what will the protein be? I find the idea of more animal protein, more flesh, at any rate, repulsive. Yesterdays fast, plus how I ate afterwards - impreci...

Graham

10st 11 1/2lb, 37 7/8", BMI 23.8, WHtR 56.5%, Body Fat 30.6% Sunday I was fairly active later in the day at the allotment, bike riding, strength training, eating seemed proportionate. Plenty to do today, fasting may make that harder, but I don't have much left to fight weight/waist gain with, so I'm...

Graham

10st 10lb, 37 9/16", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56.1%, Body Fat 30.1%

Graham

10st 11 1/2lb, 37 9/16", BMI 23.8, WHtR 56.1%, Body Fat 29.7% The fast was tolerable, though fatigue and hunger were pronounced by the end. Large meal: lettuce & carrot vinaigrette salad, chicken with onion, mushrooms, cauliflower in cheese sauce and a new ingredient: boiled sweet potato. Full at th...

Graham

10st 12 1/4lb, 38 1/8", BMI 23.9, WHtR 56.9, Body Fat 31.1%

So many things tried and not working for me. My body is not a machine. Full of feeling and not suited to some strategies that seem fine on paper. FASTING today.

Graham

TexArk, thanks for your interest. It set me off on several hours of Internet searching. And - confusion is growing! I discovered some new things (which are hopefully actually true, it is the Internet, after all) - like there are notable, studied populations who do eat a lot of carbs - without insuli...

Graham

10st 11lb, 37 5/8", BMI 23.7, WHtR 56.2%, Body Fat 30% Yesterday was carby breakfast, then middling lunch - the chickpea curry accompanied by cauliflower "rice", evening meal an apple, grilled sausages and almond and egg "bread". I just read an interesting review of the Atkins diet making three inte...

Graham

10st 9 3/4lb, 37 7/8", BMI 23.5, WHtR 56.5%, Body Fat 31% Interesting - weight down, waist up. Whiskey, (3!), porridge x 2, bread, coriander pesto, no five a day (but well over an hour on my bike). I'm not sure if I ate any vegetables at all! But that unpleasant chest sensation is gone, and for that...

Graham

10st 12lb, 37 3/8", BMI 23.9, WHtR 55.8%, Body Fat 29.1% Interesting figures: weight up, waist down. Weight up not too surprising: I had a high-ish (for me, for the moment) carb meal following my fast: Rice and lentil dal with broccoli and coriander (cilantro) pesto. I then had dessert: stewed apple...

Graham

10st 11 1/2lb, 37 5/8", BMI 23.8, WHtR 56.2%, Body Fat 29.9%

Weight up as expected. Waist steady. FASTING

9:44pm Diet disarray continues, I'm not winning the battle to be slim at the moment, trying to win the other one which is about staying healthy, and being kind to myself, for now.

Graham

10st 9lb, 37 5/8", BMI 23.4, WHtR 56.2%, Body Fat 30.5% Disorganised day, didn't eat as much/often as usual, did have low-carb pancakes, but later had chocolates, jam in cream cheese, didn't get my 5-a-day, did have a beer, stayed up late watching tv - and here I am, lighter and slimmer. Beginning t...

Graham

10st 10 3/4lb, 37 3/4", BMI 23.7, WHtR 56.3%, Body Fat 30.4% OK: Last night's meal was comprehensive, and afterwards I had a milky drink. I know I overdid it a bit, I did feel a sense of strain before bed-time. I'd presumed I'd feel post-meal fatigue but I didn't, so I slept later than expected, mor...

Graham

10st 10 1/2lb, 37 3/4", BMI 23.6, WHtR 56.3%, Body Fat 30.5% <60g carbs. Ate enough though, it is partly a matter of spotting the little things that contribute massive carb loads (biscuits, for example). mayonnaise has less carbs than ketchup and mustard even less. Energy level OK - yet, again, wais...

Graham

Reduk74, best wishes for your surgery and recovery. I would think No S compliance is not as important as being kind to yourself, making sure you get every nutrient you need for tissue repair. Reinhard himself advises not worrying about No S when you are unwell, you do what you need to recover.

Graham

10st 11lb, 37 3/4", BMI 23.7, WHtR 56.3%, Body Fat 30.4% This so disappointing. For the first time I'm pretty sure I did keep under 72g of carbs - and look where it's got me! It wasn't easy, but I was careful, I believe my counting was honest and didn't skip any detail - so why am I heavier and fatt...

Graham

That sounds so wonderful - I wonder what it costs? It sounds like eating plat du jour in a nice restaurant every day. My memory of school meals in the UK was of far duller food than this. If this sets French kids up for a lifetime of healthy eating, it is money well spent, an enviably far-sighted ap...

Graham

10st 10 1/2lb, 37 1/4", BMI 23.6, WHtR 55.6%, Body Fat 29.1% Interesting to reflect on carbs consumed yesterday - I avoided beer at the pub - had a Jamesons instead - 0 carbs! but the BISCUITS.... I didn't notice how many I had - I'm going to say 5, I think that's right or close - and I discover tha...

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