Update, and a Big Joke

So, as previously posted, I’ve been focused on maintaining my weight loss for a few months now and I’m happy to report that it’s mostly been effortless. I am weighing myself about once a week or so, but I’m so tuned into my body now that I can tell pretty much on a daily basis if I gain fat tissue or not. I sensed that during the final week of December, with Christmas parties and candy and pastries abound. I partook in my fair share and it resulted in a 3 to 4 pound gain. A couple of days of ‘eating clean’ (i.e., nothing processed and very few carbs) and the weight flew off back to my current set point of 196lb. I have large thighs/calves, so 196 is actually a pretty good weight for me – very proportional. And I’ve definitely decreased further in waist size – another notch on my belt is free and I could probably, if I wanted to, fit into a size 34 waist pants now. A year ago I was a size 44. Pretty incredible.

Ideally I’d drop another 10 pounds and that would be probably as lean as I should ever be for my body type, but as I wrote before, my goal this year is not to focus on fat loss anymore as that problem has been ‘cured’, but to focus on fitness level. So far the fitness goal is being achieved and I’ll post more about that soon.

My wife has joined the health revolution as well. Really proud of her – she’s doing Sisson’s 21 Day Primal Blueprint and is doing really well. Anyone who has been through it knows that it is difficult to go from a Standard American Diet of 60+ percent carbohydrate diet full of ‘healthy whole grains’, etc., to eating real, healthy food. She’s hanging in there and I can’t wait until the ‘switch’ flips like it did for me (about 2 months in) and she wakes up and realizes she’s got the carb addiction beat and is well on the road to health.

Okay, that’s all for now. I’ll leave you with the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while (related to diet) – an overweight/borderline obese looking lady, purportedly an ‘expert’ dietitian, is giving negative advice on low carb diets in this video:

It appears an anonymouse mentally deranged troll on our blog thinks I am the author of the Update, and a Big Joke post

To clarify matters I have no association with the post or contents apart from uploading it to this forum, having said that anyone who knows me will know I'm a skinny T2 diabetic and far from needing to lose weight my main concern is keeping my weight on

My stats: 6' tall weight 156lb waist <32", daily calorie requirements >3000

I can vouch for this, we meet up regularly and he has the physique of a pipe cleaner, an anorexic whippet, in short, I have seen more meat on a butchers biro.

lol well that video is hilarious. It made me think of something I found a month or so back when I was looking for an old recipe. This was something I wrote in my year 7 Cookery exam when I was 12.

Q. Why do we need carbohydrates to keep us healthy?

My Answer. Carbohydrates give us energy (calories) if we eat too many of them they make us fat. We don't really need them to live because we could get our energy and nutrients from protein or fat instead.

Teachers remark: Very muddled. You don't seem to have revised at all. Carbohydrates are necessary - now find out why and hand in for next week. I never did find out why and she never told me.