Tag: 30 days challenge

Lot of energy and motivation. This week will rock!

Shorter workout. Ciara storm, with wind up to 130 km/h and rain.

Slept yesterday, mostly. I’m wondering if I will reach my goal.
I see 3 options: 1. New workout. 2. Fasting 3. Continue and give it time.
Quitting is not an option. Will see what is the plan for the day.
Thinking option 3 and 1. Option 2, really considering, but not today.
I guess I’m at the heart of the problem: trying and giving up. That’s a lesson. It’s exactly in such moment were one can make the difference.
I’m decided to. For the sake of changing it for good.

Done. Time to get lazy

After workout measures

While the weight only start to finally go down a bit, the waist has move down from 127.8 cm to 124cm. Muscles and bone are low and compare to the normal population, and the TBW is too low. Long road ahead to get healthier, but at least things are happening.

For the first time, no pain at all in the legs. Even after a pause. Seems the pain was indeed the body building new muscles. And that no pain day happen exactly the day when my weight is finally dropping.. Seems so that the body have react to the workout and build the necessary muscles to make it easy. And the workout was indeed easy. Nature..

Along the way, I realised that my body and brain are converging. Before, the body was more a vehicle, hoping it will work without real maintenance. Today, I see the team, creating balance.

Checked the scale after the workout, to see if it has impact any of the parameters measured this morning.

Came to this article to explain the weight gain (just picked up the first among a long list). Didn’t knew that. Seems to be natural and transient.
I otherwise think I did dropped some fat.

All the legs pain left this morning. Energy level even increased. It’s also the first day I can check if there is any progress on the weight and sugar side, as I can compare measure made under the same conditions, meaning in the morning and before any meal. The result exceeded my expectations.

I watched yesterday few very interesting documentaries about fasting. Fasting days, typically 12 days or more. All the research made converge to the same and outstanding results: a better health, despite a tough period, around day 3, when the body switch from the proteins (muscles) to the fat storage, to produce the energy it needs. Surprisingly, even after a long period of fasting, only 4% of the muscle mass regress, to rest is just lipids (fat). After day 3 also, there is no sensation of craving, the body consuming its energy from the fat storage directly, and providing to the body all it needs. The storage is made for that at the end.

And this is how we have been genetically programmed: using our fat during winter, when the food was hard to find, and filling the storage during summer.
This is confirmed looking at the genes expression, where from around day 3, some of the genes expression will become dormant, while the others activate. Researchers to say that it happen so fast that it can only be because we have been genetically programmed to fast.

From day 5, there is king of well being, physical and psychological.
Surprisingly, a list of health conditions get fixed by fasting, surpassing any meds results. Some will do the fasting once a year, others every 3 months.

The diet must be prepared starting from day 1 to remove the proteins and the second day, eating just fruits. Then the 3rd day, the fasting can start.

During the fasting, some will take just water, others water, a small orange juice and broth. In both case, they will hike! There are camp organised to do such program (obviously, only serious one must be attended – by reputed clinics for eg) and the advantage of them, beside medical supervision, is the community, where each participants can share its experience and support the others.

At the end of the fasting journey, the return to the normal (but good) eating habit must be progressive, starting the day 1 with just a soup, and progressively increasing over few day the food quantity. Typically, the benefits of such fast will last months, if not years, and many will have see some of there health issues to be resolved.

Obviously, I’m not here to give advises, but just sharing. Please watch good documentaries and talk to your GP.

As for me, it’s something I’d like to consider. I’m not ready to do it right now. But I might start it. They say you need 2-3 weeks at least where you have no obligations, to consider fasting. Indeed, you might be tired at first, so you need to be able to rest, and its better to be out of any pressure, could it be the food pressure, anywhere, on tv or just when going down town.

The reason while I would consider fasting, is not really to loose weight at first (but fasting definitely lead to a substantial weight loss), but it’s more to release these toxins accumulated, and why not, eliminate the diabetes. It’s also an opportunity to restart a new healthy lifestyle.

Time to prepare me for a walk. Again, no pressure. I will pause any time I feel to for any long and won’t force myself into either a distance or a time. Just taking one day at time, as long as it is joyful, I will continue.

I’m considering to soon diversify my walk path, for e.g. walking in others places such as mountains, or to switch some walk with for example swimming.

I will take with me a small backpack. Thought it would be nice to carry little things in it, could it be a bottle of water.

Oh, and yesterday later at night, I had eat 2 others salads. I woke up fine. No hungry but ready to go!

Started the day by monitoring my weight (118.6kg) and the sugar level (12.7 mmol/L).
Uploading few songs on my bluetooth headset. Kind of AC/DC (Shook me all night long start wonderfully, the drum, to initiate a workout) and Mozart Requiem. Lovely but hopefully not depressing, or Vivaldi Winter, and others stuff such as Klaus Nomi or Josh Groban. Alejate or Let me fall are just wonders. Grace Jones, I’ve Seen That Face Before, will be played in loop few time, I bet. Oscar Benton with Bensonhurst Blues, or UB40 Food For Thought too.
Will see what will work well to accompany the walk to come. The city will never be more than 15 min away, and a coffee along the way will certainly do.

Just after the walk, checked the weight and sugar. As I drinked 1L of water during the walk, the net water loss is of 118.6-116.9+1 = 2.7kg of sweat. Blood sugar dropped temporarily by 33%

Workout today: 28’794 steps, 79 floors, 22.14km, 4’060 kcal, 276 active minutes.

Along the way, bought drinkable probiotics. Indeed, remembered that a balanced intestine flora have an impact on the weight loss outcome. As can’t tell wether it is currently balanced or not, just took it. Fibers supplementa as well. Seems to be an important element to a diet.

As for food, I changed my strategy. Instead of setting a kcal intake first, I choosed to eat what I want, and then calculate the kcal intake it represent. Then, to look at what to change to reduce the value, if it is higher than 1’800 kcal. I’m also sticking on a 4h windows eating period, eating nothing during the remaining 20h. Really easy so far. Maybe because while walking, I’m not thinking of it. The mind goes somewhere else. To the cows I would cross, the little hill ahead, the music or the next pause, removing probably some eating habits, not linked to hunger. It’s like rediscovering what hungry means.

Food intake:

Total kcal: 2’050 kcal

Cashews represents almost 45% of the total intake. Will spend the kcal somewhere else next time. But no more hungry. That’s nice.

It took 6h for my legs to felt great again. The after walk muscles and foot pain just faded away. Now, great feeling. Few feet blisters, but nothing otherwise. Can now lazily drink tea, watch documentaries or movies, and sleep. Can’t wait to know what will be my weight and blood sugar end of Feb.