Weight Lost: 46 Pounds in 6 Weeks aka Over 7lbs this Week!

May 30th, 2008 — Meals, about, activities, diet, exercise, goals, gym, motivation, weigh in, weight loss 

After 6 weeks on the medically assisted weightless program JumpStart medicine with Dr. Sean Bourke, I have lost 46 pounds in 45 days (just over a pound a day... Wow!) This week I lost 7.1 pounds and I am ecstatic to have achieved 109.2% of my goal.  I have been feeling great, but the larger dose of Phentermine caused me to get light headed nearly to the point of passing out several time this week.  (In addition to Phentermine, I have a weekly Methionine, Inositol, and Choline (MIC) Injection and daily I take Chromium, a multivitamin, B6 and B12 supplements.) I have decided I wanted to reduce the dose of Phentermine back to 30 mg (from 37mg).  I had much less trouble with portion control on the higher dose, but the risk of passing out and falling is not worth it...  I am 6'10" and that is a long way to fall.

Having over-achieved my goal of 6.5 pounds (the previous goal was set to 6.5 to make up for missing a 5 pound weekly goal several weeks ago.)  I am setting a more modest goal this week of 5.4 pounds.  Why 5.4?  :)  My weight at this weight was 344.4, so if I succeed I will weigh an even 339.  Here's to a great week in the past and a great week upcoming.

Here is a graph of my weight loss (if you are reading this in the future this graph will have updated for future weigh ins as well)... Clicking the image will open to a larger image.
weight loss chart

I didn't get a chance to work out as much as I would have liked because of work consideration... I didn't swim, play volleyball, or golf this week.  I did play basketball twice and go on several walks...  I am going to try and get to the gym for volleyball or basketball 5 times this week, I plan on playing (walking carrying my golf bag) at least 1 round of golf, and I would like to swim more than a few laps.

I plan to continue trying to eat less fat free cheese and more lean protein.  I have been getting my dairy with a double tall non-fat no-foam latte from Starbucks.

I have not tried to stop my intake of caffeine, but my consumption of caffeine is drastically curtailed from where it was.  (I need that morning java and coffee with skim milk just isn't the same.)

Good luck to all that are working on losing the weight...

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Buffets Not Good for Weight Loss

March 23rd, 2008 — Meals, exercise, motivation 

As I previously mentioned I am back to paying attention to my diet and exercise program... But as I also mentioned I am still on vacation.

For Easter my family went to La Quinta Spa and Resort Easter brunch... All you can eat deliciousness. I had BBQ short ribs, bacon, an omelet, sushi, shrimp, crab, and flourless chocolate tort. Wow was it good. Yikes was I full.

If you are ever in Palm Springs at Easter I highly recommend it. If you are on a diet I highly recommend you avoid it.

Fat man unleashed tells us that Chinese Buffets and Fat Men Don’t Mix... WeightLadder tells you that ANY all-you-can-eat buffet is dangerous for a diet. Delicious as it might be.

After 2-3 hours of couch riding basketball watching digesting I decided I needed to exercise off some of the food I had eaten... Luckily my vacation house has a 54 foot lap pool. 50 laps later I was feeling a little better about myself.

Another 50 laps tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon combined with not eating the entire kitchen and I should be at least no worse for wear.

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