Week Eight Day One

Okay, so it's been a week and a hey since last I updated.

I won't lie. I kind of hit a wall and it was both depressing and uplifting.

It was depressing because while staying more or less on target with eating the weight stopped falling off. Now this generally happens when you start eating more, taking more days of eating crap, or you stop exercising regularly. Now I never started exercising so I thought maybe I was just at the end of the Healthe Trim's ability to help me shed weight via calorie control alone. Forgetting the fact that it takes a negative 3,500 calories to lose one pound. In theory, in order to maintain my current weight I need to take in 3,500 calories a day (holy crap, if I just don't eat for 100 days I can lose 100 pounds – not really, but it sounds good). So I try to take in between 2,200 and 2,500 a day and that means for four days a week I have a negative 4,000 calories and maybe one pound a week lost. The other three days I am closer to 3,000 calories and we'll say lucky to break even.

Now, I have no idea exactly what Healthe Trim does. Vaguely it suggests that it might work as a appetite suppressant and vaguely suggests it works as a metabolism lifter, at least with its warning about caffeine and energy drinks suggests a metabolic effect but I am pretty sure this stuff doesn't get FDA approval on its effects. Now I will continue through the doses I have left and then see how the appetite is affected and that should be more indicative of the product's claims.

And the uplifting is that the weight hasn't gone up over the last 10 days and as of this morning continues to show signs of going down again. I take a long term view and the short-term results are still positive, plus the urges aren't all that strong to 'cheat' on this plan. And by plan I mean I look at what I eat and I count the calories. If I am under for the day I can have a treat after dinner and if I am looking over I cut out the treat and plan to scale down a bit on the next day.

The plan is really straight forward too. In the morning I drink a ton of water (at least 64 oz.) and they have a breakfast bar, a juice, a fruit and a yogurt with an emphasis on protein in the bar and a banana for no reason other than I like bananas. Breakfast I try to keep under 500 calories, mostly because I have it around 10 am and lunch is around 1 pm Monday-Friday.

Lunch is either a healthy soup or a healthy lunch, a salad, a chip of some sort, a Gatorade, a jell-o pudding, and rice cakes and it's around 700 calories.

So that's 1,200 and leaves room for up to 1,300 for dinner which is sandwiches and chips and vegetables, then an ice cream bar of some type or maybe a smoothie with yogurt and frozen fruits.

And that is the framework of the 21 pounds lost so far. And it's so easy, in the sense that if you do go out for a dinner or a lunch you and figure out where to cut or just to trim it down for the next day, that if it takes two years because I still refuse to exercise then I can do this for two years or forever if need be.

God knows that on a Friday night I might go way off with cheese sticks or a cookie sundae or both, but then the next Monday its back to tossing in 500 calories for breakfast and 700 for lunch. Then another secret to fast weight loss is to go to sleep at 10 pm (after having dinner at 6pm) and waking up at 6am. It cuts on snacking and the sleeping helps with general good health.

In case you need this, none of the statements I make are reviewed nor approved by doctors. Any decisions you make about your life are your responsibility and not those of the person who writes these statements.

What else? I did measurements at some point last week, but I'll redo those and get the numbers on here along with the frightening stats on my blood pressure. And no I do not take BP medication, and I never will. Refer to the above paragraph if you wonder.

Later.