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Intermittent Fasting – Week 10
Reading Time: 5 minutesPhoto: What I ate in France this summer. Body Composition My body weight has held steady for the last three weeks. Disappointing because my goal has been focused on reducing my body weight to take the stress from my knees. This plateauing of body weight correlates to my switching to the 4:3 pattern from … Read more
Intermittent Fasting – Week 9
Reading Time: 3 minutes(picture from 5 years ago running half marathon at 220 lbs.) Plateau at 200 lb. My weight has been oscillating around 200lbs. for two weeks. In response, I had switched from eating 25% of calories on my down days to 0 calories. This didn’t move the needle much and was close to unbearable. I … Read more
Intermittent Fasting – Week 8
Reading Time: 5 minutes(picture from 2 years ago, loading truck at 220 lbs.) Overview Week eight brought a breaking of the plateau around 200 lbs. Looks like I am well on my way to normal BMI of 25 at 188 lbs. by the end of November. I made a few tweaks this week. The biggest was switching … Read more
Alternate Day Fasting – Week 7
Reading Time: 5 minutes(picture from two years ago at 220 lbs.) The 10 Day Plateau – Then Success 10 days ago, I was so close to breaking 200 lbs. in body weight, something I haven’t done in over seven years. Then I got stuck in a plateau for 10 days. My weight had been bouncing around between … Read more
Alternate Day Fast – Week 6
Reading Time: 9 minutesPhoto from June 2017. Approximately 220 lbs. Almost at 200 lbs. Close to breaking the 200-lb. weight barrier. I haven’t weighed less than 200 lbs. since 2010. In the sixth week of my alternate day fasting I have lost almost 20 lbs. for an average of 3+ lbs. a week. Since my third week report … Read more
Alternate day Fasting – Week 3
Reading Time: 5 minutesLost 10.4 lbs. over three weeks. This is a slower rate than the first two weeks. I think I might be getting closer to my fat set point. A couple of other factors may be responsible. I discuss below. I added some more information to my weight loss chart to give insight to my performance … Read more
Alternate Day Fast – Week 2 Update
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlternate day fasting is when you fast one day and eat whatever you want the next. Alternately fasting and feasting restricts one’s caloric intake over time. In my case “fasting” consists of just non-caloric fluids and eating a single high protein meal of less than 500 calories. Second week results: I lost 8.8 lbs. over … Read more
Alternate Day Fasting
Reading Time: 5 minutesIntroduction: Alternate day fasting means that you fast one day and then the next day you eat whatever you want, a feast day. So, a given week may contain 3 fast days and 4 feast days next will have 4 fast days and three feast days. By alternately fasting and feasting one can restrict their … Read more
Income inequality springs from tax policy around homeownership
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGreat article here: How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality