It has been another successful month on Keto. I continue to watch the scale descend. I continue to feel my clothes fit better, looser and in some cases right off. I've made a few trips to donate my old plus sizes already and pants I bought just this summer are already starting to feel baggy and starting to sag. More even than the scale, these #NSV's (non-scale victories) are really important to me as I continue on. I continue to study and research as I proceed down this path, taking in studies and documentaries on what the food industry has been doing to us for the past 40 years and even beyond. As the world has switched away from real food to the processed, easy, stripped down garbage we are consuming, we are entering a health crisis the size of which we have never seen before. Yet, the medical professionals seem to be stuck in the past, (at least the majority of them) still preaching low-fat, low calorie diets and prescribed pharmaceuticals as the way to fix this epidemic. In other words, we need more of exactly what has caused the problem in the first place. I shudder when I think of what I fed my family for the past 24 years. Cereals made of processed flour so devoid of any nutritional value that they have to add synthetic vitamins back in. Look on the box of your favorite breakfast cereal, see if it says it is "fortified." That is a fancy word for "we had to add in some vitamins so we could call it healthy." Yet, there is nothing healthy about cereal. Shredded wheat is just as bad as Fruit Loops, perhaps more so because at least with Fruit Loops there is no deception.
I highly recommend the documentary on Youtube called, "What's With Wheat," it was an eye-opener and showed me what has happened to the staple food in the world's diet today. Our wheat today is not the same as it once was. It is a hybrid that has been modified for yield, not nutritional value. Then we take it and process what little nutrition there is left out of it and call it flour. After watching this documentary I walked through the cereal aisle of my grocery store and felt like I was walking through a den of vipers, trying to poison me. I don't shop in the middle section of the grocery aisles barely at all any more. I shop around the outside where the real food is.
So here is the good news! I am down 4 more pounds since my last post, or in other words around a pound a week. I like that pace. I'm not setting any records, but this is sustainable and I feel terrific. The inches are also coming off as you'll see below.
Weight - 283 lbs, started 367 lbs
Chest - 47 Inches, started 60 inches
Stomach - 48.0 inches, started 64 inches
Waist - 42 inches, started 54 inches
Mid Thigh - 22 inches, started 25 inches
Total pounds lost - 84 lbs, Total inches lost - 42 inches
Goal weight - 195, Pounds to go 88 pounds
I lost 7 inches this month!!! 3 off my chest and 4 off my stomach! I know that's a lot of exclamation points but I can't help it. This is why I measure as well as weigh. The scale doesn't show everything that is happening. I incorporated some lifting and exercise bike into my routine so I know that helped. You won't always see your progress on the scale. Sometimes you won't see any. But the tape measure and the before and after pictures will show the difference and the results of your work. Although I have to admit I don't consider this work any more. This is easy, it's fun. I love eating this way and these inches and pounds are gone forever. I'm never going back!
