Here, there, and everywhere....

Hi, everybody. Dr. Nick here.......no, wait. It's just me. Lots of stuff going on. The wife joined Weight Watchers back in January, and it's approach could not be more opposite to my new eating habits if it tried. It's like Jack Sprat, but gender swapped.

Most of the big holidays are over, now. With Easter just behind us, there shouldn't be any more defending myself for not eating all the food on the table or for not having cake with everyone else. At least not until the next holiday cycle.

I'm 75lbs down, right about now. At first I really didn't think I'd be able to get much lower than 300lbs but now I'm thinking 250 isn't that far out of the picture. My brain is almost at the point where it wants to start adding the gym into the mix. If I can get myself to regularly trek out to the garage and do some heavy bag work, then the gym will be the next step.

I know this one isn't as fun or pithy as usual, but I really just want to get into doing this regularly. Coming up with all the pictures and pretty put more pressure on it, so keeping it quick and simple seems to be the next best step.

Type at ya later.

Wow...

I'm officially at 50lbs (22.7kg) lost since starting my new way of eating. It's kind of crazy that in 3 months, I've managed to reach this place. 

My wife convinced me to make a bet on HealthyWage, so if I manage to get down to 300lbs (136.1kg) by 2019/01/08 then my $25 a month ($300) pay-in will net me a $1072 pay-out. I've been doing weekly weigh-ins and right now I'm 7lbs (3.2kg) ahead of schedule.

Really not having any desire to break, so let's keep going and I'll check in again later.

Apparently I can't run a blog.....

I really did have every intention of regular updates and espousing on things that I'm going through during this journey.....but then I forget.

I'm not going to put a ton of silly pictures in this post, because I know I haven't given the link to anyone and no one is reading this. It's just for me. Maybe that's why I don't update so often.

Anywho, here's the last batch of progress pictures.

January progress pics.

I don't really see much of a difference from December, but I can feel it. Clothes fit looser, belts are on their last notch, wedding ring coming off inside the oven glove....Stuff like that.

I'm 2 months into this and I'm now at 379lbs (171.9kg). That's a full 40lbs (18.1kg) lost. Not to shabby. The wife just started Weight Watchers, so our meal plans are at war. LCHF vs LF only. You can pry my cheese and butter from my cold dead hands, woman!

Better late than never.....

Okay, so update on Thanksgiving. I tore up my plans and tossed them out the window. I made a commitment to myself to get healthy and making the first exception makes it easier to make the next one.

So....I ended up going to the store and getting the stuff for a keto Thanksgiving meal.

Beef tenderloin, broccolini, mushrooms, and good blue cheese.....yum!

I took that tenderloin and cut it up into fillets.

Three 8oz fillets for $20. Yup, totally worth it.

For dinner, I wrapped them in bacon and put them on the grill. Then sauteed the mushrooms and broccolini in butter. Finally, I topped the steaks with crumbled blue cheese and let it melt a bit.

SOOOOO GOOD!

Ended up losing another 2 lbs that night instead of giving in and maybe regressing.

Checking in...

No cute pictures this time, just words.

Thanksgiving is coming up, and with it the carb explosion that is most Thanksgiving dinners. It worries me that I'll completely cave, eat the entire bowl of mashed potatoes and then wallow in my misery with a pecan pie. I don't want to regress, but at the same time I don't want to be "that person" that requires all these special dishes that are only there to accommodate me. The best solution I can think of is to have a normal plate, a small bit of everything, but only a small bit. This way I am not feeling "deprived" of the holiday, but also am not rolling around like Violet Beauregarde after she ate the Three Course Dinner chewing gum.

I may or may not check in again before the holiday, but will for sure after. Hopefully it's good news.

A road-trip and a week down.....

Sadly, there was a death in the family last week. This mean a road-trip to the south.  If you've never been to a Southern funeral it consists of equal parts grief, laughter, alcohol, and food. The food is usually breaded and fried something or other along with pie and cake.

Surely there's something here you can eat on a diet.

Then there's the family dinners at restaurants that want to toss a good sized bassinet of bread at your table.

Bread in a bowl of bread....takes a lot of dough.

While saddened by the circumstances of the trip; I'm happy to report that, not only did I manage to stay true to the diet, I lost weight. I'm down to 412lbs (186.8kg if you like your weights easy to use). I started this thing at 419lbs on Saturday, Nov 11 so that's 7lbs in 4 days. I've lost almost an entire human head, I can live with that.

Thanks for the support, little dude.

Soooo, I suck at this.

Yeah, almost a whole year has gone by and nada. Zip. Zero. Zilch.

I can try and blame job hopping or stress or Trump (...thanks Obama), but in reality I just really didn't want to lose weight. I knew I should, but my heart wasn't in it.

This past Sunday I woke up and there it was...."The Will to Lose". It descended upon me in the night, and with it a plan. "You'll go on the Keto diet", it said excitedly. "We can do this!".

Just one problem........We go shopping for groceries on Friday night and there was not a damn thing, besides a lonely carton of eggs, in the house that was Keto friendly.

So I've been winging it this week. Not going full Keto yet, but trying really hard to be good with my food. Lots of research and reading has occurred, new things tried (I really didn't want to like Butter Coffee but holy hell it's good), and meals planned.

Hopefully this sticks. If not I'm gonna have to look into contracting mono.