Today is the 43 day of the diet, the very last day, and I'm really looking forward to tomorrow and being able to eat again. It's going to be interesting to see what happens with my BG. My BG has been excellent on this diet. I've finally gone from taking 2 grams of metformin to cutting one of the tablets in half.
Karen had been telling me that I should maybe stop taking the merformin because I was getting reading in the 70s which is below normal. The morning that I woke up with a 78 was the day that I decided to try and stop taking it. However, in the afternoon of that day my BG was up to 106, so I decided to start taking half a tablet at a time. When I was telling Mom about it she thought that it's funny that I now think 106 is too high. Going to the half a tablet twice a day seems to be working nicely.
So the diets done pretty well. I'm down 33.4 lbs. Unfortunately I've noticed that I lost 14.26 lbs of LBM according to my scale. That's not very good, but they say that the scales are notoriously not very active, but that they can show you trends which can be helpful. The hCG Made Simple site said that you should exercise lightly. However, it also said that if your used to exercising you can continue, but if you lift weights that you should probably cut back. Well I couldn't do my body weight exercises. I tried but while I could do one day of them, the next day I was just wasted and couldn't exercise. Losing that much muscle mass probably explains what is going on.
The next phase is called the maintenance phase, and it says that
"Now that you have lost weight, it is imperative that you step up the exercise a notch and allow your muscles to tone, your metabolism to kick into full gear, and your body to secure itself as a fat burning machine!"
So that sounds to me like they're expecting you to put some muscle back on. I hope so. I really can't imagine that I'm not going to lose weight on this next phase of the diet. I'm supposed to have something like 2700 calories a day, or maybe that's back when I was 34 lbs fatter. Anyway I'm just going to follow the rules of their diet and see what happens. Hopefully I'll be able to put some muscle back on in this phase and maybe lose some more fat.
I guess that I could go back to using the calipers on measuring the fat percentage but that's harder than using the scale so we'll just see what happens.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Julie Got Baptized.
This blog needs to go under boy is Max dumb category. I wrote it but for got to post it last week.
Man have things been hectic, so I haven't had a chance to blog for a while. Obviously.
The biggest thing that has happened in the last couple of weeks is that Julie Stringfield got baptized, and the amazing thing is that she asked me to baptize her. I have to admit that I was surprised and honored by her asking me to baptize her. We'd heard that she wanted to get baptized, but Chantel said that she didn't want everyone to know about it. Wesley Hendricks knew about it and when I talked to him about it he said he knew about it and that Chantel was going to be speaking at it. Chantel hadn't said anything about it so I just thought whe hadn't mentioned it. Julie said that she wanted to talk to Karen and I before the baptism, and we'd tried to set up a couple of appointments but they fell through. Julie had sent a text message to me, but she sent it to my work blackberry and I don't check it that often, but on the Thursday before the baptism I checked it and saw the text message, and wrote her back giving her my and Karen's phone numbers. She got in touch with us and met us that night. That's when she asked me if I'd baptize her, and she asked Chantel to speak. I later asked Chantel if she'd already know about it and she said that she hadn't. See that's funny because she then got to stress out for the next few days before the baptism.
A funny thing happened during the baptism. I didn't know how to do the baptism. I didn't get the hands right and so the branch president had to try to get me and Julie standing correctly so that I could hold her hands with my left and raise my right to the square. When we finally got it right everyone had a good laugh. It was still a great experience, one that I'll always remember. The Stringfield's had BBQ at Julie's sister Jessica's house. That was a lot of fun. I'd never really met Julie and Jackie's sisters before and I really liked both of them. The younger sister had had some oral surgery and she had to have her jaw wired shut, so I felt a little sorry for her, but could empathize because Karen and couldn't eat anything either. We went to Julie's Sacrament Meeting the next day for her confirmation. Over all it was a great weekend.
The weekend before was fun as well. We got to go see Alex the Younger, and Chio (and there parents were there as well). One of Iwalani's missionary companions got sealed in the Dallas Temple and they asked us if we wanted to come with them. Well of corse we did. Chantel came with us, and we all rode in Iwalani and Jeremy's Impala, so that was a little tight. We left on Thursday after work and drove all night. It was possible because we had 5 drivers to help with the driving. We came home the following Monday which was Memorial day. It was a lot of fun, as it always is, to visit with them.
Finally the hCG diet is going pretty well. I'm not dropping weight as fast as I did during the first two weeks, but it is still coming off. I've also had to poke a couple new holes in my belt, so that's pretty dang exciting. The really exciting thing is that my BG is very low. My weekly average on my meter is around 94 and I've had a few readings in the low 80's. I think is partly the diet, and also the losing of weight. The lower the weight the better the better insulin sensitivity.
Man have things been hectic, so I haven't had a chance to blog for a while. Obviously.
The biggest thing that has happened in the last couple of weeks is that Julie Stringfield got baptized, and the amazing thing is that she asked me to baptize her. I have to admit that I was surprised and honored by her asking me to baptize her. We'd heard that she wanted to get baptized, but Chantel said that she didn't want everyone to know about it. Wesley Hendricks knew about it and when I talked to him about it he said he knew about it and that Chantel was going to be speaking at it. Chantel hadn't said anything about it so I just thought whe hadn't mentioned it. Julie said that she wanted to talk to Karen and I before the baptism, and we'd tried to set up a couple of appointments but they fell through. Julie had sent a text message to me, but she sent it to my work blackberry and I don't check it that often, but on the Thursday before the baptism I checked it and saw the text message, and wrote her back giving her my and Karen's phone numbers. She got in touch with us and met us that night. That's when she asked me if I'd baptize her, and she asked Chantel to speak. I later asked Chantel if she'd already know about it and she said that she hadn't. See that's funny because she then got to stress out for the next few days before the baptism.
A funny thing happened during the baptism. I didn't know how to do the baptism. I didn't get the hands right and so the branch president had to try to get me and Julie standing correctly so that I could hold her hands with my left and raise my right to the square. When we finally got it right everyone had a good laugh. It was still a great experience, one that I'll always remember. The Stringfield's had BBQ at Julie's sister Jessica's house. That was a lot of fun. I'd never really met Julie and Jackie's sisters before and I really liked both of them. The younger sister had had some oral surgery and she had to have her jaw wired shut, so I felt a little sorry for her, but could empathize because Karen and couldn't eat anything either. We went to Julie's Sacrament Meeting the next day for her confirmation. Over all it was a great weekend.
The weekend before was fun as well. We got to go see Alex the Younger, and Chio (and there parents were there as well). One of Iwalani's missionary companions got sealed in the Dallas Temple and they asked us if we wanted to come with them. Well of corse we did. Chantel came with us, and we all rode in Iwalani and Jeremy's Impala, so that was a little tight. We left on Thursday after work and drove all night. It was possible because we had 5 drivers to help with the driving. We came home the following Monday which was Memorial day. It was a lot of fun, as it always is, to visit with them.
Finally the hCG diet is going pretty well. I'm not dropping weight as fast as I did during the first two weeks, but it is still coming off. I've also had to poke a couple new holes in my belt, so that's pretty dang exciting. The really exciting thing is that my BG is very low. My weekly average on my meter is around 94 and I've had a few readings in the low 80's. I think is partly the diet, and also the losing of weight. The lower the weight the better the better insulin sensitivity.
The Diet's Almost Over!
I've got to tell everyone that I'm excited that this phase of the diet is almost over. I'm not really hungry while on this diet, but I do miss eating. We only get the same stuff everyday, and I'm even worse than probably most on the diet because I just eat the same thing every day.
I've learned a few things on this diet. One, it looks like I can maybe start eating fruit again. It hasn't hurt me while I'm on this diet, in fact this week I've had a couple of BG reading that are below 80 which is the below the low normal for BG. Karen thinks that I should stop taking the metformin, but I keep saying that I'm going to keep using it until I run out of it, and use it while I'm on the maintenance phase to see what happens when I'm eating more food. The second thing that I've learned is that it's very convenient to have food planned out. I put all my food in a bag and so I know what I have to eat all right there so it's easier to plan. I've read that this is a good way to handle a diet, but I've never done it, because I'm lazy. Of course it's pretty easy to put all of 500 calories in a little bag for a day, and I've actually forgot a couple of times to do that. I just need to make a commitment to doing this though because I think that it will help a lot.
As of this morning I've lost 26.8 lbs. That's great, but I'm more happy with what's going on my BG. Right now my 7 day average is 89, and by the way that's below 90. The 30 day average is 94 and the 90 day average is 105. This shows that the trend is down and that's great. I hope that it stays low when I get on the maintenance phase of the diet.
Speaking of the maintenance phase. The diet plan says that you should not let your weight fluctuate +/- 2 lbs from your weight on the last day of your taking the hCG. However the level of calories that they suggest is very low between 1800-2000 for a man. That's near the level where you body goes into starvation mode. I personally don't see how that level of eating won't cause you to lose weight during the maintenance phase. I'm hoping that I'm going to lose weight. We'll see.
One thing that I read about while reading about the hCG diet that was interesting. It said that our digestive track is basically like any other great ape, and that it's designed for use to digest food that we're eating all day long just like the apes. The cruise around all day grazing on whatever they can find. That make a lot of sense, especially with a lot of people saying that your diet will work better if you eat a lot of small means during the day instead of a few big ones. The hCG people said that eating a couple of big meals, a day especially when there are a lot of refined carbs in it, can overwhelm the endocrine system and it start locking away the fat as abnormal fat.
A few more things about the diet. It's hard to exercise on it. I started out tying to do my weekly turbulence training, and I started a new phase of that as I started the hCG diet, and I just was not able to do it. Karen was worried about me and now it looks like she's right. Anyway I finally started just doing the exercise cycle and pushups. I got to where I could do those again, and decided that I'd try going back to phase 1 of turbulence training. So I did that on Monday and the next day I'd gained two pounds! I just don't see how that happens, and I was totally wasted and could not even do the exercise cycle the next day. Later in the week I read an article on the Dr. Mercola site about it being possible for the body to gain muscle on a reduced calorie diet. Maybe that explains what happened. I don't know that I'm even going to try do turbulence training next time we do another phase of the hCG.
Well as you can see the hCG diet pretty much rules my life right now. One funny thing about this is no one has to worry about cooking me anything for Fathers Day, and next week is my 50th birthday, and no one can do anything for me because I can't eat anything. I guess that really show how central eating is to any celebration that we now have.
I've read some interesting books and listened to some interesting lecture series, but I'll be writing about them on my other blog.
I've learned a few things on this diet. One, it looks like I can maybe start eating fruit again. It hasn't hurt me while I'm on this diet, in fact this week I've had a couple of BG reading that are below 80 which is the below the low normal for BG. Karen thinks that I should stop taking the metformin, but I keep saying that I'm going to keep using it until I run out of it, and use it while I'm on the maintenance phase to see what happens when I'm eating more food. The second thing that I've learned is that it's very convenient to have food planned out. I put all my food in a bag and so I know what I have to eat all right there so it's easier to plan. I've read that this is a good way to handle a diet, but I've never done it, because I'm lazy. Of course it's pretty easy to put all of 500 calories in a little bag for a day, and I've actually forgot a couple of times to do that. I just need to make a commitment to doing this though because I think that it will help a lot.
As of this morning I've lost 26.8 lbs. That's great, but I'm more happy with what's going on my BG. Right now my 7 day average is 89, and by the way that's below 90. The 30 day average is 94 and the 90 day average is 105. This shows that the trend is down and that's great. I hope that it stays low when I get on the maintenance phase of the diet.
Speaking of the maintenance phase. The diet plan says that you should not let your weight fluctuate +/- 2 lbs from your weight on the last day of your taking the hCG. However the level of calories that they suggest is very low between 1800-2000 for a man. That's near the level where you body goes into starvation mode. I personally don't see how that level of eating won't cause you to lose weight during the maintenance phase. I'm hoping that I'm going to lose weight. We'll see.
One thing that I read about while reading about the hCG diet that was interesting. It said that our digestive track is basically like any other great ape, and that it's designed for use to digest food that we're eating all day long just like the apes. The cruise around all day grazing on whatever they can find. That make a lot of sense, especially with a lot of people saying that your diet will work better if you eat a lot of small means during the day instead of a few big ones. The hCG people said that eating a couple of big meals, a day especially when there are a lot of refined carbs in it, can overwhelm the endocrine system and it start locking away the fat as abnormal fat.
A few more things about the diet. It's hard to exercise on it. I started out tying to do my weekly turbulence training, and I started a new phase of that as I started the hCG diet, and I just was not able to do it. Karen was worried about me and now it looks like she's right. Anyway I finally started just doing the exercise cycle and pushups. I got to where I could do those again, and decided that I'd try going back to phase 1 of turbulence training. So I did that on Monday and the next day I'd gained two pounds! I just don't see how that happens, and I was totally wasted and could not even do the exercise cycle the next day. Later in the week I read an article on the Dr. Mercola site about it being possible for the body to gain muscle on a reduced calorie diet. Maybe that explains what happened. I don't know that I'm even going to try do turbulence training next time we do another phase of the hCG.
Well as you can see the hCG diet pretty much rules my life right now. One funny thing about this is no one has to worry about cooking me anything for Fathers Day, and next week is my 50th birthday, and no one can do anything for me because I can't eat anything. I guess that really show how central eating is to any celebration that we now have.
I've read some interesting books and listened to some interesting lecture series, but I'll be writing about them on my other blog.
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