week #9 : afterwards

I have updated the graphs for the end of the second month. Whilst I am not 'on a diet' since the end of the first month, I have continued with the principles and types of food. I eat beans, etc. all week and then have a blow out at the weekend...

The trend continues to be down: over 10kg lost from a starting point of 91kg.

month 1-2

week #6 : afterwards

The planned month finished last Saturday morning. This week was to have been the first post-diet week. However, I cannot let that month just go.

I have stuck to my 3 egg breakfasts (I really enjoy my breakfast now); and my bean and tuna lunches when at work. The evening meal has slid a little. I had Chinese dumplings one evening (pastry is made with rice flour); and boiled rice on another.

The result is that my % fat measurements have been all over the place, but my weight has continued to go down. I have done no significant exercise since damaging my shoulder playing rugby on Saturday afternoon, which must have some sort of effect.

My weight this morning was 81.7kg, an drop of 1.4kg from last week. As I get lighter, it seems that the morning fat measures from the scale are more erratic impacting the graph wildly!

To compare, my fat % before my evening meal was 16.7% on Thursday, after showing 19.0% before breakfast.

week #5 : the end of the planned month

start weight : 91 kg

end weight : 83.1 kg

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loss: 7.9 kg

start % fat : 23 %

end % fat : 17.6 %

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loss: 5.4 %

I am more than happy with the results. It is fair to say that I am amazed.

The diet was easy to follow, with no calorie counting, etc., just simple rules: no pasta, rice, cereal, dairy, sugar, fruit. Eat eggs for breakfast and fill up on beans. Easy!

In fact I plan to continue with the eggy breakfast; bean lunch at the very least. I will be monitoring my weight each morning too. Small things, as the book says.

I have a cholesterol test coming up and so I am interested to see what has happened there too.