Current Weight as of last weigh in: 377
Total loss: -2.5
Well, I started the IP diet on Monday, and my first meeting was Thursday. This week will not be a typical one since I had only a partial week under my belt. But, after only 3.5 days of being on the diet, I lost 2.5 lbs. Not too shabby. I find it very easy to follow, mainly because I don't feel hungry. My typical daily eating plan is as follows:
Breakfast - 3 eggs, scrambled
IP Meal Replacement mid morning
Lunch - Salad with dressing made from 2 tbsp. olive oil, 2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar, 1 splenda packet, and a squirt of mustard and about 6 oz. of fajita chicken (you can buy a package in grocery stores. I eat it cold)
IP Meal Replacement mid afternoon
IP Meal Replacement late afternoon
Dinner - About 8 oz. of protein and steam veggies
IP Meal Replacement about an hour before bedtime
So far, it seems successful. Next update will be shortly after next Thursday's meeting.
Sunday, August 14, 2016
Getting Ready for Day 1
Height: 5'11"
Current Weight: 379.5 lbs.
Tomorrow is Day 1 of my Ideal Protein experience. It is also my first day on contract for the 2016-17 school year(I am a middle school math teacher). Since I knew this weekend was my last one of food freedom, I took full advantage and ate all the crap I could find.
The biggest challenges for me:
1. No cheese (or any dairy). I love cheese :(
2. No alcohol. I am not an alcoholic by any means, but it is a staple in my diet. I consider it a food group.
Advantages for me:
1. I can be liberal with the amounts of "allowed" proteins.. hamburgers, steak, chicken, turkey, shrimp. I have to have a minimum of 8 ounces of protein, but I have been quoted no maximum (although I was basically told that my ownership of a penis meant that I could see success without being strict on how much of the allowed meats I ate, and vagina owners have to be a little more conservative).
2. I can eat as many dill pickles as I want!
There are several restrictions even on what types of vegetables I can eat. First off, no fruit. Except tomatoes, which many people don't realize are technically a fruit. They are on the "no more than 4 cups per week" list. Carrots are not allowed at all. How often have you heard, "Dude, you're putting on some weight. You better lay off those carrots." But I will play by the rules because I want to see results.
I prepped a salad for tomorrow, and I also have some cold cuts that I am going to bring with me, as well as a few meal replacements. And water. Lots of water. I've been told the most successful people on the program drink 100 oz. of water a day. As a teacher, I don't know if I have enough opportunities to pee. So this will be interesting.
I am required to go to weekly meetings. Mine are on Thursday evenings. From this point on, I will check in every Thursday with my current weight and other progress on the program.
Wish me luck,
Current Weight: 379.5 lbs.
Tomorrow is Day 1 of my Ideal Protein experience. It is also my first day on contract for the 2016-17 school year(I am a middle school math teacher). Since I knew this weekend was my last one of food freedom, I took full advantage and ate all the crap I could find.
The biggest challenges for me:
1. No cheese (or any dairy). I love cheese :(
2. No alcohol. I am not an alcoholic by any means, but it is a staple in my diet. I consider it a food group.
Advantages for me:
1. I can be liberal with the amounts of "allowed" proteins.. hamburgers, steak, chicken, turkey, shrimp. I have to have a minimum of 8 ounces of protein, but I have been quoted no maximum (although I was basically told that my ownership of a penis meant that I could see success without being strict on how much of the allowed meats I ate, and vagina owners have to be a little more conservative).
2. I can eat as many dill pickles as I want!
There are several restrictions even on what types of vegetables I can eat. First off, no fruit. Except tomatoes, which many people don't realize are technically a fruit. They are on the "no more than 4 cups per week" list. Carrots are not allowed at all. How often have you heard, "Dude, you're putting on some weight. You better lay off those carrots." But I will play by the rules because I want to see results.
I prepped a salad for tomorrow, and I also have some cold cuts that I am going to bring with me, as well as a few meal replacements. And water. Lots of water. I've been told the most successful people on the program drink 100 oz. of water a day. As a teacher, I don't know if I have enough opportunities to pee. So this will be interesting.
I am required to go to weekly meetings. Mine are on Thursday evenings. From this point on, I will check in every Thursday with my current weight and other progress on the program.
Wish me luck,
Getting Ready for Day 1
Height: 5'11"
Current Weight: 379.5 lbs.
Tomorrow is Day 1 of my Ideal Protein experience. It is also my first day on contract for the 2016-17 school year(I am a middle school math teacher). Since I knew this weekend was my last one of food freedom, I took full advantage and ate all the crap I could find.
The biggest challenges for me:
1. No cheese (or any dairy). I love cheese :(
2. No alcohol. I am not an alcoholic by any means, but it is a staple in my diet. I consider it a food group.
Advantages for me:
1. I can be liberal with the amounts of "allowed" proteins.. hamburgers, steak, chicken, turkey, shrimp. I have to have a minimum of 8 ounces of protein, but I have been quoted no maximum (although I was basically told that my ownership of a penis meant that I could see success without being strict on how much of the allowed meats I ate, and vagina owners have to be a little more conservative).
2. I can eat as many dill pickles as I want!
There are several restrictions even on what types of vegetables I can eat. First off, no fruit. Except tomatoes, which many people don't realize are technically a fruit. They are on the "no more than 4 cups per week" list. Carrots are not allowed at all. How often have you heard, "Dude, you're putting on some weight. You better lay off those carrots." But I will play by the rules because I want to see results.
I prepped a salad for tomorrow, and I also have some cold cuts that I am going to bring with me, as well as a few meal replacements. And water. Lots of water. I've been told the most successful people on the program drink 100 oz. of water a day. As a teacher, I don't know if I have enough opportunities to pee. So this will be interesting.
I am required to go to weekly meetings. Mine are on Thursday evenings. From this point on, I will check in every Thursday with my current weight and other progress on the program.
Wish me luck,
Current Weight: 379.5 lbs.
Tomorrow is Day 1 of my Ideal Protein experience. It is also my first day on contract for the 2016-17 school year(I am a middle school math teacher). Since I knew this weekend was my last one of food freedom, I took full advantage and ate all the crap I could find.
The biggest challenges for me:
1. No cheese (or any dairy). I love cheese :(
2. No alcohol. I am not an alcoholic by any means, but it is a staple in my diet. I consider it a food group.
Advantages for me:
1. I can be liberal with the amounts of "allowed" proteins.. hamburgers, steak, chicken, turkey, shrimp. I have to have a minimum of 8 ounces of protein, but I have been quoted no maximum (although I was basically told that my ownership of a penis meant that I could see success without being strict on how much of the allowed meats I ate, and vagina owners have to be a little more conservative).
2. I can eat as many dill pickles as I want!
There are several restrictions even on what types of vegetables I can eat. First off, no fruit. Except tomatoes, which many people don't realize are technically a fruit. They are on the "no more than 4 cups per week" list. Carrots are not allowed at all. How often have you heard, "Dude, you're putting on some weight. You better lay off those carrots." But I will play by the rules because I want to see results.
I prepped a salad for tomorrow, and I also have some cold cuts that I am going to bring with me, as well as a few meal replacements. And water. Lots of water. I've been told the most successful people on the program drink 100 oz. of water a day. As a teacher, I don't know if I have enough opportunities to pee. So this will be interesting.
I am required to go to weekly meetings. Mine are on Thursday evenings. From this point on, I will check in every Thursday with my current weight and other progress on the program.
Wish me luck,
An Ode to Obesity
Height: 5'11"
Current weight: 379.5 lbs
Hello!
My "how I got so fat" story is probably as common as many others'. So, where to begin?
When I was a little boy, I was skinny. I didn't have an ounce of fat on my body. I often had trouble finishing my meals because I became full before the plate was clear. My father wouldn't have that though. He would wail at me to finish it all or else I wasn't permitted to leave the table. It did not take me long to get over my aversion to being a member of the "Clean Plate Club" and overcorrect big time.
I started to become overweight when I was about eight years old. I suddenly loved to eat. My stressful home life probably played a role in it too. By the time I reached junior high school, I was full fledged binge eater. My grandparents lived across the street from a couple who owned a bakery. Occasionally, my grandparents would bring bags of leftovers from said bakery. Brownies, cookies, and many other sugary treats were there waiting for me upon my return to an empty home after school. I spent the entire afternoon before my mother got home eating, no, devouring the baked goods. Then I ate dinner and, by that point, I was a proud member of the CPC (that's how the cool people abbreviate "Cool Plate Club"). Heck, I was on the board of directors.
Let's fast forward to my early 20s. I was still large, save a brief bout of weight loss in college followed by the weight's triumphant return, plus interest, I was living with my father (my parents had separated when I was 19). The hollering from him to eat all of my dinner when I was a kid turned into hollering about how I need to get out of the kitchen and that I was a glutton. Let me just state, by the way, that my dad is an asshole, and so are many of the people he refers to as friends. I went with him to take his car to see a mechanic friend of his one time in high school. I don't remember the guy's name, so I'll just refer to him as Stupid Dumbass. Stupid Dumbass took one look at me and asked, "What do you do? Sit around the house and just eat all day?" But fear not. My father came to my rescue and defended me. Oh wait a second, I'm wrong. He did the exact opposite. He joined Stupid Dumbass in making all of the fat insults he could. Also, keep in mind my dad is fat too. Now I am fat everywhere, while he just has a huge gut but skinny arms and legs, but he is fat. But since his distribution is different from mine, somehow my fatness was worse than his.
But anyway, that was quite the tangent. My point was that when I was 23 I decided to have gastric bypass surgery. My insurance covered it, so cost was not an issue. Probably the most humbling thing about the experience was that the surgeon told me I was too heavy to get the surgery and that I had to lose weight first. Yep, you can be too heavy for weight loss surgery. They put me on a diet where I could only drink special shakes. I lost 50 lbs on the diet, but damn it was a miserable way to live. By the way, I was 420 lbs. when I visited the surgeon for the first time. I got own to 360 for the operation. After the operation, I got down to 210 lbs. This took me about 10 months. There were "rules" I was supposed to follow post-op. My meals were supposed to be mostly protein, with a little bit of carbs, and a healthy serving of veggies. I admit, I eventually stopped following the rules. I found there were foods I could eat in mass quantities despite my shrunken stomach. They were mostly junk food and high-carb foods. I also broke the no diet soda rule. Breaking the rules came with a consequence. I gained most of the weight back. Since then, I've participated in a few diet programs. One program, which I participated in twice, was one in which I could only have 5 meal replacements per day. They came as powder packets, and could be made into shakes, pudding, and other types of foods from the recipes in the binder I was issued. I was fairly successful - I lost 50-60 lbs, each time, but again a life of only meal replacements, to me, was quite miserable. I went back to old eating habits, and of course I gained it back. I even tried going to a "weight loss center" where I was prescribed appetite suppressants and administered shots. I lost 20 lbs or so on that, but then I plateaued, so I ditched that and went back to my old ways.
Now we arrive at the present. I am now 37 and, as stated above, I am 5'11" weigh 379 lbs. So hey, at least that's a net loss of 41 lbs less than what I weighed when I visited that surgeon for the first time when I was 23. I am now entering a new program called Ideal Protein. I am starting this with a slightly cynical attitude, only because of my lack of success previously. I have confidence in it, however, because I know of several people in my small "city" who have had great success, and the science behind it makes sense. Also, I get to eat real food, and I can be liberal with amounts on many of the "allowed" food, so I know I will not feel hungry constantly.
The main purpose of this blog is to document my progress on Ideal Protein. But I will get more into that in tomorrow's post.
Current weight: 379.5 lbs
Hello!
My "how I got so fat" story is probably as common as many others'. So, where to begin?
When I was a little boy, I was skinny. I didn't have an ounce of fat on my body. I often had trouble finishing my meals because I became full before the plate was clear. My father wouldn't have that though. He would wail at me to finish it all or else I wasn't permitted to leave the table. It did not take me long to get over my aversion to being a member of the "Clean Plate Club" and overcorrect big time.
I started to become overweight when I was about eight years old. I suddenly loved to eat. My stressful home life probably played a role in it too. By the time I reached junior high school, I was full fledged binge eater. My grandparents lived across the street from a couple who owned a bakery. Occasionally, my grandparents would bring bags of leftovers from said bakery. Brownies, cookies, and many other sugary treats were there waiting for me upon my return to an empty home after school. I spent the entire afternoon before my mother got home eating, no, devouring the baked goods. Then I ate dinner and, by that point, I was a proud member of the CPC (that's how the cool people abbreviate "Cool Plate Club"). Heck, I was on the board of directors.
Let's fast forward to my early 20s. I was still large, save a brief bout of weight loss in college followed by the weight's triumphant return, plus interest, I was living with my father (my parents had separated when I was 19). The hollering from him to eat all of my dinner when I was a kid turned into hollering about how I need to get out of the kitchen and that I was a glutton. Let me just state, by the way, that my dad is an asshole, and so are many of the people he refers to as friends. I went with him to take his car to see a mechanic friend of his one time in high school. I don't remember the guy's name, so I'll just refer to him as Stupid Dumbass. Stupid Dumbass took one look at me and asked, "What do you do? Sit around the house and just eat all day?" But fear not. My father came to my rescue and defended me. Oh wait a second, I'm wrong. He did the exact opposite. He joined Stupid Dumbass in making all of the fat insults he could. Also, keep in mind my dad is fat too. Now I am fat everywhere, while he just has a huge gut but skinny arms and legs, but he is fat. But since his distribution is different from mine, somehow my fatness was worse than his.
But anyway, that was quite the tangent. My point was that when I was 23 I decided to have gastric bypass surgery. My insurance covered it, so cost was not an issue. Probably the most humbling thing about the experience was that the surgeon told me I was too heavy to get the surgery and that I had to lose weight first. Yep, you can be too heavy for weight loss surgery. They put me on a diet where I could only drink special shakes. I lost 50 lbs on the diet, but damn it was a miserable way to live. By the way, I was 420 lbs. when I visited the surgeon for the first time. I got own to 360 for the operation. After the operation, I got down to 210 lbs. This took me about 10 months. There were "rules" I was supposed to follow post-op. My meals were supposed to be mostly protein, with a little bit of carbs, and a healthy serving of veggies. I admit, I eventually stopped following the rules. I found there were foods I could eat in mass quantities despite my shrunken stomach. They were mostly junk food and high-carb foods. I also broke the no diet soda rule. Breaking the rules came with a consequence. I gained most of the weight back. Since then, I've participated in a few diet programs. One program, which I participated in twice, was one in which I could only have 5 meal replacements per day. They came as powder packets, and could be made into shakes, pudding, and other types of foods from the recipes in the binder I was issued. I was fairly successful - I lost 50-60 lbs, each time, but again a life of only meal replacements, to me, was quite miserable. I went back to old eating habits, and of course I gained it back. I even tried going to a "weight loss center" where I was prescribed appetite suppressants and administered shots. I lost 20 lbs or so on that, but then I plateaued, so I ditched that and went back to my old ways.
Now we arrive at the present. I am now 37 and, as stated above, I am 5'11" weigh 379 lbs. So hey, at least that's a net loss of 41 lbs less than what I weighed when I visited that surgeon for the first time when I was 23. I am now entering a new program called Ideal Protein. I am starting this with a slightly cynical attitude, only because of my lack of success previously. I have confidence in it, however, because I know of several people in my small "city" who have had great success, and the science behind it makes sense. Also, I get to eat real food, and I can be liberal with amounts on many of the "allowed" food, so I know I will not feel hungry constantly.
The main purpose of this blog is to document my progress on Ideal Protein. But I will get more into that in tomorrow's post.
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