Weight: 385 lbs

Okay, okay… so I was wrong.  I’ve lost another five pounds.  I’m so pleased with that.  I’ve been working at this for about a month now and I have lost about 25 pounds.  While I cannot be sure of that number, losing ten pounds in ten days of a fasting mimicking diet is completely normal and I assume it was around that.

I worried that increasing my calories would have hurt my progress, but it seems to have not slowed me down at all.  To be fair, I’ve had so much energy that I’ve been up cleaning the house a lot more than I had been.  Still, If I can keep this up I should be able to set some goals that I thought seemed unreasonable and now feel obtainable.  I’m being cautious about those kinds of goals still.  I want to see the weight headed in the same direction over the next month to really trust that I can rely on losing weight.  Dr. McDougall always tells people that if you are eating this way you should be able to get to your ideal weight in a year.  Most of those people are starting out significantly smaller than I am, but it is still encouraging to see numbers today that suggest that he isn’t wrong.  Maybe more like two years, but still.  I’m doing almost no exercise still.  I need to work on that and stop being scare of my own legs.

While I’m not ready to set dates for goals, I have already decided to set some achievement gifts to myself.  That should serve as just another way of keeping me motivated.  I’m working on that now and I’ll post it when I have it outlined better.