I lost weight the way I am now maintaining: No counting, and a lifetime healthy eating lifestyle. Weight loss can be quite linear (...I did Stay The Same one week early on, but I lost six pounds in two weeks - and left out the intervening plots!)
Height:……6ft 3"
Age .............70
Weight:
15 Stone……..... 1978
15 Stone…7lb.... 1985
16 Stone…7lb….1995 (mostly muscle, lean mass 95kg, 14St 9lb)
19 Stone... 5lb…. 20th June 2018 starting weight
15 Stone....5lb…. Minimum, After 68 hour fast
4 Stone.............. Total loss since joining Health Unlocked.
I lost a stone at two pounds a week, and I lost another 37lb at one pound a week. (Weight loss can be linear). I am still losing a bit – and I have not decided at what weight I want to maintain.
BMI is not a good guide for tall, old, muscular people, but I started at BMI about 35, and I am now BMI 27.1. Even if you do take any notice of BMI, some websites say that BMI 27 or 28 is ideal for longevity and all-cause mortality for old men. According to the U S Navy system, and the four-fold fat calliper method, my body-fat percentage is 17% - and that puts me in the “fit” range (The two other OK ranges are “Healthy” and “Athletic”).
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It now seems normal to only eat for four hours a day (Intermittent Fasting 20:4) but, before I had ever heard of IF, I thought that food you ate in the evening got stored as fat – so I did not eat after 19:30... and brought the “end of feeding window” forward until I was only eating from 10:00 to 14:00... so I was Intermittent Fasting 20:4. It is best to change the scheme occasionally, so, after ten or eleven months, I did three 44-hour fasts, and then a 68 hour fast. This was very easy – if you fast 20:4 and then extend the fast by 24 hours by not eating for a day – that makes a 44 hour fast... and another day makes 68 hours. So, a two-day fast is then a 68 hour fast! ...but you have to get into "fat burning mode" to make it easy!
healthunlocked.com/fasting-...
If I feel cold and hungry when I am pounds below my target weight... sometimes I eat in the afternoon. The other day I was below my target weight, and I felt hungry because I had been cold all day, and I had a tin of soup. This was low Glycaemic Index soup, so it should not have spiked insulin and made me hungry, but I then had an Ambrosia Creamed Rice, a 500 calorie chocolate bar and another tin of soup! I think I was genuinely hungry, and I needed a meal.
To keep up to my target weight, I now eat yoghurt with my gluten-free, grain-free muesli.
I had Bradycardia Atrial Fibrillation (AF), two pacemakers, three Cardioversions and two Catheter Ablations... my AF was supposedly cured.
I have had little difficulty losing weight – I think that this is mostly because I have always ignored Government/NHS advice, and I have never cut down on fat, or eaten low-fat or low-calorie diet food. I was disabled for the first three months I was on this forum but I was still able to lose weight.
When I had lost some weight I suddenly felt a great deal better – and I was able to walk. It might be a coincidence that it was when they inserted an additional atrial lead and a replacement pacemaker. Last week I had a plate of sandwiches on Monday and a tea party on Wednesday, and my Apple Watch ECG told me I was in Atrial Fibrillation (AF). I Googled “AF Gluten”, and learnt that Gluten is a trigger for AF, and it seems that my Moderate-Carbohydrate, Adequate-Fat (LCHFish) low carb, Gluten-free diet and Intermittent Fasting had cured me. I now walk 30 or 35 km per week.
Hidden ... Could you please update my badge to 25kg?
IF, not for everyone, but definitely for me!
Why do they rank the Keto diet worst for health?