Losing 100+ pounds – Weekly Update – Weeks 19-21

Well, after a  couple weeks of being ill and barely eating anything, sandwiched in between some good days, I’m finally back on track with food and exercise again. 

The weigh-ins over the last few weeks have been unreliable given how I’ve been feeling, but today I’m finally ready to give a new weigh-in.  And the number is 286.6 basically another pound down from a few weeks ago. 

As you can imagine, while I was sick I wasn’t eating much and definitely wasn’t exercising, but I’ve been back to exercising for a little over a week now, working in “functional exercise” (aka… physical labor and walking) with the Turbulance Training challenge I have for myself for March. And it’s good to know that I’m feeling good – walking faster. Even I’m now able to do walk/run intervals on the treadmills, which is pretty cool.

Even though I’ve been sick, I have been doing  a LOT of research and reading, learning more about changes I should be making to faciliate good health and weight loss.  In the last 3 weeks, I’ve read:

  •  The Diet Solution by Isabel De Los Rios
  • The Maker’s Diet by Jordan Rubin
  • Restoring Your Digestive Health by Jordan Rubin
  • Eat Fat, Lose Fat by Mary Enig and Sally Fallon
  • The Metabolic Typing Diet by William Linz Wolcott and Trish Fahey
  • Mastering Your Metabolism by Jillian Michels

Over the last 12 years, we’ve learned a lot of about customizing nutrition to balance each person’s biochemistry. I use nutrition to influence (control) my children’s behavior. And we’ve seen DRAMATIC differences in behavior with the kids once we found the right nutritional blend. And finally, through these materials, I’ve finally found good explanations of the why and how of using customized nutrition. very cool!

But the biggest deal right now is that my husband has finally found the food combinations/timing that makes him feel good.  

When we were doing the carb rotation meal plan from Jayson Hunter that came with the Fat Loss Quickie program, the difference in his attitude, energy levels, and ability to stay calm was dramatic and nearly immediate, even though he was not doing the exercise portion.

Within 3 days, HE was noticing the difference in how different foods made hime feel. And now, two months later, he is completely unwilling to eat things he knows will make him feel poorly.

But the odd thing was that I did not do well on the carb rotation diet, but after reading through Isabel de Los Rios’ materials, we learned why.  And because I’m interested in nutrition and the biology side of it all, I basically have been reading through the reference/resource section of Isabel’s The Diet Solution manual, learning the why behind many of her recommendations.

It’s been interesting, for those of you who know my husband, amazing – no miraculous – that he is caring about his nutrition (he’s – was – a fast food junk food addict!).

So hopefully I’ll get back here more this week and share more of what’s going on here in that department.  It might not be weight loss, but hey – I’m all for feeling good. Who wants to be exhausted for the rest of their life? Not me!

So how’s March been going for you?