Monday, December 9, 2013

8 week update

Today has been 8 weeks scince I started counting bites October 14th, 2013

Started October 14, 2013 218.2 lbs

1 week October 21st, 2013 208.4 lbs 78 bites per day average 9.8 lb loss
2 week October 28, 2013 205.4 lbs 71 bites per day average 3 lb loss
3 wks November 4, 2013 200 lbs 60 bites per day average 5.4 lb loss
4 wks November 11, 2013 194.4 lbs 40 bites per day average 5.6 lb loss
5 wks November 18, 2013 192.2 lbs 36 bites per day average 2.2 lb loss
6 wks November 25, 2013 191.8 lbs 34 bites per day average .4 lb loss
7 wks December 2, 2013 185.4 lbs 33 bites per day average 6.4 lb loss

8 wks December  9, 2013 182.2 lbs 23 bites per day average 3.2 lbs loss


36 lbs lost in 8 wks!!!!!

5 comments:

  1. Wow! Impressive results:)) Aren't you extremely hungry on 23 bites a day? I'm working my way down-- first day of counting I ate 163 bites. Today my plan is 110 bites. So far I've been maintaining my weight, for the most part, but anticipate starting to lose as I drop a few more bites.

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  2. Thanks for the update on how you are doing! Im sure you will start dropping weight soon as you lower your bites! I could have NEVER started out with 23 bites, but I was able to gradually decrease my bites from 80 onward and it was much easier that way. I see people try to jump in and only eat a few bites a day right at first, and that is so hard.But by gradually decreasing it, you hardly notice! Keep going! =)


    No, actually Im not really that hungry. I am hungry some, part of the secret is that your body gets used to it, and your "hungerstat" gets re-adjusted. Another part of the secret to me not being terribly painfully hungry is that I eat around 1/2 Tablespoon peanut butter at almost every meal 3x day. The peanut butter reduces desire to eat for up to 12 hours (see peanut butter blog post). The third thing I think really helps is that I do Intermittnet Fasting, I only have a 5 hour eating window (started with an 8 hour window) so if you dont eat one bite during the fasting hours, the body doesnt get near as hungry for food.

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    1. Hungerstat article here

      http://ezinearticles.com/?Explaining-the-Hungerstat---Read-This-Before-Considering-a-Gastric-Bypass&id=4730702

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  3. Thanks. Yes, I've done some intermittent fasting before and I like the idea of combining it with the bite system. As my bite count gets lower, I might implement some longer fasts just so the two meals I do eat can be a bit larger. I kind of miss breakfast when I fast though, I will say that. PB is a good idea. I've found that a little bit of fat (as in PB) really helps sustain and keeps me from getting too hungry too quickly.

    Thanksgiving weekend slowed me down quite a bit in lowering my bite count, but I'm back on track now. Even though I'm lowering slowly, I can tell I'm eating less now than I would if I wasn't counting at all, and I'm able to stick with the plan and not be too miserable, as I have been with all other diets I've tried.

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  4. Sounds like you are making progress!!! Keep it up!

    Around thanksgiving time set me back, too, I just gave myself more bites for alot of those days, as you can see on my stats, I only lost .4 one week.

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