The first day of my diet

Well I made it, the cravings shouldn't return again until the sky darkens tomorrow night. First full day of no carbs.

I should enter ketoses by early Monday unless I can do about 2500 calories of extra work tomorrow.

The thirst is already starting to increase.

In 2 to 3 days there will be little need for restroom trips

in about 5 days the first noticeable weight loss should show up on the scale.

Then depending on my ability to stay away from carbs I should start experiencing a weightless of 5 to 8 pounds a week without exercise.

If I do some descent exercise I can increase that to 10 to 12 pounds a week for about 2 months which would remove enough weight from my body to stop my back from hurting and my exhaustion should decrease significantly.

my goal right now is 83 pounds which will put me at 299 pounds.

It is entirely possible for the weight loss to hit a plateau. When that happens I need to increase my fat intake by about 10 to 15 percent and the weight loss should start again.

In the past I have taken a day off every 14 days to eat carbs, this usually eliminates the plateau but I have lost my ability to get back on the diet before so I think I’m going to go with the added fat this time. It seems to work well.

My energy level has already noticeably increased but that is normal when someone that is insulin resistant starts going half a day without carbs. I expect the energy level to increase a bit more. This isn’t really an increase in energy, what it is, is a decrease in the lethargic feeling that carbohydrates causes in an insulin resistant person. If I eat a bunch of vegetables or candy I go to sleep. I really don’t like candy or cool-aid for the most part. I don’t drink soda except when I have a mixed drink and then its diet.

If I really plan to be successful here I won’t be using and alcohol. Even though the hard liquor doesn’t have any carbs it lowers my willpower and then I pig out at night. It shouldn’t be a problem because for the most part I don’t even enjoy drinking anymore. Since I had that breakthrough this last summer I just lost the craving except on days that are really hard like days when I’m interacting with people a lot.

I feel good about my future. The weight loss is mandatory. I’ve been hit by 3 organizations, the social security disability people are evaluating me, a physical doctor will evaluate me Monday and a psych doctor will evaluate me on the 21st (yes, I’ve ruined our Yule celebration). I won’t pass all three. It is my guess that the person that started all of the trouble this summer by trying to get the kids taken away, has made up something else and told the SSD people. It’s ok though I will survive.

People like that, that fight dirty really make life unpleasant for everybody around them. I’m only suggesting that it was that person because I’ve never been contacted by 3 different groups about my disability and I’ve been on disability since 1993. When I got out of the Marine Corps everything was different, something had just snapped like a switch had been flipped. I haven’t been the same since.

I’m not complaining, I’m proud that I served. I wouldn’t change a thing. I’ll make it through this no matter what happens. It might be hard on Mandy for a while and I’m sorry for that but I can’t fix the fact that I’m broken. I will learn another way to handle things though.

This last minute before bedtime post turned in to over 640 words so far so I think I’ll end this by saying good night my friends.