Tried more intensive sports on a down day (Dday from now on) for the first time: two hours of ballroom dancing. Did not do zero calories because of B's b-day lunch, but only had a spicy sashimi salad, so it counts as a Dday. Got a headache after two hours of mid-intensive dancing, so there may be limits to how much sporting is good for me on a Dday.
Weight loss not noticeable on the morning after, so it has really slowed down after the first three. That's probably as it should be. Keep it up!
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Friday, January 24, 2014
two weeks, still three kilos
The last four days did not show significant loss, but it feels ok and stabilizing. Am reading some more about Dr Varady's studies. Interesting to know that daily weighing will statistically let people lose weight faster and keep it down more consistently... mind over matter :)
Will switch to her EODD once I am down to 90. Currently the 91 point something are established. Tomorrow is a Nuller but we are celebrating B' b-day, so I will do EODD with a light lunch; and if we manage to go dancing in the evening, this should more than make up this lunch :D
Will switch to her EODD once I am down to 90. Currently the 91 point something are established. Tomorrow is a Nuller but we are celebrating B' b-day, so I will do EODD with a light lunch; and if we manage to go dancing in the evening, this should more than make up this lunch :D
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
keeping it up
Yesterday's Nuller wasn't really hard. It's just the weekends. Considering to do 500 cals on weekend down-days. Read some on JUDDD (www.johnsonupdaydowndaydiet.com) vs EOD. There are quite a few very well-educated weight-watchers on lowcarbfriends.com but all the discussions on "exactly how was this-and-that study result proven" seems a bit irrational.
Dieting works differently for different people. For me, EOD with 0 cals on Down Days seems to work just fine; after 2-3 months I will know more, for now it's not too hard at all and B keeps telling me she already sees results. After two weeks! :)
Renamed the blog from "BMI 30 -> 22" to "BMI 30 -> 25". With a BMI of 25, I will be "normal at the border to overweight", 80 kg in absolute numbers - and reaching that would mean 15 kg weight loss in total (12 to go...). Once I manage that, I'll re-evaluate possible next goals. Don't know yet if a BMI of 22 - I would then have slightly more than 70 kg - is reasonable and healthy for me.
Dieting works differently for different people. For me, EOD with 0 cals on Down Days seems to work just fine; after 2-3 months I will know more, for now it's not too hard at all and B keeps telling me she already sees results. After two weeks! :)
Renamed the blog from "BMI 30 -> 22" to "BMI 30 -> 25". With a BMI of 25, I will be "normal at the border to overweight", 80 kg in absolute numbers - and reaching that would mean 15 kg weight loss in total (12 to go...). Once I manage that, I'll re-evaluate possible next goals. Don't know yet if a BMI of 22 - I would then have slightly more than 70 kg - is reasonable and healthy for me.
Monday, January 20, 2014
0#7 was tough
Maybe family Sundays are harder, maybe it was just me... but yesterday was tough. Hungry and grouchy, but stayed at zero cals, and did some walking. Want this to be real. Did not have the energy to do the urgent office work. Will try to do a high intensity day today.
Saturday, January 18, 2014
First three kilos down :)
Thou shalt not weigh thyself, says Bernhard Ludwig, lest thou fall into the trap of hopelessness... weight will go up and down, results are better seen in belly circumference.
But like many other 10in2ers, I like to see numbers. So I do weigh myself, nearly every morning And today, after seven Nullers, I am for the first time down to below 92, having started at 95 twelve days ago. I like :)
But like many other 10in2ers, I like to see numbers. So I do weigh myself, nearly every morning And today, after seven Nullers, I am for the first time down to below 92, having started at 95 twelve days ago. I like :)
Friday, January 17, 2014
0#6
...was not a true Nuller. Did have business lunch and therefore got a few veggies, maybe 200 kcal. Made no real difference, although there was a little more feeling of hunger in the evening. So maybe for me a true 01in2 is easier than the "zero-zeropointtwentyfive-in-two" as promoted by Dr Varady in the EOD.
Also had 0.2 red wine during the last flight leg. Does make me quite a bit more dizzy on a near-zero day.
Also had 0.2 red wine during the last flight leg. Does make me quite a bit more dizzy on a near-zero day.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
0#5
Feels like I have been doing this for longer than one week and a day... not difficult and quite natural. Reading a lot of opinions and experiences, most positive, on http://community.netdoktor.at/forum/abnehmen-diaeten/diaet-10-in-2-412,1176373.html
Looking forward to breakfast, though :)
Looking forward to breakfast, though :)
Monday, January 13, 2014
Looking back at my first four "Nuller-Tage / zero-calory-days"...
Jan 7 - on the previous evening I had spontaneously decided to start this new way of living. Jan 7 was the first day of work after the Christmas break. It turned out to be a medium-intensive work day, not bad at all for a "no eating" day.
Making breakfast for the loved ones wasn't too hard. Of course the smells of food do get your mouth watering, but a cup of tea cured this nicely.
During the work day, I usually find it hard to break for lunch anyway - too much to do - and on Jan 7, I didn't have to. Very convenient! :) No problems. Had just 2 or 3 good(!) espressi during the day, and of course several cups of tap water.
Not feeling queasy or cold. And tomorrow I can eat anything I want!! :)
Jan 8 - the first "feasting day" of the new way of living. Waking up with an unusually clean mouth. Obvious, if you haven't eaten dinner you don't salivate during the night. No, I was neither ravenous nor weak, actually the first fasting day makes me feel quite good the morning after.
During the day, I was actually eating a little less than I usually would, but savoring it more, knowing that tomorrow is going to be another zero day. No "pig eating". Interesting -- I did expect some of this at least. Seems I am currently rather comfortable (or have too many fat reserves to really care)...
But will I feel like stuffing myself shortly before going to bed? No such feeling came up. Had a normal small and low-carb dinner, with a little wine to celebrate the first "01" cycle of probably many to come.
Jan 9 - second zero-day. No surprises. Good coffee, some water.
Jan 10 - business lunch. OK, today is a feasting day, no problem, I can eat. Well, if I couldn't, this would be awkward. You don't want to tell business partners you're not eating anything when you take them for lunch. Will need to think about how this is going to work mid-term. Will I swap 0 and 1 days? Will I just take a super-light meal? What are the critical factors to make this work?
Being a nerd and so, I want to read more about this diet. I want to understand why and how it is supposed to work.
Purchased ebooks "Morgen darf ich essen, was ich will" ( http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00B16WZVO/ ) by Austrian seminar cabarettist B. Ludwig, which describes the 10in2 diet, and "The Every Other Day Diet" ( http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00DS9G2GQ ) by K. Varady. Started reading The EODD first, since I had been triggered by the 10in2 book already.
Jan 11 - third zero-day. TOUGH morning because of shopping real nice fresh bread and goodies and preparing a lovely weekend breakfast for the loved ones. OK, note to self: great-smelling food makes fasting harder by far, at least for now. But I stayed strong. By noon the temptation was gone, no further issues with 0#3. Developed quite a headache but it seemed more related to the cold affecting M, not to the fasting.
This is going well! And a little walk (10K steps) to help the fat-burning effect.
Jan 12 - Have read the EODD book and liked it a lot. It is, well, typically American, not just the recipes - which I probably will never use, but they do sound tasty :) - but the entire style of writing. BUT she gives a lot of clinical or scientific detail, which makes me feel quite confident about the accuracy of her writing.
She also argues, amongst other things, why doing an entire zero-calories-day is not as good as doing 25% of regular calory intake. I have found two reasons rather compelling:
a) doing zero calories may be too hard for many people to stick to the routine. I guess that's true (not from my personal experience, but from some comments about this diet on the Internet), but it may still be preferable to do if one can. Right?
b) Eating zero will more easily lead to muscle reduction. Animal testing obviously indicated that with a 0%-EODD, mice lose several % of their weight loss in muscle mass, while with a 25%-EODD, virtually the entire weight loss is in body fat. Worth a thought! - Though I will stick to 10in2 == 0%-EODD until I have read the other book as well, and until I have started losing some serious "pieps" :)
Have started a little logbook for daily measuring - will log kilograms, % body fat, % body water, and % body muscle mass. Starting with 93,7 - 31 (ouch!) - 50 - 38.
This was a feasting day. I like feasting days. But I did avoid overeating with no problem, and went low-carb in the evening. Just should get a little more than 6,5 hours of sleep...
Jan 13: 0#4. No significant hunger signs until evening. Circulation is fine, feet are warm, no headache. Either my body really likes this diet, and I have plenty of energy depots available (the latter, unfortunately, is not an "if"), or something's wrong with me. I don't think there is.
Looking ahead on the calendar for "trouble days" - i.e. when fasting collides with social eating. One coming up Friday - another customer visit, onsite, and I should eat with them. OK, this is a chance to test a "500 calory" meal. Will be interesting to do.
Jan 7 - on the previous evening I had spontaneously decided to start this new way of living. Jan 7 was the first day of work after the Christmas break. It turned out to be a medium-intensive work day, not bad at all for a "no eating" day.
Making breakfast for the loved ones wasn't too hard. Of course the smells of food do get your mouth watering, but a cup of tea cured this nicely.
During the work day, I usually find it hard to break for lunch anyway - too much to do - and on Jan 7, I didn't have to. Very convenient! :) No problems. Had just 2 or 3 good(!) espressi during the day, and of course several cups of tap water.
Not feeling queasy or cold. And tomorrow I can eat anything I want!! :)
Jan 8 - the first "feasting day" of the new way of living. Waking up with an unusually clean mouth. Obvious, if you haven't eaten dinner you don't salivate during the night. No, I was neither ravenous nor weak, actually the first fasting day makes me feel quite good the morning after.
During the day, I was actually eating a little less than I usually would, but savoring it more, knowing that tomorrow is going to be another zero day. No "pig eating". Interesting -- I did expect some of this at least. Seems I am currently rather comfortable (or have too many fat reserves to really care)...
But will I feel like stuffing myself shortly before going to bed? No such feeling came up. Had a normal small and low-carb dinner, with a little wine to celebrate the first "01" cycle of probably many to come.
Jan 9 - second zero-day. No surprises. Good coffee, some water.
Jan 10 - business lunch. OK, today is a feasting day, no problem, I can eat. Well, if I couldn't, this would be awkward. You don't want to tell business partners you're not eating anything when you take them for lunch. Will need to think about how this is going to work mid-term. Will I swap 0 and 1 days? Will I just take a super-light meal? What are the critical factors to make this work?
Being a nerd and so, I want to read more about this diet. I want to understand why and how it is supposed to work.
Purchased ebooks "Morgen darf ich essen, was ich will" ( http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00B16WZVO/ ) by Austrian seminar cabarettist B. Ludwig, which describes the 10in2 diet, and "The Every Other Day Diet" ( http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00DS9G2GQ ) by K. Varady. Started reading The EODD first, since I had been triggered by the 10in2 book already.
This is going well! And a little walk (10K steps) to help the fat-burning effect.
Jan 12 - Have read the EODD book and liked it a lot. It is, well, typically American, not just the recipes - which I probably will never use, but they do sound tasty :) - but the entire style of writing. BUT she gives a lot of clinical or scientific detail, which makes me feel quite confident about the accuracy of her writing.
She also argues, amongst other things, why doing an entire zero-calories-day is not as good as doing 25% of regular calory intake. I have found two reasons rather compelling:
a) doing zero calories may be too hard for many people to stick to the routine. I guess that's true (not from my personal experience, but from some comments about this diet on the Internet), but it may still be preferable to do if one can. Right?
b) Eating zero will more easily lead to muscle reduction. Animal testing obviously indicated that with a 0%-EODD, mice lose several % of their weight loss in muscle mass, while with a 25%-EODD, virtually the entire weight loss is in body fat. Worth a thought! - Though I will stick to 10in2 == 0%-EODD until I have read the other book as well, and until I have started losing some serious "pieps" :)
Have started a little logbook for daily measuring - will log kilograms, % body fat, % body water, and % body muscle mass. Starting with 93,7 - 31 (ouch!) - 50 - 38.
This was a feasting day. I like feasting days. But I did avoid overeating with no problem, and went low-carb in the evening. Just should get a little more than 6,5 hours of sleep...
Jan 13: 0#4. No significant hunger signs until evening. Circulation is fine, feet are warm, no headache. Either my body really likes this diet, and I have plenty of energy depots available (the latter, unfortunately, is not an "if"), or something's wrong with me. I don't think there is.
Looking ahead on the calendar for "trouble days" - i.e. when fasting collides with social eating. One coming up Friday - another customer visit, onsite, and I should eat with them. OK, this is a chance to test a "500 calory" meal. Will be interesting to do.
This is a private blog of a nice guy living in Vienna (Austria) who set on in Jan 2014 to shed some (over)weight. I want to help motivate myself to keep going by blogging some bit about it.
To start with: It's January 2014, and I have a BMI of 29,9 after a nice and rather calory-rich Christmas season. Maybe I'm cheating myself just a tiny bit about it, by adding 1 cm to my size for the BMI calculation, but honestly trying to avoid the ugly BMI 30 mark, which in most systems indicates "obese" while anything below 30 still is just "overweight" :-/
Soooo... I certainly DON'T want to get into the BMI 30 zone. At 44 years of age, weight just seems to accumulate. I haven't really dieted so far, just tried leaving off carbs at night, or so. Now I need to start in earnest.
And I happened to run into http://www.10in2.at/ just when I needed to. It sounded quite good to me - eat what you want (OK, with some reason, but really no rules) one day, and fast the next day. Rinse and repeat. And with "fast", they mean "zero calories", just water or tea or coffee (and a glass of wine in the evening, if you want). This is way stricter than 5:2 or the "every other day diet", where you eat around 25% of regular daily calories.
I have done single zero-fasting-days in the past and not really had any severe problems with them. Actually, it just feels like this is a good thing for me to try. And so I decided to go with intuition and start 10in2 on a whim.
In this blog, I will keep my personal record of how I'm doing.
To start with: It's January 2014, and I have a BMI of 29,9 after a nice and rather calory-rich Christmas season. Maybe I'm cheating myself just a tiny bit about it, by adding 1 cm to my size for the BMI calculation, but honestly trying to avoid the ugly BMI 30 mark, which in most systems indicates "obese" while anything below 30 still is just "overweight" :-/
Soooo... I certainly DON'T want to get into the BMI 30 zone. At 44 years of age, weight just seems to accumulate. I haven't really dieted so far, just tried leaving off carbs at night, or so. Now I need to start in earnest.
And I happened to run into http://www.10in2.at/ just when I needed to. It sounded quite good to me - eat what you want (OK, with some reason, but really no rules) one day, and fast the next day. Rinse and repeat. And with "fast", they mean "zero calories", just water or tea or coffee (and a glass of wine in the evening, if you want). This is way stricter than 5:2 or the "every other day diet", where you eat around 25% of regular daily calories.
I have done single zero-fasting-days in the past and not really had any severe problems with them. Actually, it just feels like this is a good thing for me to try. And so I decided to go with intuition and start 10in2 on a whim.
In this blog, I will keep my personal record of how I'm doing.
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