January 26, 2010 - I started this website two hundred and thirty-two days ago with different goals and a different outlook on life. Things have changed drastically since and this post along with a few updates on the back end is my way of reigning things in and organizing them the best I can. I let certain things slip and other things blossom while I threw all my energy into one idea after the other. Time to focus.
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
Eating doesn't have to be so complicated.| Date | Weight | Bodyfat % | Water % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/10/10 | 235 | 27.5% | 51% |
| 02/09/10 | 236 | 28% | 51% |
| 02/08/10 | 236.5 | 28% | 49% |
| 02/05/10 | 239 | 29% | 50% |
| 02/03/10 | 241 | 28% | 52% |
| 02/02/10 | 238.5 | 28% | 51% |
| 01/28/10 | 242 | 28.5% | 51% |
| 01/27/10 | 244 | 28.5% | 51% |
| 01/26/10 | 244 | 28.5% | 51% |
| 01/25/10 | 244 | 28.5% | 51.5% |
Wow, it’s almost been a year already! My weight hasn’t been changing as much lately but my body composition is getting much better. In the past month I’ve been fluctuating between 222 and 226 depending on what I’ve been eating.
We celebrated Memorial Day and my sisters Graduation in Palm Coast this past weekend on Saturday and Sunday. I brought a Low Carb Chocolate Cake (made out of Black Beans) and a Low Carb Cheesecake and both were a huge hit. Everyone was pretty amazed to learn that the cake had no sugar or flour and was made out of BEANS, haha.
I also brought some home made whipped cream that I flavored with nutmeg and cinnamon, combined with the strong cocoa flavor from the cake it tasted like a really rich coffee. I think I am going to make the Cheesecake again this weekend for my birthday but flavor it somehow differently and use the frozen unsweetened blueberries we have in some way. I’ll take some pictures then because I haven’t before but here is the recipe:
Haven’t updated much because I have been playing the StarCraft 2 beta among other things. Posted some pictures from our vegetable garden on Facebook and we had our second month weigh-in since being on Ketogenic Low Carb on Saturday. I’ll post measurements in an edit later but I now weigh 225! Down from 262 last June and 285 last January. Hell yeah!
Change
Weight: -4
High: 2/25 240
Low: 3/18 232.8
Measurements
Neck: +0.25
Biceps: +0.50
Forearm: -0.25
Wrist: +-0.00
Chest: -1.00
Shoulder: +0.25
Stomach: -2.50
Hips: -0.50
Butt: +-0.00
Thigh: +0.50
Calf: +0.50
Lifts
Deadlift: +100
Squat: +70
Bench: +25
Recap of Tuesday’s workout
Recap from the workout on Sunday….
I weighed in just over 232 pounds this morning for a new low and that is pretty exciting. There hasn’t been much to write about lately because we haven’t cooked anything particularly interesting or innovative. Since the 24th of last month we’ve kept it under 30 grams of carbohydrates every day and usually under 20. We only have 7 more days until we’re officially in ketosis for one month so I’ll be comparing our weight loss and remeasuring/taking photos once that happens so we can look back and see how things have changed. We’ve dropped a lot of weight so far while strength training at the gym and putting on decent muscle so the fat loss is surely even greater than the scale shows which is exciting. I’ll update more soon. 
After I finish something artistic I tend to get pretty dissatisfied with it as time passes. The bright side of this is that it provokes constant growth. A good example is the art I made for Ashley’s blog at http://www.ashleysmash.com. The first drawing looked too anime-ish so I axed that a day later. The one up now has issues with anatomy that are pretty unfortunate so I have this urge to remake it again.
I downloaded Learn French by Podcast last week from the iTunes store because it was free and so far it’s been going pretty well. I’m only three days into it but I know everything that has been covered so far so it’s just a nice refresher…
While running errands today I was determined to check around St. Augustine and look at different gyms. We’ve been at SnapFitness for about a year now and I’m feeling more and more like I am growing out of it each time we go. It’s small and just doesn’t have the equipment that other gyms in the area do. We’ll probably end up going with a big gym near us that actually costs half as much but has a ton of extra stuff.
I feel restless when we’re not working out at the Gym so I am going to restart C25K and HIIT so I can build myself up as a runner. I stopped doing cardio when I realized it was a waste of time for losing weight when lifting heavy things is so much more efficient at creating a calorie deficit…
Wendy Pogozelski‡, Nicholas Arpaia, and Salvatore Priore
From the Department of Chemistry, State University of New York College at Geneseo, Geneseo, New York 14454
“One of the challenges in teaching biochemistry is facilitating students’ interest in and mastery of metabolism. The many pathways and modes of regulation can be overwhelming for students to learn and difficult for professors to teach in an engaging manner. We have found it useful to take advantage of prevailing interest in popular yet controversial weight-loss methods, particularly low-carbohydrate diets. The metabolic rationale behind these eating plans can be linked to glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, lipolysis, gluconeogenesis, ketosis, glycogen metabolism, fatty acid oxidation, and hormonal regulation. When this approach was used in undergraduate biochemistry classes at the State University of New York at Geneseo, students were highly motivated to learn the biochemical principles behind these diets. The following provides information about low-carbohydrate diet plans that will enable professors to speak authoritatively on the subject. History and studies regarding efficacy as well as biochemical metabolic effects are included.” ...
I added an art section to my blog last night and rewrote a bit of the backend to support themes for different sections of the website. If you click on the Art button at the top you’ll see what I mean. I haven’t drawn anything in 2010 yet but hopefully I can get myself drawing again so I can populate that section. A section about programming is probably going to come next once I figure out how I want to set it up. I am also going to plug in the gallery after I give it a matching theme, right now it’s just the default Expression Engine layout.
The programming section is going to be primarily about Flex since I am starting a few projects both at work and for personal use in the next few months and I want to track my progress and development. It’s been…
Not only is dairy fat unlikely to increase heart-disease risk, Dr. Krauss and others have learned, but reducing saturated fat in a way that increases carbohydrates in a diet can shift a person’s LDL profile from safe to dangerous. That’s pretty much what happens whenever some well-meaning person with “high LDL” starts eating “low-fat” frozen dinners filled out with corn-derived additives, all the while engaging in the customary ravaging of a basket filled with dinner rolls….