Well, two weeks down.

As you might recall I decided to start my diet early and got underway the day after Christmas. Today marks two weeks down. I started off very aggressively to get a kick start with my fat loss. While I didn't do any cardio, outside of the occasional leisurely dog walk, I did set my calories very low.

Day 1 - 235lbs
Day 14 - 225.8lbs

So a loss of 9.2lbs of weight (of course, not all fat with the water losses). Not bad at all. I also dropped 1.5 inches off my waist in that time span. That also included two fairly good sized cheats - one New Year's Eve and then one four days after that (traditional Friday night pizza in my house).

Now admittedly, given my carbs have been very low (only carbs have been indirect carbs and fruit), this represents a very depleted bodyweight (so it's not accurate). Today starts a two-day refeed and then I'll resume dieting, but with a more sane caloric intake.

Refeed plans today are 800g of carbs and then tomorrow around 400g of carbs. I expect to be around 230 when it's all said and done, which means probably a good 5lbs of fat loss so far.

My struggle with low-carb eating is that I hate feeling flat. But after two days of big carb eating, I should be nice, full and vascular come Friday. At least temporarily. LOL

Posted Jan 09, 2008 by Erik Ledin.
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