At least I hope it will be a weight loss log!!
So, here I am at a weight that doesn't please me enough. I have lost ~17 pounds while a peatatarian. This took place last year between April and November. (Between Sept 2012 and last April, I'd gained 9 as a peatarian.) (And in the year before that I gained 20.)
Game plan: To follow Ray Peat's dietary and exercise advice in his February 2013 interview on Weight Gain. Also to read Andrew Kim and Cliff McCrary. I am not going to enter all I eat here. Part of my weight gain problem is over attention to food. I might discuss which principles are working.
I have fibromyalgia. When I weighed 10 pounds less than I do now, I moved better. And that is my goal.
Without stating what I weigh or what I want to weigh, I'll start there with a ~10 pound loss goal. If I find that I feel fine without losing all 10, that will change my goal. It's about how my body feels/moves.
There are different approaches in weight loss. Some do body measurements. Some talk about muscle vs fat tissue. I'm keeping it simple and going by weight. If you wonder why, it's because I'm not somebody either without any muscle or without any fat. Those people might use a different approach.
I use free weights, do gentle stretches, some yoga, in my own routine for an hour every morning. I've done this since college. It helps with the fibro. I adapt the routine to flare ups... I usually walk a half hour or an hour a day which helps too. But, I had to stop walking in January and just returned to it a week ago. I'm doing a half an hour every few days. Moving and being in the light are good.
I plan to encourage good metabolism along the way as per Peat's interview.
Probably another important thing in my case is to avoid stress. I'll try to stay away from arguments amap.
If anybody has any questions, feel free to ask. I hope that by reporting here it will help somebody else too.
So, here I am at a weight that doesn't please me enough. I have lost ~17 pounds while a peatatarian. This took place last year between April and November. (Between Sept 2012 and last April, I'd gained 9 as a peatarian.) (And in the year before that I gained 20.)
Game plan: To follow Ray Peat's dietary and exercise advice in his February 2013 interview on Weight Gain. Also to read Andrew Kim and Cliff McCrary. I am not going to enter all I eat here. Part of my weight gain problem is over attention to food. I might discuss which principles are working.
I have fibromyalgia. When I weighed 10 pounds less than I do now, I moved better. And that is my goal.
Without stating what I weigh or what I want to weigh, I'll start there with a ~10 pound loss goal. If I find that I feel fine without losing all 10, that will change my goal. It's about how my body feels/moves.
There are different approaches in weight loss. Some do body measurements. Some talk about muscle vs fat tissue. I'm keeping it simple and going by weight. If you wonder why, it's because I'm not somebody either without any muscle or without any fat. Those people might use a different approach.
I use free weights, do gentle stretches, some yoga, in my own routine for an hour every morning. I've done this since college. It helps with the fibro. I adapt the routine to flare ups... I usually walk a half hour or an hour a day which helps too. But, I had to stop walking in January and just returned to it a week ago. I'm doing a half an hour every few days. Moving and being in the light are good.
I plan to encourage good metabolism along the way as per Peat's interview.
Probably another important thing in my case is to avoid stress. I'll try to stay away from arguments amap.
If anybody has any questions, feel free to ask. I hope that by reporting here it will help somebody else too.