Avoid flax

It's fattening. I gained a pound today. I know most of these changes come from water retention or at least it's water weight. I am not happy that my weight is going up. I can't wait until I finish my flax and then I will never buy it again. When I bought it, I bought it because it had omega 3's, but I had no idea how many calories it has. Now, I just want to finish it and never buy it again. I also will never buy chia seeds again although they are delicious. Same reason. I may be gaining weight because of weight lifting. I am losing inches and that is the main thing. My belly is still too big which is good because I have another 40 pounds to lose or at least 20. 

If you're a man, it's all about the visceral fat.

Fortunately, that's the easiest fat for men to lose. When I was at my top weight- 30 pounds heavier, 240 pounds- I had a shelf in front of my body. That's what my visceral fat looked like. Visceral fat is so dangerous because it wraps around the internal organs and poisons them. It can lead to many degenerative diseases like diabetes. You can tell if you have visceral fat by measuring your waist. At my fattest, my waist was 46 inches. Now it is 40. I feel a lot better than I did in those days. When my waist was bigger, I would wake up in the morning feeling terrible and I think it was my visceral fat that was making me feel that way. My should have a waist of no more than forty inches; women no more than thirty-five. Women have the "advantage" of not having so much visceral fat until they get to menopause at which time they catch up. Before that, much of their fat is subcutaneous which means that it is visible (which they hate), but not as unhealthy as the hidden visceral fat. I speculate that visceral fat adds to the fatty liver. By the way, my weight today is 210 and a half pounds, down half a pound from yesterday.

I am at 211 pounds right now.

And I am still doing stopwatch eating and it is still working for me, but it does kind of make me a weirdo. It's not natural to eat in such a strange way. I need a watch that rings one minute after I touch it so that I can keep my eyes up and participate in the social activities. Stopwatch eating is okay if I am eating alone, but not for social eating. My waist is good though. I look like I have lost a lot more than I have. I've lost one pound in two weeks, but I've lost one inch. And that's a lot. 

Speed (eating) kills!

Just eat more slowly. I probably still overeat, but what was really killing me was the speed at which I was eating. My digestion could not handle it and I was starving all of the time. I was eating so much, but it wasn't filling me up. I was like a circus act. I should have charged people to watch me eat.

I'm 211.5 pounds now.

I lost half a pound. I am back to losing weight slowly that's for sure. I don't have to worry about losing too fast anymore. I am still waiting a minute between bites and that stops me from stuffing myself and allows me to enjoy my food.

I lost a pound and a half today.

Now I'm 212 pounds. I would like to lose 12 pounds or a couple of inches. I think I was gaining weight because I was eating chia seeds. They are very fattening. I think it's important to keep things in perspective. I was 219 pounds last October and have spent months eating way too fast and getting nowhere. Now, I am slowing down and my life is a little bit better. Eating more slowly has amazed me because I am eating way less and I am less hungry. And that is amazing!

Maybe I should re-name the blog the weight gain blog.

I gained a pound today, but lost an inch around my waist so I should just forget about my weight. Like the b.m.i., weight doesn't tell you a thing about fitness. There are people who are skinny, but not fit and people who weigh a lot, but who are getting fitter.

I stilll have a grease headache thirty hours after eating transfats

Dear reader: there is rancid fat in French fries. Beware of them. I'm going to take my own advice.

Main thing in weight loss: know your enemy.

My enemy is French fries which give me a wicked headache when I ate them yesterday. I am disappointed that I ended up having a net gain of half a pound on the week, especially after such a quick start. I know that muscle weighs more than fat and I have lost one inch off my waist this week so that I am now within what is considered maximum for males- 40 inches. Surfing the Internet gave me a lot of information about grease headaches, most of it scary. I am happy that I have found stopwatch eating and that I am no longer having food hangovers. Because I am eating more slowly, I am no longer passing out; my body is better able to handle digestion. I am doing bicep curls of thirty pounds per arm, eight reps, one set. And I am only doing it once every two days so that I don't put my back out. I want to give my muscles a chance to recover although the workout is minimal. I will begin to do more challenging weight training as I become accustomed to it. That also could have something to do with the weight gain. But mostly I think it's the fries. I am riding my bike thirty miles a week. I am trying to lose five percent of my body weight or eleven pounds. It would be great if I could get down to the top end of my normal weight for my height, but my legs are like tree trunks and I don't think that's going to happen- ever.

Beware of French fries

I got a terrific headache from eating French fries today.

I lost a pound today

Because I gained two and a half pounds yesterday, I was expecting a loss today. I'm glad to see that something is working.

Weight gain back to the same weight as five days ago

I know what I did wrong. I overate. My weight went up two and a half pounds in one day. I think that sleep sometimes help me to lose weight and I didn't get enough sleep last night. I just read in a book that no matter what, one's wake up time should be the same every morning; no change on the weekend.

Slow down. You eat too fast!

It's helped me so much to slow down. 

You might want to try this if you are battling the bulge and finding it impossible

I lost another half a pound today. In the past four days, I have lost two and a half pounds which might not sound like very much, but this is after nine months of trying to lose weight and only shedding seven pounds. So my weight loss is certainly picking up speed. All I do is chew my food well before swallowing it. And then I wait one minute before I take another bite. I use a stopwatch feature on my phone. I don't eat crap, but I don't avoid anything except sugary foods. By the way, I don't suffer any hunger pangs in between meals the way that I did when I was bolting my food. I am sleeping way better and my energy and mood are better. Like I said, I didn't invent any of this: my friends and family have been trying to tell me this for years only I was too stupid to listen. 

The key to losing weight is chewing

This is not something that I invented, of course, but it happens to work. I do something that is different. I wait a minute after I have finished chewing before I take another bite. That way, my meal takes longer and I have more of a chance to get full. It takes about twenty minutes for the body to get full. My meals take forever now. I used to spend a lot of time eating, but that's because all of the food that I was stuffing into my mouth was not being properly digested. Once I began to eat more slowly, I got full with a lot less. I lost a pound and a half today. Try it.