Androids and Weight loss

Alright, first things first. As of this morning, I am 37 lbs down. WOOHOO! 275 lbs and dropping.

Also, I think I'm being a bit too low carb recently. I'm starting to get nagging cravings for a little sugar. I usually solve that with a little fruit, but none in the apartment. Guess I need to pick some up.

Also, saturday I started work on a fairly large android program. I think I bit into a bit more than I could swallow all at once, but I'm chewing on the problem a lot faster than I expected. I'm pretty sure I can have a working prototype up and running by the weekend, and may even be able to finish the most time consuming part of the full version over the weekend.

Where did I get this drive? Switching the diet couldn't have been all it was... was it?

Sickness, College, Creating some dots

Sadly, there is no weight loss to report. I’ve been bouncing back and forth between 28 and 32 pounds lost in the last couple of weeks. I start losing weight, and then I get sick.

Either it’s the cooler weather or I’m just getting used to it, but my walking isn’t doing nearly as much for energy burn either. My legs have gotten much stronger, and all I’m not getting that worn out feeling nearly at all recently. Probably time to up the distance. I’m thinking about getting a bike to ride back and forth between my apartment and class. It’s about 4 miles and mostly sidewalk, so I’m pretty sure I can do it. Heh, I haven’t rode a bike in over 4 years. Last time I did, I spent an hour feeling like I was going to die.

As for life in general, I recently realized I’ve already failed my calculus class. For those of you who don’t know, I’m an Electrical Engineering student, and the math classes seem to be set up to restrict who is considered high enough level to take advancing engineering classes. This means I may or may not be at western an extra semester. I might have been anyway just because I came back to Western in the spring, but I digress. The real big deal is that when I start doing badly in class, any class, I normally check out and spend the rest of the semester miserable and failing all the rest of my classes. This time I didn’t. I didn’t even feel sad. I dumped the class, picked up a bi-term to fill the hrs slot and now the worst thing on my transcript for the semester will be a W, which is harmless to my GPA. Done. The only reason I even mention it is that I’m honestly surprised that I felt HAPPY to be rid of the class and do something else.

Really, I’m feeling pretty hard that college is a joke. Take a class here, pay to take a test there, all to be given a piece of paper that says you are supposedly knowledgeable in that specific field or that at least you could BS your way through another 4-5 years worth of classes after High School. I’d much rather have an idea that revolutionizes an industry to hard that I drop out and go straight to developing the idea. But, I’ve got $40k in student loans now and I’d spend too much of that time keeping loan companies off my ass long enough to actually have time to develop the idea.

So I continue classes, nearly double that debt, but pay it off in just a few years rather than have it hang its ugly head over me every time I try to do something that needs more than a few hundred dollars capital to move forward. There is also the option of using the extra money from work while in college to put into an idea as well. And honestly, it might be the best idea to do that…

Fasting

So, Sunday I tried a fast. I'd tried one before, but my blood sugar always bottomed out between 6 and 8 hrs. Sunday, I went 24 hours and could have gone longer. The hunger pains disappeared around 14 hrs in, I starting feeling more energetic at 16 hrs in, and I was bouncing off the walls by the time I got off from work.

My weight when I got home? 283. My weight the next morning after having a huge supper? 282.

For a grand total of 30 lbs down since I started.

That's right, my body burned 4+ pounds in a 36 hour period because I didn't give it anything for 24. I'm still dropping, but my food choices, almond flour sausage balls for example, made a situation that is showing a stable weight. Sometimes the scale can't be trusted. :P

So, I'm going to add a once a month fast to my plan. That's about how often I plateau anyway.

The first 25... GONE!

Why 2 posts so close together? Because I've officially lost over 25 lbs! As of this morning I hit 286 for a total of 26 lbs lost. Another week or two and I will be the lightest I've been in 3 years. This is a glorious occasion to celebrate going beyond into new territory. So I had steak... yes, I know, I have steak almost every day, but I had a 24 hr fast before I had the steak. That was the most delicious steak I've ever tasted. I'm considering fasting again just to have something else taste that awesome!

Just wanted to toss that out there!

The 3 lb bounce

As of Friday night of last week, I was 288. That changed over the weekend as I celebrated 4 weeks Primal and tried to have a '4 week cheat' within the restrictions, but something sneaked in. By Monday morning I felt bloated and worn out after not being able to sleep very well. Oh, and a 3 lb gain that I've just managed to get back down as of this morning.

As for life in general, this round of college I'm being a LOT more social. I've made more new facebook 'friends' in the last 2 weeks than I have in the last 2-3 years. On the flip side, I'm having a hard time remembering all the little assignments that keep being tossed my way by my classes, despite homework binges at work. All the socializings that I'm doing are just replacing video game time, but I'm not budgeting well enough for class things. And if I have a late night with new people, forget getting to my early morning classes without caffeine. And caffeine has been at negligible amounts since I stopped drinking sodas and sweet teas.

Like last night, I fully intended to be home and asleep by 11pm, then ran into new and awesome people and got to know a few of them until 1am when I had just enough energy to drive myself home. This in turn translated into sleeping through my alarm and waking up at 8:45am with no time to make it to either of my morning classes. I don't regret it, but I do need to get better at time management if I want to keep exploring this burgeoning new social life, keep with the diet, and pass all my classes this semester. At the moment, I'm only doing well at 2.5 out of 3 and I've got a web course starting in 2 weeks. That and I need to make more time for my personal programming projects. Those may lead me to quitting the part time job I so desperately want to get rid of. If I were to pick one thing that does more damage to my time management than anything, it is how my entire weekend disappears into this job, instead of just a few hrs I normally spend waiting for the next class during the week, like I'd like it to be.

End Week 3

Well, I seem to have missed week 2 weight update. As of last sunday, I was down 18 pounds @ 294.6.

As of tonight, I am down another 1.8 pounds to 292.8. My belt is actually having to put some work in.

Also, I'm starting to get negative reactions to vegetables. I'm getting physically sick to my stomach when I round my meals off with anything larger than a handful of vegetables. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Week 2 Primal

So, I'm sitting here chomping on a delicious grain free supper and decided "HEY! Let's make a blog post!"

<-- Supper

Local organic Italian Sausage with a mix of local and supermarket veggies. All cooked in butter.

As of 1 week I lost 13.4 pounds. So far, I'm still losing, but it seems to be slowing down.