Week 5

So I have not really been motivated to post on here much, I mean I didn't really expect any views and this is mostly just for me to document my progress so going forwards when I am bound to gain weight again (or maybe not if this works as I hope) I know how to get back to where I want to be. 

This week was another good week, I lost about 2.5lbs and am back on course with where I was in 2015. As I have said before and as the graph below shows (at least at the time of publishing as it should live update), it was around this point in 2015 that the weight loss began to stall. Up to this point I had lost 85lbs, in the next 7 weeks I would lose another 10lbs (under 1.5lbs a week compared to 85lbs in 20 weeks). In the weeks that followed I had a net change of nothing in 9 weeks. Although it is not a race against 2015 I would like to get ahead of it because I am a competitive person. Now the thing is that I am not looking just to be lighter, mostly I am looking to be healthier. 

I am not 100% sure how to judge the healthier, having been keto and sometimes carnivore for 6 years and now with fasting I probably am healthier so I might try and take a look at fitness. In 2015 I ran a 5k (probably 3 miles but not sure) on the 31st May in 23:04. Now to me that seems slow, bearing in mind I have run low 19 minutes (though not sub 20 since 2016). I did run sub 21 last year but at the time was marathon training and running consistently and 10lbs lighter than I am now. Think I will do another post on some running goals for me. 

Still a bit more weight lost this week and runnong on my fasted days has felt good. 

Week 3 Fasting - Going well

Happy to say that the fasting side of things is still going well though with the lock-down my running mojo is not so good. I am still going out and trying to use the treadmill but I am using this time of lock-down to work on my core and strength using weights and squats etc. to try and get myself in a good basic state. 

Weight loss this week has been really good, I am down another 3.8lbs which makes it 1 stone in 3 weeks. I am very happy with this but doubt I will see this weight loss continue. Out of curiosity I looked into my weight loss journey from 2015. In that year I lost 7 stone of so of weight, most of it at the start. Turns out that at this point in 2015 I was basically the same weight on the same day, guess I can have a race to see whether I can beat my weight loss trends from that year. Being 5 years older and having already done it once I am not sure it is going to be as easy. 

I am going to have to do some experimentation as about an hour or so after completing a fast my IBS is playing up in a nasty way. I have always had a tendency for this, to be honest for as long as I can remember since I was a child. Once I got a bug and was so dehydrated from the above process that I had a seizure so it isn't something I like to take lightly. 

Really looking forward to seeing where my journey goes from here. I want to bring some new content to the blog and might add some running footage or just a chat with myself about how the fasting is going. I will have to see if I can find a way to cheaply record running and audio at the same time even if I feel daft doing it.