June 2022 Mile Marker

The backwards slide continues. I set up a fasting schedule at the beginning of the month, but didn’t end up following it. My average weight for June was 192.8lbs. Up 1.1lbs from May. My highest weight was 196.4 and my lowest was 186.2. I tracked my weekly average weight this month. This is the weekly…

Fasting Frustrations

It’s mid-January and my daily weigh-in tells me that my weight has gone up again. Intermittent Fasting is a back and forth game. I know that. But today’s weight is more than I have weighed in two years! The weight will go back down. I’m not worried. But at this rate, my average monthly weight…

Grocery Fasting

Last month I realized that I had to go on a Grocery Fast! It wasn’t for a long time. But I went a couple of weeks without doing any groceries. And I could have gone longer, but we wanted to eat some fresh produce. I’ve been Fasting for two years now. So you’d think I’d…

August Mile Marker

I knew that my average weight was going to go up in August.  I had vacation time planned and I intended to enjoy it. I was going to behave like I was on vacation. Because, let’s face it, it was my first actual vacation in almost two years. But what I wasn’t expecting was how LITTLE…

June Mile Marker

I’m inching closer to that Marathon Weight! My average weight for June was 182.6lbs. My heaviest weight was 186.5 and my lightest weight was 176.4. The up and down game continues. But it was a significant drop in my average weight from the previous months. May’s average was 185.0lbs. So I went down almost 2.5lbs.…

April Mile Marker

I finally feel like I’m getting back on track towards my Marathon Weight! My average weight for April was 186.2lbs. Down three pounds from my March average. Yay! What changed this month? I didn’t do as many multi-day fasts as I did in March or February. But I did two 41-hour fasts. One at the…

Playing with Plateaus

Losing weight is like taking two steps forward and one step backward. Often it’s one step forward and three or more steps backward. I lose a pound one day, but then gain two pounds the next day. It’s a back and forth process. My process for getting to my Marathon Weight (180lbs) is to use…

Cracking the Obesity Code

Everyone knows how to lose weight: Make sure that your calories “in” are less than your calories “out”, right? Wrong! According to The Obesity Code by Jason Fung most of our concepts about weight gain and obesity are incorrect. And the obesity explosion over the last few decades reflect this. More people are trying to…