Weight Report after Five Months Fasting
Haven’t been posting much lately, but nothing much new to report. We are thoroughly accustomed to our fasting schedule now, it is totally routine. We began our fast March 5th, 2008. Up until now we have weighed-in around the 4th or 5th of each month, but after this long, it just seems easier to weigh ourselves at the end of each calendar month. So while we are actually five days short of five months, it is ‘close enough’ for our purposes.
Reminding you again that weight-loss was not and is not the motivating force behind our intermittent fasting diet, here are our current weights, compared to when we started this diet and last month’s report:
- Date - My weight (kilos) - Isabel’s Weight (kilos)
- 5 March 2008 - 99.2 - 65.9
- 3 July 2008 - 95.1 - 62.4
- 31 July 2008 - 95.0 - 61.8
Isabel has been as low as 61 kilos, then rebounded a little, but is down from our last report by more than half a kilo. I am down a mere tenth of a kilo from our preceding report, but this is my lowest weight since beginning the diet.
When we began, we were each about 10% over our ideal weights, according to the Body Mass Index charts. Now I’m about 5.5% overweight, while Isabel is about 3% over. We are making no great effort to restrict our calories or increase exercise, and are content to lose a little, or just stay even — just so we don’t keep gaining as we were prior to this diet.
Five months into the regime we still get hungry, but we are accustomed to it. We don’t have the urge to over-eat when it comes time to eat again, and actually seem to get full on less food than we used to eat. We don’t always eat the healthiest foods, but it is nutritious. Today (after weigh-in) was our day to splurge, the last day of the month, so we had big thick juicy steaks cooked on the charcoal grill, with potato chips, sweet corn, roasted onions, and nopales (cactus). For our every-day typical meals, see the ‘April Meals‘ link in the right-hand column.
