Weight Report After Two Months Fasting
I promised to describe our experience traveling while fasting, but the results of our five day trip will have to wait for a future report, since yesterday was the anniversary of our second month fasting — it is time to report our weight change.
If you have been following along with our blog from the start, and have read the pages about our diet as well as previous posts, you know that we did not undertake this change in lifestyle specifically to lose weight, but sought primarily the health benefits associated with Intermittent Fasting. The weight loss has been a wonderful extra bonus.
We are not scale watchers — we don’t even own one. About once per week we use the electronic scale at the supermarket to check our weight. Since short-term fluctuations are not important, we only report our weight results on this blog once per month.
At 191 cm in height, I weighed 99.1 kilos when we started fasting on March 5th. At the end of the first month, I weighed myself (April 4th), and was down to 97.7 kilos. My primary goal is 90 kilos, the weight the charts recommend as ideal for a man of my height. I think an extra kilo or two below that would be even better. In High School I weighed 81 kilos, but that was a long, long time ago. When Isabel and I were married in 2001 I weighed 89.5 kilos, so I’d be delighted with anything in that range. Today I weigh 96.9 kilos, for a total loss of 2.2 kilos since beginning the diet, and .8 kilo for the month. I was actually down to 96.4 kilos a couple weeks ago, on my weekly measurement. When I post a message about our travels you will see how I gained that extra half-kilo back. A loss of a bit over 2% of my body weight in two months is quite satisfactory, considering that I ate very well during that time — see our list of meals for April to see exactly what we had.
Isabel weighed 65.9 kilos at the beginning of the fast, and 63.6 one month into fasting. Her target weight according the charts should be about 60 kilos. When we were married in 2001 she weighed 57 kilos, so her goal is to get down to that range of 57 to 60 kilos, and stay within it. Today she weighs 61.3 kilos, very near the upper end of her target range. That is a loss of 4.5 kilos since starting the fast, and 2.3 kilos for the month. She finds maintaining the fast a little more difficult than I do, yet she has lost about 7% of her body weight. I think she must be cheating, but I don’t know how, as I sit with her at supper time and see her eating hefty meals — less than me of course, but she is much smaller, only 162 cm tall.
Overall we are both delighted with the results so far, and expect to live a fasting life for the rest of our lives. This is an experiment, however, so we want to make some changes and try out some of the other fasting regimes we have heard about while researching this lifestyle. So beginning today, May 6th, 2008, we are going on a 19/5 fast for a while. If you don’t know what that is, don’t worry, I’ll explain it in a future post. Enough to say that we are once again changing WHEN we eat, without making any major changes in WHAT we eat. Subscribe to our RSS feed to keep informed of new posts as we describe our progress.
