Fat Loss Plan

Alright. Here I am at 264 pounds. It was only 7 days ago when I weighted in at 250 pounds.

What happened?

Well, I was doing a very low calorie and low carb diet in an effort to get below 250 pounds. I wrote about my progress on Bill Gets Fit.

Well on May 1st, 2006 I weighed in at 250.3 pounds. I had lost 15.3 pounds in 35 days. Well, I gained back 14 pounds in 7 days.

How did this happen? Here is what I think happened.

• I started to comfort myself with food again. I have just gotten out of a relationship with the my wonderful girlfriend of 19 months and I am struggling emotionally. Food whats me feel good for a short while. I went overboard with that over the past week.
• I have been on a low carb diet for quite a while. I believe I was completely dry. That means I was not holding on to any glycogen in my muscles. I just had a one week carb load and now I am glycogen full.
• I completely ate the wrong kinds of food last week for someone coming off a low carb diet. I ate garbage food like potato chips, fast food burgers and fries, pizza, beer, ect. I ate things that would cause the fat in my diet to be driven directly into my fat cells. I was hormonally primed to gain weight and I did everything in my power to see that I did.
• I slacked on protein.
• I didn't drink my gallon of water everyday at work.
• I didn't take my vitamins.
• I didn't take my fish oil caps.
• I didn't work out any.
• I felt sorry for myself all week.
• I didn't stop myself sooner. I kept telling myself that I would get back in line come Monday. Well, today is Monday.
• I didn't weigh myself every morning to see that my weight was climbing.
• I quit on myself when things were hard.

Those are few of the reasons what I fell of the wagon last week. But in a way, I am glad I fell off the wagon. I need a new Fat Loss Plan. My old Fat Loss Plan was no longer cutting it. I have made great progress already going from 324 to 264 but now I need to change some things up. I am going to study plans and use myself as a guinea pig in effort to find the best way for me to Lose Fat. I have been using The Rapid Fat Loss Handbook by Lyle Mcdonald with great success but it is is time to move on to something else.

I plan to take Tom Venuto's Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle Program for a test drive. I will blog more about this popular Fat Loss Plan in more detail later.

It's time to overhaul why methods and goals because I need to change somethings up if I am ever going to look good naked.