I have completed my diet. My stats comparision is as follows:
Before
Weight: 200
Body Fat: 39%
Size: 16+
After
Weight: 147
Body Fat: 26%
Size: 8/10
I'll be posting before and after pictures soon!
I had heard not only from my OBGYN but as well another doctor I met at the airport about this PSDM diet. My OBGYN had done it and lost a ton of weight quite successfully. I also heard about this diet from various friends, but by this point I thought, "Yeah yeah yeah. Just another fad diet that'll never work."
One day, my man came home from work and told me about this diet his boss was on. She'd already lost over 40 lbs in a couple of months, and was still going strong. Before he spoke to me, he researched into reviews over the internet, into any health risks etc. Now, don't get up in arms; my man knows well and good how important it is to me to get back into shape. Given that I had already had this diet recommended to me by several people and he was seeing results first hand and there were no bad reviews and I was desperate?
I went all in. At the time, it felt like a last ditch effort, one that - despite having received so much input to the contrary - I had very little hope of working.
The first thing I tried was modifying my diet and working out, which was harder than it sounds. Six months of intense illness left me mentally and physically exhausted, and I wasn't following any good, though-out plan. I had changed jobs, which meant more sleep and less stress, and I lost 10 lbs initially. But following that same routine I slowly began to gain it back.
So I tried Weight Watchers. I lost 15 lbs. And then I slowly began to gain it back while still following the plan.
I tried that silly little pill Anna Nicole Smith made popular (TrimSpa) and lost 15 lbs... and gained it back.
I tried Weight Watchers and started skimping on what I ate. In combination to the plan, I began working out pretty vigorously. In the end, I was running 4 miles a day 6 days a week and consuming 1100-1200 calories a day.
Then I went to a gym here, signed up for a trainer, and decided to follow their meal plan and exercise plan. I lost fat (39% to 30%), but the weight I lost through this initially I gained back plus some.
A person can go insane this way. I felt as though I would never be successful, that it was a waste of my time and emotional energy because I was fighting a battle I would never win. It was extremely defeating.
Let me just begin by saying I haven't always been overweight, despite the typical female neurosis of believing otherwise.
In high school I wasn't ripped, but I wasn't pudgy either. I usually hung around a still-developing 140 lbs, and between my poor attempts at basketball, bike riding, waterskiing and swimming and everything else, I was relatively fit.
I maintained this weight into college and past the typical Freshmen 15, but my 2nd year in college I bypassed it and gained 30 lbs. Part of it was I wasn't eating regularly, and when I did it was a total carb meal plan (usually consisting of mashed potatoes, which still remain a huge weakness of mine). Mostly though, I was going through a really, really bad time. It was the worst insomnia I've ever had, where I would skip so many nights of sleep in a row that I'd begin to hallucinate. I was dealing with my first Grown Women issues, like rape, the sudden deaths of loved ones and a friend, and the struggle with asserting myself to the point of telling my parents to ... well, go somewhere not very nice.
That summer I worked my butt off (literally) at a superstore, pulling 12-16 hour shifts. On my days off I began walking, then running, and doing various other strength training exercises. I lost all of the weight in two months.
The second time I gained weight I moved states to be with the man I loved. Yes, I knew he ate everything Not Good (the one pot, one bowl, one set of utensils were good indications Mac&Cheese were his main menu selection), but I thought I could handle it. And maybe I could have, if I was still walking 6 miles to and from school, taking yoga and martial arts, working out, and not suddenly at a desk job.
So I gained 15 lbs. I still worked out, but by the time I figured out I needed to change my diet (I can be slow), I was in a job I hated and I was using food and alcohol as a comfort crutch. And then I got Sick, capital S.
My blood was clotting in my veins. I'm not talking just a little. Read up on rouleaux some time. I had 2 viral infections, a bacterial and a fungal infection in my blood. I was B12, B6, and Iron anemic. I was put on heart attack watch and told not to do anything more than a slow walk. I was sleeping 2 hours a night, breaking out in random sweats, unable to think (which is pretty huge for me), dizzy, and nauseous. My limbs were numb with sometimes sharp shooting pain, I couldn't sit up straight without pain in my stomach, and (not to be icky) my bowel movements were from one extreme to the other.
I gained the rest of my weight then. And after four months of treatment and healing, I began trying everything to lose weight.
I am have been using my iPhone to track weight, so to give readers an idea of the progress I've made so far, I'm going to put the history up until today in this post.
Start Date: 26 November 2008
Ketosis Date: 29 November 2008
At a glance:
11-25: 199 lbs
11-26: 196.5 lbs
11-27: 193.5 lbs
11-28: 190.5 lbs
11-29: 188.2 lbs
11-30: 186.0 lbs
12-1: 186.8 lbs
12-8: 182.4 lbs
12-15: 180.2 lbs
12-22: 174.2 lbs
12-29: 171.6 lbs
1-5: 168.2 lbs
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