08/12/2024 -Sunday
So tomorrow it starts… I have decided to start my journey to a new body probably at the worst time possible, just before Christmas celebrations when you get absolutely rammed with all sorts of junk food… But somebody once said that you need to start whatever you want to start at the moment when you decided to start. Not next month or on first of January but at that very moment.
Before I get into it, I probably need to set the scene a bit.
I have been on and off testing different types of diets and workout regimes for probably the past 10 years or so and I have struggled with absolutely all of them. Bulletproof diet, Low carb, Low fat, High fat, Carnivorous, vegetarian, you name it I’ve tried it. And with all of them I failed.
About 2 years ago I figured out why I have failed. It’s not because the diets themselves are bad… No, tell a lie. It is EXACTLY because the diets are garbage. Not because they don’t work, they do. the problem is that none of the diets mentioned above are long term sustainable. You follow a diet, you loose some weight but none of them are workable in long term.
So I have been for the past couple of years looking at all the diets that had at least some type of result on me and jotting down the bits that worked for me and that I can reasonably see myself being able to follow consistently for at least some time.
So what will this be? This will be a journal that will talk about the things I do, why I do them and how they work. And you will have the chance to follow my progress or lack thereof right here on day by day basis. Maybe it will help someone or maybe it won’t, but it will definitely be interesting to see where it takes me.
The last day…
The time is 21:34 and I am sitting down with a glass of wine, trying to mentally prepare myself for what I am starting tomorrow…
The images above show me at exactly 100kg and I have also taken a picture of my face because I want to track any changes to my skin and “facefat” too.
Tomorrow will start at 5:30am as I need to be in work for 6:20 and it will start with my variation of bulletproof coffee. I’ll talk about it more tomorrow but it basically is a coffee with butter and a little bit of honey. Throughout the day until the evening I will snack very lightly on some vegetables, bit of cheese, tiny bit of meat and drink plenty of juiced water right until the evening when I will have a full “eat whatever I want” meal.
As I’ve mentioned above, I will get into more detail about the “What” and the “Why” tomorrow and it will make sense but I am already dreading the next 10-14 days that it will take to my body to get used to this weird way of eating. Now time for a shower and off to bed I go…
09/12/2024 – Monday
Day 1. Welp, that went to shit.
So. Today was day 1 of this whole new malarkey and it started so well.
I started my day at 5:30am with a coffee with butter and honey. The way I make it is by taking 2 spoons of ground coffee mixing it with absolutely boiling water, leaving it for 3-5 minutes then mixing in a cube of unsalted butter roughly 1in x 1in in size and a teaspoon of honey. The coffee and the sugars in honey help with that first jolt of energy you need in the morning and fats in the butter give food for your brain to keep active and also keep back the hunger for quite a few hours. If not combined with any other diet, I used to have a coffee like this 2-3 times a day but never after 4pm as I would not be able to fall asleep in the evening because of it. However, the diet I am trying to put together is based on feeling a little bit hungry throughout the day and this is why I now only have this coffee in the morning.
After my coffee, through out the day, I would snack on fresh carrots, bell peppers and cucumbers as well as cheese, meat and eggs.
Just to be very clear, I ate roughly:
50g of cucumber
50g of bell pepper
100g of carrots
50g of cheese
50g of smoked meat
2 hard boiled eggs.
I also drank 1 liter of juiced water. What that means is I made about 100ml of fresh juice and mixed it with 900ml of water just to give the water a bit of taste without adding squash or some other artificial garbage. And I am very well aware that you are supposed to drink much more water but I am just unable to do so as I hate the taste of water.
So that was my food intake throughout the day until 8:30pm.
I probably should explain that I am trying to make this diet based on being on the edge of being hungry all day, thus allowing your body to be using up some of your fats and at the same time clearing out your liver and other bits that can get clogged up and then having a 1 proper meal in the evening before you wind down for the night. I look at it as like intermittent fasting for the weak of will which I definitely am.
At 8:30 I had a table booked at an Armenian restaurant (It’s called Armenian Tavern in Manchester and it is an absolute MUST) so my gorgeous other half and I went there and had a wonderful meal of Herring Under Coat, Basturma and, of course, Shashlik. All prepared traditionally.
Where it went to shit is… Well, I am a child of Soviet Union… And I was in a wonderful place that served Ice Cold Stolichnaya… In proper ice cold 50ml shots… So I had one, to boost the appetite… And then one more because the previous one went down so quick… And then one after the food… And then to top it all off, the lovely lady serving us decided that I needed 2 more on the house…
So yeah, I was sticking to everything I had planned all day and then just drank 250ml of vodka that is obviously full of sugar…
Oh well, lets hope tomorrow goes better.
10/12/2024 – Tuesday.
Day 2.
Today was better than yesterday, that’s a fact. Even with the slight dryness of mouth from yesterday.
I’ve opted for fresh carrot, apple and raspberry juice instead of the fresh snacks during the day and it did seem to work.
I must admit that although the energy level in the morning after the coffee was fine, I am feeling a bit grumpy. Not sure if this is due to having a drink yesterday or rather due to body adjusting to this new regime.
In the evening I made slow cooked beef with vegetables. I think the thing I miss the most is salt, I’ve not cut it out completely but I do use probably some 80% less than I used to. This is because salt makes you retain the water in your body which quite literally makes you puffy.
When preparing food, I use the Keto Pyramid as a guide but I don’t follow it super strictly as, like I’ve mentioned before, I’m trying to discover a way of being relatively healthy in my food choices without making it a hell on earth.
I will post the Keto pyramid I use on the Facebook page if anyone is interested.
11/12/2024 – Wednesday.
Day 3. It’s hard but doable.
Today I’ve had an extremely early wakeup, 3:30am to be exact as I am in work at 4:50.
I must say that the coffee with butter and honey is really proving it’s worth. Considering that I have been heavily caffeinated most of my life and have long lost the buzz from regular coffee in the morning, this one really gives me the energy that I need not to be a complete miserable sod. How long this effect will last only time will tell but for now I am happy.
Whilst working today I consumed approx:
50g cucumber (no skin)
70g carrots
50g bell pepper
100g pomegranate seeds
2 boiled eggs
50g cheese
50g smoked meat
1.0L of lemon infused water.
At no point did I feel any discomfort from hunger and was in good spirits all the way through work although I have to admit that the salt cravings are real at the moment.
Today is also my sons 4th birthday but I’ve managed to stay away from junk food although did permit myself a small slice of his vegan (he has milk protein allergy) chocolate cake. Weirdly, the cake now felt a bit too much for my taste buds.
All in all I do feel lighter on my feet and seem to have more energy but I am not getting on the scale just yet as to not disappoint myself. The first weigh-in will be on Sunday and every Sunday after.
For dinner I had more of the meat and vegetables that I prepared yesterday and they filled me to the brim.
I probably should start taking pictures and potentially describing in more detail what I am eating and how I am preparing it but I am still finding my rhythm with this whole thing so please be patient with me.