Well, so far, I have been able to mostly. I have dropped from 186lbs to 145lbs (about 66kgs). That is a whopping 41 lbs. I am 5'6" so I am within a hair of my perfect weight range. I want to get to 62kgs which would be 138 pounds or so, but that is now very slow going. In the initial phases, the weight dropped like crazy.. I dropped the first 30 pounds within 3 months and then it took 2+ months getting the next 15 pounds or so. Now the weight is mostly stable around 145.
Apart from a small timeframe when I visited India and I did not keep good records, I mostly did keep food and glucose records. Here is what I have learned so far:
- Mushrooms are your friends - they have almost no carbs, but tons of minerals. They do fill you up, so eat up. I get my mushrooms from Costco, where they are to be had for fairly inexpensively. The best tasting mushrooms that I like are the Shitake mushrooms from Fred Meyer. They are most $6 per pound though.
- I had one full checkup for lipids and blood sugar, A1C etc. Even with eating crazy amount of cheese to make sure I get enough calories, the cholesterol from the test was the best that I had in years. It was 100% normal. Triglycerides at 98, HDL at 41 (well, that is low, always has been) and LDL at 96. The Cholesterol/HDLC ratio was 3.8, well below the normal range of 5. So, eating tons of cheese with only vegetables and very little carbs, seems to keep your cholesterol in check.
- The A1C was a bit of head scratcher. It turned out to be 6.2%. When I was diagnosed, it was 8.3% so bringing it down in 3 months seems like a great deal, but based on my understanding and calculations based on the extensive logs I kept, it should have been much lower. I guess I will check with the doctor I meet next time on why the discrepancy.
Anyways, On and On.
