The Fully Transparent Diet – Down 4.2Lbs. After Three Weeks
November 20, 2010 2 Comments
Thumbs Up for Week Three
I am really excited by the progress thus far on my diet. I was at 189 pounds this past Thursday, three weeks after I started. That’s 4.2 pounds in three weeks, nicely ahead of my one-pound-per-week pace. As I write this two days later, I’m still at 189, heading into five calm days with no travel, no business dinner, no large family celebrations. I’m targeting to be at 188 by Thanksgiving morning.
Last week was a relatively easy week for the diet. I was in town the entire time, and the work life balance was relatively serene. I exercised six out of seven days, although I am finding it challenging getting up early to run, as opposed to running in the evening. We’ll see how that holds up. I am up to 3.5 miles per run at a 10 minutes/mile pace. I want to do one more week at this pace, and then start swimming instead of running at least two days a week. I have read that changing up exercises is important to jump-start a diet.
I’m finding two challenges thus far. First, my willpower isn’t exactly where I want it to be. I’m good when I’m able to eat by myself, but not so good when I’m with others. For example, I ate a catered lunch at work on Thursday, and the places were set with a cherry pie at each seat. I hadn’t touched it until other did. I said “what the heck” and ate it. My justification was that it was the first day of the next week, and I’d have time to lose the weight.
The second challenge is recording calories when eating out. At this same lunch on Thursday, the main course was a pork tenderloin, stuffed with apples, dates, and sage. I have no idea how large the piece was or what the ingredients were beyond what I just wrote, which was on the little stand next to the chafing dish. All I can do is estimate, just as I did with the “saddle of elk” I ate in Chicago a few weeks back.
The key obviously is to eat in moderation, eat well when you can, and exercise. That much I’m doing.
I will continue to tweet out my weight every morning and my food every few days. So far so good. Follow me on Twitter at @andymayer13.
(No photos this week. Simply forgot to take them.)
Life With Spidey 
I am glad to see you doing so well.
Out of curiosity, what vitamin supplements are you taking along with your diet? Have you added or decreased any supplement?. Have you investigated thermogenic supplements? Do they work? Are vitamin supplements important during a diet?
I have not really looked into supplements. I take my regular baby aspirin and fish oil daily, although I do take a lot of fish oil. I try to get nearly 3g of DPA and EPA per day, which requires 8 pills a day of the normal 1,000mg pills.
Couldn’t tell you whether vitamins are important. I’ve dieted with them and without them. For me it’s simply lower calorie intake combined with lots and lost of exercise.