I am transferring my pages from text I started in January of 2010. So all my posts will begin there, posting retroactively. It is now really May 2011, but my posts will begin with what I did in January 2010 when I started my journey.
Today marks the beginning of my journey. It took me quite a while to setup all the other portions of the website so this post will be short. The month of January (2010) will be dedicated to the Atkins diet. For the entire month of January I will follow the Atkins diet religiously.
For breakfast I had scrambled eggs with cheese and bacon. For lunch I had a tossed salad with ranch dressing and chicken wings. For dinner I had a steak. For a snack I had beef jerky, between breakfast and lunch. I drank water all day.
The idea behind Atkins is low carbohydrate (less than 20 grams per day). I will go into a more depth look at the rules tomorrow.
From my recollection it takes about 3 days to go into ketosis (I will explain ketosis in a later blog) and those first 3 days are miserable because your blood sugar is plumiting and your body doesn't like it.
I feel tired, but I have been sick. My cold is going to not allow me to exercise for the first portion of this month. That will bias things.
It is 11:30p.m. and I am really hungry. I am also tired.
My weigh in today: 285 pounds. I have a long way to go. I measured my weight in the evening which is usually higher than in the morning. Normally I will measure in the mornings first thing when I wake up.
Transforming biochemistry knowledge into weight loss:
This page was begun as an experiment. An experiment I was conducting on myself. An experiment to test which conditions would allow me to loose weight. Now that I have been at it for a while I realize this page serves as more. It serves as a means for me to research. It is a way for me to pick health topics of interest, research them from a biochemistry stand point, and then share them with the world. Sharing them with you gives me an official feeling and keeps me motivated. However, as described below, I am still experimenting on myself.
How did this happen? I don't know exactly although I am almost sure it boils down to diet and exercise. I hope to find the answers as I explore my journey through weight loss on this blog. I was not always fat. Therefore, I know that I can be unfat again.
I am a biochemist. I should have known better. Of all people, I should have known how to avoid this predicament I am in now. I now wish to harness my scientific knowledge to experiment on myself as well as explore the chemical basis for weight loss methods.
Methods:
I will try new diets. I will experiment on myself. The diets will be chosen from among the most popular in our society. I will chronicle the results and my general experience in my blog here. I will also explore the biochemical basis for these diets as well as evaluate their effectiveness and truthfulness. I will also exercise as regularly as possible, 3-5 times per week, to avoid biasing the results. I will try to keep everything constant in my life except the diet. My method is not perfect. I don't necessarily want to lose raw pounds, but rather gain an understanding of what methods work best for me to permanently regain my health.
Hypothesis:
1. No diet will be clearly better than the others. Conversely, each diet will offer some truth, some piece of knowledge or methodology that I can take away with me to help myself. I think that in the end, I will be able to formulate my own diet based on a synthesis of all the things I have learned from all of these diets.
2. I have been on diets before, lost weight, and then regained it. I wasn't born fat. Given that, I think that my main problem will be shown to be psychological. I think that I may have compulsive eating problems- compulsive eating problems associated with very unhealthy foods.
3. I will lose quite a bit of weight. My blog will help keep my motivation levels high.
4. There will be a lack of clear scientific basis to many of the diets.
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