Today I weighed in at 270.6, would be nice if at the two week mark (tomorrow) I weighed in somewhere in the 260's.
I had two eggs with cheese for breakfast. 2 pork loins with bacon for lunch. 2 boiled eggs and cheese for snacks. I had more pork loin with bacon for dinner. I really need to start keeping track of my caloric intake.
Although I have not been hungry, whenever I see candy or other high carb products I start to drool. I have some serious carb addictions I think. I also wonder what I would eat after the diet if I wasn't moving on to a new one next month. If someone looses a bunch of weight on Atkins, what do they do next? My guess is that most start eating carbs again and gain weight. It seems impossible for me to keep eating this diet for years at a time.
I have been complaining of constipation for some time now. Today I haven't had a bowel movement in days. It got to the point where my lower abdomen was feeling bloated. Things kept going in and nothing was coming out. I have been taking the fiber supplements once a day, but I guess that is not good enough. Finally, today I couldn't take it any more. I went to the store and bought heavy duty, non-fiber laxative. It was PEG3350, straight up. I came back to lab, mixed it with some water, swallowed, and five minutes later I had complete relief in the form of crap in the toilet. It kind of freaks me out to have feces stuck in me that won't come out.
No science discussion today, need a break.
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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