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.

I wasn't born fat, but over the years I have become really fat even though I am a biochemist. I have a giant gut and breasts. It shouldn't be hard for me to put on my socks in the morning because I am so fat. My clothes shouldn't feel uncomfortable because they are pressing against my fat rolls. I shouldn't be embarrassed to go to a swimming pool. I shouldn't have to go to a big and tall store to get clothes that fit. The list of negative emotions associated with being fat goes on and on. In short, it just feels bad emotionally, physically, and spiritually.

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.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

James Salisbury

I weighed in this morning at 136kg (299lbs). The heaviest I have ever measured myself at is exactly 300 in 2006. Depressing. I'm not sure exactly how this happened. The obvious answer is diet and exercise, but the part I don't get is that before moving to Australia I was eating fast food about 2 times a day and not exercising. Here I have cut out a lot (but not all) of that fast food and am walking at least 2km a day. Well, I am going to get back on track. Why did I chose low carb again? Because I know it works. I want a guaranteed thing. The only problem is that inevitably I go off it. The best I can hope for is to slowly add carbs back into my diet after I lose weight and follow a sensible exercise routine. This will require some serious thought, but it won't matter until I get the weight off in the first place. In my research today I found something funny. Ever heard of the Salisbury steak? The inventor, James Salisbury, was one of the first proponents of the low carb diet. So he gave us the hamburger with no bun. He was a physician and believed diet was the key to human health. He even went as far as saying TB was related to diet (probably completely wrong). He died in 1905. I didn't realize that low carb started so long ago. I need to transition from pop culture to real scientific journals at some point for my posts, but in the mean time I'd like to check out a book called sugar blues. If I can find it cheaply I will buy it and write my review here. So, today I had the usual eggs for breaky. No lunch, and then chili and sausage for dinner. I felt fine most of the day, then a little light headed starting in late afternoon. I can't wait to get rid of this fat....
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