Vacation weight

I have now done a week worth of fasting since the one week vacation. I gained 4 lbs on the vacation, and have now lost two of those. So my weigh-in this morning was 167. I guess that it will take another week of fasting to get back to my pre-vacation weight of 165. Two weeks of alternate day fasting is a high price to pay for one week of eating whatever you want, but at least those pounds are coming back off.

After the vacation

Since my last post 16 days ago, I went on a vacation to visit family. I tried to fast one day on the 8 day vacation, but after skipping breakfast gave up. The result was, inevitably, that I put on some weight. So yesterday, my first day back, I fasted again. This morning I weighed in at 169. So that means I am up 2 lbs from my last entry. However, after my last entry I fasted for another week and got down to 165 lbs. So, I am now up 4 pounds as a result of skipping three fast days. Of course, since it was vacation I not only skipped the fast days but I ate a fair bit more of high calorie foods. I hope that some of the weight gain was actually just food in process or water/glucose stored in the liver, which can be easily lost with a week of fasting. It is hard to imagine putting on 4 lbs of pure fat in just 8 days of rather normal eating. Hopefully by next Tuesday, my normal weigh-in day, I will be back down to 165, my pre-vacation weight.

Week 10

After 10 weeks of alternate day fasting, I am now at 167 lbs. That puts my average weight loss at exactly 2.5 lbs per week. Since I still lost 2 lbs last week, I'm going to keep on with the diet as I have been doing it (taking in less than 300 calories on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with no restriction on eating the other days).

Week 9

This morning I weighed in at 169 lbs. I'm officially below my weight loss goal of 170! So long as I keep losing at 2 lbs per week, I'm going to keep this diet up for at least another five weeks. I am interested to see if I can go below 160, since I think that the last time I weighed 160 was probably in high school.