Stealth Diet… I am on a diet and have told almost no one…

Okay, so here is the secret.. on 8/12/14 I started dieting.. just counting calorie and using myfitnesspal app.. simple enough.. my caloric goal is 2530 calories per day… I have been at or under each day so far.. I have been calculating everything I eat…

When I want to cheat I think about a video from a guy on Facebook.. His ‘name’ is LessOfLes in 2010 he weight 511 pounds… he now weighs 185 pounds.. lost 326 pounds.. in the video he talked about cheating.. and used an analogy that if you were driving from New York to Los Angeles you wouldn’t go all the way from California and turn and go back to Colorado.. then turn around and continue to Los Angeles.. why go back and the travel through the same stuff you did before?  So my focus is why would I want to travel back up in weight and then have to lose it back again.. why not focus on the destination instead and not take detours..

I have gained and lost probably well over 1000 pounds in my life so far… up and down and up.. it’s really crazy.. Using this motivation along with wanting to show my wife and my kids that large amounts of weight can be lost and that they can do it too.. I have not really changed what I eat at all.. I have changed portion sizes and have stopped eating when that portion is gone.. I have had fast foo.. deserts, snacks.. I just am honest when calculating the calories and keeping the total daily calories under my goal..

So up until now only my wife and kids have known about this diet… I didn’t make it known mainly because I was afraid of telling everyone and failing again… but so far so good.. I started on 8/12/14 at 416.0 pounds.. Today I weigh 396.4… that’s 19.6 pounds in 17 days… I have a chart that I used back in 1982 when I lost 73 pounds in a year.. basically I chart my weight daily.. there are 3 target lines on the chart that all start on day 1 at my starting weight.. there is a green one that represents 1 pound per day lost.. a yellow one represents 1 pound lost every 2 days… and a red one that represents 1 pound lost every 3 days.. the goal of course is to stay at or below the green line.. in ’82 I wasn’t dieting smartly and if I ever got over the red line I would fast until I got below the yellow line.. in the first 30 days I fasted for a 9 day stretch to get below the yellow line.. water only fast… I got so weak and felt horrible… but I lost 31 pounds the first 30 days… I won’t fast like that again, but I will use the lines to refocus if I start to get close to yellow and red lines.. right now I am slightly under the green line 😉

So my plan is this… keep being focused and don’t go over the goal calories… At some point I plan to start juicing again for at least breakfast and see how that goes..

P.S. This diet was so stealth I forgot to post this on 8/29 when I wrote it..