Day 1

Current Weight: 265.4

Today (March 27 2019) is the first day of my 30-day weight loss challenge.

My strategy will compress the misery into as short a period of time as possible to jump-start a healthier lifestyle. I have no illusions of the weight simply “staying gone” when I finish this initial effort.

My technique will be to water fast for the next 25-30 days, then lean into a future system of practiced moderation and maintenance. I’ll also do regular weight lifting, as well as some cardio workouts during this period.

My long-term target weight ceiling is 220 lbs. My short-term (next 30 days) goal is 200 lbs. The 20 lbs fun-zone gives me a comfortable buffer to occasionally indulge, but the weight ceiling alerts me when I’ve gone too far and need to hit the fat guy alarm.

Realistic Expectations

While I may not lose 65 lbs in 30 days just due to water-fasting, I am on “vacation” until mid-May. After I finish with the initial fast, I’ll transition to intermittent fasting and only eat once or twice a day. As long as I am in my acceptable weight envelope of 200-220 lbs by the time I go back to work, this endeavor will be an initial success.

I’ve done a bit of experimenting leading up to this, and with regular monitoring and some revised eating habits (mostly habit related, not diet), maintenance of a target weight range seems fairly simple to maintain, provided there is an absolute fat guy alarm ceiling, in my case, 220 lbs. The key seems to be daily weighing so that your fat can’t creep up on you.

In Summary…

I’m dropping 65 lbs in the next 30 days…or so. Afterwards, I’ll be using intermittent fasting and healthier eating to maintain my weight going forward between 200 and 220 lbs. If I break the fat guy alarm ceiling of 220 lbs, drastic action happens. Drastic meaning a regular fast, which I plan on doing once a month or so anyway, and some self-bitch slapping until I get back within my acceptable weight envelope.

Some thoughts I’ve had about this:

Is this blend of methods proven scientifically at all?

Eh, no. Not that I know about or really care to research But it makes sense to me, and I’ve experimented a bit on myself with the psychology of this technique. We’ll see what happens.

Is there a better way?

Oh I’m sure. YouTube and bookshelves everywhere are full of people with all kinds of degrees telling of better ways to do this. Some of them may even be right.

A key consideration of mine though, is that I’m doing this while on an extended “vacation”, so I’m looking to maximize results in as short a period as possible.

You should check in from time to time and see if I’ve crashed and burned yet!

Water fasting is so dangerous? Will it kill me?

As Al Pacino said in one of my all-time favorite movies of all time, HEAT, “You can get killed walkin’ the doggie…”

And it’s not so dangerous if you compare it to some alternatives. How about hauling around an extra 60 lbs of Charles everywhere? How about tolerating all the visceral fat endangering my internal organs? No sir, get it gone, and quick.

In my previous mini-trials over the past 4-5 months, the negative side effects have all been psychological.

As a test, I did a 9 day fast awhile back. It was interesting. I was obsessing over Youtube cooking videos. When watching movies, I would fixate on the quality of the spaghetti on the screen. After awhile, I just had to laugh at myself.

So screw it, I’m bored. Let’s do this!

Baseline: Where I’m Starting At

I’m 6’2 and as of 05:30am this morning (post-piss), I weighed in at 265.4 lbs. Last night around 8:00pm, I had my last meal of some pizza, a cup of noodles, some street grub, and some Gatorade. Don’t knock my last hurrah; it felt inspired at the moment.

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