Tuesday - early

Woke up half an hour early - fasting will do that.  I got on the scale and the miracle of getting down into the teens occurred.  219 with it flickering to 218.  That's the only motivation I need to make it through today fasting and into tomorrow. Or not, lol.  I'm not hungry now but it'll hit sooner or later and then it's a battle to fight through it. Some chemical or whatever it is is released into your system to tell you you are hungry, I think the name of it is Ghehlin?  Yup, that's the name, had to look it up.  

Your system produces a lot more of it telling you you are hungry and it's impossible to ignore. The upside is that it doesn't go on forever, sooner or later it stops and then the hunger goes away - temporarily anyway. 

I'm not going to get long winded here, not a lot of time.  I just wanted to pause for a minute, do a little reflection and then get moving - I am half an hour early so no big deal.  But, now that I think of it, the earlier I'm out there, the better the traffic situation is.  

Anyway, the fat is disappearing. I didn't say I'm not fat, no, just that it's become quite noticeable.  Losing 22 pounds should be noticeable? If I make it to 30 pounds at whatever point, I am going to take a pic and compare the two. I have a pic at the peak of 241.  I was really shocked when I got on that scale and saw that, I hadn't weighed myself in a long, long time.  It's a large part of what got me moving back onto whatever diet works.

The only one that has worked for me is keto.  I don't take diet pills and I won't.  I don't think they are healthy for you and I'm sure at some point they'll find that it has some sort of serious potential side effects - you know, heart attacks, strokes, death? Those types of thing that keep me away from such things.  You can lose weight without taking pills. I get that some people SHOULD take those pill. If you're 400 pounds you are already a ticking time bomb for some or many serious medical issues and/or episodes, I'd be taking whatever available to dump the weight. 

I have an old friend that's doing that. I think he's dumped 150 plus pounds? He looks completely different than he used to.  He's also gotten active, something I am doing myself.  Pushups, bike riding when I remember to and if the weather permits.  The ladies trying to get me to go to the gym but I"m not there yet.  I was going to, I just have a stigma about gyms and I"m not even sure why. I went to them for decades before - divorce is what really changed things.

Anyway, I need to get offa here and get moving.

G'day