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Hi Derrick. My name is Kelly. I have read a few pages of your diary with great interest because of your commitment to really working out hard. That is impressive. So is your insight in to bipolar disorder and the love you obviously have for your family. Cudos and a big wave to you. I also have bpdisorder and am trying to lose the weight meds caused me. Nice to meet you.
 
Hi Kelly. Thanks for the nice comments. :) It's really hard to lose weight while on medication for bipolar disorder but we really don't have a choice in my opinion. I think being on the right medication makes a big difference. I lost 58 pounds in 12 months a couple years ago but I chose to stop taking my meds. I was able to lose weight and get in great shape but my mental health suffered greatly. This time around I'm going to lose weight while staying mentally healthy also. Good luck to you and I'll check out your journal to see how you are progressing.

Best Regards,

Derrick
 
Yes, one of my drugs increases appetite. I will never go off my drugs because I don't want any more interuptions, I am embarassed by my behaviour when I'm ill and it can be dangerous to be ill. So I do the best I can and at the moment I am succeeding. I love all the stfuf on television these days about weight and health, it is keeping me motivated.

Have a great day Derrick.:leaving:
 
Tomorrow I start my diet. I did all the grocery shopping today after church. I spent $167 on one week's worth of protein and fibrous veggies. Well, some of the stuff I bought was vinegar, mustard, water, salsa and a ton of egg whites that should last me a little longer than one week. Regardless, that was a pretty big bill for pretty much one week's worth of food! :leaving:

I also start the Gold's Gym 2011 contest tomorrow. I'll have weigh-in, measurements and starting photos. Of course, I ate quite a bit today to enjoy my last day of regular food. I went a little overboard so I'm sure I'll be carrying a little extra weight and roundness tomorrow for the starting stats. :D No worries, it will go away very quickly with this diet. I think I am supposed to lose 10 to 20 pounds in just the first 2 weeks!

So starting tomorrow I am going to post everything I eat or drink every single day for 12 weeks straight.

Wish me luck!

Derrick :auto:
 
Wish you LUCK, Derrick!?!?!?? You don't need luck, you have a PLAN!! :iagree:!! All you need to do is STICK to it and you have this challenge!!! :D! I know it! When you allow yourself to get really disciplined, the weight just smashes off you and your endurance and motivation get really high!! I know you can do it!! 2011 is YOUR YEAR!!!

I was laughing :D when I read that you ate extra today for the last day. haha. The reason I laugh, is Boy oh Boy, do I know what that's like!!! I do the SAME thing when I know that I am going to start a new way of eating very soon. It's almost like a little baby funeral for the food I am not going to eat anymore. The only sad part is that my body is the funeral grounds carrying all the crap I decide to bury in there. haha. sad.

I actually started thinking about the movie The Night of the Living Dead when I said that. haha. In that instance, sure have the dead crap come back to life and get the hell out of my body, please! :D!

I know that you are going to find a great balance with your medication, your new found challenge and FOCUS!

...oh but to tell you the truth, now that I think about it...I had a fat girl moment today even, ...again. hahaha. So, today was my day for Sunday Champagne brunch which I planned for, right. So me and my bf go and we have lobster, champagne, omellete, fruit, carrot cake, cookie, crepe,...omg!! :eek: All of it! So,..it was planned for. Fine. But what was not planned for was me taking a little TO GO dessert!! I walked by the buffet table and saw the sweets and couldn't control myself. I took an extra carrot cake, cookie, and little cake of some sort in my hand!!! :(

The self control left me at that moment, and instead of a meal splurge, I was thinking I could make the entire day a splurge!! Oh....man. THE GOOD NEWS is that REALITY slapped me in the face in the car on the drive and when we stopped to walk by the ocean, I opened the door and REALIZED "What am I doing?!" ...I took the little cakes and the cookie and I placed them nicely outside by a parking meter that had a waist high cement base, and I left them there.

Hopefully someone ate those little delicious things! :drool5: Maybe the wind took them exactly into a "sweet deprived mouth!" HAHAH! :D

haha. So you see, I saved myself from this moment today! :blush5: I know exactly what you mean when you want a little SPLURGE before starting a new diet. hahah!...Just remember that sometimes that urge will still be there once you have started as well,...and YOU CAN MAKE IT through!! ;) Can't wait to see your meal plans!
 
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Alta818 said:
Wish you LUCK, Derrick!?!?!?? You don't need luck, you have a PLAN!! All you need to do is STICK to it and you have this challenge!!! I know it! When you allow yourself to get really disciplined, the weight just smashes off you and your endurance and motivation get really high!! I know you can do it!! 2011 is YOUR YEAR!!!

I was laughing when I read that you ate extra today for the last day. haha. The reason I laugh, is Boy oh Boy, do I know what that's like!!! I do the SAME thing when I know that I am going to start a new way of eating very soon. It's almost like a little baby funeral for the food I am not going to eat anymore. The only sad part is that my body is the funeral grounds carrying all the crap I decide to bury in there. haha. sad.

I actually started thinking about the movie The Night of the Living Dead when I said that. haha. In that instance, sure have the dead crap come back to life and get the hell out of my body, please! :D!

I know that you are going to find a great balance with your medication, your new found challenge and FOCUS!

...oh but to tell you the truth, now that I think about it...I had a fat girl moment today even, ...again. hahaha. So, today was my day for Sunday Champagne brunch which I planned for, right. So me and my bf go and we have lobster, champagne, omellete, fruit, carrot cake, cookie, crepe,...omg!! :eek: All of it! So,..it was planned for. Fine. But what was not planned for was me taking a little TO GO dessert!! I walked by the buffet table and saw the sweets and couldn't control myself. I took an extra carrot cake, cookie, and little cake of some sort in my hand!!!

The self control left me at that moment, and instead of a meal splurge, I was thinking I could make the entire day a splurge!! Oh....man. THE GOOD NEWS is that REALITY slapped me in the face in the car on the drive and when we stopped to walk by the ocean, I opened the door and REALIZED "What am I doing?!" ...I took the little cakes and the cookie and I placed them nicely outside by a parking meter that had a waist high cement base, and I left them there.

Hopefully someone ate those little delicious things! Maybe the wind took them exactly into a "sweet deprived mouth!" HAHAH! :D

haha. So you see, I saved myself from this moment today! :blush5: I know exactly what you mean when you want a little SPLURGE before starting a new diet. hahah!...Just remember that sometimes that urge will still be there once you have started as well,...and YOU CAN MAKE IT through!! ;) Can't wait to see your meal plans!
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Hahaha! Alta, you sure do make me laugh, among the many other positive things you always send my way. Thank you for that. :D I laughed at the fact that you think there is even a chance that someone would eat left behind food set beside a parking meter. :leaving: Then again, you did say you placed them nicely, right? :rotflmao:

Thank you so much for your confidence in me. :) I do feel focused again and I can really tear some shit up when I get focused. So watch out fat cause your ass about to get kicked! :reddevil:

Good luck to you this year and I hope you find your focus also!

Great to hear from you.

Derrick
 
Sunflower said:
Good luck Derrick :D You sound so focused!
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Thanks and nice to meet you. I hope I can keep my focus like I have in the past. For me, just one good month can create a snowball effect in a positive way. In May of 2008 I started at 251 and by May of 2009 I was down to 193. This time around I simply want to go from 220-ish to about 190-ish. The only thing different is I want to do it in 12 weeks or less.
 
Day 1 is complete! :) It wasn't perfect but I learned from my mistakes. They weren't really mistakes but rather miscalculations. For example, I am supposed to eat 3 meals a day, each containing 70.4 grams of protein. So this morning I figured I would make myself an egg white omelette and enjoy it. NOT! It was HUGE!!! I barely got half way through it and felt sick! It could have fed 3 or 4 grown men. I can't believe I ate 75% of it. Tomorrow I may try hard boiled egg whites...all 21 of them! :ack2: What I really need to do is get on Lyle's forum and read what other people are eating so I can get some more ideas for this diet.

The good news is I was not hungry at all today. In fact, I had trouble eating all 3 meals. 70 grams is a ton of protein for one meal. I might have to switch to 4 meals per day. Another crazy thing is I drank black coffee for the first time in my life. Half way through I actually started to like it! WTF?!? That's insane. However, cottage cheese is still disgusting! I also drank about 3 or 4 liters of water today so I was literally peeing every 20 to 30 minutes.

I did lift weights today at 11am. I did good but I felt shaky and weak the 2nd half of the 1 hour workout.

Here is a summary of my diet.
Rapid Fat Loss Handbook by Lyle McDonald. You'd have to actually buy the book and read it to do this diet. It is pretty simple but there is a lot of important points he makes and specifics to keep you from hurting yourself. This is a very low calorie diet. The diet is actually a modified version of the Protein Sparing Modified Fast diet. It is not for everyone and is not at all the ideal way to lose weight. The way I did it back in '08 and '09 is a better way, 2 pounds per week. I don't have the patience to do that again. I want to get back to where I was before gaining half my weight back, at least partly due to medications I was taking for bipolar disorder. I want to get there as quickly as possible and then switch back to maintenance and focus on athletics again such as swimming, triathlons and possibly kickboxing again. This diet can help me do that. You lose a ton of fat and zero muscle on this diet if you follow Lyle's recommendations exactly. I could possibly lose 4 pounds of fat per week on this diet and even more in weight due to water loss the first couple weeks. I plan on staying on this diet for 5 or 6 weeks, taking a 2 week break and then spending an undetermined amount of time following Lyle's protocol for stubborn fat. That's another book though, which I have already purchased but have not read yet.

Here are the main stats of this particular diet for me.
Me: 220 lbs starting weight (back in December when I thought I was going to start)
Bodyfat %: 23%
My LBM: 169 lbs
My Fat Mass: 51 lbs
Diet Category: 2

Protein Per Day: 211.3 grams
Protein Per Meal: 70.4 grams
EFA's, Multi Vitamin, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium and lots of water
Limitless fibrous veggies
No carbs, no fat (very little anyway)

Again, I'm not going to give anymore specific info about what you can or can not do. Lyle's book is about 100 pages of very intelligent and humorous information on nutrition. I feel better off from simply having read the book. The data I posted was specific for me. I'm going to post each day what I eat, drink and on days I exercise I will post that info also. This is mostly for my own use and benefit but I certainly welcome encouragement and/or suggestions on meals if you are familiar with this sort of diet.

So let's get started!

This morning I weighed
221.0 lbs
28% bodyfat according to my Tanita scale.
42.0" stomach
??.?" hips (forgot)

Day 1 (I hope to at least go 35 days)

Breakfast 6:30am
Omelette consisting of
7 servings of liquid egg whites
1 serving of 75% reduced fat cheese
Half red pepper and 1/2 cup of mushrooms
Cooked with 1 serving of organic Ghee clarified butter
Totals:
280 calories
7.5 grams of fat (too much)
1 gram of carbs
725 mg of sodium (the egg whites were high which makes me wonder about the liquid version)
44 grams of protein (not enough but I was about to puke because the omelette was so HUGE!)
2 bottles of water

*I took my vitamins and fish oil capsules about 20 minutes before I ate and got really bad heart burn. Note to self. Take with food next time.

Snack 9am
1 medium black coffee at STL Bread Co (Panera)

Workout 11am
2 x 8 reps 150 lbs Leg Extensions (too easy)
2 x 8 reps 90 lbs Leg Curls (about right)
2 x 8 reps 185 lbs Bench Press (perfect)
2 x 8 reps 15 plates Seated Cable Rows (tough today, I was starting to get weak)
2 x 10 reps 20 lbs Lateral Raises (need to work my way up to 25 lbs)
2 x 10 reps 30 lbs Standing Dumbbell Curls (need to work my way up to 35 lbs)
2 x 10 reps 12 plates Triangle Tricep pushdowns (too easy)
2 x 8 reps 150 lbs Weighted Crunches (perfect but very tough. I was shaking)
2 x 8 reps 150 lbs Weighted Back Extensions (sort of pinched a muscle or something so I had to stop at 6 reps on the 2nd set)

Felt great afterwards but quite shaky.

Lunch 12:20
6 servings of canned tuna with salt and pepper
360 calories (too many but why?)
6 grams of fat
0 grams of carbs
1080 mg of sodium (what's with all the darn sodium?)
78 grams of protein
3 or 4 bottles of water

*Took my fish oil capsules and other supplements after eating and had no heart burn.

This meal took me forever to eat. I thought I wouldn't get it done.

Dinner 6:30
2 servings of lean hamburger, fried on GF grill with mustard and lettuce (pretty good)
1 serving of fat free cottage cheese sprinkled with whey protein (gross)
1 black coffee
2 bottle of water
370 calories (too many again, guess this is going to be harder than I thought)
10 grams of fat (too many)
560 mg of sodium
5 grams of carbs
61 grams of protein plus the whey which was probably about 9 or 10 grams.
70 grams total?

Today's totals:
1010 calories
23.5 grams of fat
6 grams of carbs
2365 mg of sodium (plus the 1000 mg I supplemented which maybe I don't need to?)
192 grams of protein

I was not hungry all day. I did feel a little weak at times but not too bad. I was also depressed a couple different times but I think that has more to do with stuff going on in my life and/or the bipolar disorder I have. It didn't last long, maybe 30 to 45 minutes each time.

Looking forward to tomorrow.

Derrick
 
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Day 2

Just woke up and weighed myself.
217.5 lbs (-3.5 lbs already)
29% bodyfat

This is great news in my opinion because it suggests that I am going to lose a lot of water weight the first week or so. Sure its not real fat but it is still weight nonetheless. After the water weight comes off, almost everything I lose thereafter is supposed to be fat.

I am not really concerned with the bodyfat readings on my bioimpedance scale because one, that method is very inaccurate and two, they are particularly inaccurate during this type of diet. Nonetheless I want to record the percentages just for comparison sake.

I did have a nightmare last night that my wife and I went to a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game and she fed me nachos or something. I guess I had temporarily forgot about the diet I was on. Boy was I pissed when I woke up this morning, until I figured out it was just a dream. LOL

OK, about to start my day. Have to go boil some eggs. I'll finish this post tonight.

Derrick
 
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Hey Derrick! That is awesome that you will be posting daily again! I love the new diet you are trying - I'm sure you are going to have some amazing results! Looking forward to following along and seeing the progress!
How many cans of tuna makes up 6 servings? I couldn't imagine eating that much for one meal but I understand why you don't get hungry and still keeping it low cal which is sure to produce results! Good luck finding some more meal ideas. Take care and keep it up!!
 
Sunflower said:
Is it not bad for you to eat so few calories?! All that protein is insane!! Good luck with it :)
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Yes, it can be if not done properly or for too long of a time. It is certainly not the advised way to lose weight. However, I have read Lyle's book, some chapters more than once, and I am prepared to do this diet the right way for approximately 4 to 6 weeks. After that point I am required to take a 2 week diet break. After which I will either go a few more weeks on the diet or start another diet that is not so restrictive on calories and carbs.

Also, the protein is stupendous! I simply can't get that much down my throat in one sitting. I am definitely going to switch to the 4 meals/day plan. I nearly puked this morning trying to eat 21 egg whites! :ack2:
 
chubbygirl said:
Hey Derrick! That is awesome that you will be posting daily again! I love the new diet you are trying - I'm sure you are going to have some amazing results! Looking forward to following along and seeing the progress!
How many cans of tuna makes up 6 servings? I couldn't imagine eating that much for one meal but I understand why you don't get hungry and still keeping it low cal which is sure to produce results! Good luck finding some more meal ideas. Take care and keep it up!!
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Hi Lisa and good to hear from you. Six servings of canned tuna is 3 cans. Compared to today, eating 3 cans of tuna yesterday was easy! I am really having a hard time eating all of this protein. I nearly get sick at every meal and I am already starting to hate meat. I might become a vegetarian after this diet. LOL
 
Day 2

Breakfast 8:00am Took me nearly 2 hours to make this. A huge PITA!
15 hard boiled egg whites w/ lettuce, mushrooms, red peppers, vinegar and mustard. I nearly puked trying to eat all of it.
2 bottles of water
2 cups of black coffee
Multi Vitamin, Calcium, Potassium, Magnesium, 3 Fish oil capsules

Totals:
250 calories
0 grams of fat
1 gram of carbs from the vinegar
825 mg of sodium (seems the liquid egg whites were accurate yesterday)
60 grams of protein (not enough but I was about to puke again).

Lunch 1:15pm
Turkey Burgers with lettuce, mustard, salt and pepper
320 calories
0.5 grams of fat
0 grams of carbs
250 mg of sodium
70 grams of protein
2 bottles of water
1 cup of black coffee
4 Fish oil capsules and also Potassium

I was barely able to eat all of this. Again it was very difficult to eat all of this protein.

Dinner 6:30
Salad with lettuce, mushrooms, red peppers and vinegar
Cod
Steamed broccoli
2 cups of water
1 caffeine free diet Pepsi
3 Fish oil capsules, Potassium


317 calories
3.5 grams of fat (too many)
230 mg of sodium
0 grams of carbs
70.4 grams of protein

Once again, this meal was gross simply because it is so much protein that I am not used to eating.

Today's totals:
887 calories
4 grams of fat
1 gram of carbs
1305 mg of sodium
200.4 grams of protein

I was not hungry at all today. This has become ironic in that I thought the hunger would be the hardest part of the diet. Instead it is actually the eating! I am going to the 4 meal plan starting tomorrow. I hope the smaller amounts will be easier to eat. I worry that I will not want the 4th meal though.

I am also eager to see what I weigh in the morning. Some people actually gain weight the first couple days on this diet before losing a lot. Others lose right away. I have already lost 3.5 lbs in just one day so again, I am anxious to see what tomorrow morning will show.

Finally, my wife took starting photos of me today. It was right after my lunch gorge so I certainly look plump. I guess that can be a good thing if you are going for that stark contrast between before and after photos look. :biggrinjester: I'll post them tomorrow when I have time.

BTW, this whole diet is taking too much of my time! I need to make some adjustments. I am spending 1 to 2 hours making each meal. Plus I am spending nearly an hour writing down my foods and calories and then posting on this website as well as Lyle's website. I think I am going to only record all of the nutrition details for the first week and then cut down on how much info I give thereafter.

See ya tomorrow!

Derrick
 
I agree that this can take too much time. What is that saying, 80% of your results come from 20% of your effort? Hope you get the results you want from your diet, that is quick weight loss. Enjoy! See you soon Derrick.
 
Or maybe 20% of your results come from 80% of your efforts? LOL

Day 3

This morning, Tanita said:
216.5 lbs (-1.0 from yesterday, -4.5 total)
28% body fat

Yea, yea, yea I know I am still losing water weight but once again this is a good sign in my opinion. In any case, in 48 hours this diet was able to do what the entire 2010 calendar year could not...get me below 217 again.

I apologize but I am simply not going to enter all of the grams and calories from today. My meals are taking forever to make and eat. I am really starting to feel the effects of the diet also. I am very motivated and determined right now but I am getting crabby at times, irritated, angry at other times and feeling somewhat weak but not intolerable. Having said that, I don't have the patience right now to spend 30 minutes typing all of the nutrition facts of each meal I ate today. I will just say what I ate and give some sort of summary. Maybe tomorrow I'll have more patience.

Today I did "try" to go to the 4 meal plan which calls for "only" 52 grams of protein per meal.

Breakfast 7:00am
Liquid Egg white omelette with 2 servings of salsa!
Vitamins and supplements
Black coffee
2 bottles of water, maybe even 3 (I am seriously chugging water on this diet)
This meal worked pretty well but it was still hard to eat. The salsa made it taste a lot better. Nonetheless, 50 grams of protein from egg whites is pretty darn HUGE!

50 grams of protein, I remember that much.

Lunch 11:00am
Salad made of lettuce and 2 cans of tuna, salt and pepper and balsamic vinegar
2 bottles of water plus a lot more later in the afternoon
2 cups of black coffee

Honestly, this was a gem! I couldn't believe how good it tasted and how easy it was to eat compared to everything else. I will use this meal a lot in the future.

52 grams of protein, I remember that.

Dinner 7:00pm
Salad with lettuce, green and red peppers, 1 serving of low fat cheese, 2oz of sliced/diced up chicken breast, one can of tuna, about 25 protein grams worth of egg whites, 1 serv of balsamic vinegar.
2 bottles of water
1 can of caffeine free diet Pepsi

This meal made me really mad. I started out cooking the chicken tenders on our new George Forman Grill (which is a POS by the way, garage sale material already) and I just couldn't stand the smell of the cooking chicken. I've had too many bad experiences with chicken. Tonight I decided I am officially done eating chicken indefinitely. After the chicken was cooked I didn't like the way it turned out so I took a couple good pieces and put them in my salad and then started to think about how else to get my protein. I grabbed the low fat cheese and cut out a serving into little pieces and then I said "screw it" and broke out the liquid egg whites. I fried them scrambled eggs style and when they were done I added them to the salad too. Finally I realized I still needed more protein so I added a can of tuna.

The salad was decent. Not great but not bad. I could have done without the chicken though.

Final numbers? Unsure because I don't want to go grab the nutrition labels right now but I think around 60 to 70 grams of protein.

I was supposed to have a fourth meal so an hour later I decided to eat a serving of low fat cottage cheese with whey protein sprinkled on top.
Between 25 to 30 grams of protein.

So I probably fell 10 to 20 grams of protein short today. I am still happy with my efforts and I have not been hungry. I feel like I am getting smarter each day in regards to how I need to go about this diet and be more efficient.

Once again, I really don't have time to post the "starting picture" yet. We are supposed to get over 6 inches of snow in the next 24 hours so maybe I will have more time tomorrow. Maybe I'll be below 216 tomorrow? We'll see. I know eventually I am supposed to level off around a half pound per day. After the diet is over I am supposed to gain back the water weight and that's it. Beyond that is up to me. But like I said, I have a plan for that too. For now, one day at a time.

Derrick
 
Day by Day! Great job. I feel the SAME way about chicken, often in my life! I had a disgusting feeling the other day as I was cutting the chicken leg. I mean..it's just HORRIBLE that I am cutting through BONES to eat meat. That's absurd.

Sometimes, I think fish is the only way to go for me. We'll see. Good for you if you choose not to eat off feathered friends anymore! LOL! :) Great work! Keep it up! Get your protein in ;)!
 
I can't get enough chicken!! I love turkey too and homemade turkey burgers are one of my favourite meals! You are doing great with sticking to the diet so try not to get so discouraged - it will get easier day by day.
Could you not make a protein shake with just whey protein powder, ice and water to get some extra protein? I think that would be better than choking back some of your meals you can't stand like cottage cheese with whey powder.
Keep it up Derrick!!
 
Hi girls and thanks for not only reading all of that but also offering encouragement and suggestions. I'm sorry I have not been posting in your diaries. I do read them at least once a week if not more. I literally have no time left at the end of the day. I guess I have officially become one of those persons who uses that excuse now. LOL

Unfortunately I'm not supposed to use protein shakes unless they are from a milk protein isolate. That's why I have only sprinkled a little bit of the whey on my cottage cheese. I do like fish and turkey as long as it is not 50+ g of protein worth! LOL

This morning I was down another 1.0 lbs to 215.5. I'm happy about this, of course. Still, it's just a start. I have a long way to go to 185 to 190 range. I'll post about today later on this evening.
 
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