Diet Results
Yesterday was the final day of my six-day diet, and the results are in. I weighed in today at 195.6 with 16.4% body fat, a drop of 6.4 pounds and 1.6% body fat. Multiplying that out results in a 4.3 pound loss in fat alone.
But there are definitely caveats: the fat reading on the scale is highly dependent on water percentage, and wacky things going on with your body can skew it in odd ways. And there are wacky things going on with my body this week — I’m home sick today from work. I’m feverish, and I have a cough. The symptoms started Tuesday night, and that caused me not to work out Weds or Thurs, and I can’t imagine I’ll work out today. The whole “feed a cold, starve a fever” doesn’t appear to be good advice. Quite possibly I’m in worse shape with illness because I didn’t have the bodily reserves to deal with it.
But back to the diet, I think it is a winner. If I ever do it again (motivation is tough), I might make some substitutions. I can survive tuna steak and shrimp, but I wasn’t thrilled with them. Not into bok choy or brussels sprouts. But if I want another round of kick-starting a weight-loss program, this is something I’ll definitely consider.
So far I haven’t binged on food today. My fever woke me up at 3:15, but it wasn’t until 4:30 or so that I could drag myself out of bed to put on sweats because I was freezing under the covers with a mattress heating pad turned on full blast. Around 5:15 I was ravenous and had some leftover deli turkey, swiss cheese, and dijon mustard. Then later on I had a big bowl of oatmeal. I’m figuring I’ll put a couple pounds right back, but if I can re-stabilize around 198, then that’d be a 4-pound drop for 6 days of dieting, and that’s a success.