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15 June 2021

After that weigh in in March of 2020, I continued with a program and got down to 134-5. Then I read some anti-diet materials because even though I had been maintaining a good weight loss for around eight years, I found myself still thinking about food and my program a lot. But the process described to get free of it just looked too risky. I'm older now and don't have faith in my body's ability to guide me with food choices given its previous prediliction for ultraprocessed binge foods. My reading of the book The Hungry Brain led me to believe that the brain will opt for damaging foods if offered them because its bias is for easy concentrated calories, not necessarily nutritious food. I didn't eat a lot of junk but I did go crazyon peanuts and peanut butter. In July, I joined the Never Bnge Again program mostly because I thought I could become a coach for the program, but I find that all the talk about weight loss and mostly stricts eating plans make me nervous. I also recently paid to do the analysis be a research program call ZOE, Greek for life. It showed me that my leaning towards plants from my macrobiotic days and the influence of Valter Longo and Dr. Greger has been good, evn though it hasn't kept my system from deteriorating in its ability to manage blood sugar and fat. But I have very few of the harmful 15 gut bugs most problematic. I have only a few of the good ones, but my ratio is considered very good. I would like to know how to increase those good ones. I already eat so many plant servings. I suspect I would need to add probiotics.

Weigh-in: 137.0 lb

lost so far: 5.0 lb

still to go: 1.0 lb

Diet followed reasonably well

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23 March 2020

I cut out sugar and most flour foods or refined starch packaged foods (“particle”) at all. I rarely eat any animal foods except fish. For two months I recorded most of my food to see how to limit myself to about 50 grams of protein a day, aiming for under 13% protein and about 30% plant fat. Since I wasn’t eating particle foods, it was almost hard to get enough calories without going over my protein limit. I am getting more convinced of the health benefits and that I really want them, so it is relatively easy.

Weigh-in: 139.0 lb

lost so far: 3.0 lb

still to go: 3.0 lb

Diet followed 100%

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27 January 2020

Weigh-in: 142.0 lb

lost so far: 0 lb

still to go: 6.0 lb

Diet followed N/A

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24 January 2020

I have added quite a bit of complication to my daily three meals. I have done this for my brain and for anti-aging effects, not for weight loss. I had a mild relapse into frequent compulsive overeating of sweets and packaged snack foods like Cheezits, cheese puffs, popcorn and sometimes potato chips. And pizza. My weight had gone up quite a bit and I was not able to really tone things down until after the holidays;, though I took off some of it in the fall; my weight has come down to a little below what it was easily maintained at for a few years before I started some experimenting with a short diet cycle that mimics the effect of water fasting, as well as some longer overnight fasts. (I feel these tripped the overeating wire as backlash, but I feel I understand what is happening now, so I think I can either tolerate the desires better or can tweak things so that I access states that are less difficult.)

Weigh-in: 142.1 lb

lost so far: 42.9 lb

still to go: 0 lb

Diet followed reasonably well

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05 January 2020

In these last three years, I tried some intermittent fasting to try to adjust to a lowered appetite (but not a much-lowered desire for food.) I did lose weight, but also returned to some of the disordered eating that had plagued me much of my life and that had escalated and led to a 40+ lb. weight gain in middle age. Somehow, I was able to navigate it all enough so that I did maintain that lower weight, but I did not feel happy about my eating. It felt like a struggle much of the time. Late last spring, after a rather strict program for other reasons, something snapped and I felt driven to overeat, gaining about eight pounds and returning to the weight I had dropped to on No S. I was not able return to No S, and have been bouncing around in my eating, but also maintaining that weight. which makes me think this is a weight my body is quite comfortable with. However, because I am a senior citizen now and have concerns about mental clarity and other aging issues, I feel a renewed commitment to aim at a food choices geared for a healthy brain, which means very little sugar and refined grain foods. I am aware this may not lead to weight loss, but I do believe it will increase my chances for health maintenance and possibly even improvement. I just finished a 5-day program to induce autophagy and other beneficial changes. I've done this several times over the years. I admit that often afterwards, the pendulum will swing and I get a little crazy with my eating. I think I can see the food thoughts for what they are better now, so I am hoping I will be able to reason with them. I know my body will ask for more calories than needed to maintain my regular weight, and I am willing to give it what I consider a reasonable amount, but to make sure that I provide food with the highest satiety factor and the least possibility of disrupting the gut flora.

Weigh-in: 145.0 lb

lost so far: 40.0 lb

still to go: 0 lb

Diet followed poorly

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