It’s been four weeks since I started alternate day fasting and things are going very well. This week I tweaked the food eaten and implemented a major change in the exercise program. This benefited me.

Weight Lost

This week I lost a total of 5 pounds. This is what I expected based on the math at the end of the week and it’s what I hit. You’ll notice the greatest difference in weight was 7 pounds, which is more than in the past. I believe this is due to the timing of the fasting days.

The third week went just ok. I think I’ve come across the fact that you absolutely need to have 8 hours of sleep to lose weight.

Weight Lost

I lost a total of 3 pounds this week with the greatest difference of 5 pounds. It was disappointing, but like I said, I discovered that 8 hours of sleep is my sweet spot.

Here is the weekly graph. Click to enlarge:

Food Eaten

The week’s food diary was complete, but a 2500 per day average was too much to increase the amount of weight lost. I stayed low carb, but I did increase a couple of comfort recipes.

I am 100% caught up with the food and exercise entries into Nutribase. The second week went slower, as expected, than the first week. Wrapped into this week was my first trip, so I learned a few things that I will detail below.

Weight Lost

I ended up 3 pounds down for the week. This was disappointing. Rather than it being a plateau it was related to an increase calorie count during the week and some awfully nasty jerkey I ate on the trip. Click for a larger graph.

Food Eaten

Since I am documenting the results as I go along, I needed to choose a period of time to do it. A week sounded good. In these entries I am hoping to show the following:

• Weight Lost
• Food Eaten
• Exercise Completed
• General Thoughts

Weight Lost

For the first week I lost a total of 17 pounds. I cannot explain the rapid weight loss, but I will add it to my ongoing research. This was a very satisfying start.

Food Eaten