{"id":1530,"date":"2017-03-31T13:53:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T19:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2017-03-31T13:53:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T19:53:22","slug":"one-goal-reached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2017\/03\/one-goal-reached\/","title":{"rendered":"One goal reached"},"content":{"rendered":"

I weighed myself this morning at 199.2 pounds, thereby reaching my primary goal of 200 lbs. I started right after Labor Day 2016 so it has been about 200 days to drop 40 pounds.<\/p>\n

I’m feeling pretty good, and, after some blood work I had done last month, all the blood numbers are in the good range. (I am no longer pre-diabetic.)<\/p>\n

After seeing how my daily weight fluctuates through the day with my diet, I decided to \u00a0lose a few more pounds. I would like to end up about 195 pounds so my daily fluctuations don’t take me over 200 (keeping it under 90 kg).<\/p>\n

A few \u00a0things I have learned over the past half-year:<\/p>\n

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  1. I am using lunch plates, 8″ across, instead of dinner plates, 10″ across. Don’t need as much food to fill the plate. 6″ bread plates are a little too small, my omelette flops over the edges.<\/li>\n
  2. Using the online food diary really does help me keep focused on the total calorie and nutrient intakes each day.<\/li>\n
  3. It is a lot easier for me to lose weight on a low\/no carb (ketogenic) diet rather than a balanced carb\u00a0diet with the same calorie total. I think I can maintain with a higher carb diet but I don’t seem to lose with it.<\/li>\n
  4. Until I start getting out and getting more exercise, just less than 2000 calories a day seems to be a good number for me.<\/li>\n
  5. There are a lot of good low-carb foods out there. I have found riced cauliflower or spiraled zucchini to be an excellent base\u00a0for dishes. And I have learned a new appreciation for cabbage, in many forms.<\/li>\n
  6. The biggest long-term concern is the amount of sodium I am taking in from processed meats. Once I go back to the regular carb diet, I expect the sodium intake will drop as well.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Off to the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I weighed myself this morning at 199.2 pounds, thereby reaching my primary goal of 200 lbs. I started right after Labor Day 2016 so it has been about 200 days to drop 40 pounds. I’m feeling pretty good, and, after some blood work I had done last month, all the blood numbers are in the … Continue reading One goal reached<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-stuff","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-oG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}