A long time… very long time…
But I finally decided to take a bit of time and rework the site… Moved it off of Wordpress, and converted it to a Hugo static site…
What a great solution for simple blog or documentation sites… and simple to hook up to GitHub actions and host directly on GitHub… Now just create a file, check it into git, and a few minutes later it is rebuilt and live… Might even have to write a bit more now that it is so easy… ;)
Okay… haven’t posted in a while… But things are still going well…
I decided after the first 4 weeks that I would go with a fairly strict, mostly vegetarian diet… which I did… Problem was, I only lost 3 pounds in 2 weeks… (and that included a few days where I had steak and fried stuff at dinner…) Not bad by most standards, and I ate quite a bit and felt great, but I really wanted to get some more weight off quickly… So I decided that this Monday I would go back on the juice diet again for at least a week to see what would happen…
Four weeks done… Only Juice, no solid food… And it worked…
I have been feeling better than I have in years and years… This actually works… And amazingly, yesterday (the first day that I indulged in solid food…) I was looking forward to eating vegetables, something that anyone who knows me would know is radically out of character… So I had a small arugula salad with mushrooms, and a lunch portion of grilled Ahi tuna on a bed of some kind of beans… and it tasted better than anything like that had in the past, and was very filling… My energy level seemed to be up in the afternoon, even better than when drinking what I have been for the last few weeks… Morning was still juice, and evening was the blueberry/green smoothie that I have been drinking… And when I weighed in at the gym, I was at 266, which is 27 pounds in 28 days… Right at my target, and as long as I eat sensibly for lunch or dinner, and keep on with the juice, the weight loss should stay consistent… we’ll see what happens over the next few weeks…
Five more days to go to finish off the first full month… Pretty much used to it now, and even over last weekend when I was at Lakehurst for 3 days, it really didn’t bother me too much… I actually missed my own concoctions last weekend, as we didn’t have power until Friday afternoon and I didn’t have time to freeze homemade juice for the weekend… So I just bought tomato juice and Naked Green Machine everyday during the weekend…
So it has been two weeks… Down to 276, which is 16 pounds… not quite where I wanted to be, but I guess a pound a day isn’t bad… and it seems like it will be keep going at that level… I think that quite a bit of the first week was water, since my diet was very high in sodium (I salted pretty much everything…) and now I have virtually no sodium in my diet… In fact, the other day I got a bottle of V8 juice when I needed something in the afternoon, and it tasted horrible… and I used to put salt in V8 in the past…
280… 7 days… 13 pounds down…
It’s still working, and apparently at about the same rate… which makes sense, since I really don’t take in many calories, and I’m just as active as I was before… All good news, since it looks like I will be on track to hit the 250 goal in about a month… Labor Day weekend might be a bit difficult, since I will be in Lakehurst flying all day, and can’t really take the juicer with me and don’t know what the availability of juice will be over there… Not to say that going to dinner with the guys at an Italian restaurant will make things harder… but with this kind of progress, I really don’t want to fall back on that weekend… Guess I’ll just have to figure something out…
So today is a full week on nothing but juice… Amazingly, it hasn’t been that bad… Saturday was a bit difficult (with the anniversary party and having to look at mounds of barbecued pulled pork and chicken) and yesterday when Ann made dinner and I had to sit and watch her eat ravioli and spaghetti with sauce the temptation to eat was there, but on a daily basis for the last week I really haven’t missed solid food that much…
Five days in now… still going strong… Just got back from breakfast with some friends, and didn’t really have a problem with watching them down pancakes, eggs, bacon, and other stuff… Although I had a 12 oz glass of tomato juice and the same size glass of orange juice (the tomato had so much salt in it that I almost couldn’t drink it…) and my bill was actually higher than everyone else…
Ok… after getting back from the cruise, I decided to go on a juice fast… Before I left, Ken came in one day and told me that I should watch a documentary that just came out on Neflix, “Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead”… (pretty sure that there was some inference there, which was probably deserved… except for the sick part…) So I watched the documentary… It was well done, and made sense… So I went ahead and ordered a Vita-Mix 1300 TurboBlend 4500 and a Breville 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite 1000-Watt Juice Extractor… figured that I might as well get something that would last, especially if I was going to take this seriously…
Ok… so I haven’t posted in years on this blog… (I’ve been busy… and not that anyone was paying any attention anyway…)
I just moved it over from WordPress to hosting on Squarespace.com… SS is one of the most amazing sites that I have used in years… Takes all of 5 minutes to set up a site, templates are nice out of the box, and the iPhone app for updating is gorgeous… I decided to move the blog and start again after I put my HoodsWood.
