What is your ideal weight?
Well, I asked that on a discussion group. Some interesting comments were made: In general, how long is a piece of string, I guess. Obsessive? Definitely… that’s why i get annoyed with exercise trackers that don’t track properly. In the end ! all my spreadsheets are just humongous estimates with some marginal bearing on reality. Lol,… And that pair of 34 inch shorts laughs at me!
75 puts me in the healthy Bmi range for my height. So while that doesn’t seem like a final goal… it seems to represent skind of upper limit. And 70 seems gaunt. so 73 or 74 would be about right. Now the ponderal index suggests a weight closer to 76.3kgs. I guess. Sighs! I have to accept these imperfections! Lol!
Did I give up carbs for this diet?
Actually, I didn’t give up carbs at all. I just shifted their emphasis. I love bread and fruit, so I simply refused to give them up.
I typically make my own bread these days so it’s reasonable quality (not much sugar or fat), not the commercial quality. I would buy my friend Alain’s bread but our freezer is just TOO small to freeze it, since he does batch orders. It’s awesome bread, though.
On the fruit front, I typically eat bananas most days with a mixture of whatever fruit the wife has bought. It’s nonsense to give it up… the mangoes this year are intense! Well, potatoes or rice once a week or less. I do eat low-sugar cereal and drink milk so this diet I did is no crazy Atkins diet, for sure.
Unless you’re kickstarting your diet, … if you’ve already lost some weight… restricting carbs unduly may be counterproductive. HOWEVER, the carbs I eat I tend to consume by lunch. I try not to consume too much after 6pm… but life sometimes makes that difficult. I also must say: I don’t do rice or noodles or spaghetti (well, like once or twice amonth).
During my first few months of weight loss, I did restrict carbs more aggressively than I’m doing now. I still don’t know if it will be less or more successful this fourth time around. I’m now considering prepping bento dinners next week for the first time so I can eat dinner a little earlier than 9:30pm. We’ll see how that goes.