Results so far and the next steps.

Posted on by Sam Boyd

Well, I had originally decided to try to post a results post once every week to let everyone know how things are doing with this drastic lifestyle change.  Well, I have not and that’s ok because my life is crazy busy and although this is the most important thing in my life, I will not get dinged for being late and cannot be fired from it, so it ends up last on the list some days.  However, the recipes are still doing great and I still intend to put out the quarterly e-cookbook, still looking for contributors if you are interested.  More on that later.

After ten weeks of this lifestyle change, I have some subjective results:

  • Down 25.4lbs in total body weight
  • Down 12″ in total body inches
  • Down 6.2% in total body fat percentage
  • Up 7.3% in overall body hydration percentage

These are all measurable by the scale and are some stone cold evidence of this lifestyle change working its magic.  Subjective changes are as follows:

  • I fell fantastic, and that’s weird because I am not the type of person who walks around feeling fantastic
  • My joint pain that I used to occasionally get, which was getting worse and more frequent, is completely gone
  • My mood is stabilized (the caveat here was that I did not know I had some mood swings, really).
  • My clothes are fitting better.
  • The amount of compliments that I get on how I look have increased

All of this is fine and dandy, but I am not done.  I am working on new goals for the next twelve weeks.  I will actually be starting that at the beginning of the new year.  I will be redoing the detox portion and making new recipes.

If you want to come along on the journey with me and Emily, please email her and talk to her about what we are doing and how to do it.  She is a lifestyle coach and has tons of advice on how to manage this.  She will be contributing more to the site again soon.

As always, please contact me for information or recipe ideas or if there is anything you want to see on the site.  Comment on whatever you want, I read all of them.

Weeks 3 & 4

Posted on by Sam Boyd

There have been limited updates about my particular journey to this ordeal and how it is going for me.  The only excuse that I have is that I am a student getting my BSN, working full-time as a new ICU-Nurse and all that comes with that, and balancing all of this sometimes means that I may go a couple of days (fine, a week) without posting things.

Here is where I am at:

After four weeks I am:         ↓  20.1lbs

                                              ↓  6”

                                              ↓  1.2% BFP

                                              ↑  3.1 H2O %

Now, I will be the first to admit that my weight loss has slowed down and that the best metric may be to go with the inches lost.  It seems to me that I have had a hard time putting out a goal for this number.  I thought about 20” as a goal so that is what I am deciding to go with.  I may hit that sooner that the 12 weeks is up, and if so, then hey, great!  I can always add it later.

I have been adding in some exercise and will be starting my calisthenics challenge to myself in the beginning of week 7, after we take our week 6 pictures.  I will definitely post my  week before and after pictures here on the blog, and am debating whether or not I will be posting on Facebook.  But, more to come, and I am going to start focusing energy on the cook book that I want to put out quarterly in electronic format.  I will be charging for it, but we are deciding on a price point probably between $2.95 and $4.95.  Please let me know what you think.

We are also going to be opening things up to contributors.  We are going to limit the contributions to original pieces and probably specifically people who are going through or have gone through the same program that we are.  That will come later.

As always, please let me know what you think and contact me directly or comment here.