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Sounds tempted. But I've got a two month old and two and five year olds. If I could get past the fact that I was up in the middle of the night feeding one and consoling another and therefore had limited sleep, I might be able to make this work. It's really the only time I could realistically make it work. But im just grinding to the bone lately.
Yeah I'm these days working more like 12 hour+ days. At least that's what I'm charging clients, which doesn't always capture all the little things, responding to email from home in the middle of the night, etc. I also am teaching a class this semester, which I had been considering giving up this year, but it crept up on me and now it's too late. I'm hating myself for that.
That's what you get for partying when you were young and having kids late!
@ProstheticRGK
Rick, how many days into the potato thing are you? I remember it took me a few days to adjust and feel right, but once I broke through that I felt pretty great.
Tuesday - Dinner
You probably do not have time for exercise right now. Once that baby starts sleeping through the night, you can get on the workout room idea. I did not work out until my daughter slept through the night. When she did start sleeping through the night, I put a gym in the basement so my workout time was as small as it could be. Taking out travel time to work out helps out a great deal since our time is so limited. I still go to gyms with friends occasionally and admit that I miss that atmosphere. I have not intention to join a gym any time soon though. Time. Time. Time.
When you get hungry late at night like that I just drink a glass of water and go to bed. Win-win in my book.
Yep, that was me yday.
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I don't think it's even hunger. I think its cravings.
The one thing I also noticed is that I had no inflammation or bloat. I just felt light on my feet, my gums didn't bleed when I brushed my teeth, etc. It was like an overall improvement to my general health.
Get back to it, GB.
How long til you start to feel better? I'm feeling better now but not hungry at all and have no cravings. Have a couple of meetings and will likely fire up some potatoes for lunch.
It was a solid 3 days.
It's all about the habits, man
I went through an adjustment period, too, each time lasting three days. It was never as bad as the "Keto Flu" from doing Atkins, but definitely felt a little off. By day 3, it's passed every time, and I end up feeling amazing. Lighter, more energy, less aches and pains, better mood. I noticed the gum thing Otis was talking about, too. And my snoring gets better. Less inflammation in the body, in general. And, on top of that food cravings are gone. I can look at one of my favorite foods and just see it- with no attachment or wishing I could have it. Totally dispassionately just view it as a suboptimal fuel source, and not some forbidden fruit.
I just fired up some of my potatoes for lunch cause it's time, but I am sitting here thinking I am really not hungry like I used to be. There will be some adjusting until I figure it out.
Don't take this the wrong way, but you work 12 hour days and your wife seems to drink wine most nights and you have to get up in the middle of the night to feed the kids? Something is wrong with this picture.
You ever stay home with 2 young kids week after week. I'd rather work the 12 hour days.
I went the past 7 days at a -1000 per day. Got on the scale, same weight as last weekIf I still hover at 0 weight loss after a 3rd day of taters, I'm jumping off the wagon tomorrow
Oddly enough, I've been the strictest I've ever been. ~30-40oz of oven roasted potatoes daily with nothing but salt/pepper/oregano/vinegar. No booze. Nothing but coffee/water to drink. No food after 7pm or so. Probably the most disciplined I've ever been over a 3 day stretch. Let's see what tomorrow brings
Start adding condiments/toppings. I make a spicy tomato sauce from scratch, low cal, and I can eat that with potatoes any day. I also make spicy lentils, veggie saag, black beans etc.
I'm going the whole way until final weigh-in. I did a couple months from last Easter until June and lost about 65 lbs, from 285 down to 220ish. There's ways to incorporate Potato Magic into intermittent days/runs of days/etc. There's a lot of good info in the Potato Hack book on ways to optimize.
But the fact you're doing it again a year later means you gained a lot of the weight back no?
Potato pimping
Yup. I went off the rails. Slowly, at first, then by the time Halloween rolled around, I was back to eating like I was 20 again. I gained a little less than 20 back by December. The last 10, I almost don't count because I was sand-bagging knowing I was going to do this contest, and wanted to over-indulge. It's why I had such a hard time starting the first week and gained.
It worked for me. Lost 60 lbs using myfitnesspal and a food scale 5 years ago. It was so easy. Also here in NY most chain places have to post the calories by law making it even easier to track. I became so good at it after about a year I stopped using it and kept most of the weight off for 3 years because I knew how much calories were in everything and was able to track in my head. Until last year where I didn't give a #### what crap I put in my body. People are in their phones 24/7 but can't take 5 seconds to log their calories on the same phone. Mind boggling.
