In Theory, there is no Practice.

Okay, it’s been since Thursday, more or less since I (re)started the Atkins’ Diet. Now, I would like to mention that unlike previous attempts at weight loss, while I did stop observing the diet, the resulting weight gain wasn’t horrible. I regained between 40-50% of the wieght I lost. I am not cetain, because I do not have comparable weighings from start to max-weight loss. I was around 223.5lb (fully clothed) the first Monday after I started the diet. And at one point during the late summer, I was 189 with just a towel on (but this was not the same scale as the 223.5lb weigh-in). Today I weighed 206 fully clothed on a third different scale, but the one I am going to use from now on.

I plan to weigh myself once a week, Monday morning. Unlike last time, I plan to do some consistent weight-training as well. Before, I just did aerobics (jogging, mostly). This time, I wish to do a better job of body recomposition. I am in a better starting condition, and it is just a few weeks short of 1 year ago (April 9/10 IIRC) that I started the Atkins’.

Oddly, I don’t seem to have gotten into ketosis yet, but I may have had too many nuts / too much peanut butter Thurs/Friday. I still think I consumed well on the low side of 50g of carbs, including non-insulin affecting carbs those days. But I did have some liquid protein, which I have since found may icrease insulin when close to ketosis. So I am being extra careful the next few days. I have also done 3000cals worth of aerobics since Friday, and intend to continue that for a while (600-800cal per day, as measured by the treadmill), in addition to my weight training.

On the other hand, I feel much better today than yesterday, so I’d like to believe I am in ketosis. I am using ketosticks to check for ketones, and the one problem with them is that the ketosticks only measure *excess* ketones in the urine. Frankly, I don’t think I ate enough yesterday, and so it is possible that I was in ketosis, but was using all the ketones for fuel. We shall see.

I have quite a bit of work to do to determine the proper supplements I should use, and to prepare my menu so that I can make sure I have enough to eat. Oh, well, wife is at a Ladies’ Bible Study tonight, so maybe I’ll work on that then.