On April 6, 2016 I celebrated three solid years of 4:3 ADF. If you’ve been reading my posts, you’ll see I kept my DDs (down or fasting days) below 200 calories for the first two years, then changed up to zero calorie DDs because of extended plateaus. I started off as a size 20-22 at 238 lbs. I am 5’8″ tall. I now weigh 151 lbs. and wear a size 10, although in the old days that would have been a 12 and in the horse and buggy days of the 70s I’d be a 14. But anyway, I’m wearing size 10 Lucky Brand skinny jeans as I write this post. I still do 4:3 fasting on black coffee and seltzer water only on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
The spousal unit has joined me on the ADF bandwagon, finishing his first full year of 5:2 on Mothers Day. He’s lost about 25 lbs, the first time in his life he has ever attempted to lose weight. He does the Michael Mosley version of 5:2 with his DDs on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I am so frigging lucky he likes this stripped down toastada/taco salad thing I make for him for his DD dinners. He gets 28 grams of organic white corn tortilla chips crunched up with homemade “taco meat” sparingly atop, heated in the microwave and then topped with heaping piles of organic dark green salad mix and homegrown/home canned salsa. (See previous post about the bitchin’ salsa.) I drizzle the teeniest dots of Bolthouse Avocado and Cilantro dressing on it and it comes in at about 350-400 cals. He raves about how yummy and satisfying this bi-weekly DD meal is every time he eats it.
So ahem, it is time for the befores and afters of yours truly. I was a big fat tub of blubber with no neck, no waist, and ill fitting tents for clothes. It truly sucked wads. There are 87 lbs. missing from me now. Yay.
I had only a few fat shots to pick from as I made it a mission not be in pictures (sort of hard when you play in a band that people take vids and pics of every time we play). Here I am on a recent picnic over at Long Lake. The shirt is a men’s medium and it’s a tad too big, as are most of my shirts. I wear size 32 jeans and womens size medium tops, pants, and skirts, down from the starting size of 2x. Ugh. 2x.
I hope to come back with one more post here in the next year. Not sure how long of doing 4:3 with zero cal DDs will take to get me to my 135 lb goal, but I’m 15 lbs and one dress size away from goal at age 58. We shall see what my permanent ADF way of eating will bring as far as a final goal weight. I will do this for the rest of my life and take what I get. Here’s a parting shot of my Steve tending his salad greens destined for the garden. Cheers!
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