What Losing 280 Pounds Looks Like: An Unbelievable Before and After

From: Food Is Fuel And he did it by eating bacon, eggs and pork belly!

A few other tidbits I thought worth commenting on:

Carb Dieting Levels

Carbs	Diet Name
< 100g	Low Carb Diet
< 50g	Ketogenic Diet
0g	Crazy-assed how-do-I-achieve-that! No-Carb Diet*

* - Ok. I had to guess at that last one because he couldn't remember the name that had been used

About seeing it through

• Don't need goals. Don't need perfection. You can chase perfection without trying to be perfect!
• When you screw up, don't get hung up. Just look at what went wrong and try to fix it
• Don't look to the time it will take. Look to the things you will have/do when you're done

And whilst we're on the subject...

... of using the Paleo/Low Carb, High Fat/Wheat-free diet to focus on weight loss...

Recently I haven't been having as much success (re: weight loss) as I might have hoped. A friend suggested that I start writing down everything that I was eating and engage in a bit of analysis to see what I might be doing wrong. Well I can say that even before I got half-way through the first day of writing things down, I started to see the problem. I hadn't ever sat down to work out exactly how many carbs I was getting with some foods, but a little bit of google-fu took care of that.

The Conclusion:

Whilst what we were doing was good, it turns out it was definitely in the "Low-Carb" range, rather than the "Ketogenic" range. This was because I was underestimating just how many carbs you intake if you include milk (morning smoothie), coffee* (at least three) and fruit and nuts (snacks). These things are certainly not bad, but if we want to achieve ketosis, we'll have to rethink our approach.

* - again, for the milk intake: I can't stand black coffee

On the other hand, for now we will probably decide that a Low-Carb diet is sufficient: We still get to enjoy many different foods without ever feeling we're going without. Weight-loss will in all likelihood still occur, but over a much slower time frame. In the meantime, I think the best parts of our diet are:

• we've virtually eliminated wheat-based products from our diet.
• we're enjoying great-tasting banana and berry smoothies
• we're enjoying the odd drop of wine and even port