Health update of Jan. 9, 2019

I posted the following tidbit on Facebook as the holidays were wrapping up:

 

Me during most of the year: I don’t want to spike my insulin response, so I’ll drink my coffee black.

Me during the holidays: Screw it, let’s chug!

 

That Facebook post pretty much summed up the Yule season for me. The past couple of weeks included a time of over the topness, followed by roughly a week of relative normalcy (including a return to exercise, the ketogenic lifestyle and intermittent fasting). On that, I was wondering how hard it would be to return to my fasting regimen after a period of eating like it was going out of style – to my surprise, it was relatively easy.

Even so, I wondered – with the mix of the over the topness and normalcy, what would the weigh scale say at my biweekly weigh-in and bipolar medication shot today at Woodstock Hospital in Ontario, Canada. I wasn’t overly worried about it, though; I have all year (and more, if need be) to reach my goal weight of 240 pounds (from an all-time high of 400). My weight checked in at 296.6 pounds today, 1.3 pounds lighter than two weeks prior.

Even if I’m not there yet (weight wise), I’m feeling healthier than I have in years. In the past, I’ve dealt with bad knees, plantar fasciitis, and sciatica, to name the major problems – all have gone bye-bye. The sciatica problem was licked, I believe, in part to the intermittent fasting, which I’ve read can combat inflammation.

So far, so good.

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