The physical recovery is going well. Today I went for a 24 kilometer bike ride and came home sweaty but barely breathing heavy. My muscles are also re-adapting to weight training faster than I could have hoped. The mental recovery… well, that’s another story. I only underwent 100 days of starvation, but as I said one of the worst aspects of it wasn’t the lack of energy or the atrophying muscles, it was becoming a shut-in. But a funny thing [...]
It’s been almost a week since I began recovering from my starvation and so far, so good. I have more energy during my gym visits and even getting around town.I was interviewed by national press. And my social life is slowly rekindling. On Saturday I held a barbecue – celebrating my birthday a month and a half late, and finally getting to hang out with friends while breaking bread. My good friend Jim brought some delicious steaks but, while the [...]
“One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.“ ~ Georg Groddeck 195.6 lbs Starving your body is bad. Trust me on this one. I get dizzy spells, twinges in the muscles of my abs, sleepless nights, and declining social popularity since I can’t go out [...]
“A wonderful bird is the pelican, His bill can hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Enough food for a week; But I’m damned if I know how the helican.” ~ Dixon Merritt 205.4 lbs. Almost there. I’m creeping up on the 1/2 way mark of this project, approximately 35 lbs lighter. For almost 2 weeks however I hovered around the 207 – 210 lb. mark, a testament to just how vehemently our bodies attempt to [...]
“What does politically correct mean? If you’re fat, don’t ask me if you’re fat, because I’m gonna tell you the truth. You’re fat” ~ Charles Barkley 205.6 lbs. So far on this blog I’ve talked about how being obese can really screw up your body, lead to long term health problems, drop your testosterone, and other fun effects. I’ve also shown (first hand) how a drastic starvation diet, while effective in reducing one’s mass, also reduces one’s muscle mass, ability [...]
208.6 lbs. Advertisers often use fear to promote something. Whiten your teeth or no one will want you. Buy a new car or people will assume you’re a loser. Be as thin as a Hollywood starlet or glamour mag model or you’re a failure. Why? Because fear is a great impulse to tap into when someone wants to make you do something based on making you think of what might happen if you don’t, not what will happen if you [...]
“Dammi del cioccolato, se no non riesco a pensare.” 233.8 lbs Yup, a bit of rebound. When one loses a lot of water weight in a short amount of time that’s bound to happen. The other night I was watching The Biggest Loser, and some contestant was upset because she’d only lost 2 lbs in the past week. A few things about that bothered me . First, you can’t expect your body to slowly and steadily drop weight when your [...]
“Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.” ~ Scott Adams 239 lbs If you’ve read the “Why??” page you know what’s up. Briefly I’ve decided to put myself on a 100 day starvation diet to show the hazards of poor nutrition on the body, and hopefully dissuade any would-be crash dieters out there. Not that overweight people get off the hook either. I’ll be writing about what obesity [...]
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