#1409 Weight Loss Diary: Sixteen
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Sixteenth installment of my GLP journey
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Well, it's World Diabetes Day, Thursday, November 14. I'm late. I was supposed to put this shot in yesterday. I think Scotty messed up. That's okay, though we still have some good news on the health front regarding this weight loss extravaganza. Let me pull up my app. We'll start this episode off with a little go through, if you know what I mean. Let's start right out of the gate by telling you I weigh 180.6 pounds today. Yesterday, I was 180.4 the day before 181 80 is my lowest. Going back like a week or so, I don't really know where to go to. I'm gonna go to like the sixth, one 80.21 80.4 on the seventh, 181 one on the eighth, one 80.4 on the 11th, 180 as I said, on the 12th, that was awesome. Today. I was 180 point 6.6 pounds higher than my lowest weight since I started this whole thing to remind you, or to catch people up who are maybe finding this for the first time, weighed myself the first time and shot back then it was we go V on the 28th of March, 2023 on That day, I weighed 233.4 pounds. Today, 180.6 that is, I can tell you, 52.8 pounds. I'm down. My BMI is down 7.9 and my body fat down 11.8% I feel awesome. Let's see my let's see where the trends are. Shall we wait? As we know, down. BMI has been pretty steady the last week. 26.7 I'm under that magical 27 number all of a sudden, body fat steady. 23.2 body water, staying steady. 55 and a half. Skeletal muscle staying steady. BMR, staying steady. Fat free. Body weight, staying steady. Like an example, fat fee, fat free. Excuse me, body weight, 130 8.6 on the day I started this 150 1.8 subcutaneous fat today is 20.3 on day one back there in March, 2023, it was 30. My visceral fat is holding at 10. My muscle mass is holding at 130, 1.8 my bone mass is steady at seven. Protein is standing very steady, and my metabolic age is 54 but I'm almost 54 so six, seven more months, nothing will be right. Hopefully it'll go down from there. Anyway, I'm gonna take my shot. I'll be back next week, excited to talk to all of you. I hope your World Diabetes Day was great. All right, I found my spot here. As you guys know, I enjoy this enjoys, really, the wrong word. I like to put the shot like, at the very bottom of my belly, like there's a kind of, like, a softer spot there. I don't know. Why don't really care? Why? Just doesn't hurt there at all. I take the cap off of my zepbound 12.5 milligrams like that. I unlock the cap. Want to hear it ASMR, Oh, you heard it, and we're gonna put this thing in. Get done. Get back to work. What works, Scott, I have to put an episode together for Saturday. We're doing a beautiful best of about Michelle Bauer, I hope you guys caught it back then. All right, ready? One, two, A, 1234, what's that? Billy. Joel, yeah. Thanks, Bill. Joel, ready, didn't feel a thing. All right, kids, Hey, what's up? I have not been doing well with recording for you. I apologize for that. I've actually injected twice without recording. So today is the fifth of December, but I can walk you through what's been going on. It's not frustrating, but I feel like I'm learning some things. Most important thing I learned yesterday, I'll get to that at the end. Anyway, this morning, I was 182 pounds, which is, I mean, awesome. And going back, you know, I'll go back a couple of weeks the you know, I'll even go back, like almost a month to November 12, when I was 180 so 180 has been my kind of low water mark right now, going forward, I did hit a 179 for one day. That was the 23rd of November and but right from there I went, you know what? You know it was Thanksgiving, and I held on there, 179 two on the 24th one 80.2 on the 25th 27th 183 28th 182 two. And today is December 5. See if I can get back to it. Why is it messing with me here? December 5, 182 Yeah. So I was one 80.6 on the 30th. Here's what I did. So, you know, I'm supposed to be injecting on right now, Wednesday. I've moved it around a little bit on Sunday last week, so if today's the fifth Sunday was the first. I actually shot two and a half milligrams that day. So we have some extra pens. So I did the two and a half, and then I don't know what happened to me. I just like, I whiffed on injecting yesterday, so I hadn't had my 12 and a half, you know, today now for eight days, the two and a half was like a nice little bump, and I think it helped me that Monday, Tuesday, but it didn't really do much. It wasn't going to do much to to offset the fact that I forgot to inject on Wednesday, yesterday. Now here's the super it sucked, but I learned something. I woke up this morning at 4am having a dream about having heartburn, and I woke up and I had heartburn. I have not had heartburn in forever on the GLP, and then one day without it, I had heartburn while I was sleeping. I'm telling you, it's helping me with more than I know. Anyway, back on the weekly am I going to try to do another two and a half on Sunday? I'm thinking about it for now. Today's Thursday, the fifth. I've got this 12.5 of zepbound. I've taken off the cap, I've unlocked the pen. I'm gonna slip it in here, and then I'm gonna make podcasts. I like this spot on my belly at the kind of the bottom of the bell the belly, which basically, at this point, looks like someone took a fluffy pancake and taped it to the front of me. So that's awesome. Here we go. Little bit of pressure, not bad, little bit of a drip, not bad. I promise. I'll be back next week. I'll keep having these trying to add whatever I learn. I think the heartburn thing is really important, as you know, I'm sure I've mentioned on here. I was told a couple of years ago I have the beginnings of what could be Barrett's esophagus, which is not good and definitely heartburn related. Tried a bunch of different things for heartburn. You know, some of it works, some of it didn't. Overall it wasn't working. I can't remember the last time I've had heartburn since I've been on a GOP. And then, boom, I. Missed my GLP for one day, basically. And I mean, what did I eat last night? That's the other thing. It wasn't anything crazy. What I have for dinner yesterday afternoon, I had an egg wrap. So egg and I had an egg and a wrap, maybe two eggs with some pork, like bacon. I think it was bacon, a strip of bacon. Later in the day, I had some turkey left over from Thanksgiving, but nothing really else with it. Maybe there was stuffing, a tiny bit, not much, if any. But I had a slice of pumpkin pie with my son, like in the evening, and that was it a slice of pumpkin pie. Not a big slice of pumpkin pie. Had a slice of pumpkin pie for no no GOP going at 4am bad heartburn. Had to get up, take couple of Tums, sit up till it went away so I could lay back down. I guarantee I'm gonna come back here next week and tell you I haven't had heartburn again. I'll see you soon. Hey, friends, what's going on? I have good news. Let's take a look. So I did not, I'm sorry. Today is December 11. I did not do an extra.
I did not do an extra so I just got a text message. I should probably not look at my phone while I'm making the podcast. I did not do an extra two and a half this week, but I was losing weight, so I was just like, let me see how this goes. I might do it this week. The extra. Let me get out my app and my glasses. I am 170 9.2 this morning. Also, I've gone to the bathroom since then, so maybe 179 but 170 9.2 that's fine. It is not, wait a minute, it is. That is absolutely Oh, I didn't even realize this. Look at me. I'm getting ahead of myself. That's as low as I've been so far. Get out of here. Oh, awesome. 182 two, back on the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, 10th, 11th. Look at me knowing how long seven days ago was. Next day. Excuse me, a 12 five, yeah, next day 182 12, six, 182 12, eight, I have to tell you, this rocked me. I did not expect this. I went from 182 to 179 four, and it wasn't it wasn't like dehydration. Oh, and I just lied to you the next day, 12, nine, the ninth. Just a couple days ago, I was 170 8.4 a few days ago, I had, what did I eat? Oh, I think I had a soft pretzel. Yeah, that put me back to 170 9.2 the next day, and then today, so the 10th and 11th both 170 9.2 feeling great. What I want to say about how I was feeling? Oh, I I heard this, this person on their social media saying, like, If I hear one more person say they have a GLP deficiency, they don't have a GLP deficiency. She's ranting and raving and everything. And I'll tell you, I don't know if I do or I don't, but man, it feels like I do. So if there's another way to say that, or a better way to put it, I'm going to try to figure out what it is. But all I know is that when this stuff is flowing, I eat. My body manages it correctly, like, I mean, listen, a soft pretzel. I don't know if you're all from, you all been out to the east coast before, but if you ate a soft pretzel, you wouldn't gain three pounds, but I would. And now with this, you know, 4.4 pounds, like, that's just, that's a fluctuation, that's not even a weight gain. But if I wasn't on this and I had a soft pretzel, I mean, trust me, it wasn't like yesterday. Was like an orgy of food that I capped off with a soft pretzel. I had my regular day. I had what I eat yesterday, two eggs. Had them in a low carb or wrap with some steak. That was breakfast. Actually, at lunch, I did something yesterday, mixing in protein powder. Now I'm not ready to tell you about it yet, because I yet, because I just started it, but I had eight ounces of milk with a big scoop of chocolate protein powder in it. I'm trying to I realized that I was eating protein, but did the math on it. I was like, and Jenny helped me. And I was like, this is not quite enough protein, she told me. So I was like, Okay, so I'm gonna do the drink. I'm gonna go every other day for the first couple days, make sure my stomach's good with it. But I went with like a I went with a pretty gentle one. I felt like I was okay today, but I'm skipping it today, doing it tomorrow. I'll give you more about that later. So I had the protein powder, I had the eggs, the wrap, the steak. At some point during the day, somebody had soft pretzels, and was like, I'll have one of those. I had a soft pretzel. I put. Yellow mustard on it. Then last night for dinner, we did, I did pasta. It was leftover linguini with shrimp, so four or five medium sized shrimp with, I mean, I a handful of pasta, maybe, anyway, 170 9.2 today. I was 178 something a couple days ago. I think this is it. I think I think I smell 175 caps off, talking about zepbound, 12.5 milligrams, unlocking the lock. Check on Chuck. I was gonna try to say chuck a con. I got like, stuck in my voice, stuck in my voice, stuck in my mouth, whatever. Oh, God, do you hear that? Sorry, that's my, um, I'm so embarrassed. That's the misting system for my chameleon. And now Arden's calling me. Hold on, a second. Arden, hold on. I'm doing my injection. I'm recording at the same time. Give me one second. Do you want to watch? You're watching. Look away. Look away. Look away. All done. Okay? Well, it's December 19, and been a bit of a roller coaster this week with Scottie his journey. It was good. It was less good in the end, you know, all the benefits are still there, but I'm one 80.8 this morning, but at some point this week, my goodness, what was I 179 two last time on the temp. I'm a day late, by the way. I forgot to do this yesterday. Well, here we go. I was 179 two on the 10th and the 11th. On the 12th, I was 170 7.4 It was awesome. But then on the 13th, I was 178 but still, like 178 awesome on the 15th, 179 six, then one 80.8 now one 80.8 I didn't eat enough this week. The big drop coincided with the first time I took a drank a my got a protein drink. I was like, is this it? I mean, I know it couldn't have been, but still, I did the protein drink the first day I skipped the next day. I just wanted to see how my body reacted to it was fine. And then somehow, this week, well, not just somehow, honestly, I've been revamping the website, Juicebox, podcast.com, I'm basically doing the work of like a five man team this week, plus making the podcast, plus Christmas is coming, plus Arden's home, plus, plus, plus, you know, I just it's gonna sound crazy, but I didn't eat enough this week. I didn't eat enough. I didn't stay with the the protein drink, even though it was awesome and easy to drink, and I'm gonna do it, continue it, but I just, I got lost in my work, no lie, and I'm one 80.8 today. Now, having said that, if you just go back, you know, a couple of weeks, I was 183 as a high on November 27 as an example. I was 183 I was 183 on the 18th of November. This is awesome, like 180 I'm a little higher than almost 181 and I'll love it, but still, I'm two pounds down from my highest. I'm not gaining weight, you know, just drifting around, and I'm not doing the right things. So let's do the right things, right let's, uh, do the 12.5 min jar of zbound. Excuse me, 12.5 milligrams of Zep bound today. Let's eat more food. Scott just needs to eat more. That's all I got chicken downstairs. I made sure I had beef. I make sure I had shrimp. I have. So I've got shellfish, I've got chicken, beef, I've got the protein drink I'm just gonna eat. And the podcast website's almost done, so it's a big load off, or got one more big project left for the end of the year. And then, you know, have some Christmas and then get back into making the pod for 2025 I don't talk about this much on here, but I think all of the sponsors are back for next year, and I think we have some new ones too. So huge shout out to all those people. Links in the show notes for the sponsors, keeping all this going. All right. Where am I gonna put this thing? How about it? Right here. Here are you gonna move the microphone so you can hear it better? Hold on. All right, ready?
All right. Let's go. Mary happy. You.
At least when it comes to this series. And I apologize, it's January 17, I've been taking my shot every week, just like I'm supposed to. But because of, you know, I don't know the holiday and running around and stuff like that. I'd be like, Oh, I have to take my shot. I forgot it. And then I'd be like, I don't have time to go record while I do this. And I'll just remember and it doesn't work. And then things go back and forth, and you forget where the hell you were. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to button up this episode and just commit to starting over. I with you guys. Like, don't get me wrong. I'm doing I'm doing good here, but I'm going to commit to starting over with you all. So I'm going to go back to because A lot's happened. What was our last time I was here? What was December 19? Let me find that it's been a bit of a thing. December 19, I was one 80.8 I'm not going to give you every day, but I went down, down, up 181 180 161 80. This is around the 29th of December, stuck in the 180 to 182 range to the second. Then on the third, I was 179 four. I'm gonna tell you right now. I thought I was I thought I had it on the fourth of January. 176 four, next day, 179 78 177 I ran 177 to 179 for about a week and a half. And now it's today, and I'm 179 four. I was 177 for the other day, on the 10th, now on the 17th, a week later, two pounds the other way. I gotta tell you like I know the problem, so I just have to start over. It's gonna sound crazy. I'm not eating enough food. That's it. I started doing protein replacement to make sure I had, you know, like, extra protein judge, and that was working great, and I just had trouble doing it every day, meaning, like, I just, I don't know, I didn't have a system around it. I guess I have to commit to having a system around the protein shake, which is not hard to drink. It's nice. It's chocolate. It's like eight ounce. It's not a big deal, you know. So here I am, January 17, Friday. You can even see I was supposed to inject Wednesday this week, and here I am. It's freaking Friday, and I'm finally getting to it. It's where the two pounds came, by the way, I was 177 this week, and the medications, like it's gone out of my system now. And I've, you know, I grabbed a couple of pounds already last night, I ate, I didn't even eat, well, like, I don't even know what if I made my I think I had, like, leftover pasta or something like that. So anyway, let me just I'm not going to say New year, new me. That sounds ridiculous, but it's January 17, 2025 I've got 12.5 of zbound right here. I'm going to stick it in. I'm going to commit to my my protein shake every damn day, and I'll be back on Friday, and I'm going to report something good if it kills me also, we're getting an aerobic, kind of like workout machine set up here at the house to help with that and kind of muscle building things we got, like a rowing machine. I'm getting that set up, and I want, I want to have better information about that next week too. But right now I just, I know for sure, protein, protein, protein and muscle training. I know these are the two things that I have to commit to, especially if I'm going to use this medication long term. Cap off, unlock, I'll tell you what the trash cans near. I don't think I'm going to miss I'm I found a nice jelly spot to put it. You ready? Hold on. I'll move the mic so you can hear it
better. Oh, that's some pressure at the end there. Damn, that's a goddamn. Oh, all right, all right, guys, I'm putting this I'm putting this I'm putting this one out because I don't even want the I don't even want another file to have any of this on it, of my inability to be consistent. So I'm going to be consistent. I'll see you next Friday. Enjoy this one. I'll see you soon. You
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