Eight months long plateau that turned in to a backslide!
During the early part of the pandemic I was able to drop 36 pounds as seen in the pictures posted on the previous articles! Unfortunately what began as a short plateau turned in to a yo-yo, became a backslide, and now I am at 23 pounds lost. Still feeling physically healthy, but the photos do not lie! 7 month plateau turned in to a yo-yo where I went from 258 to 264 pretty regularly therefore the doubt expressed in the previous post! In the eighth month my weight firmly remained at 270. The picture above is 274.
During the process I had to increase carb intake to fuel big efforts and long distance while tweaking my intake of electrolyte with a sugarless source. I was not successful in using the sugarless source in fact ended up in a hyponatremic state for over an hour on a recent long bout. As a result I have stopped speed and endurance training and relegated weight-loss to my efforts in walking.
Maintaining the balance between ketogenic and glycogenic states proved to be my downfall for the backslide. As our efforts in our walking regime increase hopefully the scale numbers will head back down. It has proved to be slower because of tissue tares from the hyponatremic melt-down ride where Gayle had to come rescue me at 281 and 410 South.
“I would not be a backslider, No!, I’ll tell you the reason why, Yes!, ‘cuz if my Lord done call on me, I wouldn’t be ready to die!” Sung with the Lackland African American Community Church! Oh what a Joy!
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