PSMF DAY 6 stats

Weight: 211.8
Fat Percentage: 25.5 

Yeeeeeah, I think I’m done.

This morning I woke up and I knew, I just KNEW that there would be some sort of change on the scale.  For the last 3 days I’ve been really stringent, and I’ve exorcised and I’ve ingested virtually zero grabs of fat carbs.  My ketostix are a purple that only happens when I’m eating incredibly fatty foods. I’m doing what I’m supposed to do and on the 3rd day in a row I’m at the same weight. Not even like .8 down.  A .5 would have helped. Just show me something to let me know that what I’m doing has more benefit that giving me something to blog about every morning.

I won’t lie to you.  By last night I wasn’t feeling too hot. After a full day of being active, I was cooking for a party, had done weight training and my feet still hurt from that 8.5 mile walk I did a few days ago. I think I made the decision last night way before I ever stepped onto the scale this morning. Basically when I got on the scale it was to make it show me WHY I should stay on this.

It didn’t. 

Now someone commented and left me a link to Lyle McDonalds post about how  weight loss isn’t continuous and it has moments of nothing, then more nothing, then boom. 4 pounds. I know that my body must be freaking out and is trying to retain what it can. All of this does not counter balance my feeling crappy and nothing seeing some sort of movement on the scale. 

Maybe I just need one of those refeeds they speak of so much.  I have enough fat that I figured that I could go 2 weeks with out a break. And yes, I DO see that it says my fat percentage is down again. But I seriously just don’t understand what that means. It’s impossible. I’m the same weight. according to that Ive gained 2 or 3 pounds of muscle and lost 2 or 3 pounds of fat in an exact ratio. If I follow this  supposed fat loss rate I just need 15 more days on this thing and I’ll have a 6 pack. I’ll be the exact same weight, but magically i’ll gain something like 20 pounds of muscle. 

I’m not completely done with the concept of PSMF.  Fact is I’ve done it before but didn’t KNOW I was doing it. Just did it for a few days to clear some sodium out of my system.  I know it works great for that (see the 5 pounds I lost in a day.) I’m going back to my regular Low Carbing. I plan to keep my protein high though. Maybe in another 2 weeks I’ll attempt another week of this.  I might even play with a little intermittant fasting (i did THAT too before) but I’m fairly sure my PSMFing for now is DONE.

And I almost cut my g/f last night.  This thing was NOT helping my mood even a little bit.

So I’ve dubbed the PSMF diet the Super Soldier Program.

“What the holy hell is that?”

Well, my non-geeky reader (Geeks are very familiar with said program), the Super Soldier program is what created the mythical Marvel Superheros “Captain America” and “Wolverine” if I remember correctly (Do you like how I pretended that I don’t know this crap like the back of my hand?) Caps super power (or what it should be when written by writers who pay attention the past) is that he is at the peak of human conditioning.  This is currently whats keeping me going on this ridiculous, ridiculous regimen.

Not that PSMF is ridiculous, but give the details to the average person and they will stare at you like you have 3 heads.  It’s possible they may stare at you harder than they would if you said you were on Atkins (and we ALL know how hard people stare at that.)

“How does it work?”

Oh, I just completely cut out carbs and fats and eat my body weight in grams of protein supplimented by whey protein,  multvitamins, fish oil and fiber tablets.

Yeah,  play that over in your head.  It SOUNDS nuts.

Hence why I like the term Super Soldier program way  more.  It sounds like I’m signing up for missions to save the country or something. I have a friend who has actually decided to do this WITH me (I think he liked the “Super Soldier” idea as well.) I assume after watching me drop 15 percent of my body weight in a few months has made him a believer.  Plus my ability to rattle off statistics, studies and facts like I was Rain Man.

I won’t lie to you folks, I think I may have unreasonable expectations of the Super Sold…er…PSMF.  In my mind, at the end of this I will be 190 pounds  and I might, just might be able to jump off of roof tops and fight crime.

“Elon that’s silly.”

I know its silly. But I believe it or better yet, I WANT to believe it. I’m doing weights (nothing crazy) plus I plan to run and bike.  I’m really trying to keep as much muscle mass as possible.  I’ve heard of people losing 30 pounds in a month.  It was  most likely a large amount of water weight, but I genuinely want to believe with diet, exercise and a severe enough calorie deficit, all while keeping ketosis and plenty of protein I can do 20 to 25 pounds in a month and a half.  Theoretically I should lose AT LEAST 12 pounds in that time. Following the whole 2 pounds a week thing. Going down to 202 would be one of the most amazing things for me I’ve experienced in my life.

But I like to think of myself as someone with logic. If I use Lyle McDonald’s information on calories released from fat, which states that you can have a caloric deficit of 31 calories multiplied by each pound of fat. I can have about 1813.5 deficit per day.

So Pounds of Fat (mine is 58.5) x 31 calories  x 7(days of the week)  x 6 (weeks I’ll be PSMF) /3500 (calories in a pound of fat) = 21.7 pounds of Fat.

But that’s only if everything went perfectly. Oh, and that I also kept 58.5 pounds of fat at me at all times.  When I drop to, lets say, 40 pounds of fat I’d only have the ability to sustain a 1240 calorie deficit.

Remind me once I get thin to never, ever, ever-ever-ever allow myself to gain this much weight. No man should be doing these calculations while just chilling out on a Wednesday afternoon.