Life V3.0 (BigChris)

Your location: Western Catskill Mountains, NY, USA

Age (If you want): 42 at the end of July

How Primal are you: 90/10 – have club, meat and fire - need cave and grokette -

Do you consume dairy: cheese in all/any form

Do you drink coffee or tea: 1 large coffee on sat/sun, green tea weekday mornings, lots and lots of water

Motivator for switching to Primal: health – used to eat this way (long before it was a way) - then went through some rough times - gained 200+lbs, screwed up my BP, liver, gout, mind space, body chemistry, etc

Favorite exercise: excluding nephew presses – seated rows or lat pull downs – basically lift heavy things

Favorite Primal food: red meat, white meat, cooked meat, raw meat - flying, swimming, crawling, running, grazing it’s all good

Best part about being Primal: The way I feel and soon to be the way I look

Worst part about being Primal: While not directly primal, ATM - I HAVE TO track everything and keep my ratios, calories, meal timings and composition right – oh and I miss making/eating my homemade high-gluten breads.

I'm mourning my loss of bread baking too! Hi BigChris! Baking bread is totally fun and geeky in a good way (and I used to bake it all the time), but I've been trying to turn my attention to the barbecue instead. Nom nom grillables and seasonings.

Feeling great, got the day off tomorrow, driving down to south central PA this weekend to get a new custom made rear bumper and tire carrier install on the truck and I just ordered me some VFF KSO's .. Life is good

GOD I love primal .. BAS for lunch and now I'm sitting at my desk (yea would rather be outside tho only 2 more hr) but snaking on bag full of chunks of semi-raw london broil from the other night and a little (like 1 oz) of pepper jack cheese... it's good to be Me

Fat beast, fat burning beast, fat adapted … all I know is I feel great and did a 5hr drive in 100deg weather to southern pa, wrenched on my truck for 5 hrs and lifted heave thing (loaded tool boxes and parts) drive 5hr back north in same hot weather .. and only on 3 eggs, 4 pieces bacon, 1 slice swiss, 16 oz black coffee with baileys creamer (6am), 2 scoops protein powder mixed with 1 cup blackberries and ½ oats (noon) 3.5 oz beef jerky (6pm) (totals - 1200 cals 43% pro, 32 Fat, 25 carb, 2500mg sodium) and 2+ gals water.

So either my body is burning water or I’m ready to start mainlining clarified hog fat.

breakfast 1 Cup Blackberries
breakfast 1 Cup Cellery Hearts
breakfast 1.5 scoop Eas 100% Whey Protein
breakfast 1oz Ginger Root

morning snack 3 oz Baby Bella Mushrooms
morning snack 3 Large Egg
morning snack 3 strips Low Sodium Bacon
morning snack 1 tsp Tabasco Pepper Sauce

lunch 1/2 Avocado
lunch 1/2 Cucumber
lunch 2 tbls Fat Free Italian Salad Dressing
lunch 2 cups Iceburg Lettuce
lunch 1 Plum Tomato
lunch 4oz Solid White Albacore Very Low Sodium Tuna

afternoon snack 1 oz Fit & Active 1/3 Less Fat Neufchatel Cheese
afternoon snack 2 sheets Roasted Seaweed, Nori
afternoon snack 4 oz Usda Choice London Broil

dinner 8 oz Grilled Skinless Chicken Breast
dinner 2 cups Steamed Broccoli

evening snack 1/4 cup Pistachio Nuts


Calories 1699

Sugars 19.75 g
Fiber 28.2 g
Carbs 67.3 g
Fat 76.47 g
Protein 196.72 g
Cholesterol 980 mg
Sodium 1,424.10 mg

Ratios
45.05% Protein
39.62% Fat
15.32% Carbs

===================================Starting Mesurments

Neck = 19.5 inches
Shoulders = 68.0 inches
Chest = 62.0 inches
Waist = 70.0 inches
Hips = 56.0 inches

Left Upper Arm = 17.0 inches
Left Fore Arm = 13.0 inches
Left Wrist = 8.0 inches
Left Thigh = 28.0 inches
Left Calf = 20.0 inches
Left Ankle = 12.0 inches

Right Upper Arm = 17.0 inches
Right Fore Arm = 13.0inches
Right Wrist = 8.0 inches
Right Thigh = 28.0 inches
Right Calf = 20.0 inches
Right Ankle = 12.0 inchss

===================================Yesterday 7/29/12 - 42nd Bday

Neck = 18.5 inches
Shoulders = 60.0 inches
Chest = 56.0 inches
Waist = 60.0 inches
Hips = 56.0 inches

Left Upper Arm = 18.0 inches
Left Fore Arm = 12.0 inches
Left Wrist = 7.5 inches
Left Thigh = 27.0 inches
Left Calf = 19.0 inches
Left Ankle = 11.0 inches

Right Upper Arm = 18.0 inches
Right Fore Arm = 12.0inches
Right Wrist = 7.5 inches
Right Thigh = 27.0 inches
Right Calf = 19.0 inches
Right Ankle = 11.0 inchss

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Stuck at 379 +/- 5lbs for most of July but then eating and diet was a little off for a variety of reasons but back on track and back to losing 3+ lbs per week down to 369. Got a doc appointment on Thursday, believe all will go well just want their scale to match mine but sadly am feeling a bit blotted yesterday/ today (think it was the artificially sweetened instant drink mix I had over the weekend -some times I just want some flavoring in my water and didn’t feel like taking the time to make cold tea from scratch) hopefully it works it self out before then. Did great most of last week walked every day, workout 3 days at gym, and two evenings of kettle bell swings, and a bunch on LHT Saturday.

Way to go Big Chris! Looking at your measurements, you are making some good progress!!! Grok on!

well was official 378 at the docs today :( and watch tomorrow I will be back down to 368 ... I feel like a firken yo-yo ... I know it's only water/bloating weight but I will be happy when it goes away permanently
... BUT …
doc lady was WAY happy and impressed with my weigh lose and said keep it up … bp was still up a little 140/90 (probably cuz I was stressing big time over what the scale would say)... had blood drawn for my normal set of tests so will see what they say in a week or so although neither of us are to worried regardless of how they come back considering how much of a chance my body is going thru, so all meds stay the same and come back in 3 months (goal weight 333lb)… all in all a good visit.

Upping my net cals to 1800 per day for the next 6 weeks then back to 1400 for the last 6.