Week 1 Recap

Tonight marks one whole week of Geek to Freak!

I'm still not adhering perfectly to the plan, but I'm getting a little better every day. Week 2 will be much better than week 1 was. And week 1 wasn't half bad:

I'm assuming my weight on 11/9 was off a bit because I had to replace the battery in the scale the next morning, so I assume I gained about 2.5 lbs. Considering that my weight normally varies about 2-3lbs up or down month to month, this isn't spectacular. I'll need to push harder next week.

Lessons learned:

• Don't experiment with recipes in bulk, especially if you invented the recipe based on "intuition".
• Nothing (NOTHING) beats eating within 30 minutes of getting up in the morning. Skipping or delaying breakfast will put my appetite in the shitter for the rest of the day.

Tomorrow I'll be getting blood drawn to establish baseline values for triglycerides, cholesterol, liver enzymes, and whatever else my physician approved. Apparently Testosterone, HGH, and IGF-1 are all expensive tests to get done, and the data isn't worth to me what it costs. 

I'll also look at blood levels of the heavy metals lead and mercury, for three reasons: 

1. I've been melting leaded solder onto mercury-containing devices in my various bedrooms for the better part of a decade.
2. Many studies show the presence of heavy metals in dietary supplements.
3. Alpha lipoic acid is purported to be a chelating agent (removes heavy metals from the body).

In fact, the quality of dietary supplements on a whole is apparently appalling; incorrect stated quantities, significant impurities, and occasionally the presence of unintended toxins like heavy metals are very common. I would support an FDA takeover of the completely unregulated supplement industry, but there doesn't seem to be much political will behind that movement right now.

Week 1 Recap

Tonight marks one whole week of Geek to Freak!

I'm still not adhering perfectly to the plan, but I'm getting a little better every day. Week 2 will be much better than week 1 was. And week 1 wasn't half bad:

I'm assuming my weight on 11/9 was off a bit because I had to replace the battery in the scale the next morning, so I assume I gained about 2.5 lbs. Considering that my weight normally varies about 2-3lbs up or down month to month, this isn't spectacular. I'll need to push harder next week.

Lessons learned:

• Don't experiment with recipes in bulk, especially if you invented the recipe based on "intuition".
• Nothing (NOTHING) beats eating within 30 minutes of getting up in the morning. Skipping or delaying breakfast will put my appetite in the shitter for the rest of the day.

Tomorrow I'll be getting blood drawn to establish baseline values for triglycerides, cholesterol, liver enzymes, and whatever else my physician approved. Apparently Testosterone, HGH, and IGF-1 are all expensive tests to get done, and the data isn't worth to me what it costs. 

I'll also look at blood levels of the heavy metals lead and mercury, for two reasons: 

1. I've been melting leaded solder onto mercury-containing devices in my various bedrooms for the better part of a decade.
2. Many studies show the presence of heavy metals in dietary supplements.
3. Alpha lipoic acid is purported to be a chelating agent (removes heavy metals from the body).

In fact, the quality of dietary supplements on a whole is apparently appalling; incorrect stated quantities, significant impurities, and occasionally the presence of unintended toxins like heavy metals are very common. I would support an FDA takeover of the completely unregulated supplement industry, but there doesn't seem to be much political will behind that movement right now.