It;s been years since I've ujpdated this blog. I am getting professional  help from Dr. Steven Toshiro, a really nice chriopractor. It's been five years and I've lost wight to under 260 Pounds. I tell everybody I only weigh 117. Isn;t the metric system wonderful,

 

Gliadin is "Evil". I have been reading about gluten and hybrid wheat. I am convinced that my problems are all because I am gluten sensitive. I blame my obesity on gluten. It seems that some people have altered brain chemistry. Eating gliadin, another protein in wheat, causes people to lose control of their appetite. I am convinced that I am one of these people. Now that I am on a gluten free diet I am eating much less.

My analysis is that only a hundred extra calories a day is a pound per month weight gain. I have been gaining three pounds per year since high school. That is only about an extra thirty calories per day.

I lost twenty pounds for 2012 by not eating much wheat. I did not really go gluten free at the start of 2012 I was only on a low gluten diet. I plan to lose at least thirty six pounds this year.

As soon as I rehabilitate my hip I hope to be able to increase my exercise. Then I expect my weight to drop even faster. My plan is to steadily increase my exercise until I can do thirty minutes of exercise each day.

This year I have found lots of gluten free foods. I am doing a little better and my psoriasis is very slowly getting better. The bad news I found out that the antibodies from gliadin and gluten last a long, long time.

It's a new year and time to make new year's resolutions.
I now have a home gym. I am on a totally gluten free diet.

I worked out today and my back is feeling much better.
I have an exercise bench, barbells, a health rider, a three minute timer, and rubber exercise mats.
I turn on my iPod and exercise. Today was good physical therapy.

Pizza is evil!

I just performed a test of my gluten sensitivity. Now that I have lost weight and I'm twenty pounds lighter I thought I would try some pizza. The pizza was from Papa Murphies and it was delicious. We had a wonderful meal with the whole family.

I woke up in the middle of the night with dactylitis in my right hand proving that I am still gluten sensitive.

I'm going back onto a gluten free diet and I won't try any more experiments until all the arthritis clears up. I hope that will be soon. I didn't have any trouble until I weighed 280 pounds. I am hoping these health problems will go away this coming year.

My goal is to lose 24 pounds for 2012 and to lose 36 pounds for 2013.

Life is PAIN! The arthritis has been crippling lately and I am going to try drinking Apple Cider Vinegar, a shot every day. Maybe a shot glass twice a day. It seems to help with the indigestion. That seems strange. It is acetic acid. You might think it would make acid stomach worse, but it helps.

I started the year at size 54 and I am down seven centimeters from 142 to 135 cm and I have gone from XXL shirts to XL. I have punched three new holes in my belt. That's only losing eight Kilograms. That is the equivalent of a twenty centimeter cube of matter off my body. I like expressing it that way. I hope my imaginary cube will increase from twenty to thirty centimeters over the next year. Then I will be down 27 Kilograms.

I weighed in at 293.2 on the "good scale" today. Essential 133 Kg.

Only 53 Kilograms more to lose.

It is October the first and I just weighed in at 294.4 pounds. That's down 17 pounds for the year. Less than two pounds per month. I am now 46 % body fat. I want to lose a lot more weight and I am planning on losing four pounds for October. I really want to be down twelve kilograms for 2012.

WOW! It is September already and I have not been posting to my blog.

The good news is I am off of gluten! I went low gluten at Thanksgiving and that did not seem to make any difference. I drank a beer every Friday and had a little pizza every month. Well it seems that beer has gluten in it! It's not just the chewy breads that have the gluten so thick you can feel it. I am doing a much better now. I have been gluten free since June 2012, and I am losing weight. I have punched three new holes in my belt this year (2012) and my psoriasis is clearing up and I have not had any more arthritis flare ups. Unfortunately the joint damage is not healing very quickly. My left hip is still bad. Everything else is slowly healing. My knees are better, my shoulder is better, but my right hand still has swollen knuckles and limited flexability and a weakened grip.

I can swim but I have not been out on the bicycle. I hope to change that soon. I am only averaging about fifteen minutes of exercise per day. I really hope to increase that once my hip heals a little more.