I lost 22 pounds!

I'm following Tim Feriss' Four Hour Body diet (very similar to the Atkin's diet, for what I hear) and lost 21 pounds in 7 weeks! I would have lost more and faster, but there's this thing in the diet where you can eat anything you want one time a week, and that sets me back three days, usually, but by Saturday morning, I'm in average 2 pounds lighter than the Saturday before.

It was way hard the first few days, and for the first couple of weeks I craved sugar really, really bad, but I learned to cope with it by having gum (Extra came up with a line of "Dessert Delights" sugar free gum that is awesome!), a sip of Diet Coke or Coke Zero (I like the latter better), and some cafeine free green tea or mate with a little Splenda. After a while the craving is really not that bad anymore. Besides, the fact that I can eat all the meat and eggs I want sold me into it. I find that after my "cheat day," I look forward to going back to my diet!

I would probably also lose weight faster and more effectively if I did the exercises that the book recommends, but it's so cold outside that I don't want to go to the garage to do them, so I might make more progress in the summer. I thought 20 pounds would be the final goal, but I see now that I'm probably just half way through!

My weight loss chart from caloriecount.about.com:

By the way, in this diet, you don't need to count calories. Basically, eat all the meat, beans, eggs, and vegetables you want. Stay away from carbs (bread, tortillas, pasta) and sugar (including fruits and fruit juice) except on your one cheat day. That's it. I paid $10 to find that out. Oh well, it was cheaper than the shovel of money I thew in my gym for a 20th of the result.