Food Log Day 5: Target Weight Diet:

AM Weight: 235 Lb.

Around 9:20 AM: HCG drops.

Around 11:00 AM: Level tablespoon l-phenylalanine. 1 orange.

Coffee and water throughout AM.


1:17 PM: 7.5 oz. turkey breast
                .5 oz. vinegar
                1 teaspoon mustard
                4 radishes
                 1 oz. whole sunflower seeds.
                 Lunchtime nutrients: ( Hoodia, berberine, calcium ascorbate, multivitamins.) Also took magnesium and ptassium at this time.

Between 4 and 5 PM: 2 Nectarines, a serving of Bing cherries, 1 oz. Sun-Maid yogurt-covered raisins (120 calories. 4 grams fat.)

8:00 PM: A small serving of meatloaf, a baked potato sans butter or sour cream, 1/2 sweet potato, a serving of creamed corn. (Yeah I know. I had a plan but someone put hot food in front of me and look what happens.) 1 oz pretzels (110 calories.)

9:00 PM: Encore of 1 oz. Sun-Maid yogurt-covered raisins (120 calories. 4 grams fat.)
                1 oz. Sun-Maid strawberry flavored golden raisins (90 calories.)

9:45 PM: 4 Scoops arginine mix.

Day 5 Weight Log: Target Weight Diet

Day 0...August 26, 2017...239 lb.
Day 1...August 27, 2017...239 lb.
Day 2...August 28, 2017...237 lb.
Day 3...August 29, 2017...235 lb.
Day 4...August 30, 2017...233 lb.
Day 5...August 31, 2017...235 lb.

Food Log Day 4: Target Weight Diet

AM Weight: 233 Lb.

Despite falling off the wagon last night, I lost 2 pounds in a 24 hour period.

I sort of knew this day was coming and knew I would fall off diet. Lunch was a work event at Taco Bell with and I consumed about 950 calories. Good.

I have been putting off starting a diet because I have a lot of these sorts of landmines on my calendar. There is no perfect time to start a diet.

I will be off diet for duration of the day. I ate a nectarine and 1 oz. of Fritos. I will enjoy pork chops around 8 PM and again after midnight.

Around 10:00 PM: 4 scoops arginine mix.

I was also served pork chops, beans and rice when I got home. I ate well and then had 3 chocolate covered ice creams on a stick.

Steps for the day: 11,051. I did something right.

Day 4 Weight Log: Target Weight Diet

Day 0...August 26, 2017...239 lb.
Day 1...August 27, 2017...239 lb.
Day 2...August 28, 2017...237 lb.
Day 3...August 29, 2017...235 lb.
Day 4...August 30, 2017...233 lb.

Food Log Day 3:Target Weight Diet

AM Weight: 235 Lb.

10:12 AM: HCG drops.

12:00 PM: Tablespoon L-phenylalanine, approximately 12 oz. unpitted Bing cherries (120 calories estimate.) Magnesium, potassium.

1:10 PM: 10 oz. ham (250 calories estimate.)
                 4 radishes (4 calories estimate.)
                 .5 oz. vinegar (3 calories.)
                 1 teaspoon spicy mayo (30 calories estimate. 3 grams of fat. I have to be careful.)
                 1 oz. whole sunflower seeds (100 calorie estimate.)
                 Hoodia, berberine, calcium ascorbate, multivitamins.

487 calories so far.

Crystal Lite with caffeine throughout evening.

Around 8:00 PM: Berberine, hoodia.
                              1 boneless, skinless, balsamic chicken thigh (200 calories estimate.)
                               1 oz. of pretzels (110 calories)


797 calories so far.

TBC
I went off diet at home because Ms. D. prepared dinner for me unexpectedly. I ate the salad with almonds and olives but withheld the salad dressing. I ate a baked potato without butter or sour cream. The entree was meat loaf made with a high fat ground beef. I estimate dinner was about 1000 calories.

Steps for the day: 2,827.

Day 3 Weight Log: Target Weight Diet

Day 0...August 26, 2017...239 lb.
Day 1...August 27, 2017...239 lb.
Day 2...August 28, 2017...237 lb.
Day 3...August 29, 2017...235 lb.

Food Log Day 2: Target Weight Diet

AM Weight: 237 Lb.

9:30 HCG Drops.

Black coffee and water throughout AM.

10:30 AM: 10 oz. unpitted cherries (95 calories estimate.)

12:35 PM: Large Peach (69 calories estimate.)

12:45 PM: 1 tablespoon tyrosine.

1:15 PM: .5 oz. vinegar (3 calorie estimate), 10 oz. ham (300 calories), 4 radishes (4 calories estimate) Approximately 1+ oz. whole sunflower seeds (100 calories estimate), teaspoon mustard (3 calories) Magnesium, potassium, hoodia, berberine, calcium ascorbate, multivitamins.

Diet soda and Crystal Lite with caffeine throughout evening.

6:30 PM: Tablespoon cocoa (12 calories estimate.)

8;25 PM: Large peach (69 calories estimate.)

8:35 PM: Hoodia, berberine.
                4 oz. chunk lite tuna in water (120 calories)
                 1 oz. pretzels (110 calories.)
                 (875 calories so far)

Around 10:00 PM: 4 tablespoons arginine.

11:42 PM: HCG drops.

12:06 AM: 3 mg. melatonin, 1+ large peach (80 calories estimate.)

12:30 AM: Magnesium, potassium, another 3 mg. melatonin

1:00 AM: 7.5 oz. Bumble Bee Thai tuna (270 calories estimate)
                 26 pretzels (100 calories estimate).

1:52 AM: 25 mg. diphenhydramine, 5-HTP.

Estimated calories for the day: 1325.

Recorded steps for the day: 2,606.

Day 2 Weight Log: Target Weight Diet

Day 0...August 26, 2017...239 lb.
Day 1...August 27, 2017...239 lb.
Day 2...August 28, 2017...237 lb.

Food Log Day 1: Target Weight Diet

AM Weight: 239 lb.

8:30 AM: HCG drops.

Black coffee and water throughout day.

2:45 PM: Large Pink Lady Apple (From Chile I  believe.) (116 calories estimate.)

5:40 PM: .5 oz. vinegar. (3 calories estimate.)
                  3 oz. ham (75 calories).
                   10 oz. Black Forest turkey (300 calories estimate.)
                   teaspoon cinnamon (6 calories estimate.)
                   Berberine, magnesium, potassium, calcium ascorbate, multivitamins.

1 12 oz. seltzer with Crystal Lite caffeine mix sipped throughout evening.

Approximately 11:50 PM: 4 Scoops of Life Enhancement (4 calories estimate.)

12:06 AM: HCG drops.

12:30 AM: 3 mg. melatonin.

12:36 AM: 16 oz. Tofu macaroni (40 calories estimate)
                   Approximately 16 oz. Market Basket Salsa (140 calories estimate.)
                   Green Giant broccoli slaw with approximately 1/2 tomato, some marinara sauce, large serving that I estimate to be about 100 calories.
                    50 mg. diphenhydramine, multivitamins, calcium ascorbate, potassium, magnesium, 5-HTP (remind me to look up the amount in that tablet.)

784 Calories on the day.

Recorded steps for the day: 3,886.

Day 1 Weight Log: Target Weight Diet

Day 0....August 26, 2017...239 lb.
Day 1....August 27, 2017...239 lb.

GERD

GERD has eclipsed my other dietary issues for the past three months. What is frustrating is that I cannot figure out the cause of my ongoing ailment. I eliminated seltzer water. That worked for a while and then GERD returned.

I eliminated Half-N-Half from my coffee. It was a desperate, shoot in the dark measure. People will project their own dietary biases on the ret of the world. Anti-GMO? GMO's are causing your GERD. Anti-vaccination? When did you get that tetanus shot? Out of desperation, I eliminated Half-N-Half. Not sure it made any difference but I still drinking my coffee black.

I first reduced then eliminated whole sunflower seeds.

I started taking phenylalanine on an enpty stomach instead of with lunch.

I started drinking organic vinegar before meals.

I have been taking berberine fairly consistently.

I would find improvement and then, BOOM. Reflux so bad I had to carry vomit bags with me in the car. Yuck!

I went down a rabbit hole and found some interesting stuff. This guy has some interesting ideas that hit close to home.





But how can I use this brilliant doctor's ideas? Yes, I should eliminate GERD, but how?

I started doing a mudra for atrial fibrillation. I mistakenly believed that it was the same mudra for acid reflux. In compiling this post, I learned the two are slightly different.

This is what I was doing.


This is what I should have been doing when faced with acid reflux.


I will revisit that second mudra later.The Afib has been virtually nonexistent, btw.

I have been doining this exercise about five times a week. I t seems to work some of the time.



Gastroesophageal reflux disease can lead to more serious problems, like esophageal cancer, for instance. I am hedging my bets and seeing my primary care doctor this Wednesday. When I get a handle on this nasty disease, I will start another weight loss diet. Stay tuned.