This is the second installment of “Shattering the Yo-yo”. What I’m trying to do is to break the cycle of up-and-down dieting that I have been in.

Looking back at 2018, by the time I recorded the second episode of the year I had lost twenty-four pounds in three weeks. I was basically starving myself. I thought I wasn’t going to extremes, that I was still getting enough protein, even though I wasn’t.

Lessons learned? I don’t need to lose five or eight or ten pounds a week. The most I would want to lose is one pound per week.

I have a plan to get back to a walking schedule. First, wearing shoes in the house. I just ordered a pair of slippers. Hopefully, that will reduce the stress on my feet.

The other thing is that as my weight decreases, the pressure on my feet should subside. Hopefully, this will work, and I won’t need to take more drastic action.

I am going on a modified intermittent fasting diet. I am fasting for most of the day, eating a very small meal at about noon, and a more-or-less regular-sized meal at dinnertime, aiming to reduce or eliminate carbohydrates and increase fat. I’ll try it and see, at my next physical, whether I have sustained any adverse effects.

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