So I weighed myself this morning and was 77.8kg for a BMI of 27, three months ago that was stuck at 83kg-85kg, so I am happy about it. I was aiming for 78kg so I'm changing my target to 75 and hoping to reach 70kg at some point.
It's not illness but because of one of my medication changes I had to remove banana's from my meals or at least reduce how many I eat a week. I had to make up for the loss of the magnesium source so I'd moved to a half handful of almonds instead of a banana at breakfast. Lower mass of food = dropping mass of me :D.
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alexislust:
How interesting! You have changed only one product in your diet and achieved such changes! That's cool! I can't stop with this!!!!!! I'm sorry for that!! Without irony.
woolenthreads:
No, changing the item was not what instituted the change. It's more the mass difference in what was being eaten. The banana's, on average, are about 400g, though more accurately range between 300g - 500g each, whereas a handful of almonds weigh between 30g to 40g. The medication forces a higher retention of potassium so the bananas, which are high in potassium with relatively high magnesium for a food, had to be dropped and I had to figure out an alternative source of magnesium. Nuts like almonds and cashews are by weight higher in potassium as a percentage (about 60%-80% more) but ten times higher in magnesium, so a tenth of the weight in nuts will net me the necessary magnesium.At some point I expect the loss to plateau so that there's no discernible change. Once that happens I'll have to reduce my dietary intake by a percentage to provide a similar effect.
