I have published a health book

Yes, I have put all my various thoughts on health down in a book. It does not discuss MGUS because I want to do that as a separate book (which I have just started now) but it discusses all that I have learned in 40 years and my best information. 

Guerrilla Tactics for the Health of your Dreams

I am overweight!

It has been a long time in the making but I am officially now just overweight.. not obese!

Ironically trying to lose weight was probably the reason I found my MGUS. In November of 2019 I was on "emergency" at work. This is my busy season and it really exhausted me more than ever before. I weighted in at 217... one of my highest weights.. and I was coming home at night in miserable condition. In pain, exhausted. I was growing out of my clothing. 

So I decided it was time to lose weight and I started with Intermittent fasting. I wasn't on it long when I got sick. That derailed me. But then in January and February of 2020 I had pain in my back. It seemed linked to IF. And it was through the pain I found my MGUS. Then Covid hit and things were on hold. 

Finally in November of 2020 I realized we weren't going back to work and this was my opportunity to lose weight. And so, I started on Keto. And I went down about 10 lbs in about a months time. But then I started Alternate day fasting. Things really got rolling. 

Lately however, things have been difficult. I can't tell if I am being impatient or hurting my own progress by taking breaks. I live in fear or adaptive thermogenesis because that has happened before. But I have to stop to say that I am now officially simply overweight. This is a major milestone.  

I am now questioning adaptive thermogenesis because I have been pivoting and taking breaks and it does seem far more difficult now to lose weight. So is it adaptive thermogenesis? Or does my TDEE just reduce when I get to a lower weight? 

At the same time I am not at all sure what I have been eating because one day I will fast, one day I will over do the calories... etc. Some days I will eat carbs.

So I think for the month of June I am just going to do Calorie Restriction / Keto so I can get an idea of how much weight I lose. It appears I have been losing about 3 lbs per month... if on steady Keto for a month I lose 3 lbs at a 1000 calorie per day level.. I will know that my TDEE is about 1400.