Diet Buddy

I've done low carbs before and lost like 15-20, but put it back on quickly. So as I pondered it, it came to me (I think I was inspired!): I need a buddy.

So, I enlisted my brother as my diet buddy. We counted calories and weighed in and emailed each other the results every day. That's about it. The peer pressure makes a big difference for me. My brother lost 50, from 250-200. We kind of kept is as unstructured as possible, just to learn what works for us and what doesn't. It has been fun learning.

I'd like to go another 10 pounds but I've practically gone on a hunger strike and not lost that extra 10 pounds.

I started in February and was mostly done in May for my birthday. I kept counting calories through June, when I gave it up. Interestingly I kept the weight off, even though I ate pretty much whatever I wanted. I think my diet has dramatically changed, though.

Anyway, my dad was way too big, so I got him into a diet buddy with me. I'm not losing any weight, be he's down 20 pounds. I've been counting calories for over a month now to support him. My bro wants back in the pool because he's been putting some back on, so I think he'll join us in a 3 way pool. We'll see how that goes?

We did learn that for a lot of people, spouses don't make good diet buddies. Because this is sometimes some friction between buddies and some cajoling if they went overboard on a day, and we didn't need extra friction with our spouse, certainly not in matters dealing with her weight. Plus, since she lives with you, there is no reason to report to her what you ate.

Anyway, that's my findings.

I have to go at least a year at this weight. My health came in on par to qualify for "preferred elite" status on the life insurance front. That means $65/month for $1 million bucks on my head for my wife. But because I'd lost all of the weight quickly, they only gave me preferred at $80/month and they'll re-evaluate next year and if I'm still down, they'll give me the $65/month rate. So I gotta make it that far.