#1057 Weight Loss Diary: Seven

November 8, 2023Scott Benner

Scott is taking Wegovy for weight loss. This is diary number seven.

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Hello friends, and welcome to episode 1057 of the Juicebox Podcast

Welcome back, everybody. This is my seventh week Ovie diary. I appreciate you listening to them. I'm losing weight, sometimes quicker, sometimes slower, always with new things being revealed to me. While you're listening. Please remember that nothing you hear on the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise, please Always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care plan. If you're looking to start using ag one, you can drink ag one.com/juicebox That's my link. Use that link. Get a free year supply of vitamin D and five free travel packs with your first order. If you want to save 40% off of comfortable things like joggers and clothes and pajamas and towels and sheets, you can do that at cozy earth.com When you use the offer code juicebox at checkout, you will save 40% off of your entire order. And don't forget the diabetes Pro Tip series that begins at episode 1000 and goes to Episode 1026. All right, let's find out how my last I don't know how many like six or seven weeks of we go we have gone have we gone? I should say

Have we gone he is the funniest thing I've said in like a week. This episode of The Juicebox Podcast is sponsored by us med us med.com/juice box or call 888721151 for us Metis the place where Arden gets her supplies from you know how people have places where they get their diabetes supplies from like insulin test strips meters, or what else pumps CGM? Yeah, like distributors who do that stuff. Anyway, US met.com/juice box that's where we get our supplies you could to today's podcast is also sponsored by touched by type one. Now touched by type one's big dancing for diabetes event is coming up really, really soon. I think it's on November 11, you have to go check their website touched by type one.org There's still time to get tickets to that live event in Orlando, Florida, or just check out the website and see all the great things they're doing for people living with diabetes. Well, I'm back. And I'm not thrilled, but I'm not upset. I guess that's something. I'm opening up my app here so I can tell you a little bit about this week's journey. My glasses on and go to trends on my app. Going back seven days today's the 26th makes something physical 21st

Is that right? That's right, isn't it? 22nd Seriously, I'll just pull up a calendar real quick. The 19th was a week ago. Oh, interesting. All right. So on the 19th I was 190 7.4 came in here told you all about it. It was fresh off of a weekend where I was away. And now I've been back for a week had a little head cold. And the tingly arm thing by the way gets very slowly better. I found the source of the pain inside of my elbow is very sore still, like amazing. I guess I must have just slept right on it on the plane. And anyway, the the feelings coming back very slowly. It's a little scary but feels like it's going in the right direction. So I'm not too worried. Anyway, on that Tuesday, the 19th I was 197.4 pounds. I had lost some weight over the couple of days while I was traveling, etc. But man I woke up the next day 199 I was like oh, but then it came back when 97.8 and that held for a couple of days. 21st The 22nd Now 23rd and 24th I didn't weigh myself I was like skinny now what do I prepare myself for? I should have done that. But I'm also not skinny. But it was today is Tuesday. And on Sunday my wife left for a business trip and on the way home from dropping her at the airport. I stopped and picked up you know about a guy by myself. I picked up enough food to get me through four days till my wife got back I bought a turkey breast pack of chicken wings. I ate shrimp that I'm going to saute and a piece of tuna. It's like that'll get me through for days. Anyway, I let off on Sunday with the chicken wings, which were dry rubbed kind of heavily salted pretty much. And man I woke up the next day, a pound heavier almost went from 197 Eight to 198 Six just for the chicken wings. It no sauce. Keep in mind, there's a little hot sauce on it, but no sugar and nothing like that. It was the salt. I got on the scale the next day. It's like, ah, the salt the chicken legs. But then yesterday when I got up, and I had to have lunch, I just ate the rest of my chicken wings because they were yummy. And I'll be damn I am 190 9.8 this morning. Not something that really to me is crazy. That's over two pounds. Just eating over salted food that is now has me retaining water. I'll tell you it this whole thing teaches me a ton every day about paying attention to what's going into your body and, and whatnot. Anyway, that's pretty much the story. I'm going to we go over it up here and be on our way things are running well as far as the the elimination systems going. I got all that moving nicely. And nothing poor to report here. So I'm just going to inject and I'll see you next week

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I'll tell you one thing, putting the chicken wings on the last two days of the week, the week over the week. That was a bigger mistake, because the medicine wanes as like the week goes on that I would I again I'm not a doctor and I haven't researched this but that just seems like it's what's happened. So chicken wings salty during the weighing of the medication, probably not a great idea. We'll see I fully expect to wake up two days from now and weigh two pounds less again. So we'll see what happens. And then I'll come back in seven days and let you know us med.com/juicebox or call 888721151 for us med is the place where Arden gets her diabetes supplies from and you could too we get Omni pod and Dexcom from us med but there's so much more. US med has actually all the latest CGM is Dexcom G seven and libre three you can also get the libre two or the G six. You can get Omni pod dash Omni pod five. That tandem pump. They got everything over there. US med is the number one distributor for FreeStyle Libre systems nationwide. You always listen to this. This is incredible. You always get 90 days worth of supplies when you order from us Med and it comes with fast and free shipping fast and free shipping over 1 million diabetes customers since 1996. That's what US med is up to. What are you doing? Are you are you doing it right now? Are you calling 888-721-1514? Going to the website us? med.com/juicebox do it get your free benefits check and get started today. They probably take your insurance because us med accepts Medicare nationwide and over 800 private insurers. Ah I know this is an ad, right? I know this is an ad and you're like Scott's gonna tell me a story and it's gonna sound great. And I'm gonna think about going to us Matt and but he's probably just trying to trick me and listen to me. Email arrives. Do you want to reorder your supplies? Click? Yes. Then they're just here. They're downstairs right now. Right inside the front door. What what came last? Oh. On the pods? Do you want to reorder your Omni pods? Yes, I do. Done That was it. And then I get these beautiful updates like about shipping your orders on its way you know, it's out on the truck like this whole thing. Front door here it is could not be simpler. Us med.com/juice box are amazing supporters of the podcast and they do a great job delivering your supplies. Give them a try. You don't like the internet, use the phone 888-721-1514. Okay, that's it back to the weego V diary. No more ads. Just you know, support the podcast whenever you can. There's links in the show notes and links at juicebox podcast.com. To all of the sponsors. Well, I'm back it's October 3. I didn't exactly go the way I was hoping but it didn't go poorly either. And I have a little more insight than I had I'm now thinking that the weight loss I had was from I took a steroid pack, and I really think it dehydrated me. So this isn't how everyone does steroids, but not steroids. But this isn't how a steroid pack impacts everyone. But it impacts me that way. When I start taking a an oral steroid medication, I've done it a few times my life, I pee like crazy for the first 24 hours. I actually think I peed out two pounds, because I'm back now this morning, I was 190 9.4, which is still down from 190 9.8 last week. But I actually think that's what it was, I think it was just water weight, just crazy enough. I think I got rid of it with the steroid pack, and it came back with the salt. And I think I confuse those two things a little bit when I was talking last time. So anyway, um, 190 9.4 Today, I feel terrific. I got to shoot my week over there's not a lot to report this time. I didn't eat very much this week. I think that's a problem. So I'm going to thoughtfully eat some more food this week. I don't want to say get back on track, because I just don't see it that way. I think it's just an up and down thing. And I'm losing weight as I go, I can tell you this, I just saw a friend for lunch, a person I have not seen in a very long time. And we opened the door. And he said, Oh my God, you look like your little brother, which was very cool. Then we spent a little time talking about this. He's actually a physician and he was really thrilled for me. Anyway, we go V 2.4 milligrams, said milliliters the other day to somebody and I was like, I don't think that's right. milligrams. Let's put it in, shall we? I'm gonna go to the other side of my stomach this time. My stomach, which by the way is a little weird, the way it's getting smaller. I'm deciding now I'm going to tell you something that I think is potentially embarrassing. Give me a second to shoot this and then I'll make my decision and then we'll be done. Here looks good. About here

am I going to tell you something embarrassing? Oh, hell, I guess so. So my stomach was round enough before that, if I looked down, I saw my belly button. And my belly button was big. I used to get made fun of actually by my family. And now when I looked down my belly button is not as obvious because it's, I guess it's lower. Not up at like, I don't know how to put it exactly. Anyway, when I look down, I don't immediately see my belly button when I'm standing. And it's much smaller. Like if if I was hiding things in my I was not hiding things in my belly button. But if I used to hide things, my belly button, I cannot hide them in there any longer. So there's an interesting little factoid for you and I'll see you next week. Hey, hey, hey, what do you say October 10. And I'm here today to share big news with you about my weight loss journey. Allah I ran out of rhymes there at the end. Don't worry. None of that was planned. So I'm surprised and went that long. October 10. A week ago was October 3. Now, let's talk some numbers. And then deets as details about food ready. I'm opening up my way machine app. That's the app that pairs to my scale. And the weighing machine tells me that when I was here with you last week, on October 3, I weighed 199.4 pounds. You may remember from moments ago as you were listening. Let me take a drink today and this deserves a drumroll on the nose 196 I lost 3.4 pounds since October 3. How do I do it? Well, I take we go V 2.4 milligrams, injected once weekly, which I'm going to do right now and then tell you about what I've been eating and a supplement change. Finding some fat on my belly to put the govia in. There is much less of that. I've taken the cap off and I will now stick the needle party up to my Bing Bing and here we go.

Okie dokie Lee. Here's how my week went. On Tuesday, I injected right on Wednesday. I gained weight that was upsetting. I woke up one day Oh no. Excuse me. I lied. I lost a little I went to 198, eight, on the fifth. I was two days after my weigh in. Next day, I'm moving 10 Eight. See, I'm not weighing myself as much anymore now 10 Eight, I weigh myself again 10 eights yesterday, I was 197. So I didn't weigh myself that week. Now you might ask why. I was frustrated. I really was. I was frustrated. And my son came home for a short visit. And a I don't know how much of this I should say, but I'll just say this like this. My wife's boss came in from out of the country. And she stayed with us for a few days. So we were crazy here, Kelly and I were like, you know how it is it cleaning in corners that you're like, oh, I don't know if that corner is clean. And we got to put this away and oh my god, is this been sitting here for three months? How can we never got rid of this? This we're making our house look like we're human. And we're doing that for like days. We're working all day. And then in the afternoons, we're wandering around and cleaning stuff up. I wasn't weighing myself. I was kind of, again, irritated by my weight last time. But on, let me get the date right here. Looking at my calendar, sorry. So I weighed myself, I had lunch with a friend that day, it was the first time I was able to really talk about, you know, we go be with somebody who I've never talked about it with before. Now, the next day on the fourth, I do an interview with this 14 year old girl who has diabetes. She has been on the show before, I'll get the episode number and tell you here I think I think her episodes called bugs in your belly or something like that. Or she came on last year or wishes her name Orisha. And she's telling me about how she eats and how clean sheets and all this stuff she does. You know, does a green drink every morning and healthiest little 14 year old kid you've ever seen in your life, right? Anyway asked her to come back on I just so happened to record with her last week on the fourth. Today again being the tab. So six days ago. And while we're talking she's telling me about this probiotic she takes and you should try it Scott I ordered like while we were talking I was like alright, you know, if you're not going to take medical advice from a 14 year old kid, where can you get medical advice from right? So I would her her stuff. It comes the next day because Amazon and I start taking you out right away. The fifth, the sixth, seventh, the eighth and ninth, the 10th. That's how long I've been taking this thing. I'm not ready to tell you about it yet because it hasn't been that much time. But I can tell you what the like, you know people talk about, I started taking a probiotic and the bloating left my belly. Well, when you're fat, you don't know if your belly is bloated or not. How could you even tell? Right? So but I'm watching that happen now like this stuff. Really lovely. I'm gonna have a good report back about it. I think in a month or so. Not the point. Elimination picks up, things are going on. I had nice process going through me again. But but but but my son comes in Saturday morning. This is just two three days ago on the seventh. He's here now he's got friends over. We're barbecuing for them. There's ribs. You know, I think all the salt like you know what happened to me when I was eating the salty wings last time. Plus, my wife's boss comes in same day, like I'm telling you I got up early Saturday morning, pick my son up from an airport, drove him home, got back in my car, drove to a different airport picked up another person and international flyer. And we get back and settle in. She's hungry. So we go out. And now we're at this restaurant. And my goodness, I have linguini it has shrimp in it, it has mussels in it. There's bread on the table, I'm eating the bread, because the farther away you are from your ego, the injection kind of the more you can eat a little bit. So I'm eating like pretty regularly. And all I could think is I am going to gain weight. I mean just everything about my life in the past says this is going to happen. I did my digestive enzyme with the food, which was nice. I had a very nice experience eating the pasta, and the bread and everything all went really well. Elimination was still fine. But now we're leaving that restaurant. Oh, is that a cupcake store? Now we're a dozen cupcakes in my house because my my son's got friends over the bosses there. Does I mean chocolate and candy on them and they're, I mean just nothing healthy about them. Nowhere. If I would have pulled the wrapper off the cupcake and ate the wrapper. That would have been the best thing I could have done decision wise. But I have a cupcake that night like at nine o'clock at night. Like a causing a hazard you know hazard. You don't know yet. But anyway, eat the cupcake. I wake up the next morning. Hello. I lost weight. I was like wait a minute made the linguini I ate the bread. I had a cupcake. I lost weight doesn't make Get a sense, right on whatever that was on the eighth when I weighed myself 197 pounds I was down, you know, a pound eight since the last time I checked on the fifth. Well, then I wake up on the ninth. Now I'm reinvigorated to, you know, weigh myself again. But now there's been ribs. And what else ribs a whole bunch of stuff, but I wake up the next day 190 6.2 That's yesterday. I was like, my goodness. today. I'm 196 I wake up, but what I ate yesterday, I had a deli sandwich. If I would have thrown it at you. I could have given you a concussion. It was. I got up in the morning I had two eggs. Right. Two eggs. I think I folded a little bit of Parmesan cheese and the tiniest little bit. Little shaved right. And then the sandwich. It's I mean, I'm looking at my hands. No, you can't see that. It's great for podcasts. It's a softball, like a child sized softball. So the bigger ones, you know, they make them big so they can't beat each other with them. Like a big softball, plus maybe another inch. In this kaiser roll. I put roast beef and turkey Provolone on it had some mustard, a couple of other dishes and dashes like you know, salt, pepper, oregano, that kind of stuff. Right? I eat half of her lunch on with a handful of chips. Who am I potato chips. Get out of here. I'm eating like a like a regular person. That night, which is last night ate the other half of the sandwich. And I'm like, Let's have another cupcake. I have another cupcake along with my sandwich with chips. I'm eating until like eight o'clock at night watching a sporting event on the television. And I think I had chocolate chip cookies too. And I woke up later this morning. God bless with govi All right, I don't I'm not a god person but I think if there's a God he's pretty focused right now on will go V and and other weight loss medications. And and who else my blessing while I'm doing this would go v and this probiotic which I'm not 100% ready to tell you about yet. But my goodness gracious. Scotty on to something now. If I come to you 193 Next week, I'll be singing when the microphone comes on. Hey, everybody. Hello. It is the evening on October 17. I'm telling you what the evening because I always record these first thing in the morning. I get up on Tuesday. I weigh myself take a shower. Come in here record my COVID diary today. I like I didn't forget, I weighed myself. I put the wig over you right here on my desk. Something happened and I never got back to it. So it's like 12 hours later. I've never taken it to sleep before. Anyway, I'm gonna take it tell you something real quick. But yeah, to hear. Where am I gonna put this? Up the side

there feels right.

Okay, two things. First thing is I met somebody at a store today, today yesterday. And they were like, I forget how it came up. But I, they were like you lost weight? And I said yes. And I told them how much. And they asked questions about it. It was interesting to watch somebody's face to face, listen to the conversation. And I thought oh, I hope people are, you know, enjoying the diaries like that. And maybe post online. So I put a post up on the Facebook group. I'm sorry, I'm so loud. Like, I don't know how to do this because it's evening. I apologize. I put a post up on the Facebook group, which got a ton of response and so many people who jumped in and were either thank you for doing this because I really have been considering doing this and it's nice to hear the diaries, a lot of people telling me how much you guys enjoyed these episodes. And I have to be honest, I wasn't certain I just you know, I put them up and I hope you liked them. But I got a lot of terrific feedback. I also met a lot of people online who are also using ozempic We go V Manjaro or something like that. A lot of great stories out there. I think I'm going to do a couple of them. So you know if you have type one and you're using one of these GRPs get a hold of me if you want to be on the podcast, I think it would be really cool. Anyway that post was terrific. I love meeting everybody and seeing the kind of like community and and friendship I didn't realize there would be but I guess in a Facebook group that large. We could probably post about anything and find people who are who are affected by what you're talking about or or have thoughts about it. Anyway, let me get out my app. It is October 17. I guess that means that the last time I did this was on this Seven. Yes. I mean that just know the 10th dusk got where to go on the 10th. So today, why don't you go back to the 10th 1010? Where the hell is that? You would think it's after the knife. It is. Okay, so last week when I reported to you, I was 196 pounds. And today, after a week of how do I say this, my wife went to a farmers market and brought fudge back. We found something and by we, I mean me, found something that makes it through the thing that kills the sweet taste on the weego V. And that thing was fudge. I ate too much fudge this week. How much? I don't want to say I'd be embarrassed but if it wasn't a half a pound, I'd be surprised. So I had a little pieces of fudge throughout the day for a week. You know, this week I also ate shrimp. I had some pasta, chicken wings. Yes, smoked chicken wings. A couple of things like that one. And there's like a bunch of noisy stuff here. I gotta get rid of I really don't seem to know how to make a podcast if it's not in the daytime. Pretty good. Eggs wraps. I had a lot of steak with my eggs. These couple of mornings ate a lot of yogurt this week at one. It took my vitamins. And I started a new probiotic, which again, I'm not ready to talk about yet because I've only been on it for a couple of weeks. Anyway, I weighed myself this morning, and I weigh 196 pounds. I didn't gain any weight this week. I didn't gain any weight. Didn't lose any weight. I'm pretty good with that. I have to be honest with you. I know how I ate this week. And the idea that my my weight stay where it is absolutely fantastic. I had a waffle at a restaurant this week. I still just weigh 190 in that amazing. Like, don't get me wrong, I want to lose more weight and I need to lose more through my midsection. Mon mostly. Yeah, not my legs, my legs are done. My like I said tighten my thighs. My legs are done. My arms are fine. The top of my back is fine. Maybe my lower back and my love handles still there's weight there. I'm guessing it's around 15 pounds around my midsection still not the point. The point is, I had fudge, I didn't gain weight. To me. That's the point. That's all I got for you this week, other than to say, there are a lot of you out there. I didn't realize it's very cool that you're enjoying this, please keep coming with the feedback. And like I said, if you want to be on the podcast and talk about using the GLP to lose weight, or you know for your diabetes or whatever, let me know just email me right through the website. juicebox podcast.com. I'll see you next week, which will be I can do, I can do the math. Actually, next week will be the 24th. And then that following weekend, I'll be an odd, Austin. I'm doing a big talk with Jenny and Austin. So yeah, that'll be interesting. 24th And then on Halloween, you'll see me again after my Austin trip. I'm interested to see interest, see how much I can lose this week. And if I can keep it off or add to it while I'm away for because I'm gonna be away for like four days as a flight and air and a couple of other things. Alright, cool. I'll talk to you soon. Well, this is been a hell of a week. Tuesday, October 24. may tell you what happened this week. So Arden's away at college, and she wasn't feeling well. And I been talking to her. We've all been talking to her. I'm sorry, I'm getting my weight at the same time here. But it was kind of getting worse as time was going on. I don't have my glasses, so I'm gonna hold this phone pretty far away from my face. But Thursday, she contacted me and said, What are the chances I have appendicitis. And we looked at her symptoms, and they were very close to appendicitis. And so I sent her to the emergency room, which is a story unto itself that I'll probably tell on the podcast at some point, maybe just not here. She does not have appendicitis. We hope because I guess she would have burst by now she did. But the hospital was not great. A lot of confusion a long time being there ignored her because she was young, you know that kind of stuff. Anyway, she comes home with no answers that night. spent the next day trying to recuperate from, you know, being smacked in the face with morphine that they gave her when she got to the hospital and didn't really get any better throughout the day but in the late evening it got worse and bad enough that it One or two o'clock in the morning on Saturday night, no Friday night, Saturday morning 1am or so. She's back on the phone with me. And now she's got pain in different places and I'm sending her back to the emergency room. And then I get on a plane, like overnight and fly to her. She's, I mean, she's okay. We don't have an answer to her problem yet, but she's not in an emergent situation. This is neither here nor there. This is for me to tell you that. I woke up on Friday morning when I expected to at 8am I live my life. And at midnight when I thought I was going to sleep Friday night. Instead, I kept going. So I got Ardan off to the hospital. I bought a plane ticket, I drove to the airport. I slept in the airport for maybe two hours I got on the plane, I slept on the plane. I landed went right to the hospital, spent a number of hours in the hospital with her got her home. Took her with me to a hotel checked in by the hall. That's not true. We had to go do some other stuff, get her stuff together. By like I'd say two or three in the afternoon. We were both like passing out like we just actually at one point pulled the car over and just like fell asleep together for like an hour. And then I got her back to the hotel. And you know we had all these big plans about what we're going to do but instead she fell asleep at eight o'clock and slept throughout the night. I'm going to tell you that from midnight Saturday morning till Sunday morning. I ate a handful of candy which I grabbed because it had sugar in it. I thought I was gonna pass out so I was not eating. I'm telling you all this because I was also not hungry. We go V is insane. Never hungry once through that whole thing got up Sunday morning. Let her sleep in. Around noon got lunch. I had a turkey sandwich and some crackers Parmesan crackers. I don't think much else a yogurt. And then I don't think I eat the rest of the day. And wait, that's not true. I had some gummy bears in our room. I ate some gummy bears that night. Still not hungry. up Sunday morning. That was Sunday. I woke up Monday morning still in at were artists because I was trying to stay with her while she recuperated and I had a half of a waffle because I got to Arden's dorm room and they had waffles. And then I ate a chocolate chip cookie like seven hours later. And then I had some of the crackers at the end of the night. That was that was it. But I didn't eat for days basically. And I still got home today, Tuesday in time to do my week. govi injection. Let's do that now.

And I was woozy. I knew I needed food, but I wasn't hungry. Anyway, I had a few ounces of steak with a couple of eggs in a wrap. And now I'm here recording this for you. So anyway, I weighed myself today. But I weighed myself after a plane flight and a full day and I've been drinking liquids and everything. Although I didn't eat anything. I did weigh myself before the eggs and steak. And I was 194.2 pounds, which I think is a pound to less than last time. But I got to figure out what the hell was seven days ago. The 17th. It looks like on the 17th I was 196 Oh wait, and I'm 194 to now. Oh, I'm almost two pounds lighter than I was last Tuesday. But the truth of it is, I don't actually know how much I weigh right now. Or how much if it's going to come back on when I get back on a regular eating schedule, which I'm absolutely going to do. I'm not even proud of myself for what happened this weekend. Don't get me wrong, but it was so hectic and crazy. And I was worried about art. And the last thing I was even thinking about was eating for myself. So anyway, I've lost about two pounds this week. I'm guessing that won't hold for next week. But we'll see. And I'm traveling this weekend. And I tend to eat less when I'm traveling. So who knows what the hell's gonna happen anyway. Arden's not better but she's okay. We're still searching for answers for her problem. I know I've been vague about that. It's not diabetes related. So please don't worry about that. If that's one of those things that sometimes freaks people out. Anyway, we dove is amazing. I have not been hungry in days and I have not basically eaten in days. So For any of you who are fighting with that, that food voice, this stuff is it's the tits as they say, Yo, what's up everybody? I think this is gonna be the last entry for this episode. Today is October 31. Happy Halloween? Well, things are going well. Well, well, well. In fact, I have one observation from this week, maybe two, I'll give you my numbers. And we'll get you out of here. So, today's weigh in October 31 194.8 pounds. It is not the lowest I've been. But it's very, very close. And I have some interesting observations. So last Tuesday, when I weighed in, what was that the 25th? You know, I'm sorry, I really should look at these things before 24th. When I weighed in on the 24th, with you. I was 194.2 pounds. And I thought, Wow, that's crazy. But I also just gotten back from an unexpected trip, where I was on a plane and then a hotel and I wasn't eating right. And I actually do remember thinking this is probably not my real weight. And sure enough, just two days later on the 26th after I got back to my eating regimen, I was 196 pounds even. So last Thursday, 196 where I think is about where I belonged. And that sounds weird. But on the 25th I hadn't eaten well, for a few days I traveled unexpectedly, was in a hotel, not doing anything I supposed to be doing excuse me on the 24th but on the 17th when I spoke to you before that, I was 196 and then I had that week and craziness and I thought I don't think I really lost weight. I think this number is you know from running around crazy anyway, might have been right. But today I'm 190 4.8 and I think this is a real weight. So very cool. Let's go over them real quick. My BMI is 28.8 body fat 26.3 body water continues to rise as we would expect as I lose weight 53.2 my skeletal mass is going up you would expect that BMR is going down fat free body weight dropping. slowly, very slowly. Down to 140 3.6. subcutaneous fat 22.8 This is all from the Renfrow read fo r e n p h o scale that my wife bought visceral fat holding it 12 My muscle mass is holding pretty steady. It's at 130 6.2 bone mass super steady 7.2 protein rising metabolic age still 56 but I have lost 38.6 pounds so far since I started back in March was March. Right? Does anybody know? I don't even know at this point. Yeah, wow. March 28. Goodness, that's a lot a lot of weight I lost. There we go. He's terrific. Actually on this crazy on these kinds of weekends. You know, it actually makes dealing with hunger a lot easier. Or this past weekend I was in Austin giving a talk for the JDRF in Austin. And oh, thanks anybody who came out by the way, it's really great. But again, like you're in a hotel, different city, not really eating a ton of food. Never hungry. Absolutely fantastic. Able to keep my nutrition up but without having to you know, try a bunch of different foods. Some of them I was like, I don't know how like this some stuff was greasy. Not for me kind of thing. You know, traveling food. Not great. But while I was gone this weekend, Matthew Perry died. The guy from friends if you haven't heard him, sorry if I'm the one telling you would be odd if you hadn't heard by now. But it occurred to me, like you guys hear me on here all the time saying, like, I think of myself as my thoughts not as how I look, I think that it was possible. I didn't know I was heavier during my life because it's not how I judge myself, etc. But a few months ago, I remember seeing Matthew Perry in an interview like a video interview. And I do remember thinking God, He doesn't look good. And I didn't. I mean he's obviously you know, kicked a fairly terrible narcotics habit that I think was with him for many decades. And that's amazing. But I remember looking at him and thinking like, God, his skin looks like it's hanging on him. He looks like he gained a bunch of weight and lost weight and just didn't move. Well didn't sound good. When he was talking. I'm hearing now maybe he's got COPD had COPD, I'm not sure. Anyway, my point is that his body looked he looked a wreck to me. And I noticed it right away. I, and I saw him and I thought, oh God, Matthew Perry doesn't look good. But I must have looked like that before. And, and I didn't notice it. It's fantastic. Anyway. You know what I write that off as this kind of intellectual? I'm not my body. I'm a collection of my thoughts, but my thoughts don't exist without this body. So I don't know, seeing Matthew Perry seeing him die, reminding myself that I've said I'm not, you know, I'm who I am and my thoughts, not my body. It just made me think without this body, my thoughts aren't important. So, I mean, I think that's obvious and everything, but I felt like I needed to say it here. Anyway, thanks for listening to these. I'm getting great feedback on them. I'm glad you appreciate them and you're enjoying them. We go V 2.4 milligrams, getting ready to go in and hold on a second

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