Travel log: Holistic weight loss
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I am taking a big, several month trip across the south-west coast of Europe, starting at Pisa, Italy towards Lisbon, Portugal. I will be traveling by train/bus and staying a couple of days at each location.
The condition of my environment will be constantly changing so I can't follow any strict protocols nor will I always have the ability to weight myself.
A few heuristics I am going to try:
- Protein, starch and fat are expensive to digest and thus slow down metabolism, I will attempt to only eat those in the evening to keep up the metabolism during the day.
- From this follows that I will restrict myself during the day to mostly sugary foods like fruit.
- No calorie counting, I might eat less than usual but I will not go hungry, the reason for this is to be generally lower stress.
- Spend a lot of time outside in the sun. Another goal of this trip is to attempt to become a street artist, so I will be spending a lot of time scouting out locations and drawing in public. The warmer climate of south Europe also helps with this.
One exception to this protocol:
- I will drink one milk coffee in the morning, made from low fat milk. I don't have any basis for this but I think it will make it overall more sustainable.
Starting weight: 110kg @ 183cm
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Day 2:
- Found ripe oranges in a supermarket for 1.29€/kg, this is a stark contrast to my experiences in Germany where supermarkets would sell unripe oranges for double to triple the price. This will be a good basis for my food for this week.
- Spend 4 hours in the city. I am still very tired from traveling all day yesterday. Having such sunny weather in March already was a welcome experience. Pisa is also a very walkable city.
- 2 of those 4 hours were spend walking, this doesn't seem like much but having to carry the 110kg meatwagon that I call my body around with me every step made it quite exhausting. This, plus some chaffing, made me realize that I need to lose some weight fast.
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Best of luck on your travels. I would get closer to equator on such a trip. More sun would probably do you much good. I often go to Bali in the winter and it improves my health significantly. Do not forget to eat second breakfast.
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Day 3:
- Ended up with acid reflux and then following that a clogged nose and a headache. I assume it was caused by gorging myself on raisin bread with milk in the evening, though not sure what part of it exactly caused it. Need to pay more attention to not overeat.
- In general I thought about portion sizes, in theory eating more will satiate you for longer, but eating less means less time and energy wasted on digestion. So to minimize digestion time I should stop eating exactly once I feel satiated, no sooner but also no later.
- I should make Hercules proud by learning to utilize my (hunger and satiety) instincts better.
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I ran into quite the problem, I didn't take my thiamine with me, not wanting to rely too much on supplements. My energy tanked pretty quickly, clearly Thiamine deficient. I checked out various pharmacies and turns out it is pretty difficult to get a proper Thiamine supplement in Italy, largest dose was 25mg which obviously won't work out.
Will probably have to eat a lot of pork to make up for the lack of supplements.
Also getting really fucking tired of Pisa, there is a shit ton of immigrants there whose only purpose in life seems to be to take advantage of tourists, turning the places they live at into total shitholes. Thankfully I will move to the next location soon.
Cranky af right now.
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How do you find pork? Does it make you feel warmer?
Pigs that eat acorns (probably wild boar in autumn time?) are around 9 percent pufa compared to grass fed beef tallow which is about 5 percent... So maybe lean pork can be peaty?
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@questforhealth I think the high concentration of B vitamins and magnesium far outweighs the cost of the high MUFA ratio, especially if you eat lean cuts.
I just ate a single pork chop and I already feel so much better, it's a life saver right now.
