Editing Blog/2025-02-03/Romadan

Recently, I hit a new peak in my weight because I haven't been paying too much attention. After gorging myself in India and then again on my birthday, I reached the massive heights of 199.8 lbs as read on my bathroom scale. This sort of thing is pretty risky and I'm entering into Tirzepatide territory so I thought I should do something drastic.

Now, a classic drastic fad diet is One Meal A Day, and that sort of reminds me of this festival the mum's side of my family has called [[wikipedia:Ramadan|Ramzan]] where you fast the whole day except for a meal before sunrise and one after.

In my case, since I needed to lose some weight, I decided to cut that down to One Meal A Day after Sunset, and the week I was going to do it was to be called Romadan.

Well, I did it. Adherence was pretty good. I'd have a coffee during the day, or a Coke Zero, but no food until 6 PM (a half an hour or so after Sunset) and for the short period here are the results:


{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Date !! Weight (lbs)
|-
| Feb 2 || 194.3
|-
| Feb 1 || 195.4
|-
| Jan 31 || 196.2
|-
| Jan 30 || 195.0
|-
| Jan 29 || 195.8
|-
| Jan 28 || 196.7
|-
| Jan 27 || 197.5
|-
| Jan 26 || 199.8
|}

So far so good. The 199.8 and 197.5 are evening measurements but the rest are during the day. To be honest, if I'd stuck to the intensity of that day I might have seen more results since I rode 12 miles on the empty stomach and a cup of coffee and then managed to lift that day and the next.

My target for the year is to end at my old 175 lbs, though, so I have a long way to go. 20 lbs will be hard to lose

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