A YEAR WITH DR. MALONEY'S WEIGHT

A weight history by Dr. Maloney about Dr. Maloney, only alteration is to convert all weights to the new scale, which unfortunately weighs me five pounds heavier than the old scale.
September 13, 2005
Current weight: 200 lbs
Last night ate jelly beans before dinner. Also had three desserts after dinner (eaten standing, one portion each). No lunch. Breakfast was cereal with soy milk and berries. No time for walking, no real change in exercise patterns. Feel heavy, solid, weighty, like a bowling ball.
Plan: Eat more breakfast, eat lunch, have nuts available, see if I can walk briefly.

Sept. 13, evening Still had lots of dessert

Sept. 14 Less breakfast, short walk, two servings of supper, less dessert.

Sept. 14 Night weight: 205

Sept. 15 Morning weight: 201

Sept. 16 Morning weight: 201 Feel much lighter, slept much more.

Sept. 22 No real change, less dessert. Morning weight: 199

Sept. 24 Phosphatidyl Choline to see if it helps. More rice and cinnamon.

Sept. 28 Morning weight: 200

Oct. 3 Hiked for three hours up a mountain. At night all you can eat pasta, three bowls,
Morning weight: 205
This experiment has produced the most profound self-hatred and self-loathing I have ever experienced. The constant focus on my shortcomings has produced no positive result. I now weigh more than when I began, and have had no weight loss as a result of caloric restriction. Yesterday empirically disproves the calorie in/calorie out equation. It also points to salt as a major factor for me. (Water weight-theoretically impossible to gain more than a pound a week of fat.) At this point I resolve to avoid the negativity and continue my exploration without any thoughts of cutting off parts of my body.

Oct. 4 Morning weight: 200 No alteration in food.

Oct. 5 Morning wt: 198. Intensive ten minute exercise routine at night: shadow boxing.

Oct. 8 Morning wt: 196. Continuing five minute night time exercise. Two sugar snacks yesterday.

Oct. 10 Morning wt: 196. Three desserts. Continuing program (five minutes shadow boxing, eating whatever I want.)

Oct. 27 Morning wt: 200. My endurance is up. Am I gaining muscle? Must buy body fat scale.

Oct. 30 Morning wt: 200. After a Halloween party with lots of candy (3000 calories +).

Nov. 28 Night wt: 205. After Thanksgiving dinner.

Nov. 30 Morning wt. 199. Multiple checks, always 199 before and after food.

Dec. 13 Morning wt. 200

Dec. 22 Received new scale: water weight, fat percentage, and body weight. The new scale weighs me at five pounds heavier than the old (already adjusted upwards in all previous readings for continuity). The old scale weighs me at 200, the new scale at 205. So I gained five pounds since the 13th, What happened? Late night meals, lots of salt, no movement after my movement routine before. (Fat 20.5%, Water 54.5 %)
Editor's note: multiple readings of fat and water weight showed a variation of almost 2% based on how warm or wet my feet are. Since throughout the rest of the weights neither fat or water changed more than 2%, it wasn't really helpful.

Dec. 27 Morning wt: 209.8 (20% fat, 55% water)

Dec. 28 Morning wt: 8:30 am 209 (19% fat) 10 am 206 ( 20% fat, 55% water) A three pound difference in less than an hour, doing mental positive exercises in bed. Yesterday I did less than 1500 calories, lemon water all morning, ate sushi for dinner (no fish, just vegetable rolls). One bowl of nuts in the afternoon (1 cup walnuts, 2 cups dried fruit). That's it. Still 209 in the am, why aren't I seeing a physical drop in weight?

Dec. 29 Morning wt. 205.8 (21% fat, 54% water). Yesterday big meals all day. It doesn't make any sense.

Dec. 31 Last night: 211.8 What happened? This morning 209.8.

Jan. 5, 2006 Morning wt. 203.6 (fat 20.5%, water 54.5%) Liver better, lemon every morning, fewer carbohydrates? Tofu? Forgetting to eat? Feeling warmer?

Jan. 6 Night wt. 204 After eating a huge meal of pasta.
Overnight loss: 1.2
Jan. 7 Morning wt. 202.8. Liver function up, Took vitamin D in the afternoon and felt more energy.

Jan. 8 Night wt. 208.6 (up late=up weight?) Morning wt. 206.6 (22% fat, 53.5% water) Old scale confirms.
Overnight loss: 2
Jan. 10 Night wt. 206.5 (19.5% fat, 55% water) Morning wt. 205 (21%, 54.5%) Sleep is a factor.
No lemons, stopped doing liver function stuff.
Overnight loss: 1.5
Jan. 11 Night wt. 206 (21%, 53.5%) Morning wt. 203.6 More sleep, 2000IU vitamin D
Overnight loss: 2.4
Jan.12 Night: 204 Morning: 202.6 (after shower) No sleep, vitamin D and liver stuff.
Overnight loss: 1.4
Jan.13 Morning: 204.2 No sleep, no vitamin D, but a ten minute sun exposure.

Jan. 14 Night: 207 Morning: 204.6 Ten hours sleep, No vitamin D, no liver stuff)
Overnight loss: 2.4
Jan. 15 Morning: 205.8 Liver stuff, no sleep

Jan. 16. Morning: 204.8 Liver, twelve hours sleep, dancing before bed, vitamin D.

Jan. 17. Morning: 205.6 Multi vitamin, DHA, six hours of sleep, one hour exercise, lots of sugar

Jan. 18 Morning: 203 (204 at 4:30 am, 203 at 9:30 am) lemon water, no exercise, lots of sugar

Jan. 19 Morning: 202.2 lemon water, no exercise, homeopathics

Jan. 20 Morning: 202 Almost no food yesterday without hunger, lemon juice, six hours sleep, no multi

Jan. 21 Morning: 202.8 Lemon juice, Less than 1500 calories yesterday, no supplements.
Four liver supplements- two bowel movements- no lemon, lots of sleep.

Jan. 22 Morning: 200.8 Switched to limes, one whole in the morning.

Jan. 24 Night: 204.6 (after BM and urine) Morning: 201.4 Only meal was the evening, less than 1500 C.
Overnight loss: 3.2
Jan. 25 Morning: 202.2 Pizza last night, no movement, no liver supp., no multi, copper and zinc, just lime.

Jan. 26 Night: 203.6 Morning: 201.6 No big cheese amt, no multi, no copper, only lime.
Overnight loss: 2
Jan. 27 Night: 203.8 Morning: 202.2 Lime, furnace solder fume exposure, cheese, liver supps.
Overnight loss: 1.6
Jan. 28 Night: 204.8 Morning: 204 Lime, but pizza and mozzarella eggplant last night.
Overnight loss: 0.8
Jan. 29 Night: 208.8 Morning: 205.4 Chinese food, one meal eaten in moderation, after two hours swimming and sauna.
Overnight loss: 3.4
Jan. 30 Night: 205.5 Morning: 203.6 Big breakfast, lying around all day, Fruit and salad, three BM, all normal. Could bad food=constipation=fermentation=toxic buildup=fat cell deposition?
Overnight loss: 1.9
Jan. 31 N: 203.6 M: 202.4 Big late breakfast, big dinner, midnight snack, no dairy, no liver sups, no lemon, no straight sugar.
Overnight loss: 1.2
Feb.1 N: 202.2 M:201.2 No lime, no lemon, no liver sups, big meals, no dairy
Overnight loss: 1
Feb.2 N: 202.8 M: 201.4 Cheese, no other changes (more nuts as well)
Overnight loss: 1.4
Feb.3 N: 204.8 M: 202.4 Stuffed myself last night, no food during the day, no dairy
Overnight loss: 2.4
Feb.4 N: 203.6 M: 202.4, second read 201.8. Add nuts, vit. C (56% water, 18.5% fat lowest ever)
Overnight loss: 1.2
Feb.5 N: 204.8 M: 202.4 (fat 20%) lots of steak, thirteen hours sleep, sick (HPEA) multiple BMs.
Overnight loss: 2.4
Feb.6 N: 202.4 M: 200.6 No dinner, big lunch (meat), no cheese, lots of snacks (popcorn), hungry this morning, sick and taking HPEA (with Arctium.)
Overnight loss: 1.8
Feb.7 N: 202.2 M: 199.6 Small breakfast, big dinner, Atkins (1lb hamburg on salad), sick
Overnight loss: 2.6
Feb.8 N: 201 M: 198.6 Food only at dinner, getting over a long cold, no exercise, no calorie control
Overnight loss: 2.4
Feb.9 N: 202.6 M: 199.6 BM loose in morning, cold getting better, lots of carbs (popcorn) took three SBC during today that stopped runs.
Overnight: 3
Feb.10 N: 200.2 M: 197.8 Still sick, ate mostly meat and carbs ( fat 21%, water 54%) in bed early, sleeping a lot before midnight.
Overnight: 2.4
Feb.11 N: 199.8 M:197.8 Thirteen hours sleep, only one huge carb meal in evening, still sick
Overnight: 2
Feb.12 N: 201.2 M: 199.2 Drank chocolate milk, ate milk in pancakes, otherwise less than 1500 calories and more exercise than the whole of last week.
Overnight: 2
Feb.13 N:200.4 M: 198.6 No dairy, no exercise, plenty of carbs, two BMs in morning, carbs and berries.
Overnight: 1.8
Feb. 14 N:199 M: 198.2 Cold better, no HPEA, huge carb dinner, no lunch.
Overnight: 0.8
Feb. 15 N:199.6 M: 198 Same, two liver sups.
O: 1.6
Feb. 16 N:201 M: 199 No liver sups, lots of straight sugar at 4pm sugar=osmotic water retention
O: 2
Feb. 17 N: 200.6 M: 198.8 Meat dinner, almost no food during day, no liver sups, a little HPEA
O: 1.8
Feb. 18 N: 199.6 M: 197.8 Late night treats, small dinner, No liver sups, less than 1500 calories
O: 1.8
Feb. 19 N: 200.4 M: 199 Late night eating, heavy morning eating, sugar treats, normal calories
O: 1.4
Feb. 20 N: 200.4 M: 199.4 (198.4 after BM) Several BMs, most of a loaf of bread, pasta, one hour running exercise.
O: 1
Feb. 21 N: 199.4 M: 198.4 PB Pie with dairy last night Milk=less wt. loss=eventual wt. gain?
O: 1
Feb. 22 N: 201.4 M: 197.2 Less than 1500 calories including 15 clementines, no milk, soup dinner, berry breakfast with soy yogurt
O: 4.2
Feb. 23 N: 198 M: 197 No gb massage, fewer clementines, more meat, bread in the morning, still berry and soy.
O: 1
Feb. 24 N: 198.6 M: 197 PB and bread breakfast, big chicken dinner (still wearing hat and warming socks from the beginning of sickness) No liver sups.
O: 1.6
Feb.25 N: 199.6 M: 198 Ten oranges, tons of food, liver sups, weather colder
O: 1.6
Feb.26 N: 201 M: 198.6 Cheese, liquids (only less than one ounce of cheese on nachos)
O: 2.4
Feb.27 N: 200.0 M: 198.6 Several day cheese delay? Only meal at 5:30pm, night liver sups, less than 1500
O: 1.4
Feb.28 N: 199.6 M: 198.4
O: 1.2
Mar. 1 N: 198.6 M: 197.2 Late meals 1800 calories after six, carbs and meat, dehydrated in morning.
O: 1.4

Continuing with more sanity:
March Night Morn Why?
19 200.6 197.8 parmesan cheese in lunch sandwich milk>salt>sugar for me
20 199.6 196.8 Cheese in lasagna.
22 199 195.6 No cheese, no other variation (sleep, etc.)
23 199.6 196.4 more sleep, two bread, a. butter and chava, 4c. berries, 2 bowls v. chili =860 Cal
24 198.2 195.6 same morn, lots of oranges, 1 plate pasta =800 Cal
25 199.6 197.2 butter, salt, sugar, more than 1500 Cal
26 198.2 196 salt and sugar, no milk (except in cake)
27 202.4 198.6 maple syrup Sunday, had everything.
28 200.4 198.6 After eating great! No nothing.
29 201.4 198.8 Still eating great, not fair to still be paying for Sunday.
30 198 195.6 BM before, no food variation for three days.
31 199 197.4 Not as good sleep, salt in guacamole, salt in sushi.
April
1 198 195.6 Better sleep, lower salt. Blood glucose stick 113? Sufficient blood?
2 199 196.2 Sugar, salt and strenuous exercise. Blood glucose 84.
3 198.2 196.4 Veggie chili=salt, two vegan bars=late eating.
4 199 196.4 No liver support for a while.
5 196.8 195.4 No food, lots of salt.
6 196.5 195.4 Salt in sushi, some sugar, two pieces of bread, two bars (800 Cal?)
7 195.8 194.6 Lowest point since beginning, two pieces of bread, a bagel and a hamburger.
8 195.4 194.4 Veggie chili=salt.
9 197.6 196.4 B-Day party, sugar, alcohol, dairy (mid-day weight before was 192.6)
April Night Morn Why?
10 199.8 197.8 Cheese, sugar, another party
11 199 196.8 Only a little good food (self punishment, I expect)
12 199 195.8 More good food, no cheating.
13 199.2 196.4 Still near perfect (1/2 cookie) still paying for the wkend, add liver support
14 199 197.8 Only Thai food added
15 199 197.4 Sugar (movie night)
16 199.8 196.4 Some sugar and some salt.
17 203.6 200.4 Easter, lunch with nuns, B. Day cake, buffet (3000 calories)
18 199 196.4 Almost no food yesterday, no dinner.
19 197.8 195.8 Diarrhea
20 198.8 196.8 Eating lots of fig sugar
21 200.6 197.8 Late eating, 200 calories sugar
22 197.4 195.6 No sugar-work all day prep party, good meals and no binge.
23 198.6 197.6 Pizza, cake, sugar and salt=wt. gain and cheese=wt. retention
24 199.6 197.2 All good food, but constipation from cheese.
25 200.6 198.6 Sushi, sugar and salt
26 200.6 198.8 Barbeque, 10oz of berries, no lunch.
27 201.6 199.5 Chili, berries, no lunch
28 199.6 197.6 Falafel, berries, no lunch
29 202.4 198.4 Evening meal, lots of watermelon
30 201.4 198.4 Sugar, cake, brownie, Italian ice.
May
1 201.4 198.4 No sugar, good diet, exercise
2 200.4 198.4 No exercise (sore), sugar, good food.
3 200.4 198.4 ½ slice cake
4 199.6 196.4 All good food, no salt no sugar, no dairy
5 197.4 195.2 Sugar binge. Didn’t take? Why aren’t I paying?
6 200.4 196.4 Lots of fruit and sugar.
8 200 197.6 Sugar
9 200 198 ?
10 199 197.6 Ate at potluck (sugar)
11 201 198.8 No bad food, one day delay?
12 202 199 Not fair! Perfect today but it was colder
13 Over 200 What is going on? Back to hat and warming socks tonight. I'm being perfect.
15 203 200 Cheese, sugar, yogurt, bad mood, fallen off the wagon
16 201 198.6 No sugar, low salt, low dairy
17 201 197.6 Warmer weather
18 202 199.6 Chinese food
20 199.6 milk=gas, no dinner
22 200 198 No milk, no sugar, low salt, good food only
23 200 197 Good eating catching up?
24 ? 196.6 Feeling better
27 199.6 196.6 Eating well
28 197.8 196.6 Eating well
29 196.2 Ice cream=depression, nightmares, gas, grumpy belly, not wt?
31 198 What? Nothing eaten, just lots of fruit. (Delay?)
June
2 195.2 So now what? Just regular food. Lots of BMs, does that count?
4 200 1 ice cream shake, 1 day of eating sad american food
5 199.6 ½ ice cream (1/4 gallon)=up set point for weight
6 ? Yesterday and today lots of liver support. Feel great.
7 201.8 Less sleep, still feeling very good.
8 203.6 200.8 Feel great, what is up with weight?
13 206.8 202.6 Cheese every day, buffet, pizza.
17 198 Eating well, walking every day, no mistakes/breaks.
June Night Morn Why?
23 198.6 After son's birth, nights up, walking all day, stress
24 197.2 One scoop ice cream, berries and nuts with choc., otherwise dairy free
25 198 196.2 No ice cream, little sleep, lots of moving around.
27 198.8 196.4 More sleep, lots of vitamins
28 198 195 1 scoop ice cream with papaya (wt. lifting baby)
29 197.2 195.4 1 scoop ice cream without papaya=gas, etc.
July
1 199 195.6 1 scoop ice cream =nightmares and mouth numbness
2 196 Soy ice cream=disturbed dreams
3 198.4 TCBY and mall dinner
4 199 Still paying for it.
5 197 Even after Thai dinner!
8 194.8 Sugar but no dairy
10 196.6 Sugar, later eating
11 197 Dessert, lasagna
13 194.8 No milk, fruit bars, lots of fresh fruit (enzymes?)
14 195.4
15 196.4 Late eating
17 198.4 Water? Start swimming more
30 196.4 Varies day to day 198-196
Aug
8 196.2 Varies day to day
10 195 Only change adding two liver support
11 196.4 No liver support at night
14 194.4 It isn't what you eat, it is whether your liver can process it. Two liver supp. 3pm only change. No food change, no exercise change, no sleep change.
18 195 193.8 Only difference citrus and liver support
20 193.4 Berries
26 200.6 After six nights at Point Sebago, eating their food in the healthiest way possible.
27 199.8 One meal, lots of fruit
28 199.2 Eating reg.
29 200.2 Less sleep, otherwise 1200 calories.
31 198 More sleep, near perfect food for a week.
Sept.
2 198.4 Start liver support two pills
3 197.8 Only variation liver support
4 197 No sleep, four liver support
5 196 More sleep, no liver support
6 196 No liver support, same sleep.
7 196.4 Cheese trumps liver support
8 194.8 No cheese, liver support
9 197.4 Choc. With milk fat, trumps four liver support in the morning.
10 196.4 Cheese, sugar and six liver support
11 196.4 After shower, with six liver support
13 196 One year later, am I any wiser?
14 195.8
17 Cheese at a party.

Lessons from the rest of a year:
You can have a delayed response to calories (allergens?) that causes weight gain over a day later. The primary problem is water weight, because the fluctuations is weight you see are too dramatic to be fat deposits dissolving and reforming. Clearly multiple insults can lead to weight gain that turns into fat deposits, but the day to day fluctuation is entirely water weight and entirely under my control. My worst enemy is modern life (and my reaction to it). In the second half of the year, I really ate too much less than one month of the time while eating probably too little for five months. But the end result is almost a wash.

My end result is that caloric intake is too general a term. If I eat 200 calories of cheese, I will gain far more than 400 calories of straight sugar, and more than 800 calories of citrus. What really matters is how well my body can process that materials I have been exposed to. Unfortunately, just today I went to another party where I ate a variety of things that set me and my liver back once again.