It has been over a month since my last update. I have been staying focused taking my garcinia cambogia twice a day and following weight watchers. I would consider myself in the extreme weight loss category now as I have reached my 40pounds lost now… Down from 284 to 244 this morning!

No cheering yet, I still have 24 pounds go go and I know they will be the hardest. I did try my one week fat burning diet received from a doctor that worked at the heart hospital for over weight patients. I am going to put those details in another blog. The results for me were disappointing and the week program is crazy… Was a good test of will power, i guess.

I look better, i feel better and I have had 2.5inches taken out of all my pants! I have had very little alcohol and no fast food since Jan 1.

Since my last updates I am down another 5 pounds. I have kept reducing my weight steadily and I keep taking garcinia cambogia and I keep following weight watchers.

I am now at 250 pounds! That is 34 pounds from my starting weight in 3 months only. I am keeping positive but my exercise has dropped a lot since hockey season ended. I am going to get back into my 3 mile walk a day or else I may play summer hockey.

Next week I am considering a hospital recommended safe, fast weight loss diet. In 7 days it is used to lose 10-17 pounds. It is for overweight cardio patients needing to lose weight prior to heart surgery. However it is safe for anyone. I will experiment and report back.

If you read my blog you know I love pizza and miss pizza. Thick, meaty, cheesy pizza. Last night was our last regular season hockey game (we won and I scored 2 goals). Playoffs started today.

As I came out of the shower (yes a bunch of guys naked showering together – strange ritual i know) i was surprised with a LARGE loaded pizza sitting right in the spot where I sit.

Year end pizza/beer party… At 1 in the morning. The slices were cut small but it was loaded with cheese, meat, green peppers and some other colored things that must have been veggies.

Free beer… Free pizza and i have not had either since January 1st. I am always hungry after 1.5hrs of intense hockey. I quickly passed the pizza away and was able to fight the craving… As the beer came around (twice) I was able to pass it on.

The smell of beer and pizza was causing my stomach to go crazy. It was moaning and groaning but I did it. I fought the craving and I was the first one to leave the party.

Back at home I made myself two pita pizzas (light cheese, lean roast and ham, mushrooms, onion, green pepper and lots of hot sauce). After they crisped up in the oven I enjoyed every last bite. Who wants to eat pizza being passed around by a bunch of naked guys anyways! Haha.

I am really kicking some ass now! No stall in my weight loss at all. Down another 3 pounds in the past week which brings my total weight loss to over 28 pounds since January 1st.

I am still taking 1500mg of garcinia cambogia each day and I am still following weight watchers with no cheating at all. No alcohol. Also a couple weeks ago I started taking green coffee extract. I have not done my daily 3mile walk for a couple weeks but I still play ice hockey 2 times per week.

I play hockey 3 nights in a row starting tonight and then once twice next week for the final tournament and that is it for the year. I will have to find something to replace that exercise.

I had a full physical done with urine and blood tests this week. Doctor was super impressed. As a diabetic she said I am doing everything that I should be to maintain a healthy life. Weight down, cholesterol down, blood pressure down… Cough.. Cough… That is good too

Is it the garcinia cambogia helping me keep this momentum? Is it the green coffee extract? Perhaps it is the magic of weight watchers? My exercise? Bo alcohol? Perhaps its my belief and use of “the secret”? I really dont care and at this point I will continue everything to work hard toward my goal. I’ll talk more about te secret later. Hehe

I am still taking garcinia cambogia, i am still following weight watchers, I am still not drinking alcohol, I am still losing weight and I still have type 1 (sadly) In fact here is a photo just showing how loose my pants fit now that I am 25pounds lighter. Guess i am going to have to pay to get them altered as they are starting to look really silly.

Scoring… Scoring… Scoring! Since dropping so much weight I have become the leading scoring on my mens ice hockey team. I scored 4 goals the other night and 1 last night. I just cant get over how much faster I am and how quick I move side to side on the ice. I can’t push other guys around as easily as I use too but I can sure move fast!

My weigh in day continues to be Friday and I hope to see more progress this week. My insulin is up to 30 units in tje morning which is still down from 38 units before I started tje program. Up from 23 when I started taking the garcinia cambogia. At night I am down to 28 units from 38 previously.

I am only 3 pounds away from 10% weight loss (that will be 28 pounds gone). Perhaps I should celebrate with a 12 pack of beer and a large pizza? No way! I Must stay focused as I have a ways to go still.

Update… 3 more pounds loat in the past 2 weeks. This is after almost 2 months of losing weight with weight watchers food plan and garcinia cambogia supplement.

As a type 1 diabetic I have found the garcinia is no longer causing a major low blood sugar. I guess my body got use to it after a few weeks.

I have been eating a few too many carbs even though staying within the WW plan. I am going to try to stop that to excellerate my weight loss.

No cheating at all! No alcohol at all.

So I have been experimenting with my type 1 diabetes and garcinia cambogia. It seemed that the garcinia caused a major reduction in my blood sugar and then a few weeks later my sugar starting skyrocketing up again.

It was as if the short acting insulin I was taking was doing nothing. I could not get it to come down for a week. Finally I took apart my insulin pen and found the vial was cracked. Insuling was just seeping into the pen and not going into my body at all.

Seems really stupid but I never even considered that was the case. Makes for a good reason to squirt a little insulin out before using the insulin pen. Just gotta make sure the insulin is flowing out of it! New vial is working fine and my blood sugar is back in the perfect range.

I am losing track a bit without looking at my notes but it seems it is coming up on at 4 weeks with the garcinia cambogia and my Type 1 diabetes.  My insulin is now down just less than 10% from before I took the Garcinia (from having to go down over 20% at the start of taking it).  I have also noticed that I have been a bit hungrier lately than I was when I first starting taking it.  It could be that taking the supplement constantly is less effective than taking it for 2 weeks on and 1 week off.

However my weight was still down 1.4 pounds last week (not the 6 pounds I lost during some other weeks but still down).  I am keeping everything else consistent – I am still following the weight watchers points plus plan, still walking 5km per day and still playing ice hockey 1-3 times per week.  I am expecting to see another good weight loss by next week or I may try taking a week off the Garcinia in order to let my body react better when I take it again.

Speaking of hockey – being 23 Pounds lighter is having an amazing effect on the ice.  I am much faster and I am moving side to side much better.  In fact I led my team in points on Thursday AND Friday night games.  I scored 3 goals and assisted 2 on Thursday – ALSO scored 3 goals and assisted 1 on Friday.  That is my best two games ever!  Another 40 pounds and I am going to be deadly on the ice.

Current weight is now 261 pounds (from my 284 start just over a month ago).

One thing I have noticed which I believe is from the garcinia cambogia is that my blood sugar remains great during the day with no extra insulin required.  I take 1000mg in the morning 30-45 minutes before breakfast and 500mg 30-45 minutes before lunch.  However I don’t take any at dinner.  After dinner my blood sugar SPIKES WAY WAY UP… In fact I have seen 21 on my meter (normal is 4-7), I have also seen 16, 18, etc.  NOT GOOD.  So I have started taking short acting insulin at dinner time to offset the blood spike.  The thing is, this is happening even when I don’t eat any carbs at dinner.  It seems that perhaps the Garcinia Cambogia works when taking but my body might be just delaying the processing of the sugar and then when the garcinia is out it comes in all at once.

I am going to continue to monitor this.  For now I will continue to take short acting insulin at dinner time to offset these spikes. (needing 7-10 units which is a lot for me – I use to take only 6 units with each carb filled meal).  I will see what happens to the end of next week.  I may look at stopping the garcinia depending on the weight results.  Stopping will also show me what happens to my blood sugar during the day and evening without the  garcinia involved.

After 2 weeks on garcinia cambogia blood sugar is now going back up. Originally my blood sugar plummeted with the garcinia cambogia. I had to reduce insulin by 20%. Now 2 weeks later blood sugar is back up and so insulin required is increasing back to almost what is was before the garcinia.

However weight loss is still extreme. I lost another 6 pounds this week! Thats a total of over 20 pounds in 3 weeks. Over 6% of my body weight. The garcinia cambogia really eliminates my appetite. So far no side effects except the 2 week drop in blood sugar. Still no alcohol and following weight watchers.

I have continued taking my 1500mg of Garcinia Cambogia but a couple days ago I caught a nasty cold. Still fighting it today. Also yesterday and today I was forced to take daytime insulin for the first time since being on the garcinia. I think it is simply the virus causing increased sugar but it could also be that my blood sugar is not being affected as much by the garcinia. I will see what happens once this cold clears.