The 28th Expedition: Ready Player One has arrived safely into the harbor. I have lost 30.5 lbs (-10.5%). To put it into context, it is the most I've lost in a keto/carnivore diet in an Expedition. Yes, I've dropped more in my first approach, but who CAN'T lose weight in a semi-starved state? That said, I wanted to beat out The 13th Expedition's 8.3%...and I did.

Next up? The 29th Expedition: Erebor. I want something greater than 6% as I had a couple of Expeditions at that percentage (The Expeditionary Manifest); it would set it as a 16 lb target. And I just might expect that throughout the 200s, but who's to say? I just tried to hover above the 75 grams mark on protein and eat in excess of 200 grams of fat.

For the first seventeen days of The 28th, I didn't monitor my protein intake. I suspect not paying attention to it explains my wonky numbers in years past. I just ate all the meats back then. And between the excess protein conversion to sugar and that Devil's cream...well, look, I think sometimes, my weight gain is like this:

Dwight Schrute: Through concentration, I can raise and lower my cholesterol at will.
Pam Beesly: Why would you want to raise your cholesterol?
Dwight Schrute: So I can lower it.

It's around lunchtime as I write this. Normally, I would post that sort of thing first thing on this site. But, one of the drawbacks to sending content over to Facebook is that I neglect this site!

And I had my doubts about posting my success on Facebook. People want you to spear salads, choke on spinach and fight endlessly against appetite. There's just an expectation of being miserable when losing weight. There's a character/morality thing attached to it. People don't want to know that I've lost 30 lbs by eating half-a-package of bacon per day for 17 days, then thirty days of 5-7 oz of pork belly. That doesn't show superhuman power of the will!

And I think maybe that they bought into the carb world, that an appetite just can't be quenched. We've all had our Lay's; we've never shared the Sharing Size Snickers. But, it's not appetite's fault; it's carbs. Carbs just fail to satisfy. On the flip side, air fry up 3 oz of ribeye fat, and that'll do. No mas!