Weight Change Through Carb Cycling? I hope and think so!!

So, my wife wants to get in better shape.  She has done so in the last year very well.  She had twins in June and has done a FXB 90 day challenge and lost inches and gained strength.  I am so proud of her for that!  It made me jealous and envious a little, the best time for her to go would be the best time for me as well...that makes it difficult for us both to go.  The people I have met from there are awesome and honest folks.  I bet I would like it, and the cost keeps me on track..I hate wasting money.

But my wife hates the food tracking.  To be honest it can be fairly tricky.  It also makes portioning food ahead more of a challenge for both of us since the numbers would be different for me.  That means I make portions for her and do not get enough myself.  That seems to make me binge eat later on since I did not get enough food.  Work can be tough on eating as well...I sell cars and people seem to buy around my meal times.  I need some grab and go food that is not junk at work.

My wife decided to try Carb Cycling.  Chris Powell uses it on TV and has great results.  I was skeptical on it since everything works on TV and under close supervision.  She bought the books and read them and liked the idea.  She works out Mon-Sat with Cardio Mon/Wed/Fri.  Those need to be her high carb days and the others are low carb.

We discussed Sunday, she does not work out and she does not like a free day.  I think Low Carb is the way to go.  That makes the schedule:

• Monday - High Carb
• Tuesday - Low
• Wednesday -High
• Thursday - Low
• Friday - High
• Saturday - Low
• Sunday - Low

She should have 1500 cal per day and I should be around 2000.  Also a gallon of water consumption per day is recommended.  I have kidney stones and need as much as I can get, so I need to buckle down on that.  The High Carb days can have a cheat meal, but it cannot be dinner.  I may stick a soda in those days as a cheat, and maybe ice cream as well.  Dunno yet.

I weighed 265.0 on 10/20 and have been weighing myself every Monday since January.  I plan to keep that up.  Weight is after morning evacuations, but before food or water.  Underwear only for clothes.  The books say good results are around a pound a day for a 30 day cycle.  That means I will start my month 10/27/ and it will be 4 weeks later on 11/24.  I will set a weekly and monthly goal for my weightloss.

Ideal would be 30 pounds lost for an ending weight of 235. That is on par with the books
Realistic for me would be a loss of 15 pounds.  That is 250 and half the books.
Low end "happy"goal would be loss of 10 pounds.  That is 255 and a real low goal.  I hope to look that in the rearview mirror early on.  I will set weekly goals.  My first week's goal is to lose 3 pounds in total.  I have started early with cycling to see how it works and bet I will have lost already.  My goal is to be 262 or less on 11/3/2014.  A stretch goal is 3 lbs down from weight 12/27.

Daily food entries with calories should be put on here as well.  I am starting diet only and may wait a month to add exercise to it, but we shall see how that works out for me.
-chris