Before and current

Well, it was bound to happen.  Eventually I'd post an old picture with a current picture.  Below are two pictures.  The first is from almost exactly 5 years ago, during a family vacation in 2005.  The second picture I took just before my daughter and I went on a 6 day trip together about a week ago.  I went off diet and pigged out with her for most of the trip, so I'm about 3 pounds heavier, but never mind that.  It will go away within another week.  Heck, I'll even post a newer pic sometime in October to prove it!

I think I've actually improved in 5 years.  Well, It would be even better if I smiled in the more current picture, but at least I'm not risking harpoon marks like I was in that first one! 

I was walking out of the water in that picture, and shortly after I reached shore a group of volunteers arrived and tried to drag me back in!  They kept saying "Splash water around his blowhole and keep his skin wet till we get him back in the water!"  Once I convinced them I wasn't beached they left me alone.

I like to think that I'm a pretty trim guy who just went through a heavy period.  That period lasted from, oh, about high school graduation until I was 40.

Please show these pictures to anyone who questions whether or not a high fat diet works.  In the picture on the left I was eating a pretty typical Standard American Diet.  In the picture on the right I'm eating about 70% of my calories from fat.  A typical lunch is a pound of grass fed beef with some veggies.  I eat between a pound and pound and a half of meat every day, and cook things in butter and coconut oil. I'm not strictly low-carb any longer, but a high carb day is about 100 carbs unless I'm having a free meal/day.  And on those days anything goes.  Well, anything except grains and legumes.