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05 July 2024

Up and down, up and down. The number on the scale is hardly worth paying attention to. But I think I'm headed in the right direction.

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
90.2 kg	1.5 kg	26.7 kg	Reasonably Well

Add Comment Losing 4.4 kg a Week

03 July 2024

ARGH! Yesterday my morning weigh in was 196.4. I'd gone up a pound overnight, but that happens all the time. This morning I was 200.4. UP 4 pounds overnight!! Thinking about it just now I weighed again, hoping this morning was a temporary fluke, but now it's up to 201.6... I'm right back where I started from three months ago. What caused this? Fried chicken? Yesterday I had a thigh and two drumsticks. That one meal was over 800 calories. But that could not have caused a 4 pound gain. Water weight? Yeah, that's a good dose of sodium so I'm likely hanging onto some extra fluid, but that's not the whole story either.

In reality I don't believe that I've added 6 pounds of fat to my body in 3 days. The theory of calories and weight loss/gain dictates that one pound is equal to 3,500 calories. To lose one pound you need create a deficit of 3,500 calories by consuming 3,500 calorie less than my TDEE. Of course this can't happen in one day. FatSecret says my TDEE is 1700 calories. Other apps say I need to eat just over 1400 calories daily to lose at a rate of about a half pound a week. I haven't been tracking for a while and that's a problem in and of itself. But to gain 6 pounds of fat in 3 days I would have to have eaten 21,000 calories over my TDEE in these three days. That's 7,000 extra calories every day for three days. For sake of argument, we'll say that I need 1400 calories a day to just exist. That means that I ate 25,200 calories in the last 3 days or 8,400 calories each day. That's utterly impossible. During the worst days of my worst binge eating I didn't (couldn't) consume that much food.

But let's look at this a different way. Approximately 83 days ago - I weighed in at the doctor's office at exactly what the scale registered this morning. During the time since then I have tried various things to lose weight. For the most part I tracked my calories and macros, and tried to keep them within certain parameters that would favor fat loss. For a while I even tried 5:2 fasting, and although that seemed promising at first, eventually it backfired and I started overeating. I reined that back in and went to a structure of eating 3 meals a day within about a 9 hour window - keeping calories to less than 1500 daily and carbs to a maximum total of 100 grams. That seemed to be working fine - much better than strict keto, or OMAD or any other extreme thing. But then I got complacent and stopped tracking, and here I am right back where I was three months ago.

The human body is remarkably efficient at maintaining homeostasis. It will maintain itself if it is too thin or too fat. Thin people stay thin and fat people stay fat. It takes super human effort to trick the body into allowing you to change things and not be undone.
Does that mean I give up? No - I just need to regroup and carry on.

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
91.4 kg	0.2 kg	27.9 kg	Poorly

(4 comments) Gaining 3.9 kg a Week

28 June 2024

I am at the weight goal my PCC set for 3 months ago. Now let's see if I can hold that until the 9th when I see her again. I have a terrible habit of self-sabotage whenever I hit goals.

It's a gorgeous day outside and the pollen rate is low. Time for me to stop making excuses and go for a walk

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
88.6 kg	3.0 kg	25.1 kg	Reasonably Well

(1 comment) Losing 0.4 kg a Week

12 June 2024

I'm 197.6 this morning, as I was on April 24. I have to lose 2.2 pounds in the next 3 and a half weeks to achieve the 6-pound loss goal my PCC gave me to accomplish in 3 months. I can do that if I stay consistent and get enough sleep. I was down another couple of pounds but then I had a night with 1 hour of sleep and another with 0 hours. That always causes problems with eating as I'm super hungry the day after a sleepless night and have zero willpower. That's a normal phenomenon because the body is looking for more energy to compensate for the lack of sleep.
A friend gave me a grounding mat that seems to help reduce inflammation and improve sleep, but it's not a miracle worker. I have to get some walking in too. I have been shutting myself in recently because it's tree pollen season and I have allergies, but I think we are over the worst of it and I can stop using that as an excuse. As far as my eating is concerned I have been doing well except on the days following sleepless nights. On my good days, I've been eating three meals a day at around 10, 2, and 6, and no evening snacking. I have been eating low carb, but not "keto" low.

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
89.6 kg	2.0 kg	26.1 kg	Reasonably Well

Add Comment Gaining 0.1 kg a Week

21 May 2024

I'm glad to be on a downward trend again. I've abandoned any fasting ideas because it just always backfires on me and leads to binge eating.
My one food rule for the time being is always to write out a hypothetical menu for the next day. I don't have to be a perfectionist in following it to the letter, but it prevents rash choices made when hungry, and I make sure to have food on hand to complete the menu.
IBS continues to be a problem even with a low FODMAP diet. I had horrible symptoms yesterday and no hint of anything triggering in my diet. All low FODMAP foods I've eaten without problem before. I've been researching the gut/brain connection and may try hypnotherapy.
One valuable thing I've learned through the low FODMAP diet is that onions and garlic are super triggers. It's a shame, because I love both, but they aren't worth the pain.

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
89.4 kg	2.3 kg	25.9 kg	Reasonably Well

(1 comment) Losing 0.1 kg a Week

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