Friday, May 29, 2015

Friday

Easy come easy go - or vice versa in this case, I guess. 159.2 this morning. Water? probably some of it. My stomach's been upset for the past couple of days as well; could be that, at least a bit. And other reasons - see below.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • lemon jello water
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • turkey sausage
  • almonds - no more than 25, I'd say
  • a bag of Skittles (stress is the mind-killer, obviously)
  • 2 bags of Kirkland trail mix (because the Skittles caused a bad case of reactive hypoglycemia)
  • about 1/2 pound ground beef (hamburger patties)
  • a small sliced tomato
  • a few Southern-style green beans
  • a couple of dark-chocolate coconut almonds
  • 2 pieces of cheddar
  • more tea with cream
I will be so very glad not to be under all this stress. The night before, I'd gone on a cashew-bender, which added the pound and some that showed up yesterday. Life is still swirling dangerously around our feet, and may be for another month or more. The target destination for our pending move (after all, we have to go somewhere; the house is sold and we can't stay here) has changed. And it could change again, seriously. Not my favorite way to live, this whole limbo thing.

Lee's off for a golf tournament out of town all weekend; I probably shouldn't predict that I'll be eating a lot of salads in his absence (because that never seems to play out), but the lettuce is flourishing in the garden, and I really ought to. So I will try. I think I'll cook up another freezer package of chicken tonight and cut it up for salads, get some fruit to throw in, maybe an avocado. Sounds good at the moment. Unfortunately, what sounds good at dinner time may be some sort of pre-fab crap food substitute thing. I hope not, though. I have a lot of puttering lined up for the weekend - touch-up painting, packing stuff, etc - that I hope will keep me occupied.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Wednesday

Up a bit this morning, after a dinner of Mexican food (chips, salsa, enchiladas - lotsa corn). 157.2.  Sleep last night was okay; woke up about 3:30, just in time to let the dog out - and that was it for the night. Oh, well.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • lemon jello water
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • turkey sausage
  • almonds (probably close to 30; I was hungry)
  • a package of Kirkland trail mix (slowly eating through the emergency stash in my trunk, still)
  • maybe 6-8 corn chips with salsa
  • 3-stack flat cheese enchiladas with green chile
  • a single-serve strawberry Haagen-Dasz ice cream
I think that was it - so while carby toward the end of the day, really not all that awful. We ran a few errands last night after dinner - carried more furniture around - and I packed 5 boxes of books. There are probably another 20 boxes' worth in the house. Plenty to keep us busy.

Mid-afternoon, I had a sudden, sharp craving for a Coke float. No idea why, and, fortunately, it went away as quickly as it came. But I could taste it in my mind - that sharp, that vivid. Very strange.

No breakfast this morning - just wasn't into it. I'm hungry now, though. Hoping it will go away. More packing and what-not tonight, I'm sure - probably more books. We are making progress, I think. But it's definitely in the "eating an elephant with a teaspoon" category.

Solid Trace ketosis last night, surprisingly.

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Tuesday

Curiouser and Curiouser.

I know I'm under a ton of stress (possibly literally) just now. Just look at the sleep I didn't have on Sunday night, for example. I'm trying to eat okay, but have been eating fries - and worse, Nacho Cheese Doritos - and peanuts this past weekend. And I'm stiff and sore and swollen from gardening yesterday.

So why am I down in weight from Friday? Why? (this is not a complaint, mind you).
156.8 this morning. 156.6 yesterday. (guess that 0.2 pounds is all the water contributing to my being stiff this morning. or something).

I have observed in the past that my body sometimes just does or does not want to lose weight. Guessing this is one of the former. Fine by me. I'll ride it on down to wherever it's going.

Weird weekend. We got an offer - full price - on the house on Friday, and after we insisted the buyers protect it with a contingency on the sale of their house, had a signed contract by breakfast Saturday. They came to look at it again, bringing friends, once Saturday and once yesterday. I'm cool with that, and they're quite grateful for us letting them, and if they need to again, we'll certainly accommodate it - glad they're super-enthusiastic - but I'm kind of hoping we're done with the tours for a while.

Anyway, we can get our stuff out of hiding for a while - until it gets packed for real. And today I get to break the news at work - and see if they'll let me do the remote thing for a while, anyway. They may not, and if that's the case, I'm okay with it (heaven knows, this isn't the perfect job), but if they will, it will make the transition a bit smoother.

Do we know where we're going yet? Why, no we don't, as a matter of fact. I would like to have the decision in place by now, honestly, but am hoping it will be done by Friday.

Maybe it's obvious by now, but I have no blinking idea exactly what I ate yesterday or any of the remainder of the weekend. I think yesterday was snacks and dinner.

Oh, and I didn't do the race yesterday. Woke up at 1:30 am for the day, and by 3:00, knew that I could start a 10 K but not finish it, and didn't see a practical way to make that work. Stress. Definitely. So it seems that my last Bolder Boulder was the last one Elizabeth and I did together, last year. Probably a better memory than doing it on my own, feebly, as yesterday would have been.

Friday, May 22, 2015

Friday

Yesterday was longer than anticipated - we got home and into bed at 11 pm. I do not like being up that late at night at all. Maybe that makes me old, but I don't. After the previous 2 nights, I wasn't in shape for it either - and last night, I took Benadryl to help me sleep through. It worked, but I'm fighting grogginess now. Can't win, I guess.

157.0 this morning. I was wrong the other day; the low I'd previously reached was 157.2, so now I'm below that. Not starving, either - basically, I'm just laying off snacking as much as I can. Kind of old-school, except I'm still eating real food only.

Which of course means that it makes no sense that I'm making 50-odd cupcakes this morning. My niece just graduated from high school, and somehow I agreed to make them for her party tomorrow. We had to buy a (very small) bottle of "vegetable oil" for the purpose. Heaven knows what I'll do with the remains. And I won't be eating any of my handiwork - which is, honestly, kind of annoying. But that's what my sister wanted me to contribute, and manners says to do what the other person wants.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • lemon jello water
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • turkey sausage
  • red bull
  • almonds - but only about 15, I think
  • 1 bag of Kirkland trail mix
  • salad with chicken and cheese in, and some sort of commercial honey-mustard dressing
  • 1/2 slice raspberry swirl cheesecake, no crust
  • more tea with cream
Trace ketones at bedtime; took my Benadryl and was out before 11:15, I'd guess. Slept fairly rock-like until the alarm went off, and was a bit confused as to what it was. Still only about 6 hours' sleep, though. Maybe tonight. 

Three-day weekend. Possibly dominated by house showings, or packing if not. I think we're hoping to get a movie in. And it looks like Monday will start out dry - which means I'm doing the Bolder Boulder. And I think I'll be painting the pantry on Sunday during the Indy - which has completely snuck up on me this year. Hope we'll be allowed to stay home for it.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Thursday

Hmmm.

Sleep's on the wane right now - not at all nice. 1:30 (I think) found me stretching a foot the wrong way, muttering silently, "no, no, NO!!!" as my calf cramped up, and flying out of bed to stomp it out. And then being awake until after 3 some time, with pretty choppy sleep after that. It didn't help that I'd gone to sleep all stressed out about care for our dogs while on "that damn cruise" (TM), and when I woke up with the cramp - left leg again, by the way - my mind started having a very bad attack of "what if"s. 

I should be tireder. I should be failing to lose weight. Instead, I'm in a relatively alert state, and saw 157.6 this morning.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • no supplements in the morning
  • a RedBull zero
  • almonds (lots and often - probably 40 all told)
  • a bag of Kirkland trail mix
  • salad with blue cheese dressing and additional blue cheese crumbles
  • chicken tortilla soup (I didn't see any tortillas, though)
  • a "gluten friendly" muffin (that's how they labeled it) with butter - it was a mini-muffin, and very good
  • soft-serve vanilla with sprinkles
  • a single dark chocolate with almonds
  • lemon-jellow water stuff
  • more tea with cream
House showing yesterday was mid-afternoon, as is the known showing for today. I'm anticipating that the weekend may see us banished from our home, more-or-less. Spent the evening packing crystal, on the theory that if it breaks in transit, I'll be very angry, and it would be better to be angry at myself than at Lee.

Today includes a visit to the dog eye doctor, dinner out somewhere, my niece's high school graduation, and the first chance to change out of my work clothes at bedtime. I have a comfortable dress on, but it's nowhere near as comfortable as sweats.

The more I think about it, the more "relative" my state of alertness is. I really hope I can sleep tonight. Maybe artificial aid. Then working from home tomorrow, possibly on the front patio if it's not pouring, to permit more house showings (not yet scheduled, though). And then a 3-day weekend. With the Bolder Boulder on Monday if the weather is dry; I will not do it if it's wet.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Wednesday

Well, that was weird. I got up this morning after a bad night (woke up at 2 am, pretty much for the day), got on the scale, and saw 157.8, which was the low point I'd reached, what, a week and a half ago? The one that caused me to go on a sugar and chips bender that afternoon, which felt at the time like complete self-sabotage. And here I am, boiling with stress at the moment from "the house is on the market"-itis. horrible weather, and an upcoming vacation that is just horribly timed (we are, I'm sorry to say, referring to it as "that damn cruise"). So everything should be saying I'd be gaining weight, not reverting to a drop I'd thought was pretty much doomed. Guess I won't hold my breath that it'll stick around.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • lemon-jello-water stuff
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • turkey sausage
  • almonds (probably close to 30)
  • a package of Kirkland trail mix
  • a glass of white wine
  • a single bite of burnt sausage (we abandoned that meal)
  • quarter-pounder with cheese, no bun
  • mixed chips - lays, sour cream and onion, fried Cheetos
  • another tea with cream
Last night was "install doorknobs and locks" night for 2 new doors on our garage (it's detached and has 2 human entrances, for some bizarre reason), and once that was complete (oh, and we made a run to Home Depot for more paint and one of the doorknob lockset thingies), it was bedtime. I guess the loss could be put down to a very real lack of evening leisure/snacking opportunity. 

We are seeing the light at the end of the house-fix tunnel - the list of things to touch up is mostly trivial stuff and getting quite short - which is a darned good thing, since we had a showing just as I got home from work last night. Going to put a bet down here that we'll be seeing that pattern a lot for a while.

Trace ketones at bedtime - it was a fairly low-carb day, I guess. But I need to figure out how to add veg. And fasting breakfast today, sorta - no time this morning once we pried ourselves out of bed at 6:25, but I've had some almonds already. It may be a Jimmy John unwich day.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Tuesday

Water. Like I said. 159.4 this morning, less than Friday. Another evening spent working on house stuff - but it's pouring outside so the realtor can't take pictures and that means it can't actually go on the market. Must have pictures. Must have pictures with the sun in, apparently. Who makes these rules?

At least I'm still getting sleep. Out before 10 last night, woke once at 1 am and once at 4, and neither of them was permanent. 

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • lemon jello-water stuff
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • turkey sausage
  • almonds (probably about 25 - got hungry mid-afternoon)
  • trail mix (I will be eating through my emergency stash in the car, one bag per day, on the way home)
  • pork green chile stew
  • cobb salad with some sort of vinaigrette
  • a dark chocolate with almonds in it
  • more tea with cream
Reading yesterday that we kill off gut bacteria by eating a lack of variety of foods, and that the wrong bacteria will lead to obesity. Do I know if that's been a problem? Not really, but my diet over the past 2 years or so was seriously routine. I've been trying to increase vegetables a bit - more salads, anyway - and have cut back on cheese consumption a lot. Haven't seen a big decrease in weight from those measures, obviously.

More of the same today, I'd say. Probably packing china and crystal tonight, if I had to guess.

Monday, May 18, 2015

Monday

Worked our butts off all weekend, ate whatever made sense at the time (i.e., more carbs than usual). Whatever. 161.2, much of it swelling joints from all the painting and ladder-climbing and so-forth. If I stress over my weight right now, I think that'll be the last straw, and the camel will go down hard.

That said, the house is thinned-out, we have an accumulation of boxed stuff starting in a storage place, we managed to get enough painting done yesterday to make the place look presentable on the outside, and the realtor is coming to take pictures today - theoretically, anyway. It's raining, so maybe they won't be pretty enough. Problem is, it's supposed to rain all week. Anyway, as far as we are concerned, he can put the sign up and make the listing active this morning. We've done all we can do in a short timeframe (we'll obviously continue packing our stuff as time passes).

Sleep was mostly pretty good. I'm pretty achy, but a combination of aspirin and fish oil have been making it bearable enough to stay asleep. Friday night I passed out before 9, and then woke at 4 - and got up. I was just awake (stressing details of the move, for sure). Saturday and Sunday nights were more normal - in fact, I think the sun woke me up yesterday, which is kind of cool. I woke at 4 this morning but was able to go back to sleep at least for a while.

At this point, I think I'm in "best attempt" mode - maybe 80-20 or something. Too much else going on. This week, we have likely some house-showings, our niece's graduation, an appointment with the dog's eye doc, and I have to make 4 dozen cupcakes for the graduation party - something I had completely forgotten being ordered to do by my sister some weeks ago, until my mom called to remind me. We had to buy vegetable oil in order to do this horrid thing. By rights, I should buy some flour to mix in for altitude, but I'm not going to. There are limits. Needless to say, our presence at the party on Saturday (conflicting with church, by the way) will not involve my eating any of the cupcakes. Oh, and I have the Bolder Boulder on Monday - if it's sunny. I'm not going to go if it's raining, even if it's my last ever chance to do it. Sorry. Just not gonna. And a week after that, we start leaving for the cruise - Lee and my folks early in that week, me and my sister's family on the Friday. Yikes.

Anyway, while we're over the hump of getting the house ready to show, it's not the last hump. On the bright side, I probably won't have a lot of pure snacking time in my future. And I'll probably get pretty good sleep.

Friday, May 15, 2015

Friday

The sleep I got was continuous; I guess that's something. Problem is, it started after midnight and ended well before 7:00. Work. I'm slammed this morning - can't think, can barely move. I just took a handful of D3, hoping to fend off any illnesses that might obtain from the lack of sleep, the stress, and the fact that colds are flying around the office. I don't have time for that sort of thing just now, and I sure don't want it on the cruise, when I will have time, but not the inclination.

159.6 today, due to an attack of the munchies last night - I needed to eat crunchy things, repetitively. No idea why that in particular, but it meant chips and cashews and trail mix after a perfectly adequate dinner of steak and grilled shrimp. Oh, and M&Ms at work yesterday. Just a mess all around.

I don't think I'll list everything; I'm too tired. Hoping today will be better - at least I have a massage tonight, at 6:30. Badly needed.

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Thursday

Spent last evening climbing up a short stepladder armed with a paint roller. Sore, stiff, and swollen up today. 159.0. 

Sleep went well - we're getting to bed a bit late these days, but I got to sleep quickly, woke very briefly at 1 am, and even a launch-from-bed legcramp at 4 didn't really wake me up. The alarm at 5:30 woke me up. That hasn't happened in a while. Interestingly, we had stripped off the extra curtains in our bedroom last night, at the request of the realtor to make it brighter, and I was a bit worried about sleeping with more light. Needn't have been, apparently.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • almonds - not many, I think
  • Jimmy John's Club Lulu unwich (turkey bacon, cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo, mustard)
  • salad with blue cheese dressing
  • half-pound hamburger patty with butter
  • small scoop Haagen-Dasz vanilla with berry sauce
  • more tea with cream
That was it. Solid Trace ketones at bedtime, no more. Toe cramps then as well, but not painful, and then the painful calf cramp at 4 am. I've moved my magnesium and potassium supplements to bedtime to help with sleep and with cramps, and took extra fish oil and aspirin last night for the painting. I'll have some touch up on the corners and edges to do tonight, unless Lee does it this morning, and I have a software deployment tonight anyway, so I'm looking at late night with artificial light - I'll probably do packing while I'm at it.

Pretty sure that this is our new normal for a while - until we get the house properly staged, anyway. After that, evenings will be spent trying not to make a mess, and picking up anything that verges on being one. Lee was saying that he thought we ought to move more frequently to force us to go through and get rid of possessions every couple of years. All the while I was thinking I'm so glad we haven't done this in a long time, and hoping not to have to do it again. Maybe we can just stage a mock move every couple of years to get rid of the dreck. Or something.

I think I'll go get some aspirin now.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Wednesday

Wow. Totally forgot this yesterday - it was one of those days. Today may be another.

In any event, I believe my weight is down to 158.6 this morning - whatever I ate over the weekend was, apparently, water-retaining.

Stress is the theme of this week. We signed paperwork with a realtor to put our house on the market last night. It's real. We're moving - somewhere. We don't know where yet, but if the market is as hot as it seems, we are going to have to figure that one out pretty soon. Not a lot of sleep last night, for either of us. I think I'm looking at about 4 hours, myself. Red Bull on the commute in - hope it's enough, because I have the meeting from hell this afternoon, running an hour later than I usually leave when it is on track - and it won't be on track today. Ugh.

Also, I'm starving. Skipped breakfast for more time not being up, which didn't work because the dogs needed to get up and be fed and medicated. They have grown complicated in their old age. I didn't think I was hungry to start with, but once I hit the road, I realized I'd been so very wrong.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • lemon water with gelatin (I need to shortcut this name, somehow)
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • bacon
  • almonds - 10-12, I think
  • chips and salsa
  • 3 cheese enchiladas with green chile
  • vanilla ice cream and berries
That was it - Trace (solid Trace) ketones at bedtime. Hoping very much that today is better than yesterday. But not holding my breath.

Monday, May 11, 2015

Monday

Ugh. I totally fucked it up over the weekend. Friday, I got all snacky and couldn't stop eating. Saturday, I went on an unlimited cashew-bender (thinking all the while that I wasn't really liking the taste), and yesterday, I ate well enough, but had 3 meals, potato chips and a baked potato, and dessert and wine with dinner.

159.8 this morning. 2.6 stupid pounds put on in 3 days. 2 pounds since yesterday. 

Anyway, back to it this morning. Started out with gelatin and a good breakfast, and will be having 10 almonds shortly. It was working. It IS working - I just need to get a grip on the stress.

Sleep was good Saturday and Sunday nights. That's something, right? Friday, not so great - I had a 2-hour period of being frustratingly alert, starting around 1:40. Still, I'm doing all of this with no drugs, not even melatonin of late. That's worth something.

Friday, May 8, 2015

Friday

Another good night's sleep. Have I got it figured out? I so hope so. Fell asleep shortly after 9, woke briefly at 10, and then out cold until 5. My shoulders (both now) are stiff, but didn't bother me until this morning after I woke up. Maybe I'm just effing exhausted, and am sleeping to try to make that go away - I don't know.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • hot lemon water with gelatin
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • bacon (3)
  • almonds (about 15, I think)
  • burger with blue cheese and some sort of semi-sweet sauce (not much of it), no bun, with pickle slices
  • cottage cheese
  • individual serving Haagen-Dasz strawberry
  • more tea with cream
I would like to note that they served free frozen yogurt at work yesterday afternoon. I was hungryish - more like craving cheese - but decided that, since I don't eat frozen yogurt, I wouldn't go investigate it. And I didn't. I had a couple more almonds for the actual hunger, and called it good. It wasn't even much of a strain on my part to resist - it sounded like it would be painfully sweet, and that's not what I was wanting at the time. Felt a lot like the first go-round - for a change! Note, however, that I had ice cream last night at home - not nearly as sweet, and I know what is in it. I saw a ketone reading between Trace and Small again last night. 
 
157.2 again this morning, so maybe it was real. My left ankle is swollen up this morning as well, so maybe it's actually lower than that. Didn't do much last night, truly - did a bit of shopping after dinner and came home and slumped again. Lee did all the painting I'd been meaning to do - maybe a good idea, because he was waiting for a phone call that did not come. Does that mean we aren't moving? Probably not - and we may still be going for the job associated with that phone call. All it means that the stress associated with that issue has not gone away. But I seem to be handling it better.
 
Weekend starts tonight. For a week after a long-weekend vacation, this has been surprisingly normal. I think we have a trip to the movies, painting interior doors, and Mother's Day dinner for my Mom this weekend. Fortunately, the shift to stricter eating has started to feel normal, so I hope not to backslide either today or this weekend. 

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Thursday

I have messed up my right shoulder again, and the stretches haven't helped yet. I hope it's yet, anyway, and not that the stretches are not working. Knots all over it, though - subscap, delts, traps, probably erectors as well. I'd guess it's from the driving over the weekend - there was a lot of it. That, or working at this desk, which is set up so that I sit in a corner - it's not terribly ergonomic.

Anyway, that didn't help with the sleep overnight, although I got to sleep fairly easily, sans Melatonin, and woke up once just long enough to turn the radio back on for another bout of snooze alarm. The dogs got us up at 4 to go outside - they did, we didn't - and that was it for the night. So less than 8 hours, but not a lot less. I'm a bit sleepy this morning, and achy.

All that aside, I weighed 157.2 this morning. A nice surprise. I think this approach, the return to the basics, seems to be working. And I will keep it up, resisting the urge to celebrate with food. Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements (still no lemons yesterday)
  • scrambled eggs
  • turkey sausage
  • almonds - between 10 and 20, I think - again, I got hungry in the afternoon
  • a pork chop braised in stewed tomatoes
  • green beans
  • peanuts - I ate them from the can, and because I was hungry, so I don't know how many, but not a huge amount
  • 8 dark chocolate coconut almonds - supposedly 1/3 cup has 11 grams of carbs in them, and I don't think this was 1/3 cup
  • more tea with cream
A little snacky last night - we were both mentally tired and down and just did the couch-and-TV thing after dinner. I'm hopeful that the "are we going to move?" thing will be resolved today - if it is resolved, the answer will be "yes". That will be one less thing to fret about. And it should make Lee happier, I think.

Trace ketones last night - barely. Maybe I'm using them all, maybe it was the beans, peanuts, and chocolate. I'm wondering if the key to this approach to weight loss is to start out fairly high fat to trigger ketone enzymes, and then drop to more of a high protein, low carb, moderate fat breakdown to force the ketones to pull fat from reserves instead of meals. That would make some sense to me.

We have lemons again - and I had the "hot lemon jello" or whatever it is, again this morning. I think it was helping with the aches and pains - may have been key to my feeling so much stronger while on the east coast over the weekend. And I would be quite happy if it helped my fingernails a bit - they've got dried out and tend to flake more than in a long while. That's a side-effect of aging, per the Internet anyway. Still don't like it.

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Wednesday

On weeks that have days off, doing this (correctly, mind you) helps me keep track of what day it is. Had to think about it this morning, but I'm pretty sure it's Wednesday.

So. Trace->Small ketones last night - pinker than Trace, but not as pink as Small. Another good night's sleep, and I didn't take Melatonin. And a little bit down in weight this morning - 158.0. So things seem to be working well.

Here's yesterday:
  • tea with cream
  • the usual supplements
  • scrambled eggs
  • turkey sausage
  • 18 total almonds (10 first, then 2 bunches of 4 later in the day because I was legitimately hungry)
  • "chili" made with ground beef, pork-and-beans, and V8 (a family recipe)
  • dark chocolate with almonds - 1 small piece (Hershey's nugget)
  • dark chocolate with hazelnuts - about twice the size of the almonds one - part of a Ritter Sport bar
  • more tea with cream
Spent the evening making jewelry with my sister's help - necklaces for gifts from the Mardi Gras king next year. They are done. And that occupied the time from dinner until 8 pm; after that we watched a bit of TV and crashed. It's been raining here, so no real way to get outside for exercise - and honestly, I'm not much in the mood to do any right now. It seems like a bad thing that I'm not into it, but I am feeling a bit fidgety and needing to be busy, so I'd guess that I'm properly fueled right now. I'll be painting baseboards and trim tonight, I believe. Plenty of that to be done.

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Tuesday

So. Four-day vacation involving 2 days where I was mostly flying, and 2 where I was doing tourist stuff all day. Some walking, lots of driving, eating breakfast and dinner for the most part, but carbier than perhaps usual. 158.2 this morning. Possibly some weight lost, possibly some dehydration. I'm reserving judgment until a couple of days have passed. I think I was at 158.8 on Friday morning - didn't record it, since I was flying.

One interesting observation. Around here, in mile-high Denver, I find myself pretty weak - it's tough, in particular, to get up from a seated position, stuff like that. There, at a bit above sea level, in hills, anyway, I had no problem with that. I didn't think it was an Oxygen-related thing. But now I'm wondering. Guess I'll have to do a bit of research.

Back to the routine this week. I think it was last Thursday night, I saw Moderate on the keto-stick. Possibly the highest I've ever managed. And we were out of lemons this morning, so no gelatin water for me today. Start that back tomorrow, too.

I slept really well on the trip, I should note - and last night as well. I know that can change, but it's nice to have it back.