Since I had the house to myself last night, I did a few weight-lifts (4-lb weights, I think; just upper arm stuff) and sit-ups before going to bed. I can sort of feel it this morning - just a little tiny bit stiff. And I didn't do enough to aggravate my right shoulder, which has been periodically cursing my name since I tried similar lifts with the 8-lb weights some months ago, so hopefully I can keep doing it.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
October 7th
Well, that's more like it - maybe 152.2 was water-driven after all. I was 150.8 this morning, after a normal breakfast, a dinner consisting of cheese (colby and swiss), berries, and heavy cream (oh, yum!), some nut-and-cheese-ball snacks, and a square of leftover hotel chocolate, brimming with sugar. I just didn't feel much like cooking last night, and while an all-cheese meal might sound unhealthy, or at least unbalanced, I don't plan to do it again tonight. Not that I know what I will do.
I did fast today, since I'm on my own until next Wednesday (I think) and just did not feel like getting up earlier than usual in order to cook something. Of course, on that basis, I could conceivably not have breakfast tomorrow, Tuesday, or Wednesday, either. Not sure I want to do that long a stretch of 20-hour fasts, though, so I will have to come up with something. Guess I could have cheese...
I did fast today, since I'm on my own until next Wednesday (I think) and just did not feel like getting up earlier than usual in order to cook something. Of course, on that basis, I could conceivably not have breakfast tomorrow, Tuesday, or Wednesday, either. Not sure I want to do that long a stretch of 20-hour fasts, though, so I will have to come up with something. Guess I could have cheese...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
October 6th
No change in weight today - still 152.2. Reassuring in a way, I guess; I can discern a pattern, and the gain has stopped, which means if I fast tomorrow (for convenience more than anything; Lee will be out of town and cooking breakfast is time-consuming), things should be headed back to the 150.2 region shortly.
I found out yesterday evening that there was a reason I've been hungrier than usual in the mid-afternoons this week (I have been). Lee had decided that, since he's been having yogurt with his eggs and turkey bacon, we should cut back to 3 eggs between the 2 of us rather than 4. So I, who do not eat yogurt, had suddenly been cut off from half an egg. I think it's fixed again, going forward. I know what started it - he gets nervous about eating so many eggs, after the "eggs contain cholesterol. High cholesterol is bad. Eating eggs is bad." propaganda of the late 70s/early 80s (the years when America began getting really fat). He rebels against this way of eating fairly frequently, just sure that it's unhealthy, because the doctors all say so. But the doctors do not study nutrition, and the little that gets thrown in to their general medical education is all Lipid Hypothesis-based, so all they know to say is "the fat you eat is the fat you wear" and things of that sort. So he's nervous about the way we are eating, even as he's about to weigh less than 200 pounds for the first time in over 20 years, and is looking visibly thinner. And even in the face of my rather dramatic blood pressure and lipid profile improvements back in June, and his reduced blood pressure (he is up for a physical shortly, but hasn't had it yet, so no lipids for him). I expect that when he gets his next results, he will be able to go off his BP meds, his metabolic syndrome will have ebbed, and his lipids will be enough better that he could broach the subject of backing off on the statins (but he won't; he believes in them implicitly). Will that stop him being nervous? Probably not.
Had a rather odd dinner last night - we went to Qdoba and I had ground beef with queso, guacamole, pico de gallo, sour cream, and cheese on it. It didn't taste as good as I'd hoped. Also had a piece of swiss cheese before dinner (my missing half an egg had me hungry) and some cheese-ball-and-pecans after. That, along with the 1.5 egg and turkey bacon, was it for the day. If humans operated strictly on calorie counts and the 2nd law of thermodynamics, I'd have wasted away by now. That I could lose weight on far more calories and maintain on fewer, in what is, granted, an n=1 study, proves decisively to me that there's more here than meets the eye.
We did get the K2 and are trying to take it weekly, since it's a rather large quantity and the Whole Health Source blog tends to think we shouldn't overdose on it. I can't say for sure that my skin has improved (I've taken a whopping 2 of them), but it seems smoother and less dry. For what it's worth...
I found out yesterday evening that there was a reason I've been hungrier than usual in the mid-afternoons this week (I have been). Lee had decided that, since he's been having yogurt with his eggs and turkey bacon, we should cut back to 3 eggs between the 2 of us rather than 4. So I, who do not eat yogurt, had suddenly been cut off from half an egg. I think it's fixed again, going forward. I know what started it - he gets nervous about eating so many eggs, after the "eggs contain cholesterol. High cholesterol is bad. Eating eggs is bad." propaganda of the late 70s/early 80s (the years when America began getting really fat). He rebels against this way of eating fairly frequently, just sure that it's unhealthy, because the doctors all say so. But the doctors do not study nutrition, and the little that gets thrown in to their general medical education is all Lipid Hypothesis-based, so all they know to say is "the fat you eat is the fat you wear" and things of that sort. So he's nervous about the way we are eating, even as he's about to weigh less than 200 pounds for the first time in over 20 years, and is looking visibly thinner. And even in the face of my rather dramatic blood pressure and lipid profile improvements back in June, and his reduced blood pressure (he is up for a physical shortly, but hasn't had it yet, so no lipids for him). I expect that when he gets his next results, he will be able to go off his BP meds, his metabolic syndrome will have ebbed, and his lipids will be enough better that he could broach the subject of backing off on the statins (but he won't; he believes in them implicitly). Will that stop him being nervous? Probably not.
Had a rather odd dinner last night - we went to Qdoba and I had ground beef with queso, guacamole, pico de gallo, sour cream, and cheese on it. It didn't taste as good as I'd hoped. Also had a piece of swiss cheese before dinner (my missing half an egg had me hungry) and some cheese-ball-and-pecans after. That, along with the 1.5 egg and turkey bacon, was it for the day. If humans operated strictly on calorie counts and the 2nd law of thermodynamics, I'd have wasted away by now. That I could lose weight on far more calories and maintain on fewer, in what is, granted, an n=1 study, proves decisively to me that there's more here than meets the eye.
We did get the K2 and are trying to take it weekly, since it's a rather large quantity and the Whole Health Source blog tends to think we shouldn't overdose on it. I can't say for sure that my skin has improved (I've taken a whopping 2 of them), but it seems smoother and less dry. For what it's worth...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
October 5th
Ergh. 152.2 again this morning. What was that other weight I could never seem to get far away from? Something.2, as I recall. Whatever. Up 2 pounds from Saturday morning, which is mildly disturbing, but I do notice that weight gain from bad eating is sometimes delayed by a day or two, so maybe yesterday's gain was from Saturday dinner and today's was from Sunday lunch (by that specious logic, I should be up more than 0.4 from yesterday - Sunday was much carbier than Saturday, I think).
Anyway, I'm eating properly again (save for a very minor chocolate almond nosh last night - probably ate, oh, maybe 10 of them), so things should sort themselves out momentarily.
Anyway, I'm eating properly again (save for a very minor chocolate almond nosh last night - probably ate, oh, maybe 10 of them), so things should sort themselves out momentarily.
Monday, October 4, 2010
October 4th
As usual, the low point of the week was Saturday morning; I was up to 151.8 today after Saturday's dinner (not all that bad, although I did have an entire slice of bread - horrors!) and Sunday's lunch (La Loma - chips, corn tortillas, and green chile that almost certainly contains flour). But you know what? I don't think I care. I'm where I want to be, weight-wise, and don't plan on changing my eating habits. We will stick with our pseudo-lacto-paleo-whatever-it-is approach, because it feels natural and I, for one, feel much healthier as a result of eating this way. And maybe I lose a few pounds more; maybe I don't. I'll let my body figure that out.
Not that I'll stop stepping on the scale as a salute to each morning, but as long as I don't start a sustained gain, I'm good with it.
Not that I'll stop stepping on the scale as a salute to each morning, but as long as I don't start a sustained gain, I'm good with it.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
October 2nd
Really hideously bad night last night - both legs took turns cramping up - not on the calf muscle, but on the muscles running up from the outer anklebone and possibly also the shin, so there was no position available for stretching; all I could do was lay very still with the cramping muscle against the heated mattress pad. Consequently very tired this morning. Also very skinny - 150.2 pounds. That's a number I'm having an awful time getting my head around. Did my measurements this morning for body fat - 25.5%.
I did fast yesterday, sort of - had a bag of peanuts midday because I was bored - but it wasn't dietary, just because I couldn't be bothered to fix breakfast. Probably not a good mindset. With Lee heading out of town in November, I think I need to do some planning, so I have convenience foods available.
I have a lot of things I want to get done today, so I think I'd better go get some more calories to burn. Time for the heavy cream...
Friday, October 1, 2010
October 1st
The calf cramps are back, darn it. Both legs now - equal opportunity writhing, I guess. At the same time, I'm down to 151.0 this morning, so they are at least doing the usual signaling. I was out of bed at least twice that I recall; it may have been more. Guess I should be grateful to be sort of sleeping through them.
Had a great dinner last night. 8 oz filet with lemon butter, roast asparagus, and a baked sweet potato - all at Ted's. The presence of the sweet potato should have kept me from losing carb-processing water, I would have thought, so I would say that increasing carbs, at best, might have a delayed influence on the leg spasms.
On the other hand, my ankles were back to their normal degree of boniness this morning, so I definitely lost water overnight, since my feet were swollen at dinner enough to feel my arches when wearing birkies. You know, I haven't really got to the bottom of the whole cramps thing yet, and maybe I never will.
On the other hand, I'm wearing my new size 10 jeans today...
Had a great dinner last night. 8 oz filet with lemon butter, roast asparagus, and a baked sweet potato - all at Ted's. The presence of the sweet potato should have kept me from losing carb-processing water, I would have thought, so I would say that increasing carbs, at best, might have a delayed influence on the leg spasms.
On the other hand, my ankles were back to their normal degree of boniness this morning, so I definitely lost water overnight, since my feet were swollen at dinner enough to feel my arches when wearing birkies. You know, I haven't really got to the bottom of the whole cramps thing yet, and maybe I never will.
On the other hand, I'm wearing my new size 10 jeans today...
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