Had another attack of the munchies last night after dinner - walnuts and cheese, this time. Down to 150.8 this morning, though, so no worries. Slept rather rotten - couldn't get and stay comfortable. Too hot, then too cold, then laying in an awkward position. Ugh. Left me feeling stiff and clumsy.
Finally ordered a couple of pairs of new pants - size 12, not 10. I'm betting, with this order, that I stay around my current weight for a while. And unless we really start going to the gym soon (maybe something I can do when on my own for nearly a month), I don't think my measurements are going to change much. But seriously - in April, I was a size 18, and starting to wonder if I would be seeing 20 soon. Now, 14s are large on me (wearing another skirt on the brink of donation this morning). It's all good.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
October 13th
The fast yesterday went a bit weird - I got hungry out of boredom around 2:30, and took my last dollar (the last one I had on me, anyway) down to the machine for some peanuts. Only there weren't any - they were out. So I got trail mix instead, and had a giant bolus of sugar, what with the raisins and faux M&Ms and all. It wasn't very good, but it made the hunger go away.
Dinner was a cheeseburger on the grill - I left the cheese on for 2+ minutes with the lid closed, and the drippy bits caught on fire, a little. The top was all bubbly, and it was basically perfect. But not enough food. So I had some more cheese, and some chocolate (for the record, Godiva 85% cacao is nastier than Lindt, and has more sugar in it - not sure how they pulled that off, because the nastiness is not due to being sweeter), and some dried strawberries - the last of them. I should probably make more before there aren't strawberries handy. I just had the munchies a good part of the evening.
Anyway, the fast day triggered a mild leg night - one episode of stumbling out of bed to step on my left foot, which very nearly didn't wake me up at all. And a minor loss - back to 151.0 this morning. Had breakfast today - back to the regular routine now that Lee's home for a while.
Some observations from Seattle: the people there are immense. Not just fat, although they make me look like a concentration camp survivor by contrast; they're tall and just big. I remember reading that height increases generation over generation may also be the result of overfeeding - a similar mechanism to obesity, but operating when the growth hormone is in full sway. I don't know if that's the case, but the northwesterners certainly appear to be operating in a land of plenty. So maybe I take back what I've said about Colorado, because we don't even compare to the Washingtonians. Bottom line? America is fat all over, and much of it is morbidly obese. I am so glad I managed to stumble onto this way of eating in time to do something about it for us.
Dinner was a cheeseburger on the grill - I left the cheese on for 2+ minutes with the lid closed, and the drippy bits caught on fire, a little. The top was all bubbly, and it was basically perfect. But not enough food. So I had some more cheese, and some chocolate (for the record, Godiva 85% cacao is nastier than Lindt, and has more sugar in it - not sure how they pulled that off, because the nastiness is not due to being sweeter), and some dried strawberries - the last of them. I should probably make more before there aren't strawberries handy. I just had the munchies a good part of the evening.
Anyway, the fast day triggered a mild leg night - one episode of stumbling out of bed to step on my left foot, which very nearly didn't wake me up at all. And a minor loss - back to 151.0 this morning. Had breakfast today - back to the regular routine now that Lee's home for a while.
Some observations from Seattle: the people there are immense. Not just fat, although they make me look like a concentration camp survivor by contrast; they're tall and just big. I remember reading that height increases generation over generation may also be the result of overfeeding - a similar mechanism to obesity, but operating when the growth hormone is in full sway. I don't know if that's the case, but the northwesterners certainly appear to be operating in a land of plenty. So maybe I take back what I've said about Colorado, because we don't even compare to the Washingtonians. Bottom line? America is fat all over, and much of it is morbidly obese. I am so glad I managed to stumble onto this way of eating in time to do something about it for us.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
October 12th
Mild gain after a weekend away - up to 151.8 again (wasn't I there at the beginning of last week?). I think I ate pretty well - may be going overboard on the saturated fat, though, so I'm going to back off in that area a bit - only do cream tea in the morning and eat less cheese and bacon. No reason for thinking that, by the way, but I'm trying to be balanced as a general rule.
No leg symptoms of late, which would indicate to me that maybe I'm not in hard ketosis these days. Some, though - I can taste it in my saliva when I am. I like being keto-adapted - it makes life so much easier to deal with when I know I won't be a slave to blood glucose levels! Very helpful yesterday, for example: when I woke up (6:00 ish), I was starving, but not glucose-starving. We never did get "breakfast", but ate lunch at the airport, around 11:30 am (in my home timezone, anyway). Then, I didn't have any more food (only a venti tea at Starbucks with half-and-half in it) until after 9 pm. Granted, at that point I had a lot of cheese, some walnuts, some cashews, and some chocolate, but if I hadn't felt all "snack-y", I would have been fine going all night.
I'm IFing this morning because I didn't want to get up early enough to cook anything. Definitely got to figure that one out for the long stretch cooking for only me, because I can't do 3 solid weeks only eating dinner. At least, I don't really want to.
No leg symptoms of late, which would indicate to me that maybe I'm not in hard ketosis these days. Some, though - I can taste it in my saliva when I am. I like being keto-adapted - it makes life so much easier to deal with when I know I won't be a slave to blood glucose levels! Very helpful yesterday, for example: when I woke up (6:00 ish), I was starving, but not glucose-starving. We never did get "breakfast", but ate lunch at the airport, around 11:30 am (in my home timezone, anyway). Then, I didn't have any more food (only a venti tea at Starbucks with half-and-half in it) until after 9 pm. Granted, at that point I had a lot of cheese, some walnuts, some cashews, and some chocolate, but if I hadn't felt all "snack-y", I would have been fine going all night.
I'm IFing this morning because I didn't want to get up early enough to cook anything. Definitely got to figure that one out for the long stretch cooking for only me, because I can't do 3 solid weeks only eating dinner. At least, I don't really want to.
Friday, October 8, 2010
October 8th
150.2 again this morning. Had a fun dinner that I will probably do again - if you go to McDonalds and ask for one of their burgers without the bun, you get it in a plastic salad bowl, but with all the fixings. And it tastes like a McDonalds burger, eaten with a fork. I had (possibly because I knew I could) a double Quarter Pounder with cheese that way. And a small fries, because the thing that got me thinking about McDonalds last night was the smell of fries cooking as I walked from work to my car. Result? No weight gain, no (thank heaven) leg cramps overnight, and a loss back to where I was last Saturday morning.
Will it stick over the weekend? I tend to doubt it. We'll be in Seattle, and in particular going to a way wonderful French restaurant while we're there - C'est Si Bon, in Port Angeles. It is actually possible - easy, even - to eat fairly Paleo in a French restaurant (there is no such thing as the French Paradox; goose fat is good for us), but it is travel, and rather goofy travel (weird hours, no sunlight forecast, etc), and I just have some doubts.
I can't gain much, though. Got my skinny jeans on.
Will it stick over the weekend? I tend to doubt it. We'll be in Seattle, and in particular going to a way wonderful French restaurant while we're there - C'est Si Bon, in Port Angeles. It is actually possible - easy, even - to eat fairly Paleo in a French restaurant (there is no such thing as the French Paradox; goose fat is good for us), but it is travel, and rather goofy travel (weird hours, no sunlight forecast, etc), and I just have some doubts.
I can't gain much, though. Got my skinny jeans on.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
One other note
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.
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...
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