August may well have been the longest month on record - at least, it sure seemed like it. Whatever the length, I lost about 6 pounds in August, and that's not so bad. Down to 156.0 this morning - fingers still puffy, but most of the monthly water gain is on its way out. I did not have wine or any starches yesterday, and found myself launching out of bed twice last night - always the left leg. But since we were dealing all night with a sick dog, the leg cramps were reduced to background noise, basically. Whatever the reason, I'm (dare I say it?) dog tired this morning.
A kind of funny thing happened today. I think I mentioned last week about my Monday night spent failing to find any business attire that fit for a meeting on Tuesday. This morning, Lee needed to wear a suit - or at least a jacket and tie - for a meeting at work. Navy blue suit pants - too big. Gray suit pants - might fit, but he hadn't recognized them on return from being altered and took them back, thinking they weren't his (oops). He's basically in the same spot I was, although he still wants to lose a fair amount of weight before declaring victory.
I started work on my third skirt yesterday. With the pattern ease, the size I bought may end up being a bit roomy. I will have to try it on before attaching the waistband this time - and I'm doing the lining a bit differently - I'll put it on with hand-stitching after the waistband is on. I think that will be a bit more flexible if I have to do any other alterations.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
August 30th
Weird weekend from an eating standpoint. Saturday I had breakfast (Denny's make-your-own omelet), lunch (3 naked hotdogs), snacks (cheese), dinner (which I don't recall at all - oh! 1.5 brats and some pork-and-beans and sliced tomatoes and a glass of pretty nasty chardonnay in our new restaurant riedels which are going through the dishwasher right now...), none of which was particularly carby, but I guess it was pretty salty, because I ended up 1.6 pounds heavier on Sunday morning than on Saturday morning (156.0 to 157.6). Yesterday I didn't want breakfast, had Qdoba naked burrito without rice but with guac for lunch, a minor snack (more cheese), and pot roast with miniature potatoes and carrots for dinner. And lost .6 pounds of the weight from the day before (so I'm at 157.0 this morning, ugh). Go figure. It's time for the monthly week of fun-with-water-retention, so I probably should just ignore the scale, but getting on it first thing in the morning has become such a habit. I'll look, but I won't freak out.
Friday, August 27, 2010
A night's sleep is a wonderful thing
So yesterday, I had a bag of potato chips from a vending machine, and ate two crispy chile rellenos as well as chips and salsa for dinner. Took an Advil PM, and knew nothing until 4:30 am. Granted, I'm carrying a bit over a pound of water this morning - weight's at 156.6 - but I needed the rest. I don't think carb-loading is a viable long-term solution for the leg cramps, since it was carb-loading that got me to 191.4 pounds back in April, so I will be looking at other approaches over the next few days as I go back to eating normally. Maybe a glass of wine with dinner will help. Actually, that would just be an excuse to try out some new wine glasses we got from a friend with contacts - restaurant quality Riedels that can be put in the dishwasher and are reasonably priced. But the wine may also help keep me from going into hard ketosis at 11:30 each night, or whatever it is that triggers the cramps.
Other than that, life is good. The jeans I bought a few weeks ago are too big, and my brag-whine about that didn't sit well with Lee, who's stalled at 206ish. He doesn't eat full-on paleo, and he won't give up breaded stuff and gravy and even sandwiches - and he'll admit that. Perhaps reminding him that he's not being all that strict with eating right was untactful this morning - apparently he did not sleep for a 3-hour stretch of the wee hours. His excuse is that he's on the road a lot right now for work. True, but it is possible to eat pretty well on the road - there have been some stretches of road time where I actually lost weight (e.g., the funeral - and I didn't eat all that well that weekend either). I feel for him, though - I thought I would never see the end of the evil number 162.2.
More sewing this weekend - even more important now after my wardrobe evisceration Monday night.
Other than that, life is good. The jeans I bought a few weeks ago are too big, and my brag-whine about that didn't sit well with Lee, who's stalled at 206ish. He doesn't eat full-on paleo, and he won't give up breaded stuff and gravy and even sandwiches - and he'll admit that. Perhaps reminding him that he's not being all that strict with eating right was untactful this morning - apparently he did not sleep for a 3-hour stretch of the wee hours. His excuse is that he's on the road a lot right now for work. True, but it is possible to eat pretty well on the road - there have been some stretches of road time where I actually lost weight (e.g., the funeral - and I didn't eat all that well that weekend either). I feel for him, though - I thought I would never see the end of the evil number 162.2.
More sewing this weekend - even more important now after my wardrobe evisceration Monday night.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
August 26th
Omigosh am I tired this morning. At one point I had both calves and a shin muscle firing off on me, and that was just one episode out of I-lost-count-how-many. Add to that the distinctive sound of a dog getting ready to be sick, at 4:30 am, and I'm just a piece of used carbon, not even able to emit smoke.
I assume that the leg antics were associated with the whopping weight loss - 0.4 pounds overnight. I'm down to 155.4, which is all well and good, but not worth the crap sleep involved. Not entirely sure what I am going to do about it, but I think it will involve potatoes - maybe chips sometime during the day. Or something.
Got a load of strawberries yesterday and had some with cream poured on them last night and again this morning for breakfast, which also included 6 strips of bacon. Hopefully that will add some fuel, because I surely need it.
Ugh. Just ugh.
I assume that the leg antics were associated with the whopping weight loss - 0.4 pounds overnight. I'm down to 155.4, which is all well and good, but not worth the crap sleep involved. Not entirely sure what I am going to do about it, but I think it will involve potatoes - maybe chips sometime during the day. Or something.
Got a load of strawberries yesterday and had some with cream poured on them last night and again this morning for breakfast, which also included 6 strips of bacon. Hopefully that will add some fuel, because I surely need it.
Ugh. Just ugh.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
August 25th
Well, I guess it was worth it. I had my ankle cramp up at 11:30 last night, then my calf went off a couple times in the 3 am neighborhood, so I had broken sleep. But I got up this morning and weighed myself, and it said 155.8, which is 1.2 pounds down from yesterday. I was surprised, to say the least. The calf cramps were less intense than they've been for a while, which is maybe (!) a sign of adaptation on my part - at least, I would like to think so. My body fat % is down to 26.9, which is also fairly mind-blowing. But it's still projecting that 20% will be at about 143 pounds (that's just 12.8 pounds less than I weigh now - gaah!).
For what it's worth - and maybe hard to believe given my excitement at 155.8 - I would have been okay this morning if it had still said 157. I'm getting a better bead on my mental attitude, and I think it's a sort of confidence that this way of eating will get me to my genetically-programmed proper weight, and that getting there will happen at its own pace. So, while I'm still being pretty careful with my eating and saving the boluses (boli?) of carbs for special occasions - and even then, keeping the bolus small - I'm not getting hung up on the slower progress.
Just cool. Totally cool.
For what it's worth - and maybe hard to believe given my excitement at 155.8 - I would have been okay this morning if it had still said 157. I'm getting a better bead on my mental attitude, and I think it's a sort of confidence that this way of eating will get me to my genetically-programmed proper weight, and that getting there will happen at its own pace. So, while I'm still being pretty careful with my eating and saving the boluses (boli?) of carbs for special occasions - and even then, keeping the bolus small - I'm not getting hung up on the slower progress.
Just cool. Totally cool.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
August 24th
Well, that was a bit of a shock. I needed to wear "business attire" for a meeting today, so last night I went to try on a suit I'd bought about 4 years ago - size 14. Looked like a bag - too big in so many ways it was actually amusing. So I tried on a silk dress from before then - I thought it was a 14 but it was a 16. Also huge and weird looking. After a few more trials, I ended up with about a $600 pile of donations to the Disabled Vets and 2 dresses that fit the category and still mostly fit. One is the funeral black dress, which fit in June (about 16 pounds ago) - I didn't try it on but am hoping for the best. The other is a dress I bought about 7-8 years ago that fit a little on the tight side then. It's okay now, but on the brink of being too big. That's what I'm wearing today. It's extremely comfortable, I must say (snort).
Still at 157. Think I'm retaining cyclical water right now. Had an ankle cramp last night but otherwise copacetic.
Still at 157. Think I'm retaining cyclical water right now. Had an ankle cramp last night but otherwise copacetic.
Monday, August 23, 2010
August 23rd
157.0 this morning, after a weekend that was fairly food-filled. Not bad. I have some sort of digestive upset going on just now - not sure what, just yet, but it involves a stomach ache of sorts. Anyway, I'm crediting the addition of the heavy cream with the weight loss this week; I do think that was the key, and maybe has been all along. And in the time since we bought it, I still haven't consumed an entire pint of it - including not just adding it to tea twice a day, but pouring it over sliced strawberries (also amazingly good).
I'm still having trouble getting over the salt-water solicitation from my family member. I went to the trouble of web-searching the terms she suggested after I gently turned down the original solicitation, and saw nothing that would change my mind. Then I searched for studies done on the efficacy of the salt water itself, and there are none - the product website says something like they're "not needed." Well, I would agree that it's unlikely that salt-water in small doses will not kill anyone, but they are making claims backed only by anecdotal evidence - and who knows who is generating the anecdotes.
One of the reasons I'm so sold on this way of eating is that it IS backed by studies - more of them each day, despite the fact that the funding is all on sustaining the SAD. While I liked the initial results, I think it was Taubes who really sold this to me - he did such an amazing job of digging through mouldering piles of research and distilling what he found (yeah, right - "distilling" it into an 800-page book...). Well, whatever. It still makes sense, and continues to answer the nutritional questions I put to it. So we'll be eschewing the salt water.
I'm still having trouble getting over the salt-water solicitation from my family member. I went to the trouble of web-searching the terms she suggested after I gently turned down the original solicitation, and saw nothing that would change my mind. Then I searched for studies done on the efficacy of the salt water itself, and there are none - the product website says something like they're "not needed." Well, I would agree that it's unlikely that salt-water in small doses will not kill anyone, but they are making claims backed only by anecdotal evidence - and who knows who is generating the anecdotes.
One of the reasons I'm so sold on this way of eating is that it IS backed by studies - more of them each day, despite the fact that the funding is all on sustaining the SAD. While I liked the initial results, I think it was Taubes who really sold this to me - he did such an amazing job of digging through mouldering piles of research and distilling what he found (yeah, right - "distilling" it into an 800-page book...). Well, whatever. It still makes sense, and continues to answer the nutritional questions I put to it. So we'll be eschewing the salt water.
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