Sandy701's Journal, 29 Oct 10

I didn't go walking yesterday after all, so the 3.1 miles for today seemed pretty easy. I did Stairmaster yesterday, so it wasn't a total day off.

What a difference a weather front makes!! It was only 56 degrees this morning when the dogs and I went out - clear and breezy. I almost wore long pants but opted for shorts, anyway. I've had to get out my "new" size 16 shorts to walk now, as the 18's are beginning to slide down. I have to keep hiking them up, which is annoying. So, the new clothing rotation is 18's for around the house and 16's for walking. This leaves my 20's pretty much out of the picture now. They've been fitting bigger and looser to the point where it seems ludicrous to wear them anymore, even around the house.

I'm definitely having a weight issue (yeah, I know, aren't we all). I dropped out ReddiWip and sugar alcohols as a test about 2 weeks back and initially dropped a pound or two faster than usual, on the brink of dropping a third pound that week! I also happened to be at less than 30 TOTAL carbs during that time, but it was unintentional. My weight dropped from 190 to 188 and was close to 187. Then, everything seemed to stop and I stayed at 188. Thinking that my test really made no difference because the pounds didn't continue to drop, I re-added sugar alcohols, ReddiWip, and my total carbs went back to where they had been prior to my test. This didn't happen all on the same day, but was over a period of a couple days.

Well, the result of the re-additions was that I stayed at 188 - and stayed - and stayed, but finally just dropped to 187 this week on Monday. Today is Friday and there's been just 1 other day this week that I've been at 187 (point something). The rest, I've been back in the 188's. Thinking that something in the 188's is my true weight right now, that means I've been at 188 since 10/16, nearly a full 2 weeks. This is the first time in 7 months that I've stayed the same for that length of time.

As I'm typing this, I realize the obvious solution is to drop the ReddiWip and sugar alcohols again and see what happens. I'm out of RW anyway (guilty face) and the only sugar alcohol is in the 1 bar I use for a snack (and have been using for months, except during the test).

Although I have no measurements to check, I do know that those size 18 shorts I used for walking for quite some time now, just became too big in the last week or so, slipping down from my waist, so I suppose that's an indication of losing (partial) inches.

I really don't want to give up my snack bar - it's my one indulgence - but I guess it's the only way to see if it, and the RW, are what's slowed me down so appreciably.

It's also noteworthy that during this time at 188, I've been more tired than usual and not sleeping all that well.

The body, it is a mystery....

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1396 kcal

Fat: 97.42g | Prot: 102.65g | Carbs: 29.54g.   Breakfast: Brown Sugar & Honey Breakfast Sausage, borden shredded cheese, Pieces & Stems Mushrooms, scrambled eggs. Dinner: beef steak, baby cut carrots, zucchini, sweet onions, broccoli, yellow squash. Snacks/Other: Truvia packets, Heavy Cream, Land O'Lakes sugar free whipped cream, raspberries, String Cheese Mozzarella Cheese Snacks. more...

2279 kcal

Exercise: Sleeping - 8 hours, Resting - 14 hours and 58 minutes, Walking (moderate) - 5/kph - 1 hour and 2 minutes. more...