Day 19/109

GOALS

• Goal date:                      April 30, 2011
• Weight goal:                  203.8 pounds
• Total Inches goal:         115.75 inches

  Today's Weight:        207.4 

  Yesterday's Weight:    208.2 

  +Gain/-Loss:           - 0.8 

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Is there a pattern? This week looks a lot like last week, except the big drop in weight wasn't as big, and so everything is happening at a higher weight.Makes it exciting to see if I can ched 2.8 pounds in the next two days to make this week's goal.

Here are a few questions I'm asking to nobody in particular: Is being goal-driven like this a help or a hindrance? Is holding myself accountable in this blog a help or a hindrance?

Who knows? Not me.

In the first 12 weeks on this diet, I lost a lot of weight. On March 26, I weighed in at my lowest weight in the first 90-day period: 206.6 pounds. Today's weight, 26 days later is 207.4. My previous weigh-in day weight of 205.4, made last Saturday, is a multi-year low weight for me, but is only 1 pound lighter after 3 weeks of following the diet with no exceptions. In that time, I have lost 1/2 an inch in my waist (which was lost 3 weeks ago) and 3/4" in my chest. So measurements are also not moving my way.

I feel like I am in a slump, and it feels like a failure to me. I have been following the eating plan rigidly, without a single exception, over the last 4 weeks. And there is nothing to show for my discipline. Although I will occasionally eat outside the 3-meal-a-day norm, I have eaten nothing off-plan when snacking. I have no sweet-things, not even artificially-sweetened things, outside of my free-day.

The diet plan does not call for portion control, but for the most part, I have been practicing portion control anyway. And for a fact, I have pictures to show how consistent I've been since I started the diet - nothing about portions or the food I'm eating has changed in the last few months.

I don't think anything has, really, except that in the most recent 4-week period, I've gotten a little (not much, just a little) more active.

I'm just thinking out loud. Thinking, what can I do about this?

The chart:

Above the goal weight, on the trend line. Meh.



Today's food:

Breakfast

Scrambled eggs and dal tadka (lentils, vegetables, spices, ghee) with spinach.



Lunch

Turkey off-the-bone, black beans and balsamic vinaigrette over Spring Mix greens.



Dinner

At the Chipotle Mexican Grill: A Burrito Bowl (grilled chicken, pinto beans, vegetables, tomatoes, salsa, guacamole and lettuce). And Chipotle Tabasco Sauce (my new favorite Tabasco sauce).



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