Well, it's almost two weeks since I've been on this new program. And I'm still loving it! I think I may have messed up this weekend, though. Not horribly. So the program I'm on is low-calorie, low-carb. Yesterday, my parents came over and our son came over and we ordered pizza. I also ordered chicken wings for me, but I also had a piece of pizza. I chose the thin crust and the smallest piece there, and I looked up the carb count and it seemed OK so I enjoyed my piece of pizza and went on about my day.
This morning, I stepped on the scale and... since Friday, I've gained 0.2#.
I know that's a laughable amount. I know that a woman's daily weight can fluctuate wildly based on any number of factors, many of them uncontrollable. I know that, even if I did gain 0.2#, I'm still down more than 10 pounds since starting, and that is nothing to sneeze at!!
But I can't help but think that I know what caused that. Damn pizza. Wasn't even that good.
It could also be that I haven't taken my blood pressure meds for like three days now. Because I was starting to feel pre-syncopal (for my non-medicalese friends, that means I'd feel a little lightheaded when standing up sometimes) and, since my blood pressure had only recently become "elevated", I thought maybe I could drop the meds already.
I don't think I'm ready for that yet. Today I feel all bloated and sluggish. If I had to guess, I'd say it's a combination of eating like crap this weekend (because besides the pizza thing, there's the fact that we're supposed to eat 6 small meals a day, and I didn't yesterday) and not taking my BP meds.
I feel obligated to say here that I do not support ANYONE deciding to take themselves off their meds "to see what happens", in any case at all. Do as I say, not as I do. I made a bad choice there, even if it was an educated choice. I should start living by the policy of not doing anything that I wouldn't tell my patients to do. Never, ever, ever play around with your own medication doses, kids. Got it?
And today I feel hungry. Like I did the first day I was on the program. So, I may have messed up enough to knock myself out of "ketosis". And you know what? Lesson learned. And if I did knock myself out of ketosis, I know it'll take 3 days for me to get back into it. And I know that I still lost weight the first week, even with not being in ketosis until the 3rd or 4th day or so. So overall, I'm not worried. I will go back to following the plan to the very letter, and taking my BP meds, and I'm confident that this, too, shall pass.
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My huge victory for last week was that, I was losing about 0.4-0.5# per day most of the week. Which is awesome!! So Thursday, I weighed 233.4#. And I was like, man oh man, if I could be down in the 232 range, that would be SO FRICKIN' AWESOME!! So what I do when I get on the scale is, I focus on what I want the number to be. I'm usually running this "please don't be higher than [last known weight], please don't be higher than [last known weight]" line through my head about a thousand times per minute. So I sat down on the scale, and a few seconds later after it beeped, I stood up and read it. 231.0. It actually took me a second -- I didn't want it to be higher than 233 and was hoping for 232, so 231 didn't register right away. But when it did -- man oh man oh man!! And then the ".0" was a whole 'nother thing! I was a very happy camper.
So...yeah. Today's reading of 231.2 still feels like a failure. Overall I'm still very happy, but, a little deflated today. And tired.
But tomorrow is another day!!
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