I weighed and measured myself today and I'm stuck on the scales but did lose an inch around each of my bust, abdomen, and hip measurements and a half inch off my waist. I'm a little discouraged because I felt I would have some dramatic weight loss ( ever the optimist!) but oh well. I've been thinking about what could be throwing a wrench in the works and this is what I came up with after reviewing "the book" again:
First I had been sucking on cough drops at night because my house is so dry from using wood heat that I can't sleep without coughing. I didn't have sugar free ones and wasn't going to waste a full bag of regular ones. Besides my ketostix were still changing color so I didn't worry. Second, I have been eating cheese daily and since that can be a problem, I'm going to cut it out and see what happens. Last and probably a big contributor is my Diet Pepsi habit which I have cut back on to milking one glass a day like it's manna from heaven, so no more of that if that is what it's going to take. Perhaps keeping a closer eye on salt in my food and maybe a prayer that perimenopause stops tweaking with me and I'll do better. I don't think I've been eating too many calories or too little but I'm going to dig out my carb/calorie counter and watch that more closely too.
I think I'd be devastated but I can't stop remembering how bad I was feeling before starting this and even if I'm not racing to a svelt new me, I'm still in a better state than I was a month ago. I'm not going to be fat forever.... perhaps a little longer than I would like to be...but after this never again.