Finally! I lost a pound!

If you follow this blog, you'll see that I've been on a serious plateau for the last 8 days. The scale read the exact same weight for all 8 days and I was beginning to think that my scale was broken, 310.4#. It was the same, right down to the .4 every day.

Today, the scale read 309.0! Hurray! I'm only 10 pounds away from the 200s! Incidentally, I've not been in the 200s for nearly 6 years, so that'll be a big deal all by itself. It seems silly, in the big scheme of things, to be so happy about that single pound being gone, but it all adds up eventually.

So, what happened in the last 8 days? At least for 5 of it, my cycle got in the way. I feel like that is just such a waste of time and effort. Those dang things are *always* causing problems. Cramps, headaches, no weight loss for an EXPENSIVE method of losing it, blood sugar dropping out the bottom, not being able to sleep... Ugh! Make it stop!

I'm seriously thinking that before the next round, I should get the depo shot so the cycles will just cease (they did last time I was on that form of birth control) and I won't have to worry about a whole stinking week of artificially holding onto weight I want to leave. I wonder if that would work. I'll have to do some research before I put that one into effect. :)

Not a happy camper

This week, I've not lost a single pound - all week! I thought I did one day, but it turned out that it was just that I weighed in my jammies instead of my clothes. I've never experienced a whole week of feeling like I was going to start *any time now* and then just not.

So, my cycle (grrrrr) has cost me about 14 pounds of weight loss, near as I can calculate.

Today, I experienced my first bad effect of this protocol. Of course, it is during my cycle, so I'm not sure how much I can count it as part of the protocol. I was working working working (we're moving tools from the storage center to the shop so we can get it all set up) and suddenly, without warning, my blood sugar just dropped out the bottom. When that happens, you feel all shakey and like you're going to sick up. However, I didn't have anything in my stomach, so was reasonably sure I wasn't going to do that. I didn't have any meat cooked up yet, so had to wait the 10 minutes it took to cook up some shrimp from frozen. I napped while it was cooking, then crawled over to get the protein. I did NOT CHEAT! It was definitely hard not to, considering I still have cheese (parmesean and dubliner's) and some sliced ham for the kids' lunch in the frig and that would normally be what I'd grab first. I'm always careful to keep protein in my system, as I discovered that it's the true key to holding off low blood sugar.

For the record, I'm not diabetic - I've just always been susceptable to low blood sugar when there's not enough protein in my system.

My Mom says I should just push through it, but with the after headache of the low blood sugar and the awful cramps I've had since 2AM, I am not a happy camper.

Ugh. Enough of my whining. I've got a new recipe to share with you for a desert next. Stay tuned.

Observations

Some other observations that Mom and I are noticing is the fact that about this time of afternoon (3 or 4), we're exhausted and in need of a nap. It's a serious problem for those of us with kids or dogs or ...um... a life. Luckily, the kids with us are old enough to entertain themselves, though they rarely seem to be able to do it until they're under threat of chores. The dogs with us are not opposed to napping with us. And I don't think either of us have a life, so... napping is no problem, right?

Sort of.

If I'm so tired by the mid-afternoon, and every other person I've spoken to says they have truckloads of energy, I'm suspicious of what's going on.

I'll continue to observe and report.