Journey Updates
The Fourth Great Attempt: Week 16
May 2, 2010 @ 05:51 pm
I have lost about 22 pounds this year. I've lost a whole heck of a lot of it in just the last 3 and a half weeks. That's something I've been reminding myself of over the last several days.This may be the week my weight loss starts to slow down. That's good ... I guess. Frankly, I could get used to losing 5 pounds a week, but I know the chances are higher that regular high-losses is muscle and bone rather than fat loss. And I want fat loss. Nevertheless, I really want to lose five pounds a week. But it's probably safest if I don't.
The human body is a tricky thing, the subconscious actually a bit subversive at time. Our evolution has no idea what to do with modern society and at times the body adapts to what it thinks is going, but what it thinks is going on hasn't happened in a few millenia. So, we just have to be trickier than our bodie
s. Since weighing in at 285ish with a 5 pound loss on Wednesday, the next three days were really high calorie days. I ate, easily, well above the average I'd been eating at. That doesn't bother me, really. I was eating all good foods - real food, nutritious food, nothing processed - but it happened to be high in calories. But I wasn't necessarily working out as hard as normal either. In the grander scheme of things, I was doing just find. But in the microcosm of my week, it felt like my body was taking a breather. Naturally, without me deciding to, it was scaling back the intensity a bit.
Yesterday (Saturday), my mid-week weigh-in was just about a half pound. And I'd planned to wear a particular shirt that a week ago was really loose on me, but now was tight around my middle again. It was a little discouraging, in a way. But it's been hot here, and I know I've been a little dehydrated, so maybe I was retaining water. Maybe I just needed a little break. Maybe my body was adjusting to the heavy program, low calories, and needs a change. I don't know, but I'm choosing not to worry.
Because if I just lose one or two pounds this week, that's healthy, that's fine. If I hit a plateau over this week and next week, then I'll make some adjustments and get through it.
But I made it through the six week mark of this Fourth Great Attempt - and though I faltered a bit there through vacation and faulty nutrition, I've not lost sight of where I'm headed. And I will not fail again.