20190708 Daily report

For many years, I refused to do what was necessary to become someone capable of losing weight and being in control of my body’s weight.  I mean that I refused to change my mind.  I was willing to force myself to eat less food, temporarily, but my body wasn’t cooperative with that opinion.  However, I wasn’t willing to change anything else about myself.  How do you lose weight, and get control over your body’s weight, when (1) your body won’t cooperate and (2) you can’t change anything about yourself?  Answer: you don’t.  But you sure feel bad about yourself.  You have placed yourself where you can’t win.  You can call yourself names, and try to motivate yourself, but that won’t do a thing.

Change your mind and your body will follow.  The food actually gets better – more satisfying and fulfilling, both in its taste and its significance to you.  

Hot dog buns are 130 calories each. This bread? 22 calories.

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 2 x pulled pork wraps with pickles (250)

  • 500 calories

Lunch – 2 x grilled bratwurst wraps (300) with flatbread and onions fried in Pam 

  • 600 calories 

Dinner – 2 x BLT wraps (200)

  • 400 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (80); candy (200)

  • 280 calories

Total for the day: 1780 calories (limit 1800)

Wrap-oh-no

It was a day of wraps.  My plan was to have vegetable curry for dinner, but that didn’t work out timewise.  So instead, I had wrap sandwiches for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  Vegetables….well, today I had the lettuce and tomato on my BLTs, and no vegetable curry for dinner.  Tomorrow: no wraps at all, and vegetable curry for sure.

One problem I have noticed is that pulled pork, when cooked really well (North Carolina style), is so rich and flavorful that I get saturated with eating it.  I made a 5 pound pork shoulder and it is just way too much.  Next time I will freeze most of it!  I have also noticed I can get tired of other really rich foods, too.  One piece of self knowledge is the realization that I can use those foods as rewards, occasionally, but not as standard meals where I have days worth of leftovers.  I just don’t look forward to them once I am fatigued with their richness. 

We were talking about changing your thinking.  It is so hard to let go of your old thinking.  Many people won’t even try.  Oscar Wilde was quoted as saying that people would rather die than think.  But with some effort, you can decide to change your values.  What do you value?  What don’t you value?  When I was gaining weigh, I didn’t value being thin very highly.  That’s not a flippant remark – I did want to be thin, but it was priority #99 out of 100.  I was busy with other things!  That is, I valued a lot of other things more.  Once I decided that weight control should be in the top three of my values, that meant action had to be taken.  How could I live that out?  

  1. Count your calories and record what you eat in a food journal.
  2. Weigh yourself regular.  I weigh in weekly.  

I plan to do both 1 & 2 from now on.  

Everything flows from the decision: I value being thin more than I value doing almost anything else.  More than enjoying my friends, more than spending time with my family?  More than I valued my old eating goal: eating until I was completely full.  Once I valued being thin, I could see being full as the shallow fulfillment that it is, for the person that I am.  (If I was starving to death, being full would be a worthwhile goal.  But you can see how first-order it is, as a goal.)  I moved up a level and now value being hungry.  Tomorrow, I will talk more about hunger.   Embracing hunger allows you to refine your sensual experience and learn more about yourself.  When controlling my weight, the quality of the food experience is greater than my need to eat.  There are some things more important than being full.  Try fulfillment.  

-The Doctor

20190707 Daily report

Recently, I have become a bit stalled with my weight.  There are multiple possible reasons for this (see yesterday’s post) but the correct thing to do is power through, relying on the system that has been so successful so far.  No matter what else, I have lost 60 pounds since starting, and that’s something.  I have never succeeded at that before.

One of the nice things about this weight control system is that it is easy to resume if there is any problem, like having a bad day, getting sick, or whatever.  The lifestyle I have created is so compelling that I am motivated to get back to it.  To get started again, I just have to ask myself what I really want to eat tomorrow.  

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My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 2 x BLT wraps (200); extra bacon (80)

  • 480 calories

Lunch – 2 x sandwich wraps (45) with 5 Kirkland meatballs (230); 3 Tbsp hummus (120); red cabbage sauerkraut (negligible); and horseradish sauce (10)

  • 450 calories 

Dinner – Jimmy Dean sausage chili, 12 ounces (480)

  • 480 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (80); 88 grams of ice cream (210)

  • 290 calories

Total for the day: 1700 calories (limit 1800 + 500 bonus from swimming, total 2300)

Measuring and rewarding

Since my last weighing was a bit disappointing, I put some thought into what to do next.  I let myself get a bit down yesterday, and get into a non productive place.  That’s over.  What I decided was to quickly re-establish my system of rewards, focusing on my own pleasure and satisfaction.  That makes it worthwhile and motivates me to succeed.  And what did I want for breakfast?  A BLT wrap.  

I cook my bacon in the oven, it’s more uniform and less messy than almost any other method.  In the summer, I don’t usually like to turn on the oven, but luckily it was a cooler day after a week of 92+ days.  I made bacon that I really wanted, and had it on flatbread with lettuce and tomato.  It was great!  It’s easy to measure too, because the bacon (Kirkland) is 70 calories per slice and the flatbread is 110 per bread.  Four slices of bacon are 280 calories.  The lettuce and tomato don’t count for much.  

I wasn’t hungry again until noon.  Then, I wanted the Doctor’s Own Famous beef, hummus, red sauerkraut and pickle sandwich on a flatbread.  It’s like a Middle Eastern pita sandwich (think beef kofta, pickled vegetables and hummus.)  It was very satisfying.  And easy to measure!  The hummus is 40 calories per tablespoon, the flatbread 110 calories each (cut in half to make two), and the meatballs 230 calories for five (Kirkland again).  The pickled vegetables don’t count for many calories, but I round up to account for any missed.  

Last was sausage chili for dinner.  I made that this morning.  (It’s most valuable, if you are counting calories, to make your food yourself.  It tastes much butter than anything you can buy, and you can control the calories more precisely.)  The sausage had 1620 calories, plus 780 for kidney beans, 300 for tomatoes, and 200 for olive oil, for a total of 2900 calories.  I don’t worry about the few calories in spices and garlic and onions and bell pepper.  To measure it out, I put it in a tared bowl and weighed the entire chili.  It weighed four and a half pounds, or six servings of 12 ounces each (480 calories per serving).  Weighing out 12 ounces into a bowl was very easy.  And it was plenty to be satisfying.

I did have calories left over for dessert.  Ice cream can be weighed in a tared bowl.  That’s much more accurate than trying to measure a half-cup or whatever.  88 grams of ice cream was 210 calories.  A good trick is to serve it in a small bowl.  The bowl looks really full.

An important part of satisfying and rewarding yourself is to not allow distractions while eating this food.  They are some of my favorite foods, and I got good and hungry for them and really wanted them.  So I sat and paid attention to every bite.  It was a great experience.  And now I am going to bed, full and happy, and happy with myself, and eager to keep things going until next Saturday.  Then comes the weighing!  I can hardly wait – when things are going well, I have learned to feel that perfect balance between hunger and satisfaction, the feeling that I am losing weight all the time.  You wil learn what that feels like, if you try!

-The Doctor

20190706 Saturday weigh-in

Disorder!  Calamity!  Discord!

I fell into a classic mental trap today and didn’t help myself at all.  Let me explain.  This system of weight control has two mechanisms that reinforce each other.  First, I monitor and control my food intake.  Second, I weigh myself regularly, which keeps the whole thing honest.  

This last week, I have been recovering from some stomach or intestinal ailment.  During that time, eating was out of control and it was all I could do to write down and record everything I ate.  There was no attempt to stick to my diet.  Towards the end of the week I started to claw my way back, and by Friday I was feeling pretty good about it – I went swimming and that went well, my calorie intake was good, etc.  I hoped I might even be on track to lose weight for the week and have my lowest weight ever on Saturday.  

Did that happen?  No.

The Trap

No picture of my happy feet today either – I only post pictures of victories.

I got on the scale and my weight was 264.8.  That’s an increase of a pound since last week and the week before.  Oh no, have I hit the dreaded plateau?  The one I have been saying doesn’t exist?  Well, I can think of a couple of more likely problems.

  1. Still recovering from being ill (intestinal complaint).  This is the fluid weight problem.  Am I retaining fluid? 
  2. First half of the week was spent eating a lot of food, and all carbohydrate rich foods.  Was all that still in my system?  
  3. I have been exercising a lot more than usual the last few weeks – nothing too strenuous, but lots of free swimming in the outdoor pool.  Have I put on some muscle?  That weighs more than normal tissue.  

They all could be true (or none).  But the answer to all of these is the same – be patient, keep persevering using the system that has served well so far.  These problems should resolve themselves, given a week of steady weight control eating.  On the other hand, what if I am in some kind of extended pause that doesn’t resolve itself?  In that case, I will probably accuse myself of cheating or not counting all my calories properly.  The answer to that is another week or two of very careful calorie counting.

Anyway, I have said many times that if you have a bad day, or week, you should never punish yourself.  You will rebel and things will get very bad.  Instead, try to learn, focus your attention on getting back into your new lifestyle.  Did I do that today?  No.

After the weighing, for my meals today, I ate a collection of leftovers and other snacks I didn’t really want.  I had nothing to look forward to, I felt a bit paralyzed about my next move and unmotivated even to make a dinner.  Was I punishing myself?  It sure felt that way.  Can you guess the result, based on what I said above?  My body rebelled, of course.  I had a few pieces of candy which turned into a lot of candy, ice cream, and other goodies.  I am nearly a thousand calories over my limit today.  All because I fell into a trap I knew was coming. 

Can I learn from this?  Absolutely!  I will start with getting the next week back in order.  I will leave now to start cooking and I will make sure to treat myself well from now on.  My own eager participation is essential to this system.  If I have spoiled the new week already, oh well.  I will keep going for two weeks.  I will take motivation from wherever it comes.  But this is a joyful system, when done right.  I will pick up the pieces and build it all up again – it is worth it!

-The Doctor 

20190705 Daily report

According to my records, for three days this week I ate more than 3000 calories each.  For four days, I had 1800 calories or less (give or take a few calories).  What a mixed week!  But you see, I have the records.  It’s one of the many uses of a food journal.  

Anyway, I was ill from last Thursday through Tuesday or so this week, and I didn’t really feel well until today.  That’s in my food journal, too.  I exercised Friday, but skipped Tuesday, since I wasn’t feeling well. 

Because I keep a record of all this, I can watch myself carefully and control my food intake and know what’s going on.  I have learned so much about myself this way.  Self knowledge is the key to losing weight and the key to keeping it off once you have lost it.  

Pulled pork and pickle wrap!

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 2 x North Carolina slow cooker pulled pork wraps (250)

  • 500 calories

Lunch – Bratwurst wrap (300); Snickers ice cream bar (180); Twix ice cream bar (160)

  • 640 calories 

Dinner – 2 x plain grilled Johnsonville bratwurst with mustard (260)

  • 520 calories

Snacking – candy (150); blueberries (25)

  • 175 calories

Total for the day: 1835 calories (limit 1800 + 500 bonus from swimming, total 2300)

Recipes and food programming

The pulled pork is a slow cooker recipe, which is very nice in the summer.  That means you don’t have to turn on the oven and heat up the kitchen, and pulled pork shoulder cooks really well in the slow cooker.  And once it’s prepared, measuring portions is easy – just weigh what you take and multiply by 55 calories per ounce.  I had just over 7 ounces in two half portions, which came to 400 calories total.  That plus the flatbread wrap came to….500 calories for that meal. And I was really looking forward to it, and it was delicious.  I was seriously hungry for breakfast, which made the whole thing really satisfying.  

It is my plan to link my recipes to the blog content.  I’ve created a new page for recipes and will start linking to it soon.  It will be handy for others to see how I am portioning food and making meals that work while I am losing weight.    I have a lot of data about foods that work for me.  Some of them might be interesting to you.  Some of the rewards might be fun to share, too!

It’s been a hard week with being ill, and also it’s been a real blast of summer this week too.  I am looking forward to next week, when I can get back on my food routine for all seven days, and it’s supposed to be cooler.  I would love to feel like the second half of my weight loss program is officially started.

-The Doctor

20190704 Daily report

Once you have changed your mind (how you think about food) and once you have changed your values (how you look at the world), and start living those changes out, your body will follow.  The revolution in my thinking happened in late 2018 and I have been living out the consequences since January 2019.  Since that time, I have lost about 60 pounds, with another 60 to come.  For too many years, I tried to diet without changing anything about the way I thought.  It didn’t work.  It has to be the other way around.  Change your thinking, change who you are.   

The fruit of the grill

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – Leftover half Chuy’s King Carnas burrito from yesterday (600)

  • 600 calories

Lunch – chips (150); granola bar (100); cheese stick (80)

  • 330 calories 

Dinner – 2 x Grilled bratwurst wraps (300); Bush’s baked beans (125); corn on the cob (125)

  • 850 calories

Total for the day: 1780 calories (limit 1800)

Recovery

I’ve spent the last week recovering from an anonymous stomach ailment.  This has not been a great week for calorie reduction!  But part of keeping track of everything I eat, is that now I have data and can take an honest look at where I am.

Last weekend I weighed 263.4 pounds.  This week, I have been eating a diet rich in simple carbohydrates, with very little restriction.  I was sick and sad, and wanted to feel full and comforted.  You would think that this week has been wasted, right?  But I have data.

According to my food log, I should finish out the week at 15,610 calories eaten.  For the last several months, I have had about 13,000 calories per week.  I have also generally lost between two and three pounds per week.  The difference is about 2500 calories.  What does that mean?  Since we know it takes 3500 calories per week to lose a pound, it means I will still have lost weight this week, just not as much.  I might be down a pound from last weighing.  I won’t be going up, even though I have been eating very different food and more of it!  So, maybe I haven’t lost a week. 

Keeping a record of your calorie count, even if you are eating more than you plan to, can still tell you a lot.  Especially when you get weighed, which I do every Saturday.  There are many reasons to keep your food journal up to date.  You too can do it, if you have made the necessary mental transformation. 

-The Doctor

20190703 Daily report

Part of my weight control program is to document what I eat every day.  I don’t always keep within my target calorie count of 1800/day, but I know how many calories I ate.   Since I also know how many calories I need every day (about 2800), I know if I am eating Goldilocks style – too much, not enough, or just right.  To reward myself  for eating so little food, I make sure the food I eat is worth it. 

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My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – Wasn’t hungry – didn’t eat any. 

Lunch – Big Greek Cafe Famous Gyro (600)

  • 600 calories 

Dinner – Chuy’s Tex Mex King Carne Burrito half (600); chips and salsa (100)

  • 700 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (160); candy (180)

  • 340 calories

Total for the day: 1640 calories (limit 1800)

Getting the band back together

I have been ill and not restricting my caloric intake.  I have had an appetite for simple carbohydrates and I have been indulging it.  Today, I was feeling a bit better.  My appetite for carbohydrates was more muted, and my usual cravings (for meat) were returning.  Meat was starting to sound good again.  

My new lifestyle is very attractive and I like it a lot.  I am very motivated to get back there, even though I have spent several days off my diet.  Are you wondering, can I really get back on my weight control program so easily?  On a regular diet, having a bad meal (overeating) or a few bad days is terribly demoralizing.  Sometimes people quit their diets over it.  You might be disgusted with yourself.  But using my new system, a bad day or a few bad days can be shrugged off.  The lifestyle is that attractive!  

First, I spend a lot of time thinking about what foods would be rewarding to me.  I have never paid so much attention to my own needs and desires before.  That is rewarding.  Second, it also makes my tastes more refined, as I have more detail about what I really want and pursue that through cooking and buying special foods.  That’s from my food log.  Third, I am focused on maximum enjoyment of the food.  I am only eating 60% of what I need.  My mind and body are willing to do that, if the food is worth the effort.  It has to be exactly what I want, and it has to be eaten right when I am most hungry for it.

Food just tastes better when you are hungry.  You can add on to that, and say that your favorite food tastes best when you are hungry.  That makes it even more exciting.  

My goal for eating is to be hungry just in time to eat my favorite meal.  With that kind of anticipation, I am able to stop eating when I have eaten just enough to satisfy myself.   Yes, I am thinking about being hungry for the next meal.  If I kept eating, had a second portion, the food wouldn’t taste as good.  Try it!  You will find the second serving is not as exciting and only serves one purpose: making you feel full.  Feeling full is to be avoided.  (You won’t be hungry for the next meal!  It won’t taste as good!)  Feeling hungry (just in time) is the goal.  

I have now guaranteed I will be hungry just in time for the next meal, since it was so rewarding and satisfying to be hungry for this meal.  The system reinforces itself.  

Yesterday, still feeling ill, I ate 3500 calories or more.  Nobody loses weight doing that.  Today, I had less than half of that, using my system of hunger and rewards.  Tomorrow, I have been careful to plan out all my meals so that I can anticipate them properly and use them as rewards.  I think I am back on my weight control lifestyle.  That’s where I want to be!  Where do you want to be?  

-The Doctor  

20190702 Daily report

Every day, my job is to keep a record of my food intake.  Well, that is part of the job.  I also regulate my food intake to keep the total calories in bounds.  When I am ill, however, it’s all I can do to keep the food intake record.  I don’t have the same tastes when I am ill, and my determination to lose weight is rather sapped.  

Apart from being ill, my stomach feels very strange right now, because I have eaten a lot of food today. I am stuffed and feel more full than I have in a long time – it’s been over six months, since I started controlling my food intake.

My food intake and calorie count

Miscellaneous carbohydrate rich foods, including bread, noodles, ice cream, hummus, peanut butter and jelly.

  • 3550 calories

Total for the day: 3550 calories (limit 1800)

Being full

How I feel right now (stuffed, full) is how I must have felt all the time before I started my system of weight control, before I changed my mind about food and eating, and lived that out.  In those days, I ate whatever I felt like all day, and I had a desire to eat until I felt full, every meal. 

Now, the need to feel full is very much associated in my mind with being sick.  I just need to be full, for whatever feeling of comfort it gives me.  I always found being full very comforting.  I think most people do.  But now I am living in a strange duality, where I want to be full, but at the same time, I don’t want that anymore.  

What this is, is another opportunity to learn about myself.  Before I started my weight control system in January 2019, this is how I lived.  (Except – then, I did not pay any attention to how much I ate and did not count calories or keep a food journal.)  It’s easy to see how I overate and gained weight.  Without even trying, today I ate enough to gain weight.  According to the online calculators, I need to eat about 3000 calories a day to maintain my weight.  I had 550 calories more than that today.  A week of eating like this, and I would gain a pound per week.  

Part of the difference now, is that I am paying a lot of attention to what I am eating and how much I am eating.  Before, I didn’t pay any attention at all.  Paying attention has really made me raise my standards.  My tastes are more refined now and I know myself better.  

I can hardly wait to feel better.  I had to take naps today, I was that tired out.  And I don’t like this feeling of being full anymore.  Well, tomorrow is a new day to feel better and get back to my preferred life!  

-The Doctor

20190701 Daily report

While I have been ill, I have kept on recording how much I eat.  But restricting calories is too much during that time.  Plus the foods that motivate me when I am well (bacon) aren’t very appealing when I am sick.  What foods do I want then?  Simple sugars and carbohydrates!  I grilled a few days ago and still haven’t eaten the food!  

Pork tenderloin, pounded flat! It grills fast.

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – tea with half and half (80)

  • 80 calories

Lunch – tea with half and half (80)

  • 80 calories 

Dinner – spaghetti noodles 4 oz. cooked (200); four Costco meatballs (200); 1/2 cup grapes (40)

  • 440 calories 

Total for the day: 600 calories (limit 1800)

No punishment; exercise and weight loss

Yesterday I figure I ate nearly 3000 calories, mostly carbohydrates including ice cream, chocolate, candy, crackers, and bread.  I did eat some meat, but it wasn’t very appealing to my appetite.  I am trying to eat 1800 calories per day.  Is the solution, then, to not eat until I have made up for those calories?

No, you can’t do that!  Each day should be treated as a new day.  Overeating yesterday shouldn’t be made up at the expense of today.  Part of you will see that as a punishment and rebel.  You would have to use force to keep yourself from eating, and then resentment would start to build up.  Try dieting when every meal is a source of resentment!  The best way for losing weight is to cooperate with your own plan.  The plan has to present an attractive lifestyle you want to follow.  It regulates itself, if you have set it up properly.

My weight control system is focused on each day’s food.  If I fail for a day, well, I can’t make up for it.  It is lost.  It so happened today that I was not hungry until dinner time.  Maybe it’s being ill, maybe it’s the huge amount of food I ate yesterday, but I checked by opening the fridge and looking around – no, nothing appealed to me.  I drank tea just hoping that it would wake my stomach up.  I have no idea if that worked, but I did get hungry around 6PM. 

For most meals I try to eat about 500 calories.  When I was hungry at dinner time, I tried having my normal meal.  But I am still not back to normal.  Meatballs didn’t really appeal – I just wanted the noodles!  And I could have kept eating them, too.  But I am hoping that when I get up tomorrow, my normal appetite will have returned.  

I read an article today about weight loss and exercise.   This author had the idea that one would look best through strength training.  Her system is to diet until you like your weight and size, then incorporate a lot of strength training (weight lifting) to make your body look better.  To do this, you would have to increase your food intake a lot while burning a lot of calories at the gym.   She does stress that the point is not to bulk up, but to gain muscle definition.  

This system wouldn’t work for me.  As she correctly points out, you should only do this if you really like working out at the gym.  You won’t keep doing it over the medium or long term if you have to force yourself.  The maintenance cost is high.  Muscles take a lot of effort to build, and if you don’t use them, they go away.  For my lifestyle, it would be effort wasted.  

Some strength training is probably a good idea, though.  I am hoping that my swimming contributes to that.  I like it; I do it twice a week and miss it if I don’t go.  It all adds up to a lifestyle I like.  That’s the goal.

-The Doctor

20190630 Daily report

My weight loss program involves a hedonism strategy: I eat just enough of foods I really want to eat, and avoid other foods.  My brain and body are willing to give up being full of food, in trade for eating just enough of my favorite foods, foods that I am anticipating and excited about.  There are flaws in this approach, though it works about 97.44% of the time.

My food intake and calorie count

Miscellaneous foods, heavy on carbohydrates

  • 2500 calories

Total for the day: 2500 calories (ill today; no real limits)

The illness flaw

My diet depends on me anticipating and looking forward to eating my next meal.  I want to be hungry, and never be full.  Food always tastes best when you are hungry, always.  So to get the maximum enjoyment from the food, I get hungry at mealtime and then eat a food that I like a lot.  I get excited about it, and prepare it with care and attention.  Then I eat the food, which only has 60% of the calories I need to maintain my weight.

There are calculators you can find on the internet that help you work out this number.  Based on the experience you have dieting, you can refine the number and get the true figure.  That’s one reason it’s really important to maintain a food journal, where you record everything you eat, the calories, and how you felt about it.  

Anyway, since I am sick, my weight is all over the place (fluid retention?) and my appetite has devolved.  My taste right now is for really simple and easy carbohydrate rich foods.  That is, bread, cookies, ice cream, crackers, noodles….meat just doesn’t have a lot of appeal for me right now.   So my usual approach of preparing delicious meaty food and using that to reward myself for eating less food overall – doesn’t work.  I can’t anticipate and enjoy those foods when I am sick, they have little appeal.  If they are not appealing, I can’t reward myself with them.  Could I reward myself with carbs during this time?  Maybe.  

My concentration and willpower are also at a low ebb when I am sick, so I am having trouble with portion control.  That is all out the window.  Luckily, it is temporary.  I probably won’t lose any weight during this illness.  

In the past six months of weight loss, when I have been sick, this has happened.  I am used to it now and always find it easy to get back to my weight control program once my old tastes return.  IT is self reinforcing, and very successful at losing weight.  I hate the delay though.  I get so impatient watching the scale crawl down over weeks and weeks.  But it has been steady, at least.  I didn’t gain all the extra weight that quickly, either.  So my goal now is to get better.  Then make my life better.  People are starting to remark to me that they are noticing I am losing weight.  It only took 60 pounds!  I wonder what the next 60 will be like.  Stay well!  

-The Doctor.

20190629 Saturday weigh-in

Part of my commitment to myself, an expression of my new values, is to weigh myself regularly from now on.   I have been doing that since January 2019, and I have been teaching the rest of the family, especially kids, to weigh themselves regularly.  That’s just how important it is, in terms of my new values.  What are the new values?  To be in control of my body’s weight.  To be as thin as I choose.  Those values are now superior in my moral hierarchy, to most other things.  It’s the price I am going to pay to keep control. 

Interruptions in the plan

Normally I post my weekly weighing in this spot.  I did weigh myself, but the number was almost the same as last week – down half a pound, that’s all.  I think I am getting sick and my body is retaining some fluid.  Remember I am wearing size 46 pants now, so I am losing weight.  My calorie numbers are on track.  I have been exercising, even.  This has happened before.  When I get sick, my weight fluctuates and becomes unreliable for a week or so.  I used to worry about interruptions in my weight loss a lot, but I am pretty confident in my system now.  Things will get back to normal as soon as I feel better.  I’ll keep writing.

-The Doctor

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