NK - October 2013 Version

Weigh in: 171.8 for a point six drop. I'm hoping my weight won't bounce around so much this month, and that I finally get below 170. 

Log for today
Calories 1652 * -

fat: 132.59g
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protein: 77.06g
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carbs: 38.92g

Breakfast: bacon and eggs with flax bread /CO
Lunch: Taco Salad
Dinner: fajitas
snack: apple and pnut butter

Hooray Cheryl!!!

Hooray Lisa!!!

We'll pop the LC bubbly when you get under 170

I went to the grocery store earlier to pick up a few things, and they had boneless pork chops on sale for $2 per pound.  

It's been ages since I've had pork chops, I don't know why I haven't been buying them. Even at full price they don't cost much more than ground beef or chicken, and may even be cheaper. I'm going to try the pork chop seasoning I got from Penzeys - it's a blend of salt, hickory smoke, garlic, onion, white pepper and ginger.  

Well bounced a bit today too, 150.6
I upped my fat yesterday. My brain felt so happy all day and I wasn't hungry at all.


chrispy, just inflammation. Hang in there and feel better.

Thank you.  

 Great thinking Lisa! Hopefully having a full time job is gonna reduce some of your stress. Sure it will cause other stress to but hopefully in all stress will be reduced.

That cold wet weather will do it every time. Nothing used to bother my knee like that sort of weather

reddarin, ha ha you may win for biggest bounce, but we win for the biggest group of sickos.   

KT had an upset stomach but no hives since yesterday morning early. 

Hmmm. I've been thinking about the end of month WI ever since it was suggested. Here are my observations concerning it.

The idea of defining weight loss success based on calendar dates sounds good but in practice it leaves a lot to be desired. If you think about it, you are not observing a trend over time by comparing two data points. That old math saw about two points making a line but a third point is required to check the line applies because a line is meaningless without the context of a graph. But you need more than three data points to form a meaningful graph of information.

A long time ago (on the Evil Forum) I made a post about the shifting window of water weight that Dr. Phinney spoke of in the Long Term Stalls podcast. What he said was that any given person has a plus or minus two pound fluctuation in water weight so you can lose four pounds in four weeks, which is awesome, but if your water weight is up at the end of the four week period it can completely or partially hide the fat loss. Sort of like those horizontal blue lava lamps from the 70s and 80s.

It would be more informative to keep an eye on a rolling four week average of weigh-ins. Or even a rolling four week window of lowest weigh-in for that moving window if you are fastidious about staying on plan with no excursions to Carb Land.

But two calendar dates are very arbitrary for tracking weight loss. For example, on 8/31 my WI was 179.4 and on 10/03 it was 179.5. That looks terrible. But my rolling four week average, that is the average of weigh-ins for the four week window ending on 8/30 was 181.53 and on 10/02 it was 178.11. So the reality is that my weight trended down about three pounds over that period but just picking two dates that are ~four weeks apart (e.g. calendar dates) shows bad news and completely hides the weight loss. Also, what was going on at the end of last month in your life? TOM? Did you have a cold? Injured? Flare up of some condition? Stress in the home? Workout too much? Trouble sleeping? All that stuff can affect your acute weigh-in for days or even weeks.

So, don't get discouraged by a bad weigh-in that happens to coincide with the end of the month. Keep an eye on the trend over time. If you track the end of month WI be sure to make a note for yourself what was going on that day or week.

LOL, No way is she getting emancipated, it will be her turn to start supporting me soon.

Cheryl.....what a FABULOUS picture.....you look lovely!!!

Todays numbers......
Cals             1322
Fat              103.2g
Carbs           13.9g
Prot              88.8g


B.      BPC/almonds
L.       Bacon/eggs
D.      Pulled pork/cucumber/cheese

RoBiN <3 
Take a breath and hug yourself.
Life is crazy and you have a ton going on, stop stressing about workouts.
Get you some me time and relax.
If you get a chance when things calm down listen to the podcast with Mcguff. 12 minutes a week is all you need and all that cardio is just taking up valuable time and energy. That guy is really on to something.
Men are so different than women. Your SO and you may need different things to control your stress.
If you are struggling with high cortisol then cardio workouts and such can make that worse.
One big signal that you have high cortisol is not being able to wind down and go to sleep at bed time. Ya know, you are tired during the day but wired at bed time and stay up too late. Don't know, but have been read that the supplement Rhodiola is helpful with cortisol. Also a little exercise called heartmath. You can Google a youtube video, it is super easy and only takes a couple of minutes.
Wish I was close by so I could run over and give you a big hug and a break.

The bolded text describe me exactly. Yikes! I'm taking Benadryl for allergies, hopefully it will help me sleep tonight. I also got earplugs because even when I tried going to bed early, I would wake up when my roommate was getting ready for work and making a bunch of noise.