Holding Steady

"The best laid schemes of Mice and Men often go awry."
- Robert Burns

I wish I could blame it either on mice or men (I had run-ins with both at work this week), but the fact is when I stepped on the scale today my plans hadn't worked out quite the way I thought they would!

After the success of last week, I was all ready to write a nice self-congratulatory blog entry today about how everything is going according to my not-so-evil plans. Whoops! Despite stepping on and off the scale at least a dozen times this morning, I did not repeat last week's loss of over 5 pounds. On the good side, though, I didn't gain. So much for my mental calculations of how soon I would reach my goal at that rate (let's see, 5 pounds a week times 20 weeks equals 100 pounds by June!).

I had been feeling very Paleolithic this week by not eating rice or bread or any grains at all. The idea behind the Paleolithic Diet, also known as the Stone Age Diet, is that you don't eat anything that our ancestors wouldn't have eaten in cave man times. But thinking back on this week, I guess cave man didn't eat mayonnaise or salad dressing!

It would be nice to think that my being overweight is because of some innate inability to process sugar and starch which is one of the cornerstones of the high protein, low carbohydrate regime, but more likely I just eat too much of even the stuff that's good for me.

On the other hand, I actually do feel "skinnier" (I know it's hard to believe someone who weighs as much as I do can feel "skinny," but believe me, it happens), so it could be water weight or some other cycle related reason that the scale didn't go down.

And it could be that I need some grains. We must all be different from a bio chemical point of view. Someone told me we all have different microbes that digest food in our intestinal tracts, so it would stand to reason that there is no one diet that works for everyone.

My friend Lynnette said I probably needed to take more MetaCleanse colon cleanse and it is true that I had reduced my daily dose this week to once a day instead of twice. She suggested I try taking it three times a day. That's probably a good suggestion. Besides helping to stabilize blood sugar, studies show flax helps with menopause symptoms and lowers cholesterol, so it certainly won't hurt me.

And what about the mice and men? My office is in a warehouse out in the middle of the country. For some reason, twice this week a little gray field mouse decided to run under the door while I was in the bathroom. Of course, I shrieked and he turned right around and headed back the way he came. I recently listened to an audio book of "Wind in the Willows" and apparently field mice are cheerful sorts who like to go caroling at Christmas, so I tried not to get too upset about it. As far as the men go, I'll just keep that to myself. As my mom used to say, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all!

Thank you to anyone who is reading my blog. I know it's really helping me to stay committed to my weight loss program.

Today's weight is 256.3 pounds and my Body Mass Index is 44!