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Weight: Well YEAH! Down 2.2 pounds for the week, and across my first threshold. I now weigh a touch under 95% of what I did when I started on Weight Watchers, 11 weeks ago. I'm in touch with my doctor about the pace, and he agrees that it's fine, and mostly the result of early improvements from changes in carbohydrate intake for the sake of diabetes management.

New Horizons: Solidly back in the research groove, and hoping to commit actual prose this week. I've also got a hook my playtesters like - essentially, Leverage 1925. More on that during the week, I hope.

Weight Watchers, week 9: down 2.6 pounds for the week, for a total of 11.2 in 9 weeks. And this takes me across a weight threshold, so that my daily point total goes from 44 down to 43. Progress!

New Horizons: I think I'm over the highest hurdles of this ongoing set of new medical challenges, and I'm settling back in to research and zeroth-drafting chunks of the introduction and general advice. Progress!

It's hot and I'm tired and I do have a lot of broody spells, but I'd say the trend is solidly good.

*sigh* Up a pound.

I do have a cold at the moment, so I'll see if it comes back down during the week. I'm eating right and getting as much exercise as is feasible.
 

 I'm taking a break from daily tallies of my weight. I noticed that I'm sort of obsessing over fairly small variations, and after all, Weight Watchers encourages taking weekly figures as more useful and significant anyway.

Down 0.4 pounds, after a lot of yo-yo-ing. I need some stability in this routine, and hope that stress relief on other fronts will help.
 

This is a graph of steps I've taken each day as measured by my pedometer, from May 15th through June 5th:


I know it's hard to read the shrunk-down scale indicators. The vertical scale is from 0 to 10,000 steps per day, with lines at 2,500-step intervals. The blue is total steps taken each day, and the green bars show the number of steps counted as "aerobic", which is to stay, taken in continuous stretches of 10 minutes or more. It's in those that the real calorie consumption goes on.

What makes me happy about this tonight is that the green bars are going up over time. It's not a huge movement, but it is noticeable, at least to me. I'm walking about the same total distance each time I get out for a walk, but I'm getting more benefit from it.

Good stuff. 

Down 0.2 pounds. *sigh* But this is a case where the weekly snapshot doesn't tell the whole story. On Thursday, two days after the last weekly number, I was down two pounds. Then I got hit by a day and some of nasty detoxing effects from the fat burning, followed by a couple of days of nasty reactions to the spike in temperatures we got on the weekend. I'm coming back down from that - a graph would show a nice slope, and since I seem to have a good routine for keeping myself cool as may be right now, I expect the slope to stay down, and that the week 3 snapshot will show the overall picture better. This is like doing a mileage calculation with a flat tire. :) I also find that I've taken two inches off my thighs, and one off my chest. No change yet in waist, neck, upper arm, or calf measurements. But of those...my arms and lower legs are in pretty good shape overall, and I already knew that the belly bloat complications at waist level would likely be slowest to improve. I'm doing well on the process, too. I ate good foods in good amounts this week, and genuinely didn't feel any real urge to go do something stupid and diet-breaking. So I can keep that up, with a modification on amounts to avoid another nasty fat-burning-triggered detoxing ugh, and look for good results.

Yesterday was pretty grueling. We've got a warm spell going in Seattle, and I never deal well with those - any big temperature change throws my body for a loop, and I have to experiment some to get the most effective cooling routine going. On top of that, I had the nasty reactions I get much of the time from fat burning, as old trapped junk is released and makes trouble on its way out. I finally got some decent rest and am doing a lot better today.

Scale check this morning shows me that I'm looking at a week 2 loss of 4-5 pounds. That makes me really happy...but it's more than my body can really handle with reliable safety. I have to make sure to use up more of the optional weekly points Weight Watchers allow. It may even be necessary to use up all of them and tap points earned through exercise. Because I really don't want to go through more weeks where days like yesterday feature prominently.

I would like to note that I feel there is something like irony in this. What a complaint to have! :)

 It's gone through warm and into what I find hot today. Up from a so-so nap and hungry, I went in search of something to eat, and had snacks of some kind in mind. But when i moved to the next level of wakefulness, I found that I'd assembled a cup of peaches in water pack, quarters of a big fresh apple, and some nifty low-fat soy nut butter. Oh, and a glass of lemonade. This is a whole plate's worth of eats, practically a supper, and it's a grand total of 6 Weight Watchers points.

I am always prone to neglecting fruits and vegetables without firm prodding, so I'm feeling really pleased about this.