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Subject: Thanks for the encouragement

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Dreemy

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Date Posted: 10:00:09 11/19/02 Tue
In reply to: SapphireMist 's message, "Re: Not doing so well myself" on 14:07:44 11/17/02 Sun

*Whew*....so glad you are sticking around. You have such wonderful descriptive analogies!! I tried to get us some more people for our little support site here by trying to join a webring but everything I have found costs $$. So far neither the WCOF nor this has cost anything and I am reluctant to change that. Maybe we can find some message boards to post on and tell people we are here.

I had sort of a critical moment Sunday morning. I absolutely went tilt over the irregularities of my scale. It had previously been very reliable. It was basically a pretty good one. But it was an analog dial scale and they do eventually "go". It had gotten to the point over the past few weeks where you could step on and off of it several times in a row and get a significantly different reading each time. But the past week it was so bad that it was all over the board...it wasn't just varying by a lb or 2 from one second to the next but by 5 to 6 lbs. I woke up Sunday feeling sooo great. You know that feeling where your tummy feels flatter and you think...oh wow this is gonna be one of those days that the scale moves! I stepped on the scale and it said I was 5 lbs up!!!!! I put on my jeans and they were loser than before. So I marched myself downstairs where my husband sat happilly reading a book by the fire in his robe and announced...."I am going out to buy a new scale...NOW!" You should have seen his face...poor guy! He was like...Ohhhh...kaaaayyy, sure hun, umm like, should I get dressed first or go with you like this?...LOL!

So he got dressed and we took off to Target. So here is was in in Target staring at 11 different models of scales and my coat and shoes off and stepping on and off scales in the store. I was determined to find one that was consistant to itself...that no matter how many times I stepped on and off it it would say the same thing. There was only one that did that. It is made by health-o-meter, and called the doctor's scale. It is digital and has a life-time lithium battery. (very small and light) The interesting thing is that on most of the analog scales in the store I was 5 to 10 lbs less than my current scale(even with clothes on and breakfast in me) But on the doctor's scale I am 6 to 7 lbs more. But I bought it because I want consistancy and I figured the doctors scales in their offices usually say you are more, too...so that this was probably more acurate. So now I have this hiccup in my weigh-in log that looks like I suddenly gained 7 lbs. I took a deep breath and shrugged my shoulders and figured it was not what was important.

I haven't lost any weight that I can tell in over a week and half. It would seem that changing my diet during PMS to the high-protein/lots of soy, very low carb (basically just my salad) regime that i tried in order to have less pain before and during my period had mixed results:

*I had less pain (I went from pain for a week and half to about 2 days of endurable pain)
*I actually lost 3 lbs during the week prior to my period
*I didn't feel bloated, tired and had no headaches

However....it would seem that I traded weightloss progress during the week prior for no progress at all during the week after. This is definitely worth the trade off since I had much less pain...but interesting nonetheless. I did add back the kashi cereal in the mornings and other fiber/whole grain carbs after my period. I also was a bit constipated after a few days of the no-carb/high protein regime. I am going to try a bit of blanace this time around and will report on how that goes.

I am looking at the long-term endeavor as educational as much as anything else.

Oh, yes...we go away for 5 days for our anniversary at Yule and stay in a B&B. We are going to stay at the same place we went last year. What we used to do every year is eat a sumpuous (translation: mega-calorie/rich) breakfast at the B&B (and man can this woman cook!) and then not eat lunch and have dinner out. I can remember some years that I actually lost weight at these places since we would do a lot of walking places and some of them would have fresh fruit and such available for breakfast. I have left a message with the owner of the B&B to call me about special dietary needs I will have and to call me. I am considering taking my blender with me to make the spiruteen shakes. Do you think the old floors of the turn of the century Inn will quake and shake if I do my dancercize in the room?!!

hug!
Dreemy

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