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2017 SEP 13 -- Day 25

I feel awful. I made an unhealthy food choice today. I don't know if that's the cause of my "icky-sicky" feeling, but if not, it's one heck of a coincidence! I do not recommend doing what I did even it it didn't cause the issue.

I ate a pre-packaged, nitrate-laden smoked sausage. Nothing else. And it has been my undoing! Ugh!


I had nothing but my half sandwich for lunch yesterday at work, and when I got home, I was hangry. I was not just hungry, my hunger was making me mad. I was taking it out on my poor husband. I needed to eat something quickly after taking my oil and waiting an hour. This was the quickest food I could get to.

Don't get me wrong. It was delicious. I love these things. But if this is the cause of how I feel right now, I can easily forego consuming these in the future with no love lost. It's not worth the suffering.

I feel bloated, but I also feel as though there is grease pulsing through my veins. I can smell the sausage on my skin. My whole body feels a bit greasy. And I have a phlegmy cough that won't go away. I feel as though I need to clear phlegm from my airway constantly. This is really unpleasant.

I'm going to avoid eating these in the future. Also, is it a high set-point food? I seem to be plateauing a bit from yesterday to today. I can't break 400 lbs to get down into the high 300s. Bummer.

Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 400.6 lbs
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 399 lbs

I was hoping to see 300-something lbs today. At the rate I have been going, it seemed like that would happen. It's not happening.

In the discussion boards there is talk of a "woosh" [sic].  Apparently plateau-and-whoosh is the way SLD works. You drop significantly, plateau, drop, plateau, and repeat as desired. Am I at a plateau? I really enjoyed that last whoosh. When can I do that again?

You can see a bit of how the plateau-and-whoosh happens by looking at my graph. Let's take a look at that.

Plateau-and-whoosh graph:


Yeah. I can really see the plateau-and-whoosh in this graph. My plateaus seem to be 3 to 5 days long, and I whoosh to the tune of 4 lbs over roughly 3 or 4 days. There isn't quite enough data to really see the pattern just yet, but one is emerging. There will be more data soon.

I wonder why it happens. One theory proposed by some in the discussion boards is that the body must readjust to the new weight, and it's shifting things around. I'm likely losing inches instead of weight. I'm cool with that, if that's what is happening. I wonder, though, why the body would require this theoretical readjustment period. I have no theories, and I'm not going to question it. I'm just going to bide my time and not worry about the sciency magic.

For some, it seems that plateaus can take weeks or months. Those reporting these longer plateau periods only have a few pounds to lose compared to me, though. That may make all the difference. I expect to struggle the most when I near my long-term goal. Right now I should be having short plateaus and be whooshing like crazy.

Bring on the whoosh!

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