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Oh, this is much better. It's still not as good as it could be, but I am seeing 377.8 lbs on the scale again. Yay! Maybe this will start a downward trend if I'm lucky. Who knows. I'm not going to count any chickens. They haven't hatched yet, and that just leads to bad planning. I really, really, really, truly, desperately want to see 376 lbs on my scale. It will be a small victory, but it will make me feel a lot better than I do right now. I'm stuck at the high point on my graph right now, and I'm very discouraged. This is a down-blip. I'm happy with that, but I want more. I want to drop lower than my lowest point so far since starting this diet, and the lowest number I have seen is 377.4 lbs. I'm never satisfied; right? Losing roughly 37 lbs is huge! But it's not good enough. Starting weight:  415 lbs Current weight:  377.8  lbs  ⇩  Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  359 lbs Never satisfied graph: How about a recipe? My hus...

Plateaus are discouraging. I'm also really tired. It's my weekend, but I don't feel as though I'm getting any rest at all. I am at 379 lbs today. I'm not surprised. It's a plateau, and I don't seem to be budging much from the range of somewhere between 377 lbs and 379 lbs. I'm just going to keep plugging along and hope for the best. Starting weight:  415 lbs Current weight:  379  lbs  ⇧   Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  359 lbs I guess I can be glad that I haven't bumped up above 380 lbs this whole time. That's good. I'm still way under the weight I was when I first started the diet. That's an achievement. I should get some kind of points for that. There we go. I am now validated. No rest for the weary graph:

I finally saw 377 lbs on the scale again today. I'm not going to trust it to stay there, though. This also happened after I dropped off a load of treasure for the porcelain fairy, and I fully expected to see a fairly decent drop on the scale. It's not as dramatic as I would have liked. Also, I'm starving myself again to see if I can get the scale to budge. If a diet is a "battle of the bulge," then would a plateau be a "battle of the budge?" Heh. I amuse myself, and that's all that really matters. Starting weight:  415 lbs Current weight:  377.8  lbs  ⇩  Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  359 lbs Again, though, I'm not really feeling into posting much today. It's Thursday. It's my weekend. I don't feel like I'm having a nice, restful weekend, though. I have a lot to do. I am also obsessively playing a new XBox One game my husband introduced me to called "Path of Exile." it's fun, but it's occupyi...

I don't have much to say today. I thought I had beaten the plateau, but it is still going strong. I'm the same weight today as I was yesterday. This is not fun, but now I sound like a bit of a broken record. I'm not going to say much today, so I'll share a recipe. Starting weight:  415 lbs Current weight: 378.2 lbs Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  359 lbs Japanese-style Ginger Salad Dressing This goes well as a coleslaw dressing. I've used it with a mix of classic cabbage slaw and Asian-style broccoli slaw. 1-1/2 C chopped yellow onion 1 C peanut oil 1/2 C rice wine vinegar 1/2 C water 3 tsp fresh ginger root, minced or grated 3-1/2 tsp fresh garlic, minced or grated 1 tsp salt 1 tsp pepper 4 tbsp lemon juice 4 tsp sugar 4 tsp soy sauce 4 tsp ground mustard 4 tsp sesame seeds Place all ingredients except sesame seeds into a small food processor and pulse for 1 minute, or until desired consistency.  Stir in sesame seeds. Too...

I am back on track. I'm pretty sure I am, anyhow. I really shouldn't count my chickens before they've hatched. Am I right? Yeah. That's never a good plan. I'm at 378.2 lbs today. That's only a loss of .6 lbs from yesterday, but it's a loss and not a gain. This is still not the lowest number I've seen on the scale, but it's going down now, and I'm sure I'll revisit 377 lbs soon enough. I'm in the 370-lb range, and that's fantastic! Starting weight:  415 lbs Current weight:  378.2  lbs  ⇩  Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  359 lbs Any down-blip is a good down-blip. I'll take it! I think I'm back on track with the oil. Going forward, I will be sticking with the Bertoli brand. I don't like it as much as the HEB brand oil, but it's tolerable. Now that I don't have the fear of it being rancid, I'm finding the taste to be much more pleasant than when I first experienced it. It shows how perception ...

How do you spell "relief?" W-E-I-G-H-T-L-O-S-S. My scale showed me 378.8 lbs today. Although it's over a pound more than my lowest weight to date, it's well below 380 lbs, and that's great. I think I figured out what happened and why I started sliding backwards -- I mean, other than my wonky dietary habits of late. When my husband went shopping and picked up two new bottles of oil, he got a different brand. The oil has been tasting awful lately, and knew something was wrong. I thought it may be going bad -- turning rancid. I looked at the label today, and it was Bertoli instead of the H-E-B brand we'd been using. That's gotta be it; right? I mean, taking a different-tasting oil is tantamount to changing oils completely. And in changing oils, the body takes time to readjust. I'm readjusting. Starting weight:  415 lbs Current weight:  378.8  lbs  ⇩  Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  359 lbs We will stick with the Bertoli brand going f...

How does my weight keep going up? What is it that I'm doing? Is the oil losing its effectiveness? I just switched back to taking oil after I get home from work rather than eating first and then taking the oil, so maybe I'm still adjusting. Also, I feel like I have a lot of treasures to give the porcelain fairy. It's been a few days since my last visit to drop off such treasures. I'm not just upset that I gained, but I'm upset that I'm back up to 380 lbs. I was under 380 lbs, and now I'm back to 380 lbs. This is awful! Starting weight:  415 lbs Current weight:  380  lbs  ⇧   Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  359 lbs I can't believe this. I started this month (this 60-day period) at 377.4 lbs.    I somehow gained 2.6 lbs in the past 3 days. That's a rate of about .65 lbs gained per day. I cannot continue to re-gain at this rate. So I am starving myself again. I had a Monster Energy Zero Ultra tonight, and that's it. It is 0 ca...