Weigh-In

So I weighed in this morning at 7 pounds less than 5 weeks ago.

That 2 hours before bed seems to be the magic key to weight loss. Well, that’s a little simplistic, because I made all the other changes first over the last year-and-a-half. - drinking water, extreme amounts of exercise, whole grain bread and noodles, baked not fried, and adding breakfast and healthy snacks.

In Bob Greene’sThe Best Life Diet you can’t eat 2 hours before bed. It took me 16 months to lose about 20-25 pounds doing all the other stuff put together.  That’s what? 1.4 pounds a month?

But, in one month, actually 5 weeks, I lost 7 pound by not eating after 8 pm. Plus all the other stuff.

At least I think so. Maybe. I dunno if I believe it.

There are two significant variables:

• Weighing the day before my period in August, but weighing the day AFTER my period in Sept. That could be 5 pounds right there. What’s the menstrual weigh-in rule?
• The scale at the gym was serviced (they adjust the balance periodically) between my two weigh-ins. Maybe the scale was off the first time and it’s saying I lost 7 pounds and I lost 2? How can I know?

With everything going on in my life, new school schedules, coaching soccer, mentoring, working from home, mothering, marriage issues, book club . . . I don’t really feel ready to move to Phase 2. If I’m losing 7 pounds a month, I’m okay with not amping up the dieting right now. I think I’ll just hang out in Phase 1 for at least a month. Seven pounds a month is acceptable, even if it’s not true.