Okay. The scale, then.
I was at 220 on Friday, April 23. We left for Vacay on Monday, April 26 and the scale showed 222 that morning.
We ate rich for the entire week, no point in denying it, and the scale showed 226 on Monday, May 3. It went down right away to 222 again, and stayed there until Saturday May 8, when it soared up three lbs to 225. Then down 1 lb to 224 where it stuck ALL WEEK LONG. Finally it went down by 1 lb this morning, but dang, what's up with it going down so well so fast, and then up and sticking? The SCALE booooo!
But I think I may have figured it out: I have not been stopping when satiated. I've followed MWL guidelines very closely, but at meals, when I feel that initial satiation, I just keep going until my plate is clean. And I've done it over and over. In fact, I can think of one meal where I pushed away upon feeling satiated. Otherwise, it was "shovel shovel shovel" until all food is gone and my stomach is stuffed.
That's my focus for this upcoming week. Stop when satiated.
Yesterday I hauled a 10 lb bag of potatoes out of the pantry and baked them all. Or maybe it was a five lb. Either way, I scrubbed, poked, and baked them all so I have something on hand to grab when I get hungry. Because I bought a 10# at the store on Wednesday, and found the other unopened bag of taters already there. Gotta do something with them.
Loving the garden these days. We have tulips up all over the place, three rows of peas are well up, and I see six potato seedlings emerging. There's tiny fronds of carrots and beets up, and my chard is appearing as well. I saved one bed for a second planting on the root vegs. As for decorative, Wylie's been super busy with color pots, fence building, rose planting. It's looking real pretty outside. And so pleasant going out in it, with the delicious spring air, manufacturing Vitamin D, listening to birds singing. This morning before work I took a walk...the dawn chorus was in full throat, and SO delightful. Everyone up and singing the sun up. I'll walk in the mornings from here on out. My lunch hour walk will be too hot, I'm sure. I'm increasing my daily steps to 5,000, up from the 2,000 that I started with in February, which I doubled in mid-March to 4,000. If I take a long walk first thing in the morning, and a shorter walk on each break, and park as far away as possible whenever I go anywhere...it'll go into the 5,000 range for sure.
Also thinking about a personal moratorium on screen time. I think I need to let my brain rest from the constant influx of actually meaningless drivel. How cliche is that, but it is meaningless, and it is drivel mostly. I need to back away from all of it, and let myself be bored, and start reading instead of scrolling through FB, or have it just quiet and contemplative in the mornings, instead of going straight to the "Daily Dose of Internet" vids on YouTube.
Yep. Love how I feel, love the walking, love the simplicity of my food.