The Final Fifteen Pounds

Back in January, when I was 218 pounds, I was submitting answers in a weight loss app. I had to pick a goal weight, and 168 looked good.  But here I am at 266.8 as of this morning, and I still have a belly. Not big like it used to be, but it's still noticeable. I want it to look like a flat beach, not rolling dunes! But make no mistake about it, I'm happy with the weight loss.  The cool thing is that it's coming off faster than ever.  Here's my weight loss from the last 10 days...  173.2 172.2 172.2 169.8 170.2 169.8 170.0 169.1 167.8 166.9 But the way I'm getting that to happen, I wouldn't recommend. I'm eating meat. I've been gradually moving from a high fat/low carb diet to a meat diet: carnivore. I don't intend to stay there for long, maybe a month or two. I'm trying to calm down some inflammation in my joints.  But I don't like eating meat only. I don't like the slower digestion. I hope it speeds up. I've heard that when people s

When you lose weight, there a trickster like an evil Bugs Bunny that plays around with you. It wants to knock you off course just for laughs.  That's why you can't take the scale too seriously. It's a tool. But it can do some funny things.  Every morning after I step on my smart scale, I put the number on a spreadsheet to calculate my 3 day averages and my 7 day averages. I think those numbers are much more important than my weight on a particular day.  I've had days when my weight jumped up a pound and a half and I really didn't know why (but I usually figure it out). Other times, I have lost over 2 pounds overnight.  I lost over two pounds last night, so today is the first time since I was in high school to see 160 something on a scale. I'm celebrating with a Snoopy dance.  But I'm not taking it too seriously yet. I large drop is often followed with a bounce back up.  My best guess is that my body is doing something with water. I am experimenting with my