I didn't want to weigh in.

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I knew I hadn't lost more weight.  I wondered if some had been put back on.  I just felt it.  Now, while weight loss is secondary no one likes to plateau, or worse.  Still, getting on the scale, once a week, is part of the gig.  Yes, true enough, 256.  I've gained two pounds back.  Could have been worse.  From my long-time average of 280, I am still down 24 pounds.  That isn't even 10% though, mind you.  It is a start.  I suspect that until I begin to actively burn calories, to kick my body into gear, that weight loss will be at a standstill.  Though, too, I think that while my body is at a tipping point, it is a weighted tipping point due to the fasting.  IF I can push it over the lip and into fat burning, I don't even have to go all that far.  The momentum, along with fasting, will greatly favor weight loss.  Therefore, pretty soon rather than a few weeks, I am going to begin walking before breaking the fasts... which will be 3/4 times a week, depending on the week/fast schedule.  Okay, bad news out of the way, with a plan to possibly fix it.  Good news?

I almost, just because, didn't want to do any more testing.  Ego is such a fragile thing, isn't it?  When we tie it to this, or that, or...  Especially when we are putting in some effort.  It had to be done.  I got my blood serum device out, set it up, plunged for red gold, and did the test.  Ah, finally, some success.  At 169 fasting blood sugar, that is a low.  It is also incentive.  Not that I would have quit, either way.  Only... I may have had to start looking at other options... a three day to one day fast?  Maybe.  Exercise added in, if that is already being queued for other reasons.  A stronger look at the foods I am eating.  Of course all of those things are still... under consideration.  Oh, and with exercise, when to do that is still under consideration.  Right before the fast is to end seems popular.  And it might be best at first, as it might well drive hunger, or otherwise weaken, until the body is ready to do that further from an eaten energy source.  Everything is under review, and probably has to remain that way.  For a long time, more directly, then later more simply as occasional reviews in an attempt to tweak or improve or alter to my needs and wants.

Alright, after a bit of review, some things are going to change regarding meals.  First, carbs first.  Good or bad, if I am going to eat carbs, they will be eaten first.  What sort of carbs?  Rice, of course, and other grains.  But fruits are also carbs, as are many vegetables.  So... whether included in the first meal, or ahead of the first meal (as with grapefruit this afternoon), carbs go in first.  Why?  When the body is pretty much carb-dry, it will soak those in and use them.  If the body is full, from a previous meal, then the carbs have less chance of being used.  Since carbs, more than anything, are my enemy, I want them used, not free to do as they please, which is to produce fat.  Heard that, several places, read it here and there, made sense.  (I do ignore much, some cretins really push teh stupid.  I don't abide it, or pursists.)  Oh, and I am seriously thinking of cutting the eating window from 15:00 to 21:00 down to from 17:00 to 21:00.  I almost never have eaten in that last few hours, and it simply codifies my behavior while giving fasting it's due credit.  My consumption is already dwindling as well.  Really... it's a plan that is coming together.  Not there quite yet, but on the way.

So, yeah.  Weight still near the bottom, about as low as I have seen it in... 27 years?  Yeah.  And the blood sugar as low as it has been since... a while.  But the lowest since I have been trying to cut it, and on a trend-line I can live with, and perhaps keep my drivers license.  We'll see.  Still probably moving to Alaska.  It'll just be easier.  As for the disappointment?  Mild compared to the satisfaction.  A pet project versus my intended goal...  I'll deal with two pounds for 30 points off my previous low blood serum count.  Oh yeah.  Later.