Week 16 Weigh-In

This is the kit that came yesterday. Click to enlarge.

Weight: 145
Calories eaten yesterday: 1757
Fat: 89g (48%)
Carbs: 43g (10%)
Protein: 135g (32%)
Calories burned in exercise: 331

Week 1: 147.6
Week 2: 147.6
Week 3: 147.6
Week 4: 146 (-1.6)
Week 5: 145.4 (-0.6)
Week 6: 144.6 (-0.8)
Week 7: 142.6 (-2.0)
Week 8: N/A
Week 9: 145.6 (+3.0)
Week 10: 145.2 (-0.4)
Week 11: 145.2 (0) (one day late)
Week 12: 144.2 (-1.0)
Week 13: 145.6 (+1.4)
Week 14: 144 (-1.6)
Week 15: N/A
Week 16: 145 (+1)

Total gain/loss: -2.6

Ah hell. I give up. My body just wants to be at 145 and won't stay below it. So here I am sticking to plan and I'm up a pound. I just keep re-losing the same 3 pounds over and over. I'd be at goal by now if I'd just lost the weight and not kept regaining - while sticking to plan! Grrr.

Well, the One Touch Ultra I bought wasn't the one I wanted. I wanted the One Touch Ultra 2. Maybe I can give the one I accidentally bought to Dad. Anyway, I found a good deal on an Ultra 2 and got that I will use that one - it has all sorts of cool features like before and after meal averages. Maybe you've seen the TV commercials? "One Touch changes everything." I know I have. It stores a lot of info. so you don't have to write it down.

So far I'm happy with the accuracy of the True Track Smart System. Fasting blood sugar this morning was clocked at 94. This was from my finger. I tested on my arm just to see what the difference was and that came out to 89, which is the same value I get when I get tested at a lab (always between 88 and 90).

I experienced the dawn phenomenon, although not to a very great extent since I am not diabetic. Dawn phenomenon is when blood glucose goes up even though you haven't eaten all night. When I went to bed last night my glucose was 88; when I got up (after not eating all night) it was 94.

Evidently intense exercise raises blood glucose, so after my long workout yesterday my reading was 105. What happens is in order to meet the body's energy demands, adrenaline is released, which raises blood sugar, and it can stay elevated for a long time after you stop exercising.

[Later note: I think today I broke 600 miles on Walker Tracker. I'll get to 1,000 miles eventually!]

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