Low Carb is working better than Dukan

Even though I am moving very little because of my ankle, I am still shrinking!  I'm down 3.25lb from when I had my operation on May 28th.  I have two days a week when I eat higher carb.  Wednesday & Saturdays I have a beer and 3-4 carrots.  So far I've lost over 18lb since Christmas, 12% of my body weight. I've also been under my red line of 140lb for 6 weeks now.  I've actually been under 140lb on 51 days this year, but only 42 days consecutively.  I've also been 5 weeks under 139lb, 3 weeks under 137lb and 2 weeks under 136lb! I love statistics and numbers!  I think low carb is working better than Dukan because with Dukan, it's about what you can't eat for me, and with low carb it's reaching a number.  So it's true I can't have carrots either way, but I don't feel I'm failing if I have carrots, I'm just having a higher carb day.

Goal weight re-evaluation

So now I'm wondering what my goal weight should be.  I started looking around on the internet for different calculators that would give me some sort of idea.  I got suggestions ranging from the following suggestions: 129-137.  The formulas from 1964 & 1974 are in the lower range.  I'm a little suspicious of the higher number.  Hmm.  This morning I am back down to this year's low of 136.5lb after three weeks.  I definitely feel comfortable losing another few lbs, so I guess I'll keep going to 130lb.

Three and a half weeks under my 140lb red line

I've also been under 139lb for three weeks, maintaining this even though I had a minor foot operation a week ago Friday.  The referees at DietBet kindly accepted pictures from the morning of my operation for my weigh-in that was due the following Monday-Tuesday, so I qualified for my 6th round as well as won Round 5.  I am currently exactly at my DietBet goal weight of 137.2lb, which is great but stressful as well, as I don't have any kind of cushion.  I can safely say that I've been maintaining at 137lb (also known as a plateau), but I'm continuing to try to lose some more weight.  I'm leaving for vacation in 4 weeks, I hope to lose another 3+ lbs before then. Then when I put on 5-6lbs on my vacation, I will still be below 140 when I get back.  I'm only 2lb away from my goal  of 135lb, but with a cushion that goal needs to be 133lb. 

I'm considering doing another 6-month DietBet when I get back from vacation, but I'm not sure I could lose 14-15lbs.  I'd have to have a 6lb gain, plus drink several glasses of water, eat breakfast, and wear heavy clothes:

Weigh-in:     Weigh out:
   144lb               129.5lb
   143lb               128.6lb
   142lb               127.7lb
   141lb                126.8lb

A weigh-in of 141lb would be hard, I don't know that I can get down to 126.8lb.  If I come back from vacation at 139lb, I can add 5lb in clothes, salt, etc. to get 144lb for the first weigh in.

Since I can't go on any walks, I've been eating low-carb (under 50g/day).  Yesterday was my 35th high school reunion, which was lots of fun. There was some steak with a demi glaze and some salmon. I had several helpings of the steak in addition to the fish, and 1.5 glasses of red wine, and this morning I was only .25 higher than yesterday.  I'm sure there was a lot of salt in the sauce, so I'm hoping that I'll show a loss tomorrow.  I've been slowly shrinking all week, so eating low-carb has been working.  I'm giving up my carrots for the next few weeks, except for days I have my beer, like today.