I'm down .4.

I weigh the same thing I did two weeks ago despite having two good weeks of tracking/eating at a deficit. I'm also limiting junk food.

I'll give this one more week before I re-assess.

My joints have been achier than normal the past few days, so there could be some inflammation at play. I suppose it's possible my weigh-in two weeks ago was lower than it actually was.

I'm not making excuses, just thinking out loud. I feel good about my plan and all food has been weighed/measured.

Congrats to Steve, Emmie and Al. Overall, we're a bunch of losers this week,and that’s good!

I’m down 3.2# this week, which is half of the 6.2# I’d gained the prior week after the trip to Kansas. It’s a better result than it might seem, because according to my daily morning weigh-ins, I went up another four pounds between that 6.2# and this week's final result. (That’s a story for another time.)

But I want to comment on a little experiment this Friday night.

We had an early dinner at a local Mexican place we’ve been pleased with. They do a nice tableside guacamole, and their guacamole is the first time I’ve actually enjoyed guacamole. (Usually, the texture turns me off.) So the food here is good, and authentic, and plentiful - you know, a collection of things that lead to high-point meals. I’ve been trying to find a way to eat what I enjoy without wandering out of the healthy eating range or depriving myself.

So when they put the nacho chips on the table, I selected twelve of them. I defined those mentally as “my food”, and the remainder were “someone else’s food”. I used those twelve chips for the guacamole, and passed on the salsa. I ordered a taco salad bowl with chicken. I was able to eat my share of the guacamole (2/3 cup), “my” twelve nacho chips, and the chicken taco salad bowl, and end up with six points still available for evening snacking while staying in the healthy eating range for the day. I didn’t just mindlessly keep digging the basket of chips to use the salsa, and I declined the opportunity to help finish my wife's chicken quesadilla.

So I’m sitting here happy that I ate the things I wanted, that I have a satisfying “full, but not stuffed” feeling, and that I did it while demonstrating a modicum of restraint and staying within the healthy eating range for today.

What’s the emoji for “smug”? 😉