Phase 2, Day 15

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Weight/Measurements:

Weight: 127.5 pounds
Bodyfat: 27.5%
Waist, holding in stomach like I normally do: 27.5 inches
Waist, letting it all hang out: 28.5
Waist around my belly button, holding in stomach like I normally do: 31.5
Waist around my belly button, letting it all hang out: 32.5
Hips: 37
Chest: 30.5
Bust: 37
Thighs: R21.5, L21

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Weight: 134 -- 131 -- 129 -- 130 -- 127.5

Bodyfat: 29% -- 29% -- 27% -- 28% -- 27.5%

Waist, sucking in: 28.5 -- 28.5 -- 28.5 -- 28 -- 27.5

Waist, hanging out: 30 -- 29.5 -- 29 -- 29 -- 28.5

Belly, sucking in: 32 -- 31.5 -- 31.5 -- 31.5 -- 31.5

Belly, hanging out : 34 -- 33.5 -- 33 -- 33.5 -- 32.5

Hips: 38 -- 37 -- 37 -- 37 -- 37

Chest: 32 -- 31 -- 31 -- 31 -- 30.5

Bust: 38.5 -- 38 -- 37 -- 37 -- 37

Thighs: R22/L21 -- R22/L21 -- R21.5/L21 -- R22/L21 -- R21.5/L21


Slowly, slowly, we get there. Looks like I definitely added back water at the beginning of Phase II when I added back in carbs, making it look like I'd hit a plateau (or even gained!) when in fact I was still losing fat. Now I'm down a grand total of about six pounds in one month, give or take, which is where I expected to be: 56000 maintenance calories - 34300 calories actually eaten = 21700 calorie deficit. 21700/3500 calories in a pound = 6.2 pounds. Math is fun!

My two biggest drops have been in my boobs (but it looks like it's levelled off), and in my tummy. I hope *everything* starts coming off my belly now. I never can find clothes that fit my waist if they fit my butt and thighs, unless I buy boy's clothes. I'm sick of boy's jeans! I want a girly shape! And I'm tired of looking like a marsupial! At this rate, I should hit my goal of 120 in about another six weeks. Easily doable; I enjoy the way I eat on this diet.

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Breakfast: 1/2 ww bagel with almond butter/flax meal spread; mug of black tea

Lunch: lentil stew with 1 T of hemp oil

Snack: 1 disappointingly underripe plum; glass of diet Dr. Pepper

Dinner: fall pasta (whole wheat spiral pasta tossed with various sauteed fall veggies like eggplant, swiss chard, wild mushrooms & artichoke hearts); medium piece of a sourdough baguette

Late night snack: Gardenburger fake sausage patty with guacamole

Exercise: 30 minutes on the elliptical

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