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SET ON PAUSE

I am three and a half weeks into my weight loss plan and have a small report.

Ten pounds are gone.

That is just about the rate that is healthy; three pounds a week.

I can count it on the scale, I can feel it around my middle, and I can see it in the mirror.

That is the good news.

The bad news is that I have suddenly hit a level spot in the downhill path.

I haven't lost any weight for a few days.

Maybe I hit the 'starvation response' where the body readjusts the metabolism to save my life. I doubt it.

Maybe the body is holding on to 'old fat'; the principle of last on, first off applies.

Maybe I am obsessing too much.

We will see.

If I am now at the 'old fat' stage, I will have to be patient.

If the metabolism is re-adjusted, I may be stuck. I might have to eat like this the rest of my life!

I think not, however. I am still hungry a lot of the time; just nicely so. And that means that the whole thing is working.

It is just normal to have weight fluctuation and that is what is going on now.

In any case, when (and if) this is over, I will have to be careful not to go right back to the old amounts of food.

If you missed the start of this, I am eating all of the same foods that I did before; only half as much except for evening meal protein.

I may have to reduce that last bit. I don't know.

I don't want to get radical; or hungrier.

So, that is it from the land of non-fad diet weight loss. Healthy, slow rate (a bit too slow) weight adjustment.

My doc told me that I was not on a 'diet' but that I had a food plan. I liked that.