Haven't updated in a while weight loss hit a plateau for like two months. Bounced up and down between 295 and 300 lbs. Blood sugar is doing well.
I think I am back in business. I was watching the Jesus Channel (TBN) and they were interviewing an MD that treated type 2 Diabetics but preferred not to give out medications. He put his patients on the Rice Diet, which I hadn't heard anything about. I bought the book (discount rack at Barnes & Nobel with a gift card FTW!) and although I realize the Rice Diet is way too restrictive for me, they made some very good points and the book got me thinking about why I was stuck and what I needed to do.
The book says, if you eat a lot of salt, you have to problems trying to lose weight. One is that salt causes your body to retain water so you weigh more because you are carrying more water and salt triggers your hunger mechanism so you feel hungry.
So I have been backing away from the salt shaker and trying to break my Diet Coke addiction. I know it is an addiction because I went through mild withdrawl symptoms. I have never taken drugs so I have no idea what full-blown withdrawl would be like and I am pretty sure I never want to find out. No way I win Miss Congeniality this week!
Walking is going pretty good. I made a post recently about Ben and I hiking and getting started down the wrong trail. I posted a picture of were we planned to go and where we actually went.
Planned route in Blue Actual in Red. I walked the Blue route this time.
The Knobstone trail totals about 59 miles IIRC but the section I walked is just over 5 miles. If you start at Deam Lake it is mostly a gentle climb until you get to mile 4 and the last mile is a killer. I am familar with the area so I started from Bartle Knob Rd secure in my knowledge that it would be mostly downhill. Well, it is mostly, from Bartle Knob Rd is damn near straight down and then straight back up! Winding down one side of a ravine (that's the fancy name for a Holler if you are a HillBilly like me) and winding right back up the side of a knob, I found myself thinking it was similar to the time I rode The Son of the Beast at King's Island, if I ever get off this damn thing, I am never getting back on!
But once you reach the 4 mile marker, you follow a ridge, gently for the most part, down to Deam lake. There are few ups and downs but nothing like that 5th mile.