Diet Update: 10/26/13 Bouncing Down the Staircase

The good news is that with nearly a 2-lb. drop overnight, I'm at my lowest weight in over 2 weeks.  The bad news is that I am still nearly 2 pounds over my month/diet low. So unless the current whoosh is sustained past my low, the chance of any new monthly low over the remaining week of the month, never mind another 4-5 lb. drop, seems low at this point.

It has been a frustrating 2 weeks because it seems every time I've had a minor whoosh down, the next 2 or 3 days the weight crept back up. The good news is that (using my financial analyst analogy) my new support line held (roughly my weight just before the 5-lb. gap down) and my bounces are putting in relatively lower lows, so it is possible I could break through my resistance (the major gap down) over the coming week.

No major tweaks in the foods I've been eating; I haven't done a meal replacement in a while, and I'll probably factor in those more over the coming month. More recently I've started out my day with a grass-fed beef or turkey burger followed by fresh berries or kiwi. I'll usually fir in an omelette with some flatbread variation as one of my other meals. I factor in veggies (lots of tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, mushrooms, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, green beans, etc.) and occasional servings of legumes (more recently, pinto or black heans) and take a daily multivitamin.  I try to hold down grain carbs to less than 250 calories a day, most of those a mixture of whole and/or sprouted grains; I don't think those are related to my long string of bouncing over the past few weeks. But I've been influenced lately by Mark Sisson's discussion of good carbs and will be working more servings of veggies and salads into the diet and eliminating wheat gluten totally from my diet (I didn't realize how common a medication levothyroxine is; my doctor hasn't discussed gluten with me--and given my diagnosed hypothyroid condition I'm sure he's had the blood workup done, but I'm sufficiently concerned about the thyroid-gluten connection to want to take preventive dietary steps.) I also need to be stepping up my anaerobic exercise regimen and getting in more sleep time.