180.6
I'm off the slow carb diet. At least the way I was doing it, it made me too spacey and cranky (bad combination). I suppose I should have ate a lot more beans, and probably should have tried to re-experiment with fasting until 3:30. Life and learn.
Two other factors: 1.) slow carb caused some friction with my wife about the places we could eat and what I could make for dinner and 2.) I have grown to hate most meats at most restaurants, so there was a gross out factor that kept plaguing me these last two weeks. Trying to figure out what and where to eat with a brain not working right and getting increasingly frustrated with
I have in the past lost a lot of weight under the slow-carb rules, and so that was why I wanted to to do it again, but I have also lost weight simply going 6 days a week on 1,300 calories, and then a free day. My numbers show the slow-carb diet was faster at getting weight loss, but quality of life has to play into this decision as well.
I really want to crack 177. This is the weight at which I would usually start diets in college. Several times that weight became my "wake up call." When I weighed 200 pounds, I thought with sadness how long it would take to even get back to that number. I think it would be great -- very motivating -- to be below that number again. That's why I was willing to slow carb again, and even deal with a little pain. But it was getting ridiculous, and I can't afford to be mean as a teacher or husband.
