Weekly Weigh-in (Week 59)

Sunday again, so here I am with another post.

This week my weigh-ins have fluctuated up and down, and I'll be interested to see where it goes.

This week, I found myself without a clear idea of what I wanted to use to fill this space until around Friday afternoon, and what I was left with was more a feeling that I should share a couple things here to get them out there.

Firstly, some plans for what I want to do with my diet in the future. January's experiment left me feeling great, with more energy and fewer general complaints than I can recall having had at any point in the past. Since switching back to a more standard diet I find myself with frequent low-grade headaches, especially following meals, less energy, and more instances where I feel a powerful hunger rather than just a modest hunger. Having switched back, I still feel better than I did before, but I think that was mostly due to the body recomposition that I was able to achieve while I was working in that experiment; however I'm experiencing the headaches, I'm more tired, and I get the feeling that I'm missing something. It leaves me with the feeling that I should seriously consider switching back to the primal plan long term. So I'm going to make a concerted effort to try and keep at least 75% primal going forward, and see how that works out for me. If I notice the symptoms to be connected as I suspect I will try and increase that percentage as time goes by and see where I end up. Sure, it may seem restrictive to some, but it's easier than you might think, and the percentages give me the flexibility to "forage" off of menus when I go out to eat, or make adjustments on the fly and not have to feel guilty about it.

On a related note, I think at some point in the near future I want to try 2 weeks of primal eating with some restriction on my protein, I want to see if I can make it two weeks as a pescetarian to see how the other half lives as it were. My hope there would be to come away from the experiment, much as I did from my primal experiment, with a better understanding of the difficulty faced by those who are either forced or have chosen to live a life without certain things, and at the same time to gain a better understanding and appreciation for the foods I eat, in this case primarily the vegetables I eat and the importance of high quality produce to the flavor profile of a meal. After that, I have a somewhat more "fringe" plan for another two week stint at some point, 2 weeks as a strict carnivore. That one I want to try out partly to say I did, partly to better appreciate the simplicity that it provides, and partly because the results interest me from a human-hacking perspective and an anthropological perspective. So that's where my diet experiments are heading as time goes on.

I've also determined that I really need to have clear and delineated goals if I am to achieve anything in my human-hacking activities. To some degree I already knew this, "lose weight" is bad, "lose 5 pounds" is better, work out more is bad, work out 4 days a week is better, etc. But I have been reminded recently that if I am to achieve much of anything I really need to setup clear goals that I can monitor and track progress on if I am going to have any hope of getting anything meaningful done. As such, I'm going to be trying a bit harder to figure out appropriate quantifiable goals that I can use as stepping stones to my overall goals.

Well, that's about all the general stuff I have to share right now, so on to the numbers for this week. 200, up .5 from last week. Change I can live with, even if I am going to be working on keeping it in check a little bit better going forward. So here's to the future, and whatever it holds. No matter what you may be now, always go out of your way to be the you you want to be.