Sat, Jan 7, 2012 - I lost a pound and a half since the last posting, so am now 15 pounds from my goal weight. I had not lost anything as of yesterday morning, but the scale moved today. Last night, I went out to dinner and did eat vegetables although technically yesterday was a protein only day. It was the end of 5 days of protein only, so I made the exception to eat vegetables. I had grilled wild salmon, with 3 small pieces of potato, grilled vegetables and a salad with balsamic vinaigrette dressing. Today, I will follow protein and vegetables for 5 days, but then am going to try doing one or two days of pure protein rather than 5 of each. I want to see what effect this has on my weight loss and I think it will healthier for my digestive system than doing 5 days of each.

I am continuing to log my progress on the fitbit web site and met 50% of the 70,000 step goal for the week. But, this was without actually using the pedometer, so in reality I would logged more steps if I recorded all my steps into my results. I am inputting major activities like walking a distance, exercise bicycle and not the "ambient" motions of everyday life. Also, I did not record any exercise or food on Jan 1, the first day of recording my data on fitbit. I only recorded my estimate weight which was one pound below my actual weight when I weighed in the morning of Jan 2. So the results are skewed a little bit, but this is a trial so I'm not concerned about that. It will even out as I go along.