Slow-carb Diet Day 10: Settling In

My morning weigh-in was 150.7, down 0.5 kg since yesterday but still above my Saturday weekly weigh-in of 149.9. If I'm spending half the week gaining and then re-losing weight after my EWIW Day, that seems counterproductive. So why is this part of the 4-Hour Body Slow Carb Diet? According to Ferriss, "dramatically spiking caloric intake in this way once per week increases fat-loss by ensuring that your metabolic rate (thyroid function and conversion of T4 to T3, etc.) doesn't downshift from extended caloric restriction." Honestly, I'm not sure my caloric intake is restricted enough nor prolonged enough to worry about reductions in thyroid hormones, but I'm going to look into it.

Breakfast this morning was the usual eggs and beans (602 calories), and lunch was a grilled chicken breast, with a mix of lentils (1/4 can) and veggies (350 calories), and dinner was the same, with the addition of a few scrambled eggs (525 calories). I also had a few cups of coffee, a couple of cups of tea, and a handful of cashews, for a daily total of 1915 calories.

Exercise today included four 15-minute sessions, plus one 10-minute session on the cross-trainer, for a total of 1140 calories burned. My net calories for today was 775.

Overall, I'm still feeling pretty good, although I'm a little concerned about the fact that today is Tuesday and I weight more than I did on Saturday, three days ago. I'm still confident that by Saturday, I'll be at my lowest weight since starting Weight Watchers, but at this rate, I'll be lucky if I get below 148.7, a 1.2 kg loss for the week. Sure, it's still over a kilo, and nothing to sneeze at, but I've done that before without eating such a restricted diet, and without exercising an hour or more every day.

At this point, I'm thinking that I might try to exercise some semblance of self-control this Saturday. Surely I can enjoy eating some of the things I'm missing out on during the week, without going completely bat-shit crazy and scarfing down five or six thousand calories. It really shouldn't be that hard. But then again, that's what I thought last week, too.