Day 41 of 183. 142 days to go.
6 Weeks done. 8 weeks of the initial LL phase to go.
Tuesday.
Day 41 - My age. 
you'd think it was lucky, wouldn't you?
It was weigh - in day today.
I lost point six of a kilo.
Thats one pound.
How can i be on 420 calories per day, without cheating at all, be in ketosis and only lose one pound in a week? 
I know that i am not very active.
The LL counsellor said that even at a resting rate we use up 1400 calories per day just to continue to live.
So thats a deficit of 1000 calories per day, even if i am operating at the barest minimum or energy burn.
It takes a deficit of 3500 calories to lose one pound.
Well, a deficit of 1000 calories per day, over 7 days is 7,000 calories.
So even if i were only existing and breathing and yet not moving at all, i should lose 2 pounds per week. 
Yes, I feel disapointed.
One woman who started at the beginning, the same week as me, has lost two and a half stones so far - thats 35 pounds in 6 weeks.
Not counting her first two weeks of a combined 18 pounds, that is still 17 pounds lost in the other four weeks. An average of 4.21 pounds per week.
I have lost a total of one stone and 9 pounds now in six weeks (23 pounds). So not counting the first two weeks of large weight loss, which were 9 pounds and five pounds (14 pounds altogether), it means that i have lost the remaining nine pounds over the last four weeks. That is about an average of 2.25 pounds per week.
So the other woman is losing weight at precisiely twice the speed that i am losing weight for doing EXACTLY the same diet, containing EXACTLY the same amount and variety of ingredients.
That means that on top of her resting rate, at 4 pounds loss per week, she must be burning over 14,000 calories per week, thats an average of an extra 2,000 calories per day - which is one thousand calories more per day that i burn up.
However disheartened i might be, i do hope that i might just be 'sticking' for a reason that i don't yet know.
I am not going to give up.
The diet is simple and its actually not that difficult - its just boring.
I'm also going to drink more water.
my weight is exactly 83 kilograms. Using the weight converter here
http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/body_weight/weight_converter.htm
I weigh 13 stones and one pound.End of week 6 and weight loss = 1 pound.
Lets get on with next week, now. 
"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action."
Michael Hanson
And how about this one for a long quote:
"The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and
ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, pulling,
mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been
engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as
a way out of difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble
which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation.
At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood, we
ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it
tolerance."
-William James, 19th century American psychiatrist and philosopher
