Just a diet whine

Two weeks and I've not lost a single ounce... actually, that's not quite true. I lose a few ounces only to regain them the next day.

I can't see what more I can cut out of my diet without being ravenous all the time. I'm at about 1000-1100 calories each day. Occasionally 1200, but still within WW points, and sometimes 800 or so. I do not "eat my weeklies", the extra points WW gives us per week to allow for extra flexibility. I'm not doing much exercise (see below) but I don't "eat" my activity points either.

I suppose I could up exercise a bit, but at this point in a diet, it's a delicate balancing act. If I add it in, I will have to add more food because otherwise ravenous and then off the rails. I have found that the best time for me to add exercise in is when I am actually losing weight, because then I can at least balance out the additional hunger with the endorphins of oh hai, look this is working.

I just want to cry.

Plan right now is to consistently double-track on loseit and WW for a week, not just occasionally, and see if WW's zero point foods are tripping me up. I don't think so, since a) I'm tracking those zero point foods, so I know I'm not abusing them and b) double tracking hasn't so far shown anything. If nothing pops up I suppose I'll go to loseit entirely.

But yeah. Two weeks. And it isn't like I'd been losing wonderfully before then and was "due" a plateau while my body caught up.

This is what drives me batty with the calories-in-calories-out squackers. They don't see that that might be true, but that all calories in are not the same. At this point in my life, being at home without a lot of distractions (and a fucking thesis to finish writing), I can't see myself dropping my calories to 500-800, something I have done in the past.

The frightening thing is, nobody can help.

ETA Still on program. Up 3lbs in the past three days. FML.

Excellent take on family leave or lack thereof

Joe Fucking Manchin has killed family leave, the media is crowing "Dems in disarray! House and Senate with go R in 2022" in their self-fulfilling prophecy kind of way, and the Bernie bro was renting their clothes and wailing that they'll never vote for anther spineless Dem again, it was better when Mitch McTurtle was in power.

Never mind that 96% of Senate Dems were onboard with family leave and 100% of Republicans against it.

Anyhow here, Jill Filipovic pretty much sums up many of the dynamics of why Machin and the Repugs oppose family leave: Free Female Labor Is The Plan. Nothing profoundly new, but a well written coherent exposé of the consequences of this decision, the obvious ones and the less talked about ones alike.

I stayed at home, something I deeply regret, and I had a wonderful spouse who treated what I did as my job in a good way, which meant that when he was home he shared the kid and house stuff. Yes, I did all the annoying stuff like doctor's appointments and all that, but when he was home, it was all shared. I was incredibly lucky. Still I wish daycare hadn't fallen through, waaaay back when, and that I hadn't been in a horrid job with a crazy boss when I was pregnant with Anne-Chloe. Those two things just made it easier to slide into stay-at-hone.