Weigh-in 6

Start weight: 178.8 kg (394.2 lbs)
Last week's weight: 169.2 kg (373 lbs)
Current weight: 167 kg (368.2 lbs)
Loss this week: 2.2 kg (4.8 lbs)
Overall loss: 11.8 kg (26.8 lbs)
Start BMI: 56.4
Last week's BMI: 53.4
Current BMI: 52.7

What an amazing week. A loss of 2.2 kg, I haven't seen that kind of number since the first weeks of the diet. And I'm a little puzzled as to why I'm seeing it now. It does seem a little high for a safe rate of loss (around 1% of body weight per week). It's not extreme, just unexpected. Still, I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.

I read Michael Pollan's Food Rules yesterday and I'm gratified that since I changed my diet I seem to be following a lot of them now. He sums it up, saying:

Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.

So he insists that when you go to the supermarket, you stick to the edges - with the produce, meat and dairy rather than go into the centre for the processed foods. And I find I'm doing that a lot more these days. I have substantially increased my fruit and vegetable intake and my meat portions are down to 150 grams. It seems to be working really well for me.