How many lbs. have you lost this season?

I followed a low-fat diet for years (actually, all my life — my mother was a public health nurse), and like Orca, I almost never ate breakfast — just couldn't face food that early in the morning. Under that regime I could lose weight but never keep it off. My weight yo-yoed as much as 20 pounds up or down for decades. Now I eat a more or less paleo diet, and I can't wait for breakfast in the morning — two fried eggs from my own chickens, organic potato shredded and fried in pastured butter, two or three strips of pastured bacon (Niman Ranch or my local farmer's) or sausages, greens sauteed in butter, coffee with pastured heavy cream. I don't eat any wheat, and I rarely eat anything more than an apple, a handful or nuts, or a piece of cheese for lunch — breakfast pretty much sustains me throughout the day. This year I haven't lost any weight (though I'm down almost 100 pounds from my all-time high of seven-eight years ago), and I may even have put on a pound or two. But my waistline hasn't changed — I'm a 33 today, as opposed to a 42 at my biggest — so I don't worry about it. Any weight I've put on is muscle from swimming, so I reckon it's all good.

I followed a low-fat diet for years (actually, all my life — my mother was a public health nurse), and like Orca, I almost never ate breakfast — just couldn't face food that early in the morning. Under that regime I could lose weight but never keep it off. My weight yo-yoed as much as 20 pounds up or down for decades. Now I eat a more or less paleo diet, and I can't wait for breakfast in the morning — two fried eggs from my own chickens, organic potato shredded and fried in pastured butter, two or three strips of pastured bacon (Niman Ranch or my local farmer's) or sausages, greens sauteed in butter, coffee with pastured heavy cream. I don't eat any wheat, and I rarely eat anything more than an apple, a handful or nuts, or a piece of cheese for lunch — breakfast pretty much sustains me throughout the day. This year I haven't lost any weight (though I'm down almost 100 pounds from my all-time high of seven-eight years ago), and I may even have put on a pound or two. But my waistline hasn't changed — I'm a 33 today, as opposed to a 42 at my biggest — so I don't worry about it. Any weight I've put on is muscle from swimming, so I reckon it's all good.