Looks as though I need to eat all I have been eating this past couple weeks. Loss across 20 days is about 5 lbs, about a couple pounds per week. I can live with that. And we don't know if subsequent cycles will produce as much loss as the first one. Another thing to wait and see about.
Today's pic is about a week old and is the result of the shearing we did then. I trimmed the beard down to match. As reported in the last post, hair loss seemed to begin last week and may be continuing. What is noticeable to me is that my beard has not grown this past week. There is no visible loss as such in density, it just isn't growing. For those interested in such things, I don't see hair loss elsewhere at this point. I wonder if there is some sort of evolutionary thing involved in that--hair as protective, etc., etc. I do know that in weight loss one's weight goes off selectively in that the last to go, that is, to be consumed by a starving body, involves the reproductive organs.
Jan and I had a nice little walk around Mack Park in Smithfield yesterday and then drove up Smithfield Canyon for the first time in decades. We were surprised by the new developments there: many more houses, including some unique ones. It was nice to be out in the fresh air. My neuralgia has left and I have no complaints about the perceived state of my health at this point.
There is not much else to report. I don't really dread tomorrow as much as I do its outcomes, and then it isn't really dread. However, I am not looking forward to it because I know I will be leaving the good state of well being I am currently in. Ah, well. It is in a good cause, no?
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