[jyl]

I was cooked out by the holidays, so I spent January eating a lot of commercial frozen packaged food. We were at Costco and on impulse I loaded up the cart with frozen pot pies, etc. Sheer laziness.

Now, I controlled calories and rode my bike every day, maintained a deficit. But I didn't lose an ounce. I blame the food. High sodium, high fat, low protein.

I can't believe I did that, and feel lucky to have gotten through the month with flat weight. Back to my normal diet now, which includes almost zero packaged food and almost all scratch-cooking.