The charts

Looking at Cronometer this morning, it’s amazing how clear and obvious the stomach flu is:

Can you tell when I got sick?

That day where I had almost nothing to eat or drink—I think just ginger ale—that corresponds exactly with losing 5 lbs overnight. 

But amazingly it’s stayed that way, despite my intake being pretty much back to normal. Which is to say, there are days I consume twice as many calories as "they" say I should. 

Could it be I’ve reset my set point? I read something a while ago about resetting set points by spending a period of time maintaining a specific weight instead of trying to change it. When I looked for the post again I couldn’t find it, so I don’t remember the details. 

Years ago—around when I started this blog actually—I lost a bunch of weight all at once, and an endocrinologist told me that since my weight had gone to an amount less than but still easily within 10% of the weight I had maintained throughout my 20s, it was just my body “snapping back” to the weight it wanted to be. Weird to think I weigh even less now, about 20 lbs less than 25 years ago. 

Could this be my new normal?