So far my attempt to get back on track is going well.
I ended up the day at around 1650 cals. Just a smiiiiiiiidge higher, but basically on target.
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Crunch time again
So last week was another one were I struggled a bit. I started well but began faltering on Thursday and totally crashed yesterday, Friday. So for the month, I've lost a measly .5 lbs with 2 weeks left (I count the week that goes into March).
Fortunately, I can still meet my goals or get close if I focus. Today is going well so far. Sometimes totally crashing diet wise after doing "ok" for awhile is sort of helpful.
Fortunately, I can still meet my goals or get close if I focus. Today is going well so far. Sometimes totally crashing diet wise after doing "ok" for awhile is sort of helpful.
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Feb 12
I liked yesterday's "live blog" format, so let's do it again today, though it is already almost 5pm here.
Played in a the church band, and the kiddo begged for a lunch burger. I resisted the temptation to get one myself, but then proceeded to graze through the next 4-5 hours until I hit my calorie limit for the day. But, it IS 5pm already, so I ought to be able to make it!
4:40 pm - Time to start fasting. Should be hard until, I would guess, 8pm or so.
Played in a the church band, and the kiddo begged for a lunch burger. I resisted the temptation to get one myself, but then proceeded to graze through the next 4-5 hours until I hit my calorie limit for the day. But, it IS 5pm already, so I ought to be able to make it!
4:40 pm - Time to start fasting. Should be hard until, I would guess, 8pm or so.
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Live Blogging Today
As an extra measure to inspire me to get back on track (I HATE TO, or I won't hit my goals at all for February!), I'm going to check in throughout the day.
1:56pm - The only food I've had today so far is one single canned coffee from the Japanese market we go to. It had a small amount of calories but it was pretty trivial. Feeling hungry now (as I typically do this time of day), but I'm doing fine.
3:05pm - keeping busy by working through technical problems with another blog I'm helping with. Apparently in word press, schedule posts do not happen unless someone visits the site, which is weird.
9:24 pm - Dinner is over and my calories are used up!
A slice of costco pizza, a small rice bowl left over from the asian grocery store gets me to 1500 calories for the day. Now to hold on!
10:36 - I added everything up in myfitnesspal, and happily I have juuuuuust enough calories left for a canned coffee (yes, I'm a freak, I can drink that stuff at this time of day), and be at 1570 cals for the day. Feelsgoodman.
1:56pm - The only food I've had today so far is one single canned coffee from the Japanese market we go to. It had a small amount of calories but it was pretty trivial. Feeling hungry now (as I typically do this time of day), but I'm doing fine.
3:05pm - keeping busy by working through technical problems with another blog I'm helping with. Apparently in word press, schedule posts do not happen unless someone visits the site, which is weird.
9:24 pm - Dinner is over and my calories are used up!
A slice of costco pizza, a small rice bowl left over from the asian grocery store gets me to 1500 calories for the day. Now to hold on!
10:36 - I added everything up in myfitnesspal, and happily I have juuuuuust enough calories left for a canned coffee (yes, I'm a freak, I can drink that stuff at this time of day), and be at 1570 cals for the day. Feelsgoodman.
WTF IS WRONG WITH ME.
Yesterday was more of the same, sort of hanging out at that 2000 calorie mark.
WHY. CAN'T. I. GET. BACK. ON. TRACK.
My greatest worry when I was doing well was getting knocked off course because I knew it is so easy to fall into a different pattern.
Of course, I would have seen these totals as "success" before but I realize now that I can't lose weight eating 1800-2200 calories a day.
To help get back on track, I've tweaked my routine today. Instead of going "500 cals in the morning and 1000 at night," I'm just skipping breakfast altogether and going into a pure "one meal a day" routine, topping out at 1500 cals. Let's see if that works today.
I measured yesterday and I was exactly the same, as I expected, since I haven't done enough to gain or lose. :p
WHY. CAN'T. I. GET. BACK. ON. TRACK.
My greatest worry when I was doing well was getting knocked off course because I knew it is so easy to fall into a different pattern.
Of course, I would have seen these totals as "success" before but I realize now that I can't lose weight eating 1800-2200 calories a day.
To help get back on track, I've tweaked my routine today. Instead of going "500 cals in the morning and 1000 at night," I'm just skipping breakfast altogether and going into a pure "one meal a day" routine, topping out at 1500 cals. Let's see if that works today.
I measured yesterday and I was exactly the same, as I expected, since I haven't done enough to gain or lose. :p
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Getting back on the straight and narrow
Sorry for such little posting. My accountability experts called me out on this, so gotta fix!
Speaking of gotta fix, let's talk about my eating.
Now, I haven't started chowing down on everything in sight. But as I knew would eventually be the case, I got a bit off my game and it has slowed down my progress, so I need to get back in shape!
It all started with two small tacos at work, last Friday (often at work they shower us with free food).
It was near the end of the day, so I thought, "well, this is basically when I would eat anyway..."
NO. NO. NO. NO. When you have a good thing going, DON'T CHANGE EVEN THE TINIEST PART OF THE HABIT.
Sure enough, I ended up at 1700 calories or so that day. Certainly not a big deal, certainly not a bad day at all!
But it seemed to be enough to knock me off course. I haven't had a 1500 calorie day sense (now going on six days...). Now, it hasn't been BAD. The HIGHEST I have been was 2300, one day, and all the other days have been 1800, 1900, around there.
But that. Is. Not. Good. Enough.
And predictably, my weight loss has stalled totally this week.
I was hoping today would be a bounce back day, and it has, sort of. I'm at 1688 calories, obviously not quite 1500. Dangit! In this case, it was the classic "too many things to do, inhale dinner real fast without really having time to plan how much it was, count it later and realize it was too much" problem. Sad. Freakin'. Face.
So yeah, gotta do better. I really want to nail my goal this month, since it is a short one. We'll see how it goes when I weigh in officially tomorrow.
Speaking of gotta fix, let's talk about my eating.
Now, I haven't started chowing down on everything in sight. But as I knew would eventually be the case, I got a bit off my game and it has slowed down my progress, so I need to get back in shape!
It all started with two small tacos at work, last Friday (often at work they shower us with free food).
It was near the end of the day, so I thought, "well, this is basically when I would eat anyway..."
NO. NO. NO. NO. When you have a good thing going, DON'T CHANGE EVEN THE TINIEST PART OF THE HABIT.
Sure enough, I ended up at 1700 calories or so that day. Certainly not a big deal, certainly not a bad day at all!
But it seemed to be enough to knock me off course. I haven't had a 1500 calorie day sense (now going on six days...). Now, it hasn't been BAD. The HIGHEST I have been was 2300, one day, and all the other days have been 1800, 1900, around there.
But that. Is. Not. Good. Enough.
And predictably, my weight loss has stalled totally this week.
I was hoping today would be a bounce back day, and it has, sort of. I'm at 1688 calories, obviously not quite 1500. Dangit! In this case, it was the classic "too many things to do, inhale dinner real fast without really having time to plan how much it was, count it later and realize it was too much" problem. Sad. Freakin'. Face.
So yeah, gotta do better. I really want to nail my goal this month, since it is a short one. We'll see how it goes when I weigh in officially tomorrow.
Saturday, February 4, 2017
January Goals met (mostly), onward!
The weird thing with consistency when it comes to eating is it saps the will to blog each day.
Every day this week was "1500 cals." So I suppose having daily posts saying that would be... pretty boring (but I do intend to keep up with regular posts anyway, maybe not daily).
So January is over, so let's see how I did, for the month:
The goal was 4 lbs of loss. I did....
-7lbs. (This was measured on Wednesday, Feb. 1).
So yeah, smoked that one! Even with some natural regain over the next few days (despite maintaining the same calorie level), I'm still well beyond that goal.
I currently sit at -7lbs of loss "since the start of this blog," a number that I hope will finally grow to something respectable!
Measurements:
Waist: yes! -1" as I hoped. That brings my total inch loss around the waist to -4" since the start of this blog. That's great!
Chest: er, this is weird. HOW IN THE WORLD DID I GAIN AN INCH AROUND MY CHEST WHEN I LOST A HUGE ASS AMOUNT OF WEIGHT AT THE SAME TIME!?!!
My nutritional consultant tells me this is an anomaly and to expect weird stuff to happen, and to keep on trucking. So I'm not worrying about it over much.
The only real dangers going forward are, to be honest, "complacency from small success." Especially since the 1500 a day standard feels "easy" to some degree now, which paradoxically in my experience sets me up for failure ("eh, I'm doing so well, a little cheat can't be bad..." etc.).
FEBRUARY GOALS
Since I'm going on a vacation in April, it's now extremely important that I lose as much weight as possible, so I can not worry about it for the ten days I'll be traveling. It really drags a vacation down when you think you are going to come home at some horrible new high for weight. Plus you want to look good for all of those pictures!
Weight loss goal: I'd like to shoot for six lbs in four weeks (we'll count the week that ends in March as the last week).
Measurement Goal: Those stubborn inches can be super weird, so I'm going to say a half inch from the waist, and an inch from the chest (THAT shouldn't be too hard since I somehow WENT UP in the chest area).
How I'm going to do it:
Obviously the same way I did January. I think 1500, if strictly adhered to and even with minimal exercise, is probably still enough, since I maxed out at -7lbs of loss for the month. However there is no reason why I can't debit a bit more if needed. For perspective, the folks on the 600 lb life show are put on a 1200 calorie diet: and at 600 lbs, these folks have a MUCH HIGHER basal metabolic rate than me.
As you noticed I haven't really gotten back to posting regular steps yet. That is mostly because I am just now completely getting over my cold (it was a bad one). I don't really believe cardio helps weight loss that much (actually, I do worry that it would increase hunger, in fact), but the simple fact is, my vacation is going to require a lot of walking, and I know from personal experience that I have to train for these things, lest I end up like I did in Rome in 2004: much thinner than now, but utterly destroyed because I wasn't used to the daily rigors of walking EVERYWHERE.
I may begin working in resistance training, vastly superior anyway, to a shorter but still significant walking regimen on some days.
Every day this week was "1500 cals." So I suppose having daily posts saying that would be... pretty boring (but I do intend to keep up with regular posts anyway, maybe not daily).
So January is over, so let's see how I did, for the month:
The goal was 4 lbs of loss. I did....
-7lbs. (This was measured on Wednesday, Feb. 1).
So yeah, smoked that one! Even with some natural regain over the next few days (despite maintaining the same calorie level), I'm still well beyond that goal.
I currently sit at -7lbs of loss "since the start of this blog," a number that I hope will finally grow to something respectable!
Measurements:
Waist: yes! -1" as I hoped. That brings my total inch loss around the waist to -4" since the start of this blog. That's great!
Chest: er, this is weird. HOW IN THE WORLD DID I GAIN AN INCH AROUND MY CHEST WHEN I LOST A HUGE ASS AMOUNT OF WEIGHT AT THE SAME TIME!?!!
My nutritional consultant tells me this is an anomaly and to expect weird stuff to happen, and to keep on trucking. So I'm not worrying about it over much.
The only real dangers going forward are, to be honest, "complacency from small success." Especially since the 1500 a day standard feels "easy" to some degree now, which paradoxically in my experience sets me up for failure ("eh, I'm doing so well, a little cheat can't be bad..." etc.).
FEBRUARY GOALS
Since I'm going on a vacation in April, it's now extremely important that I lose as much weight as possible, so I can not worry about it for the ten days I'll be traveling. It really drags a vacation down when you think you are going to come home at some horrible new high for weight. Plus you want to look good for all of those pictures!
Weight loss goal: I'd like to shoot for six lbs in four weeks (we'll count the week that ends in March as the last week).
Measurement Goal: Those stubborn inches can be super weird, so I'm going to say a half inch from the waist, and an inch from the chest (THAT shouldn't be too hard since I somehow WENT UP in the chest area).
How I'm going to do it:
Obviously the same way I did January. I think 1500, if strictly adhered to and even with minimal exercise, is probably still enough, since I maxed out at -7lbs of loss for the month. However there is no reason why I can't debit a bit more if needed. For perspective, the folks on the 600 lb life show are put on a 1200 calorie diet: and at 600 lbs, these folks have a MUCH HIGHER basal metabolic rate than me.
As you noticed I haven't really gotten back to posting regular steps yet. That is mostly because I am just now completely getting over my cold (it was a bad one). I don't really believe cardio helps weight loss that much (actually, I do worry that it would increase hunger, in fact), but the simple fact is, my vacation is going to require a lot of walking, and I know from personal experience that I have to train for these things, lest I end up like I did in Rome in 2004: much thinner than now, but utterly destroyed because I wasn't used to the daily rigors of walking EVERYWHERE.
I may begin working in resistance training, vastly superior anyway, to a shorter but still significant walking regimen on some days.
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