Weight Loss and exercise

This is ugly.

Only 2.25 miles of walking as exercise. Logged 100 calories for that.

Over 3000 calories. I think my decision making is not good and I am having a few other symptoms of kind of low level hypo. Mot sleeping well and mind is racing. I really need to get ahead of this, but it hasn't pushed me far off course in terms of what the scale says yet.

I think I need to do a drastic low day tomorrow along with more serious exercise before I weigh on Friday.

I did exercises at a moderate pace for one mile. The MET value is 3.3 for walking at 3 mph. So this comes out to be 85 calories for the one mile that I walked. I have consumed 2,574 calorires. If even considering the exercise, I am netting 2,489 calories.

I am at a new low of 170 pounds. I will continue to not exercise until this problem gets solved. I am going to have to think about how to increase my caloric intake while not eating more than I am right now. The purchase of another pie will help. That is $13 for five slices, over 700 calories a slice. Dennys $2 pancakes with a lot of butter. Potatoe pancakes. Spaghetti with three TJs meatballs. Each meatball has more than its share of calories. I think this can be a good start.

On track today. I walked 5 miles this morning and swam an hour tonight. Going to get in a few kettle bell swings before bed. I edited down the numbers and took 40 a mile for walking (200) and changed the swimming from 458 to 300.

1197 calories consumed. Light meals and all snacks were fruit - no candy/cookies/cake. Taking exercise into account, that's a deficit of about 900, almost offsetting yesterday. It's fine to eat this light to offset the previous day; you can average across several days before it's a problem.

I will weigh in the morning. Low calorie count with a low sodium count is encouraging.

I have made 4,838 steps. I walked 1.5 miles at a very slow pace, possibly 2 mph. The MET for walking 2 mph is 2.5. This makes for 289 calories. I still am netting over 2,500 calories. Nice! The two PB&J sandwiches did the trick. Each sandwich was about 390 calories, possibly a little less. I will have to keep this in mind for future exercise days. I finally found something that works.

@Tucson, I thought you were already doing PB&J. There is a large size of the Smucker's Uncrustables (pre-made frozen PB&J) that is 700 calories. Not recommending them, just giving an example of how much a PB&J can be.

This morning I weigh 157.4, which is virtually the same as the previous weigh in.

I'm no where as obsessive as you guys at tracking calories and exercise, I've just been following a loose food plan, that leaves me with a 1200 or lower calorie a day diet, and it's working.


I finally broke the 190 barrier this morning and got down to 189. Now I just need to maintain or improve on that before my appointment with my GP on Tues. as I really want to be under 190 for my weigh in.

Still struggling to start exercising. It's so hot here, even early in the mornings that I don't feel like even walking.

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One of the reasons for the obsession on my part is my previous failures of reaching goal and then maintaining it.

Yesterday.

Only a couple of miles of walking and some kettlebell swings. Logged 80 calories.

2270 calories. Another day that was fairly high. Paddled 6 miles this morning, but have been eating a little on the heavy side this morning. I will try to keep it in check the rest of the day. I need to stay away from oreos (actually generic knock offs, but "nutrition" is same, so I log as oreos); they are one of the foods that make me want more. Spaghetti calories might be low.

next weigh in Sunday.

Lonely in here the last couple of days...

Paddled 6 miles, logged 600 calories.

Consumed 2304 calories; over goal but actually about maintenance as I was shooting for a little below.

I will weigh in the morning.

Wow - still lonely. I hope everything is okay with @Tucson. My monologue continues...

157.4 this morning. So roughly the same weight (.2 lower is not significant; scale can be off that much and more) after a couple of days I considered to be over by q fair amount. Goal was below maintenance and I probably edited exercise calories more than necessary. I wish the numbers spit out by the apps (in this case, MMW and Strava) were more accurate so I didn't have to edit. Anyway, another stable weigh in.

I am still here. I have been pretty depressed for large segements of the day. When I can, I have been walking around my complex. Yesterday I ate well under 2000 calories. I weigh 171 again. I am finding out if I do not keep my rigorous exercise up, in about a week, there ends up being a noticable difference in my ability to exercise.

BTW due to my scatterbrain, lack of focus, I lost my iPad. Unbelievable. This has not happened to me in a long time. I also went to my first interview. Due to meds, my hands were shaking and ended up getting a 9 out of 100 on the typing test. Incredible.

@Tucson - depression sucks. I hope it recedes soon. Hopefully you lost the iPad around your house and it will turn up. Sorry to hear about the interview as well; maybe your doctor can try something more effective for the tremors. Have you asked about that?

My appt with my pdoc is in one or two weeks. I will have him, the green horn, do something about it. I am waiting for the temp to go down, and my very full stomach to digest the food, before running on the track.

Swam non stop for an hour - logged 350 calories. Walked a mile - logged 45. Didn't log walk to pool and back or some kettlebell swings/rowing.

2132 calories. 137 over using my 1600 goal, which means it probably isn't really over at all.

I will weigh next on Tuesday.

I was eating non stop for a week. I’m back on track today. My old clothes are still biggish, I’m still buying the same size in new clothes. I look the same. So it might not have been that big of a gain. Although I should defiently have gained. I’m hoping to get back to 153 by the time I see my doctor.

Walked almost 7 miles. MMW wanted to give me 779 calories. I edited to 375 and then it changed the Under Armor adjustment from 0 to 74 and I left that alone. I probably have been too heavy handed with cutting the exercise calories, I keep going over goal on calories and staying at 157 so i am pretty sure I have goal low.

2032 calories. Dinner is a guestimate, eaten out at the mall.

I will weigh in the morning.

I weigh 157.8 this morning, a pretty meaningless 0.4 pound bump up. In fact, because my fingers feel a little swollen I may be retaining water from eating the salty mall food last night. Anyway, more of the same...

I am at 170 pounds. I think this is a new low. I will try something out. I will go by my watch for the calories burned. It substantialy overinflates this figure anyways, which for my purpose is a good thing. I will try to do the same exercise for the same length of time. I will try to eat the same number of calories, ending up with the same net calories after exercise. This will provide me consistency, and perhaps allow me to calibrate the calories burned on my watch to be more accurate. I will do this for two to three weeks. Then I will see what happens to my weight. Since I sometimes will have to rely on cheap meals from Dennys and McDonalds for boosting my calories, anything longer than ths can turn out to be expensive.

Wow. 165. I wasn’t expecting that. I ate 1,135 calories yesterday too. My weight usually changes pretty fast when I eat that low. My clothes still fit and I don’t look like I’ve put on weight. I really wasn’t expecting that big of a a gain. My mom gains weight at the drop of a hat. Yet she didn’t put on a single pound. And she was eating the same amount as I was.

I’m wondering if most of it is water weight? I had a can of soup yesterday along with an 800 milligram sodium hash brown.

Went bonkers again today. No logged exercise. I did some here and there - kettlebell swings, exercise band curls, some pull ups and a little walking at the mall shopping. I could probably log 50-100, which would help.

2507 calories with no logged exercise. Not sure if the weather will cooperate for the Wednesday afternoon paddle, which I could use to knock it out. I may have to see if I can do a severely restricted day tomorrow to average out.

This is yesterday adjusted back to 1654, with the rest of the calories (1083) moved to today. It's the bulk of the snacks from the prior listing in the post above. That leaves me with 517 for today, which I hope to increase to a more reasonable number by paddling if the weather cooperates. If I actually end up limiting myself to a small number, it is perfectly safe/healthy to do this back to back with a day that's over. It's actually okay to do it a couple of times in a row even if the days around it are just average. What's not okay is to eat very low calories for several days in a row.

I can’t weigh myself until Sunday. Today was fine though. I wanted a bread bowl but they had 780 calories. Later I relalized the bread bowl would have worked since I didn’t eat anything until 12:30 and dinner is just a grilled piece of chicken. Oh well. Maybe tomorrow. I have enough calories for a couple WW cheeseburgers now for the afternoon. I’m trying to stick to 1,100 calories this week. I know that’s too low to continue forever but after eating 3,000-4,000 calories for a week straight, I think it would be helpful.

I paddled SUP ~13 miles today. Logged 1500 (Strava gave me a little over 1800).

3095 calories, but over 1000 of that was actually eaten yesterday. Still today was heavy eating at night - late dinner and a bunch of fruit and junk after.

Calories about right over the course of the last 2 days but with wonky timing. Tomorrow's weigh in could be a spike up because of how much is in my gut right now.

2,432 calories, no exercise. Tomorrow I will weigh myself and exercise. I have not been exercising regularly so my stamina took a big hit. I am thinking of walking four miles tomorrow on the side of the road instead of on the running track. I will just be power walking.