Weight Loss and exercise

That’s awsome!

3,623 steps. I went up a steep hill for half of a mile. The person I was with could not go any further. The walk down was much easier. My watch with an adjustment tells me a bit over 100 calories. Even though the hill was steep, I was only walking. According to an online MET calculator that considers grade of road and BMR, this comes to 63 calories burned. My watch shows about 105 net calories burned. This watch can substantially exaggerate at walking speed. I will use the 63 calorie value. So my target is 2,363 calories. I have consumed 2,423 calories. So there is an overage of about 60 calories. Not too bad.

Yesterday...

Kayaked 6.5 miles. Strava gave me 1100+ calories and I edited it down to 750.

Consumed 2385 calories. I always feel like I eat too much on big burn days when I don't have an overage to cancel out. Obviously the math works or comes up short instead of over since I have lost about 10 pounds under my original goal.

I weigh next on Tuesday morning.

I weigh 172 pounds, just barely. Now that I am watching my calories once again, weight loss should not be a problem. Once my weight stabilizes after remaining constant for a week, I will increase the calorie consumption. This together with exercise, the calories I will have to consume will be substantial. It will be interesting how I will end up doing this. Increase my dessert consumption? Probably. I also have been like looking at UpDownAround food diary. Quesadilla and protien bars sound good. Small icecream sandwiches sound even better.

The thing I have to watch with the little ice cream sandwiches is that 90 calories seems like not so much when you have one that another is probably okay and another...

I have been finding the Pure Protein bars on sale lately for about $1 each. They are whey based, which some people don't like or can't tolerate. They are too small to be a good meal replacement, but they are only 180-200 calories each so I use them more to augment my fruit habit with enough protein than anything else. The one I like best is caramel peanut chocolate but it has been hard for me to find. It isn't a Snicker's bar, but closer to one than most protein bars. The chocolate deluxe is pretty good also. It's like a fair to middlin' brownie. The birthday cake one is nasty, but after a couple of bites I get used to it enough to tolerate it. I won't buy more of the birthday cake ones.

I have been woefully short on veggies the past few days.

No exercise today.

1962 calories, which is 362 above the goal of 1600 I had set a while back but need to adjust up. Not rolling anything forward yet; I will see how the next couple of weigh ins go, the first of which is tomorrow morning. I only had 1251g of sodium according to the log but I think it might be a little higher for the barbecue chicken I had. But I don't think I will be bloated from water in the morning, but I won't be dehydrated either. My guess is around 155.

MFP calories 840 total. Apple Watch steps 2,611
My calories are really low. Right now I’m having some health problems and will have to start
a gluten free lifestyle per my primary doctor. I had a colonoscopy and the results were not good. I have not looked into gluten free foods or then shopping. I’ve mostly been eating potato soup from Panera Bread. Walmart Market in my area sales it prepackaged. You actually get a better deal than if you bought it at Panera. The size is bigger and cheaper yet it taste the exact same. For breakfast I was bad and ate sausage Jimmy Dean is my favorite and I had been craving it so I bought it. It upset my stomach so bad! Last week I ate at Jimmy John’s just a turkey sandwich. Afterwards I became sick. Then I went to Panera Bread and had a turkey sandwich with broccoli cheddar soup. I took my daughter shoe shopping afterwards. I had to sit in a chair while she looked at shoes my stomach was hurting so bad. I’m on a crap load of meds for my stomach and I’ll need to schedule follow-up appointments to have it checked again after I finish the meds. Well that’s what’s been going on with me.

8,513 steps. I ran about 4.4 miles. The last mile I was dragging. If I have my calculations correct, which may be a little short, I burned 2,741 calories. I ate 2,713 calories. So I am short 28 calories. Good enough.

On my best mile, I was going fourteen minutes and five seconds a mile, which is a new record by ten seconds. My next goal is 13:45 minutes. My heart rate averaged 158 bpm. It went as high as 171 bpm which is not good for a person of my age and health. My normal mile is about 15 minutes a mile with heart rate between 145 and 155 bpm with a max of 162. So I outdid myself. However, in the two miles back, I was comparatively slow due to me being tired. Hopefully this will improve. Part of the reason is I have not run in several days. Just this amount of time can make a difference in my ability to perform.

I weighed 156.4 this morning. A *lot* more in the gut than when I weighed Saturday afternoon and also not dehydrated. I do want to get to about 153 and make my range 150 to 155 but I want to do it slowly. I may already be closer than I know. I had a fair amount of high fiber fruit last night close to bed time so today could be a slight spike up. I am going to try to get in some swimming this afternoon.

Coco,

Sorry to hear you are having it so rough. hopefully the doc gets it sorted out soon.

I weigh 172 pounds.

I looked through two months of weighins. I have discovered there were three times, for a total of two weeks, with excursions up to 175, and one three day excursion to that same value. There were a little bouncing around, but I saw that as normal considering it was day to day. I do not know if I should count this last one since it was only for three days at 175. So that leaves one month and two weeks at between 171 and 173, with 172 being frequent. I have been at 172 for a week and a half now. I have been using my new adjustments for a week. I will wait one more week to see if my weight is stable.

@UpDownAround: I there is a three pound increase from 172 to 175 for just three days, should I count this as meaning something? Is this unusual but realistic wiggle? What do you think?

A true 3 pound gain would mean you ate ~10,500 more calories than you burned. Possible but unlikely. What isn't possible is losing 3 pounds of fat in a day. So it was a spike up that was slow to resolve. Retained water and/or more food in the gut than usual.

I had one off day and my weight went from 162 to 165 overnight. Today I weighed myself at 1PM. I was 165. I think you weigh more in the afternoon? So maybe I’m more like 163. I don’t think I ate a ton yesterday. Dinner was just potato soup which was pretty low cal. Today I had 1,255 calories. But I gave my mom one of the pretzel bites I had. The small bag had 190 calories total. I also gave her the rest of my 420 calorie French onion soup. Plus all the other ends of foods I didn’t eat, probably puts me more at 1,100 calories.

I have a doctors appointment next Thursday. My doctor is so strict about my weight. I overhear her ask the technician about my weight when I’m in the exam room with the door shut. She makes the entire appointment about my weight. That’s not what I see her for and I never bring up my weight. I’ve always been at least 2 pounds less. I have gained a few pounds since the last time. I was 156 last time I saw her. I’m pretty worried about this appointment. I feel like she’s going to be disappointed.

Plus my size 8 pants are still biggish, my size small shirts still fit, and most of the clothes I try on at the thrift shop are still too big. So it’s not a huge issue but it needs to be addressed before it gets really out of hand.

update: I’m 4 days away from my period. I have PMDD and to meet the criteria for that you have to have physical symtoms that are intense. Your hunger can be extreme and you can gain a good amount of weight the week before your period. So this may be my only problem.

Swam 92 minutes - no stopping/resting/floating - just slow but steady swimming. Logged 500 calories (mfp said 682).

Consumed 2103 calories, so I didn't try to make a dent in yesterday's overage. Maybe tomorrow when I paddle. I did weigh this afternoon after swimming just out of curiosity and I was down to 154.6. Weird.

I will weigh in on Thursday morning next.

No exercise today. 1326 steps, so a lazy day. 2300 target. I will have consumed 2381 calories by the end of the day. So there is a 81 calorie overage. I do not know if this is enough to be dealt with tomorrow, but since I am exercising, I will include this in tomorrow’s calories burned. I will run at least a couple miles tomorrow.

MFP calories 1,060. Apple Watch steps 4,624
Today I did not have much too eat. Just what I ate was high in calories.
I went to Starbucks and had a slice of banana nut bread. Then for dinner
I went to Schlotzsky’s and ate a turkey sandwich. There sandwich seems to
agree with my stomach.

The weather better cooperate and I hope there are no emergencies to deal with this afternoon. I am eating like a pig again this morning. If I don't paddle this afternoon I will have to severely restrict myself after lunch (light and already logged).

I suddenly weigh 170 today coming from 172. Something does not seem right to me, but all my scales agree. This may mean either I am actually underestimating the calories burned, or I am overestimating the calories consumed. For a couple days I did not document the homemade burritos that I ate which I should of estimated anyways. However, two days should not make that much of a difference. As far as underestimating calories, this would really surprise me. However, most of the time my weight has been stable, I had not adopted the new techniques I am using now to access calories burned. I will have to look into this.

I weighed myself half an hour ago and I weigh 163 now. So I think I might be more like 160.

I wonder if I can lose weight fast because of how stressed I get about my doctors appointment. It seems every 3 months I lose 8 pounds fast. I want to get out of this habit and actually maintain around 155.

I had a lobster tail for lunch. The website said it had 340 calories. I’m pretty sure it only had about 90 calories. It was really small.

I paddled 9.3 miles today plus I played SUP polo for about 45 minutes or so and pumped up the board before hand so even though I think the 1321 calories Strava gave me for paddling is a little high, I didn't edit it.

2719 calories consumed. Lots of not great choices, but I had salad and lots of protein.

I will weigh in the morning. Not sure what to expect but somewhere around 155.

154 this morning. I added a couple of things I forgot to yesterday - a mango and some white grapes - and took it almost exactly to goal (as exact as you can get with some food and all exercise being approximate).

I had an overage of about 250 calories yesterday. I exercised some that day, but it was walking. However, it was for the most part up a steep hill for over one mile. I was really tired at the end. I will allow 50 calories for this. So I need to burn off 200 calories today. This is basically two miles. However, I will try to work very hard, so I will end up burning up more calories than this. Maybe I can fit in an extra granola bar? Who knows?

I weighed myself today on two different scales. The first scale said 160.2 and the other one said 159 exactly. That’s 5 or 6 pounds less then I was on Sunday. I think I really underestimated my calories yesterday. The lobster tail was only 2 bites and I put it at 340 calories.

I stocked up the freezer with lean cuisines, and the fridge with pre packaged lauging cow and mini babybel cheese products.

I’m glad it’s working out though.

Going over today, probably by close to 500 by the time I am done. My goal has been below what I burn for several days and I am trending lower a little faster that I wanted so I am not too worried about it and I have some room before I need to. I keep changing my mind about range. I think low to mid 150s is good.