[UpDownAround]

18524 steps. Logged a 4 mile walk, mowing the lawn and part of another walk, though I probably won't eat back the calories from that last part; I only logged about 8/10 of a mile from that anyway.

2487 calories consumed. mfp says I have 141 left, but I am not sure I will eat anything else. Maybe one more piece of fruit at most. I am going to drop my base calories back to 1600 tomorrow and start logging less exercise. I have decided I want to slowly lose another 5 pounds.

EDIT - ate more fruit; fished at 2560, 68 below allotment. Big adjustment coming tomorrow...

[Cocosurviving]

MFP calories 1,145. Apple Watch steps 3,003. Water intake 67.6oz. Had a relaxing day walked for fifteen minutes

[Tucson]

1705 steps for today. No exersize. My calories consumed totals 3018. MFP made virtually no adjustment on calories burned during the day’s activities. My target would normally be 2076. I am below my target weight, so I have increased my actual target to 3000 calories.Tomorrow, I will walk for two miles instead of four. The shrimp dish from TJs was tastey.

@UpDownAround: I have never seen any oil in your food diary. This together with syrup are the two that I find very expensive in relationship to calories consumed. I try to use little oil, and a comparatively small amount of syrup. But I still log both of them. As an aside, the calculation of oil used for a dish is more difficult when there is still oil in the pan.

[UpDownAround]

@Tucson - every now and then there is some oil in there, but it is usually on a little. Just bouncing back, 4/26 is the last time. It was for chicken that was sauteed. I only gave it a tsp since it was only a tbs for a few pieces of chicken. On nights when I have Knorr side dishes, there is usually oil or margarine but I use the "as prepared" calories. I don't use oil much. i usually bake chicken. Sometimes I ignore cooking spray because it is such a tiny amount per serving.

EDIT - also sometimes you will see oil and honey listed on a night I have chicken. That's from a marinade I make with equal parts honey, oil and soy sauce with some granulated garlic and onion salt. I kind of guess at how much is left after a lot is left in the bag and a lot is left as pan drippings.

[Tucson]

Originally Posted by UpDownAround

@Tucson - every now and then there is some oil in there, but it is usually on a little. Just bouncing back, 4/26 is the last time. It was for chicken that was sauteed. I only gave it a tsp since it was only a tbs for a few pieces of chicken. On nights when I have Knorr side dishes, there is usually oil or margarine but I use the "as prepared" calories. I don't use oil much. i usually bake chicken. Sometimes I ignore cooking spray because it is such a tiny amount per serving.

EDIT - also sometimes you will see oil and honey listed on a night I have chicken. That's from a marinade I make with equal parts honey, oil and soy sauce with some granulated garlic and onion salt. I kind of guess at how much is left after a lot is left in the bag and a lot is left as pan drippings.

I try to estimate was is left. I think I will try different amounts of oil to see what it looks like in my pan. I always use the same pan. Cooking spray is a good idea. I will get a canister. Baking is something I normally do not do. However, for a big, thick chicken breast, that would be the way to do it unless you cut it up in pieces. I will try out that marinade. I usually am too lazy to do stuff like that. I wonder if it works with pork? I have not had pork in many years. If I remember correctly, it is a more mild but sweeter tasting meat. Yes I know it looks wrong to call it “sweeter”, but it is not candy sweet. It is sweeter in a different way. It is a valid way to describe meat.

[UpDownAround]

The marinade works on just about anything. Chicken I cook at 425 for 20 to 30 minutes depending on how large the pieces are. I line the pan with foil so I don't have to clean it because I dump some extra sauce in.

Light day for me all the way around. Starting on the next round of losing; just 5 pounds should do it.

8695 steps. I didn't log any of it.

1600 calories. I had some broccoli and "real potato" with the chicken for dinner but didn't eat as healthy as I should; had a couple of protein bars in there mostly because I didn't pack a meat for lunch. I want to make sure I get protein and do upper body exercise (did some, will do more before I turn in) to retain muscle. I want to get rid of the little paunch between my belly button and belt and drop a little lower into the healthy BMI zone.

[Tucson]

I have made 7248 total steps. I ate 2864 calories, so I am a little short of my 3000 calorie target. It is hard for me to consume this many calories particularly when I have burned some through exersize..This time I ran out of room in my stomach. I did walk quickly for about 2 miles. This burned 287 calories including an adjustment of 71 calories to cover the calories burned during my daily activities which makes sense to me.

[UpDownAround]

This morning I weigh 161, continuing the string of weigh ins within a pound of 160. I realized I forgot to log some canned fruit with dinner last night and logged it as part of breakfast. Today will be a lot like yesterday; not much exercise, none logged and a 1600 calorie limit.

[Tucson]

I weigh 175 right now. I was sick the morning, so I made up for it calorie wise by getting a Big Mac, fries, and a chocolate shake. I hope I can continue eating today. I was nauseous this morning, and had stability problems. Then I became light headed and a bit dizzy. I will eat another TJs dish to make up for the calories for not having any breakfast. I hope this is not my meds again.

[Cocosurviving]

MFP calories 1,152. Apple Watch steps 2,967.
Water intake 67.6 oz. I did not walk much today. I do not do well in hot temperatures. It much 80 degrees at 10 AM. The high for the day was 91.

[Tucson]

OK I ate a whole bag of TJs Kung Pao chicken. So this together with my visit to McDonalds and some snacks gives me about 2700 calories. My stomach is so full, but I need to keep the calories up. It’s tasted so good and I was hungry that I “wolfed” it down quickly before my stomach had a chance to complain. This is what allowed me to total up the calories. I made only 1143 steps today. MFP is giving me a negative adjustment for this. No exersize. I want to take a walk tomorrow for a couple miles. I shall see how I feel tomorrow. The food diary that follows is very close to what I will eat for the day.

[UpDownAround]

8945 steps, which the watch computes to be 3.94 miles and 412 calories. None of it was logged. 1599 calories. Late tomorrow afternoon, I am going SUP paddling for a couple of hours. I probably should log/eat more tomorrow. I have to watch myself - now that I have decided to lose a little lower, I am antsy about seeing some progress, but I need to be healthy about it.

[Cocosurviving]

MFP calories 1,453. Apple Watch steps 2,873. Water intake 50.7oz.

[UpDownAround]

Ny fitness watch says 8118 steps, but I didn't take an exercise walk today. That's mostly paddle strokes. I paddled about 5 miles, recording a little over 4 of it, which mfm gave me about 800 calories for. I am not going to eat all of those, but it left me hungry enough that I wasn't just going to eat 1600 either.

I have consumed 2061 calories and may still have another piece of fruit or something before bed. But I am pretty sure it will still be at least a slight deficit for the day. I burned some serious calories paddling.

I weigh in the morning. I doubt it will be much different since I am eatiing a little bulk before bed after a big calorie burn.

[Tucson]

My weight today is 175. I have walked 7,500 steps, out of which 5,965 steps were made during my walk. I have burned 324 calories with a total distance of 3.01 miles. My average heart rate was 143, peaking at 165 bpm. I did a slow run for a short segment of my walk to get my heart rate up. So even though my speed averaged 3.7, my peek speed was 7 mph. So this was another cardio workout. It is getting more difficult to get my heart rate up unless I push myself when I am getting tired, or I start to run.

This exersize with the correction by MFP provided a calorie goal of 2679 calories. Since my actual goal is 3000 calories, I made sure I ate this much, which has turned out to 3178 calories. I am looking forward to find my weekly weight gain with this large calorie count.

I have been trying to numerically assess my physical condition. My watch has what is called a VO2max value for this. However, it is telling me that I have the health of a person well into their seventies. I did not understand this. The formula takes into consideration pace, heart rate, and distance, besides BMI. I saw that one way to improve the score is to walk much less than 15 minute miles. How? I knew this score is off. Then it just occurred to me that I can only do this by runnng. So in order to have a more telling score, I have to be able to run for a distance. So I am going to work on this with a treadmill at my fitness center. I do not want to run my heart out just to find that I have no energy to return home. Once my fitness score is more accurate, my calories burned will also be more accurate.

[UpDownAround]

157.8 this morning! A new low. Paddling about 5 miles yesterday probably has a lot to do with it. I will walk some Today, but probably keep it light (compared to some recent days). Planning to paddle more this weekend.

[Tucson]

My weight is 174. By the end of the week, I should be one or two pounds heavier. At least this is what I am looking for. I cannot possibly eat more than 3000 calories day-to-day unless I rely on high calorie desserts, like Cocos Banana Cream pie. So I shall see what happens by this Sunday. I will not stop my every other day exercise which I have already cut in half to basically a couple miles.

[UpDownAround]

14560 steps. Logged 4928 for 242 calories.

About 1836 calories consumed; I think I got a couple of things that I didn't weigh on the low side but probably not enough to do any harm. I am almost certainly in deficit.

Next weigh in Saturday...

[Tucson]

I put in 1628 steps during my daily activities. I burned 32 calories having done this. Impressive, eh? I ate about 3300 calories due to eating too many almond paste filled bear claws. No more left which is good. I have a few pounds to gain anyways.

I will walk a couple miles tomorrow. I will start using the treadmill by this weekend. I need to prepare myself for runnng outside. The problem with this is there is no GPS. The stats provided by the treadmill can be way off. I want to get the same stats as when I walk outside. Also if I hold on to a bar while exrerszing, my steps are not counted by my watch. So I have purchased a foot pod. This is a digital pedometer on my shoe that relays its stats to my watch. The foot pod, once calibrated, will provide accurate distances ran.

[Cocosurviving]

MFP calories 1,112. Apple Watch steps 4,181. Water intake 33.8oz. I did some inside walking today.