Weight loss and exercise #2

I have consumed 2680 calories which is 180 calories over which is not too bad. Hopefully I will be feeling better to run later today. Here I am still up at 3:30 in the early morning. So maybe I will run later in the morning, maybe by noon.

I did 2 hours on the ARCTrainer this morning. Logged 700 for it. Still playing games with moving things around trying to get calories right. My logging has been sloppy on both consumption and burn lately. I will weigh in the morning. Hopefully the recent slow trend down will continue, or at least it won't be a spike up.

I was 151.6 today. I feel like Dorothy from The Wizard Of Oz when she says “people come and go so quickly” except for me it’s “this weight comes and goes so quickly.”

My calories today equal to around 1200.

I think I have made the last few days square up; I will see what it says in the morning. Dinner was pretty salty; could see a bump.

170 pounds. I am going to end up with 2600 calories. Still no exervise. I have been feeling better over the past couple days. I just am letting things get in the way.

Update: Here I am eating 2 Graham crackers.

Not sure how many calories consumed at dinner that included turkey chili with black beans, chopped potatoes, and added tortilla chips, and then ate strawberry yogurt, and 2 cake ball sweets with frosting. My guess is this dinner is 500 + calories and don’t want to think about it. This past weekend it was helpful that my favorite coffee shop lists total calories in food items so chose low fat turkey bacon and egg sandwich and chose the lowest calorie coffee drink, well compared to the 400+ calorie drinks next to it was the best option and tasty, 12 oz caramel macchiato.

155 this morning. As I suspected, the 158 from 3 days ago was a spike. I kind of expected a little bit of a spike this morning because of the salty "taco soup" (really more like chili). Also because of timing, I think there is more weight than usual "in the pipeline". Anyway, not sure I really believe I am 155 yet but the trend is definitely down. No exercise today, at least no long cardio session. I will do some TRX rows at home.

My weight is now 147.4 started going to the gym

I was 150.4 today. My calories today equal to around 1200 as usual.

I was 149.4 today. The stress from work has been kind of intense because of the holidays. I went out to lunch today but my calories still equal to around 1200.

I will weigh myself tomorrow. I have consumed about 2687 calories. This includes allot of snacks like a protien bar, ice cream, graham crackers, and Redenbacher kettle corn.

155 this morning and that's rounded up, not down. Downward trend is definitely a thing. I have been staying on track in recent days.

169 pounds. I have consumed about 2,182 calories which is 318 calories short. This is the best I can do for waking up at 12 PM, with lunch at 5 PM. I am really stuffed.

FWIW I had four boneless ribs for dinner. This amounted to over a pound of pork uncooked. If this was from a regular rack of ribs, I would still be hungry. These boneless ribs are extremely meaty, each comparatively quite heavy to the in-bone version of a rib. I am now “stuffed to the gills”. This is an incredible deal at Costco. However, the regular rack of ribs are more tastey.

Came in around goal yesterday. I currently have goal at 1500, which is aggressive but I had success with doing it while losing. I will push it back up a bit when I start consistently weighing below 155. I really haven't had goal high at all while maintaining and nearly always stuck to it eventually (sometimes rolling calories forward a few days) yet it crept up. That was from sloppy logging and I suspect the "good" numbers I got for my long paddles were high. I erased a lot of overages with long paddles. It may be the numbers I used were for shorter more intense training sessions.

I didn't go to the gym last night or this morning but plan to tomorrow morning. Doing some TRX and kettlebell work at home today.

172 pounds. The two scales are a half a pound apart. I am likely to have eaten 2595 calories by the end of the day. My french toast with butter, slowly cooking the butter into each slice of bread, amounted to 1000 calories. More flavor, more calories.

I had a couple off days. I weighed myself today and surprisingly I was only 151.6. I’m back on track today and so far I’ve only had 195 calories. I know that’s not good but I was at work all morning and then running errands after and I didn’t feel like stopping for fast food or anything. So I’m fixing some pizza and then I’ll have a bag of frozen zucchini later in the evening. I’m also drinking an Arizona lemonade right now. It will be a little bit low, but not too bad.

Need to walk more and difficult with rainy weather, wind and cold.

Went way over yesterday; trying to offset today. Did 80 minutes on the ARCTrainer and will try to be reasonable eating today.

I weighed 149.6 today. I must be burning a lot of calories at work. Or I really must be stressed but it’s been easy keeping my weight off. I went to A&W today and I had a burger and fries. I’m having a bag of vegetables now. Dinner will be a can of soup. I’m not sure on the exact calories. The burger had 454 calories. But I ordered it plain. Then everything else was “about” this many calories according to the nutrition on the back. It was around 1200 calories I guess.

Work's holiday dinner is tomorrow night at a local high end restaurant. Their signature dessert is chocolate chess pie. The planned menu is surf and turf - steak and lobster tail - with substitutions available for those with special diets. I don't eat our fellow mammals so I will get surf and surf. Lobster calories are not bad if yo don't dip in butter and I don't. It's the sides and that chocolate chess pie that will add up. I will weigh in the morning.

2700 calories. Will weigh myself tomorrow. I see my calorie intake has been going up and down. I think it may have averaged out, but I need to make my calorie intake more consistent. Had my aged steak, but it was too chewy. I need to cook it much longer than I did today. Maybe eight hours instead of 3.5 hours. Boy, there is allot of calories in a 9.5 ounce piece of meat! Still, I found myself eating extra calories by consuming cinamon toast, and kettle popcorn. Otherwise, I would of came out under 2500 calories.

I weighed and rounded up to 157 this morning, which is fine by me since I splurged a bit the last couple of days.

I have already eaten breakfast and lunch with surprisingly reasonable macros considering it totals to 421 calories. I forgot to take my meds this morning, so I will have some applesauce in a bit to be able to stomach them, but still leave myself about 1000 calories for the company dinner.

I had to get up really early in the morning, so that shot my schedule all to hell. I managed some cereal in the morning. I ate my lunch later in the afternoon. I have just finish my dinner, which consisted of four massive cuts of boneless rib meat. Just huge. I mean really large. The weight for the four combined was 3/4s of a pound. I want to restate that there is no bone in that weight. I could not eat all of it, but I came really close. 2486 calories today. I will work to be consistent in meeting my 2500 calorie goal.

@UpDownAround: Interesting word, “macros”. I did not know you tracked your macros. I did at one time. I think I do need to do this from time to time. Lets see, for today I am 92 grams of carbs short, 32 grams of fat over, and 18 grams of protien over. Looking at some of these figure on MFP, I see that I am a whopping 1,441 grams of sodium over. I guess there will be some water retention for my next weigh in tomorrow. Everything has salt in it. This must represent processed food.

@Tucson - I make sure I am getting reasonable protein because I have been working out so much. most days I come up short of what mfp recommends, but over RDA. Mostly I do cardio, so carbs are important, but my sweet tooth usually takes care of that. I am pretty low fat.

Company dinner last night. The only thing that really packed on calories was chocolate souffle. But I ate super light during the day leading up to it and I did 75 minutes on the ARC Trainer this morning; haven't logged it and might not or might log a low burn. I will weigh in the morning.

I was 148.8 today. My calories will equal to around 1200. So far I’ve had 680. I’m thinking of doing some type of excercise but doing a treadmill or a stationary bike is so tedious for me even with the TV on. So I was thinking of trying jump roping and maybe buying a pogo stick. I used to be really good at the pogo stick. I know the key to excercise is to find something you like.