Weight loss and exercise #2

I wouldn't worry too much about getting exact. Nutrition info is only required to be within 20%. Restaurants are notorious for using a below normal sized serving to get lower calories. They may list the weight and then have you just assume that it's about average when it isn't. Labels can be off in either direction, so they average out semi accurate, but there is no need to trying to get 5 or 10 to try to land on exact number.

*&^%$#@!!!!

Still 160. This time I think maybe it is accurate as I have still been eating too much; making exceptions for too many things that aren't that special.

I was 153 exactly today. I have about 4 days before I get my period. So I might gain a few pounds of water weight in the next couple days. Today was 1200 calories again. I had McDonald’s but just a 6 piece chicken nugget and small fry which came to 500 calories. My 10AM snack was 240 calories and my 3PM snack was 60. Dinner was 400.

I was 153.2 today. So probably water weight gain from PMS. I had 825 calories so far today. Some string cheese and a corn soufflé and a cup of chicken noodle soup. I’m not sure what to do with my remaining 375 calories. I’ll probably just find another TV dinner. I wasn’t too hungry today. I’ve been sticking to this 1200 calorie thing since Thursday So the weight gain must be from PMS. My weight might even be higher tomorrow from the sodium I’ve had today.

Edit. I had a 100 calorie bag of popcorn and I had some chicken for dinner. So I have down 1,085 calories total for the day. Kind of low but at this point I don’t really care. It’s just one of those days.

Didn't weigh this morning; got stupid again yesterday. Today, so far I had 100 calories (egg whites) for breakfast, 180 (chicken sausage and cheese) for lunch and a 79 calorie banana for a snack. I will have some baked chicken and a small sweet potato for dinner, probably totaling ~350 and do a long gym session tonight (as in watch a feature film on the ARCTrainer and then do some weights long). I got so stupid yesterday (and prior days with food rolled over) that I will probably be about even again. I think I can stick it out and make it; I feel more determined.

Was just about to head to the gym and my wife said she is going to Redbox the get Infinity Wars, which I haven't seen and have managed to keep from learning too much about. But I am going to paddle tomorrow and hit the gym Monday morning.

I am going to weigh in the morning without the exercise tonight. Hopefully it won't be too ugly. I have only had about 800 calories today, but I had a full day's calories rolling forward. May not be as bad as I fear though. My goal is a deficit and I think I probably underestimate calories.

I was 153 exactly again. I’m annoyed that it keeps going back and forth from 153 to 153.2. I slipped up today. I was tired so I stopped for coffee this morning. I have not done that in 2 months. I do intermittent fasting. I stop eating at 5:30 and I don’t eat or drink any calories until 10 in the morning. So I had a large ice coffee from McDonald’s and I realized my mistake around 9. Stopping for coffee makes me hungry for the whole day and that is why I just stopped coffee all together. So I stopped for a burger fries and chocolate shake for lunch. I went to Denny’s for dinner. I got the healthy sirloin option for dinner. It’s my last day of PMS so the slip up might have had something to do with that as well. But I do really need to stick to not eating after 5:30PM and not eating before 10AM or it just really messes things up.

I weigh 168 pounds. This has been the case since Nov 8 which is over one week ago. I am always trying to come up with meals to reach ny 2500 target. This does not account for exercise. So I am going to come up with menus for the entire week. I will purchase groceries accordingly. This will save me money. When I do not have a clue as to what to do for dinner, I go out to a restaurant with inexpensive food, like for the $2 pancakes at Dennys. McDonalds has an online coupon for a McDouble hamburger for $1. Still it all adds up.

Just under 157 this morning even without crazy amounts of exercise last night. Because of not getting the planned long exercise session last night, I am still rolling forward ridiculous calories by logging food actually consumed days ago, but I left yesterday about 170 over. With paddling this afternoon and exercise early AM tomorrow, it's possible I will end Monday close to even and still give me Tuesday and Wednesday to try to get a good deficit going into Thanksgiving.

EDIT - Paddling partner for the afternoon wants to go tomorrow instead. I can flex work and do that, so I am going to reverse my plans - go to the gym tonight and paddle tomorrow. that actually works to my advantage; it can be a log session tonight.

I was still 153 today. My calories yesterday added up to around 2500. Today I am planning on having 2 TV dinners and a rice cake and a piece of roast beef and some steamed broccoli. I have down 1,150 calories but it might be more then that. I’m not sure.

I weigh 153 and at 145 I’ll be considered a normal BMI for my height, but I just look pretty bad for 153. I feel like I have a lot more to lose. My mom agreed with me. I’m wondering if strength training would help. I just look kind of lumpy and bigger then 153. I’m wondering if 130 instead of 135 would be better. Honestly the pictures of me at 173 look better then at 153. Like I look skinner. Why would this be? I don’t have any loose skin. It just seems like the more weight I lose the heavier I look. I don’t understand it. I can’t possibly be/look fat at 130 pounds right?

Just over 155 this morning but I had a 2.5 hour gym session late last night, so probably more than a little dehydrated. Crazy swings lately

I was 151.8 today. I guess I overestimated again. Today my calories add up to 1200 and that’s pretty accurate.

I still weigh 168. The calorie count for yesterday is 2249, and for today is 2470. I am making up a weekly menu. This will make it easier to keep tract of the calorie count making sure I reach my target. Making the menu in advance also will allow me to avoid wondering what will be my next neal.

My weight is 168. Ever since I stopped running and allowing a few days at 2400, and then 2500, I have been able to maintain my weight for three weeks. Perhaps this is my baseline without exervise. If this remains to be tge case, at tge end of four weeks, I will start running again. I cannot inagine how I will be able to consume more than 2500 calories. Like UpDownAround has said in the past, I will need to eat more calirie rich yet inexpensive foods. I will now begin to eat peanut butter sandwiches until I can solve this problem with other types of food. I know, I will make home made peunut butter. No chemicals and I like the flavour. This is very simple to do.

OK, mashed potatoes sounds good to me. Perhaps I can eat more side dishes with my meals. Some are prepackaged, and I do not think they cost much. Also maybe corn, beans, and asperigus spears. A side of rice pilaf gets me 350 to 375 calories alone. I think a shake will help too which can turn into a protien shake by adding caesine powder. This will add 100 additional calories. One slice of pizza is 700 calories. WOW. There are other dishes that can provide me significant calories. So I will focus on those dishes.

I will have to go shopping today.

I pigged out yesterday and my weight was 159 this morning. Today is not going great; way too many treats again. I did work out this morning after weighing, I had a "major bathroom event" and if I put a stop to the eating, I will probably be about this weight or less tomorrow. I have bad laryngitis from post nasal drip and feel like I always need something soothing going down my throat.

I was 150.8 today. I said I wanted to be 150 by Thanksgiving so I got what I wanted. Although I was 153 on Sunday. So it seems a little extreme to be 150 already. I think it’s just the stress and anxiety from work.

2 days ago I was under 156 and yesterday I was over 159. Bounces happen. While losing, I only paid attention to the lowest number I saw as I knew my trajectory was in that direction. I worked out again this morning. I had a bunch of unlogged food yesterday afternoon and evening. I have laryngitis from post nasal drip and I was making poor choices on what to coat my throat with. I am not logging the exercise this morning and shooting for a low goal today. Not sure how tomorrow will go. Had a blow up at home last night that may not end well in one respect and possibly for the better in another. Things were said that should have been said long ago.

Kind of a cop out, but I am not going to weigh for a few days. Overeating again today and probably will tomorrow. I will try to offset after that. So I keep saying, but I have stayed in my range.

Have maintained weight,no loss but at least I didn't gain.

It's actually healthier to way less often than more, so not a cop out at all. It is normal for your body weight to fluctuate within a few pounds. Always frustrating when it goes up, but it'll often come back down again.

I weighed in at 169 pounds. No exercise. I wanted to wait a couple weeks and I have done just that. My baseline calorie count appears to be 2,500. I will start running a couple miles every day or other day. I probably am out of shape anyway. That should burn at least a couple hundred calories. I should be able to handle this amount which will be folded into calories that I need to consume. I have consumed 2090 calories today. Lets see if I can eat another 409 calories. This is what I get for not paying attemtion to the time in order to make sure I can eat enough foid to make my goal by the end of tye day.

Update:

I had a hot cocoa with a shot of whiskey. I do not know what I liked better, the chocolate flavor, or the whiskey. I will say both. So for today I have consumed 2680 calories. This is an excess of 180 calories. Tomorrow I will go running. I guess I will have to run allot to make up for those calories I will consume during tomorror’s feast.

I disagree about the health aspect, but would be interested in seeing any data that might back up what you are saying. I like to weigh frequently exactly because of the fluctuations. If you weigh infrequently you may think you see a rise or fall between two weigh ins because one was at a spike up and the other down. Weighing infrequently gives you fewer data points and therefore less accuracy. If you weigh frequently, you get a better idea of how the fluctuations average out.

According to the data at the National Weight Control Registry, 75% of people who have kept 30 or more pounds of weight loss from coming back for more than a year weigh themselves at least once a week. I will be eligible to participate in that study in 3 months. Anyway, if you follow the link from that summary page into the detailed studies, the correlation of frequent weighing to successful maintenance continues to rise all the way down to daily weighing.

From failures in the past, my own anecdata corroborates that infrequent weighing seems to be a contributing factor to unintentional weight gain and by the time I noticed it required a major effort rather than a minor adjustment to get back on track. Because it was a major effort, I would put it off. The next hing I knew, I had gained a lot of it back, sometimes all the way back up to my highest obese weight. Then after a while (sometimes quite a while) I would get motivated again and the cycle would repeat. Weighing often is one of the most important things I am doing to make this time different.

It is possible to succeed without frequent weighing; it just isn't as likely.

I am near the top of my maintenance range. I lost ~65 pounds to get below a BMI of 25 and the top of my range is a little below that. I have a 10 pound range so that I can stay inside it even with spikes. I think it's a cop out not to weigh for a few days because I know some spikes will go over and I am avoiding seeing them.

I’m not sure on my weight. Tuesday morning I was 150.8. Tuesday I had 1200 calories or so, but I had one of those gigantic pickles. It probably only had 20-30
Calories but probably 3000 milligrams of sodium. So when I weighed myself yesterday I was 152.8. Which was 2 pounds of water weight. Then I had a cheat day yesterday and I ended up getting a stomach bug of some sort last night and throwing up a ton. I didn’t weigh myself today but I’m guessing my weight was pretty low. Today is Thanksgiving and I had planned on eating whatever, but my stomach is still really off and so far I’ve had about 200 calories in iced tea. I don’t have access to the scale anyways until Sunday morning. So I may see a pretty big surprise Sunday morning.

169 pounds. I really do not want to go running. I feel depressed. Life has given me some unexpected turns, good and bad. Actually this may be a good reason to run.