Weight loss and exercise #2

Pickles can really make it seem like you are packing it on. Some of those big hot and spicy ones have as much sodium as a salt shaker. Those are a snack that is too hot, too salty, too sour, tears are rolling down my cheeks, I know I will regret it later and yet I can't stop eating it.

Yet they barely have any calories and are so good. It really does suck. I rarely eat them anymore.

It's just a meaningless spike; no big deal. This is an example of why I like weighing often, to see things like that and better understand fluctuations. Anyway, pickles are low calories and have nearly zero effect on your actual weight. It's not a set back to your progress to spike up with water weight. A big sodium day every now and then is not a health concern unless you have specific issues and your doctor has warned you about it.

Yeah I weigh often too. Everyday if possible. I get a lot of flack about it from people who talk about obsessive thoughts and disordered thoughts and on the path to an eating disorder. In reality weighing everyday just keeps me on track and I’ve pretty much kept my weight off for 3 years. I’ve never been diagnosed with an eating disorder.

Not to mention weighing myself everyday keeps me motivated too.

My weight is 170 today. This probably is due to yesterday’s cornucopia of fine tastely foods repleat with dessert, an apple pie and a banana pie, both from Coco’s bakery. I simply could not eat anymore. I was a pig. All I could fit down my gullet was a half a slice of the apple pie. My ex packaged up some leftover food. I may only be able to exercise later today. For some reason I am feeling very weak.

BTW I have found out from reliable sources on the Internet that Cocos has the reputation of surgically injecting calories in each of their pies, effectively doubling the original calories. I think they patented the technique. Cocos must of licensed out this technique to Marie Callenders. The restaurant also makes great high calorie pes.

I pigged out big time yesterday with some calorie dense desserts in the mix. I did not weigh this morning. I have not eaten yet today and it is almost lunch time here. I will go to the gym later today or tonight.

EDIT - going to eat 4 oz of turkey breast for lunch

I haven’t been able to weigh myself. So far I have had one mini sub at 300 calories and a drink from Starbucks at 210 calories. I’ll probably just have a small dinner.

I decided to face the music and weigh this morning. 157, which is a couple of pounds lower than I expected. I did go to the gym last night; ARCTrainer for an hour then worked upper body for only 10 or 15 minutes. Snacked some, not heavily, when I got home. I am probably not severely dehydrated, so the weight is probably close to correct. Still staying at/under 160. Still want to drop lower before Christmas.

I am back to weighing 168 pounds. I have no idea of the calories that I have had over the previous couple days. I do know that I ate less calories yesterday than I did on Thanksgiving. What made this difficult is that for Friday, I ate some of the leftovers given to me the day before. I do not know the calorie value of the leftovers. This is nothing to get in the way of running today. This will help take my mind off of my money problems.

@Tucson - A lot of times all we can do is guess and then react to trends if they occur.

I keep rolling forward several hundred calories without making much of a dent in it. I am thinking about not rolling it after today and just setting my goal lower for a while. So much of this is mental. It's like once I concede that I am not resolving the rolled forward calories today, I no longer have a strict goal. I really want to be solidly below 155 before Christmas.

EDIT - I deleted 3 high calorie items that had been rolled forward for 2 or 3 days. This puts me back below goal though I will go over at dinner. I won't roll that either. I will just keep it low. One reason I will certainly go over at dinner is that I have set my goal low again. Yet I just had a roll with honey as a snack. Leftovers need to go...

I ended up having 1010 calories yesterday. I just couldn’t stomach anything else today. I didn’t weigh myself this morning but I weighed myself a few minutes ago in the middle of the afternoon and I was 153.6. So I’ll probably be like 150.6. when I weigh in the morning. I had Wendy’s today which was 880 calories. Dinner will be 200 and then I’ll have a 100 calorie snack.

I meant I couldn’t stomach anything else yesterday. Does anyone use a digital food scale? What brand do you use? I just use a non digital one I bought from a thrift store for $3 and measuring cups. It’s worked out fine, but I’d like to upgrade to a digital one. I looked at Best Buy and I couldn’t find one. I might look at Bed Bath And Beyond on Tuesday.

I use a non-digital one, but I don't use it as diligently as I should.

Digital won't help without diligence. I also have a food scale and weigh food when I can to log calories accurately but I could not stay on track without frequently weighing myself.

I will have consumed about 2500 calories by the end of the evening. I am baking a short rack of ribs. For $17, I ended up with the equivalent of six short racks of ribs. I just found out that I should have placed it on a metal rack. Unfortunately, as a consequence, I consumed allot of liquid fat. Drowned out the flavor. So I am sure that this added allot more calories.

Note: Soy sauce, ginger, scallion, garlic, and honey or jam is a good way to glaze pork. This is a good enough excuse to get some honey. But there are many different kinds of honey.

170 pounds. Exercise? It us difficult to get back into a routine again.

@Tucson - I use a similar marinade/glaze a lot for chicken and shrimp (I haven't eaten mammal meat in over 2 years). My .02 - use store brand clover honey. So much is wasted and with it being a non penetrating glaze mixed with spices that overpower everything but the sweetness, there really isn't much point spending extra. If you used corn syrup I doubt the honey mix would do any better in a blind taste test.

Once again, I went a little nuts late. I was 157 yesterday morning after a gym trip the night before, so I figured it was a low spike but I decided to quit rolling forward and allow myself a last splurging day. I didn't log the late stuff.

Starting at zero today with a low goal - 1500. I am thinking about not weighing for several days if and only if I stay under goal every day. I will log my gym sessions, but only the cardio at a rate of ~400 calories per hour. I am trying to mix up the rules to see if I stick to it better. I still have not gone over 160 (or at least not that I have allowed myself to see; I suspect I have spiked over a couple of times), but it is really getting to me that I have been stuck near the top of the range for so long. This is especially dangerous going in to the holiday season.

I weighed 151.4 today. I am eating 1200 calories today. My lunch had a lot of sodium in it, over 2,350 milligrams, so I’m hoping it won’t wont affect my weight in the morning.

My weight hasn't changed....got to see if I can get it down still.

My weight in the morning actually turned out to be 169. I only have been able to eat/2325 calories, that is if I can finish this half size of pie. I am still wondering about that.

I stuck to it yesterday. 1500 exactly (it is never exact, but that's what logged items add up to) today.

I worked out this morning. My latest plan is to have a protein bar right after working out and then treating all days pretty much the same outside of that. So I won't have a higher allotment for meals and snacks on workout days. That's what I did today. Actually a protein bar and some yogurt pretty much hit the total I logged for exercise. i can still have snacks, but will limit it like any other day.

My weight was still 151.4. I didn’t do too well today. I’ll have to get back on track.

I blew it again late yesterday. I decided to weigh again this morning to give myself a good swift kick. Every recent day but the day before yesterday has been over, some by quite a bit. I was 159.6; right up at the very top of my range.

I should probably adjust the range. In early January I have a physical and there is a reasonably good chance that I will officially be 5'7". That matters because I calculated my original weight loss goal of 164 based on that being a BMI of 24.9 at 5'8". At 5'7", 24.9 is 159. So if I am actually 5'7" now, I am technically ever so slightly overweight. I should us 145-155 and try to stay around 150. That's 10 pounds away. not just a minor adjustment.

Am I playing head games with myself? Maybe. But it really spooks me that I don't seem to be in control of my eating lately. I just keep hitting the gym for heavy cardio to burn off just enough to stay in range. I am getting a shoulder scoped early next year and will go weeks without a workout that burns more than a couple of hundred calories.

I didn’t eat a ton today. I had an iced coffee for breakfast. A raspberry lemonade, half a New York strip steak and half an order of fries for lunch. The rest of my lunch I had at 3PM. A 36 calorie piece of candy at 6. Nothing for dinner. I worked today too. So a lot of lifting and standing and stuff At this point I think I’m just maintaining my weight.

Yeah I just calculated and I estimated everything at around 1570 calories. So more then usual, but still not much at all.