Weight Loss and Exercise #4

I was 171.6 today. So far I had a generic Mountain Dew, and most of a red white and blue slush from Sonic. I had an RX bar at midnight. I’m trying to eat a bag of frozen berries right now. Then I’ll have soup for lunch and a bag of grilled zucchini for dinner. I have down 1,207 calories but I’m not sure on the slush I had.

Last night I really wanted Taco Bell but I was able to get by with just a beef taco and cheesy potatoes without sour cream. So yesterday was 1,279 calories but I overestimated on some things since my Noom app didn’t have the correct calories on some things.

My surgeon said I look great and commented on my weight loss.

What’s your height?

I’m 5’4 but I carry my weight well So I look more like 160-150. I want to get down to 140 pounds.

At Thanksgiving I was 187 pounds. My highest was 236 in 2015.

Good job on the weight loss!

I could only deal with maintaining my calories today. I had a glass of iced coffee and a Mountain Dew which may have been the issue and the reason I was hungry. To eat today I had a serving of Goldfish crackers, a bag of frozen berries, a bag of frozen corn, some instant ramen with the broth dumped out, an RX bar, and a cake pop. Dinner will be a piece of salmon. I have down 1,812 calories.

This morning I was reading this interesting thing in one of my Noom articles about feeding your mouth instead of your stomach. And it says when you really really want something like a couple spoonfuls of ice cream, you will often try to eat healthy stuff instead but you’ll still want the ice cream. And you’ll end up eating 400 or so calories in other stuff trying to avoid the ice cream when if you had just eaten it you’d be finished at 200 calories. That really resonated with me because yesterday I was trying so hard to avoid eating ramen and a cake pop that I was inhaling corn and frozen vegetables and still not feeling satisfied. So today I just made room in my calorie budget for ramen and a chocolate payday.

I’ve had the ramen and an iced coffee so far today.

I weigh 286 today. I'm eating healthy and doing work around the house. I think it's helping that I quit ordering out. I miss some of my favorite foods, but I would rather lose weight. My breathing is easier. It's much simpler to get in and out of my bed. My shoes fit. So many good things are happening.

For breakfast I had some dinosaur oatmeal. Then I had a mini red white and blue slush from sonic. I didn’t eat the blue part. I had the lunch special from a restaurant. I wanted to go out to eat but couldn’t get in. So I got take out instead. So far I’ve had about 980 calories. I’m not too hungry so I’m not sure what else I’ll be having. And I mean I’m really not hungry so I may just skip dinner entirely. If I do eat it will probably just be ramen

I had a small 110 calorie bag of pretzels for dinner last night. I did feel pretty sick.

Today I had a bowl of instant udon noodle soup for breakfast. I really wanted it and I knew that if I tried denying it to myself all day I’d end up failing. So I had that which supposedly only had 120 calories according to the nutrition facts. I dumped out a lot of the broth. I also had a couple small wheat flavored Kit Kat’s too. Those were 108 calories for 2 of them. Then I went to Sonic for another one of those slushes. I got a mini one and I again only ate the strawberry and ice cream part. I have no idea on the nutrition on that so I put it at 240 calories. I plan on having the lunch special again from the same restaurant and then a bowl of maple oatmeal for dinner. I have logged in 1,273 calories but it’s probably more like 1,168 calories. I just overestimated some things I think. Honestly I think I’m back to my calories in vs calories out thing. When I was eating bags of frozen strawberries and bags of cauliflower and corn I was not feeling satisfied or full the way I do with unhealthy stuff. I do not drink full calorie soda anymore. I was drinking a 150-290 calorie one almost everyday. Without the regular soda I can maintain my low calorie diet. I find diet and zero sugar soda to be very helpful with controlling my hunger despite the bad rep they get.

I was 169.6 today. I’m doing OMAD today where you eat all your calories for the day at one time and then fast for the rest of the day. So I’ve had 4 bags of snacks from a snack crate I got on Amazon. I also had a glass of Oreo iced coffee. Then I went out to eat and I had a Coke, peasant potato’s, and 2 pieces of stuffed French toast from a restaurant. There were 6 pieces total. I gave the rest to my brother.

I came home and I took a 40 minute walk and I walked almost 2 miles.

I gained 5 pounds since yesterday. It was weird. I fasted for most of the day and I drank a lot of water and I walked for 52 minutes. I thought I might gain just based on what I ate for breakfast. but I thought it would be a pound or less. Not 5.

I wasn’t feeling good today so I didn’t eat much. I went out to lunch but I only ate my fries and half my sandwich. I skipped dinner. For breakfast I had some nuts and I finished my bag of pizza Goldfish.

I organized my food cupboard this morning. I really don’t have that much stuff it’s just because I don’t have my storage rack anymore that I have to cram everything on one side of a shelf in the kitchen pantry. Including my stuff in the freezer I really only have maybe 2 weeks of food.

I've been fluctuating. But basically staying around the same weight. I'm not sure what's wrong. Maybe too many snacks. I'll try to be more careful.

I was 168.6 today. I switched my meds around a few nights ago so I take everything at night now. Now I’m not hungry during the day, and the weight is just melting off. I wouldn’t recommend doing this without your doctors approval. But I mean I didn’t have my doctors approval either, so whatever I guess. Today I had 2oz of London broil on a mini King Hawaiian sub roll. Then I ate most of a dish of ice cream from sonic. I haven’t had anything else yet but I plan on eating some Goldfish crackers and some ramen. Although I may skip the goldfish and figure something else out. Maybe more London broil without the bun. I have down 1148 calories for the day. Minus whatever the ice cream was or wasn’t since I didn’t have a clear number for that.

I put the scale in my room so I wouldn’t be tempted to weigh myself today. I also really wanted a mug of hot tea and I didn’t want to worry about water weight gain.

Today I’m not sure what I’ll eat. I had some Oreo iced coffee and a serving of Goldfish crackers around 2AM. I want to try the new shark week slush from Sonic but I plan on just getting a mini one. From what I can calculate since there’s no nutrition info a mini one has about 220 calories.

My mom wants to go out to eat for lunch and I really don’t want to because I’m still controlling myself on this trip. But I know she needs to eat so I’ll have to figure out something. Maybe I’ll just have a bowl of soup or a side salad. Or we can find a Denny’s and I can get the healthy sirloin steak dinner. I’m just plain not hungry though. When I went out to lunch last week I could barely eat half of my sandwich.

I saw my GP today. I lost 18 pounds since I last saw her. I'm really happy about that. I continue to eat low-carb and get plenty of vegetables. And I moving around my house for exercise. I had to stop the chair yoga. It hurt my neck and shoulders.

I have no idea about my weight. No clue at all. I didn’t weigh myself Tuesday morning because I drank a lot of tea I didn’t want to get discouraged by water weight. I’ve been eating a couple small packages of Goldfish crackers a day instead of meals. I’ve been eating just a little bit at dinners. Tuesday night I had just a plain burger without a bun for dinner. Yesterday I went out to lunch and I had a small shrimp Cesar salad but it was still pretty big. I had a couple small scoops of pasta in a salad bowl for dinner. Today I had an everything bagel with cream cheese, a pretty big ice cream cone and a small bag of Goldfish crackers. Dinner was a plain burger and small fries from McDonald’s. I’ve also been walking everywhere these last 3 days and burning a good amount of calories. Today I swam for a bit. The last time I weighed myself was on Monday and I was 168.6. My clothes aren’t getting huge on me. But they aren’t tight. I think I may have lost one or 2 pounds but not a lot. I could have stayed the same too. I could have also possibly over-counted my calories yesterday and under counted them together. I don’t know. With Noom I need to be weighing myself everyday to avoid this kind of freaking out scale anxiety type thing.

I lost a pound since yesterday, which is good cause I binged on deli turkey last night. I was really hungry. I think it was okay cause my carbs were low. I've had beans and rice twice today. I might have a breakfast sandwich tonight so I can get some animal protein. I've been working around the house for exercise.

I weighed myself today at 11:30 when I got back and I was 170. So I still don’t really know. I ate a pretty big breakfast and had a good amount to drink. I usually weigh myself at 6AM. So I still could be 168.

Today I had a breakfast sandwich and some kind of frozen drink. I had a package of astronaut ice cream 45 minutes ago. I’ll probably just have ramen for dinner. I’m not sure on calories but I’m probably about maintenance today.

I got a ham and provolone little john from jimmy johns yesterday (and also a turkey and a vito - they are all about 300+ calories each) for dinner, and i was like, the ham was sooooo good, i want to only eat ham for the rest of my life! Its what my italian ancestors ate! They had pigs, not turkeys!

But by this morning i had regained my senses and had my vegan chili on palmini and it was fine. The thing i am hearing on the obesity surgery shows is to not let yourself get too hungry. Dont go too long of time between meals. I think once i get that certain twinge of hunger, its too late and i will need to overeat to tamp it back down. I am tracking my meals on WW app to try to find that happy medium, it it exists.

I'm doing okay. I'm eating healthy and doing heavy-duty work around the house.