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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 2, 2015 4:59:25 GMT -5
Day 16My starting weight: 265 lbs My ideal weight for my height: 185 lbs My goal: 220 lbs by August (15 lbs per month for three months) Today's weigh in: 252 lbs (-3 since yesterday; -13 lbs overall) Nice to see yesterday's hard work rewarded so...quickly. With a little more staying the course, I'll soon achieve two big benchmarks: I'll be down 15 lbs, and I'll be in the 240s. Not bad for two and a half weeks of dieting, thus far! My plan for today: Breakfast: 1 serving of all-natural vanilla yogurt. Multivitamin and Calcium/Magnesium supplement. Lunch: My homemade stew (garlic, onion, yellow pepper, spinach, tomato paste, cayenne pepper, black pepper, salt, ex virgin olive oil). Throughout the day snack: Half a serving of dry Frosted Mini-Wheats (for iron and fiber) Dinner: Two chicken breasts marinated in no more than two tablespoons of soy sauce, and with cumin to taste Other snacks (if needed): raw unsalted cashews, baby carrots, sliced pineapple Awesome! Nice way to rebound and put the weekend in the rear view Mirror. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 2, 2015 5:40:38 GMT -5
Day 7
My starting weight: 218 lbs
My goal: 180 lbs
Today's weigh in: 212(no loss from yesterday,- 6 overall)
What I Had yesterday
630am 1 banana/ coffee
10am pork chops rice
130pm grapes
4pm grapes
540 pork chops
640pm 2 bananas/ coffee
8pm 1 piece of chicken
830 5 oranges
I stayed the same from yesterday and I noticed that I didn’t have any salad and that I didn’t drink a lot of water. I did have rice again which is a no no. Also, I’m not regular the way I usually am. Oh well, today is a new day.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2015 7:00:21 GMT -5
Exercising before bed may cause restless legs/hips.
I will never exercise that close to bedtime ever again.
Funny thing is, I didn't even work my legs. I only worked my arms.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 2, 2015 8:57:30 GMT -5
Exercising before bed may cause restless legs/hips. I will never exercise that close to bedtime ever again. Funny thing is, I didn't even work my legs. I only worked my arms. It's generally a bad idea to excercise before going to bed. You're blood is pumping and you might have trouble sleeping. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2015 10:02:32 GMT -5
Exercising before bed may cause restless legs/hips. I will never exercise that close to bedtime ever again. Funny thing is, I didn't even work my legs. I only worked my arms. It's generally a bad idea to excercise before going to bed. You're blood is pumping and you might have trouble sleeping. I know. I just figured I'd be okay because it was just my arms. Nothing else. |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 2, 2015 10:48:34 GMT -5
Also, I’m not regular the way I usually am. Oh well, today is a new day. It doesn't look like what you're eating is providing you with enough dietary fiber. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2015 11:16:06 GMT -5
Also, I’m not regular the way I usually am. Oh well, today is a new day. It doesn't look like what you're eating is providing you with enough dietary fiber. Either that or maybe not enough exercise? If it becomes a problem, you may have to cheat a little and add a yogurt or some carrots. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 2, 2015 12:38:38 GMT -5
It doesn't look like what you're eating is providing you with enough dietary fiber. Either that or maybe not enough exercise? If it becomes a problem, you may have to cheat a little and add a yogurt or some carrots. Usually I'm like a clock. But today I added salad. It should flow now. Hee hee. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2015 14:25:39 GMT -5
That is enough poop speak.
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Post by the4thpip on Jun 2, 2015 15:15:14 GMT -5
I can do weight lifting and resistance training before bed, but not cardio.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2015 16:10:38 GMT -5
I can do weight lifting and resistance training before bed, but not cardio. I think part of my problem was I had some caffeine after 5 pm, and I hadn't recalled that with my original post. I cannot usually drink anything with caffeine in it after 3 pm or it will mess with my ability to sleep right. |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 2, 2015 18:49:25 GMT -5
Day 16 in reflection:
Who'd have thought that doing too well with the diet could pose a problem? Tonight, even after dinner and my full allotment of healthy snacks, I was very tired/low energy, had a killer headache, and was insatiably hungry. I think I've hit a point where eating only 1500 calories a day may no longer be enough. Perhaps I've finally worked off the remainder of the undigested food lingering in my system or the amount of readily available body fat to be burned or something. I just felt like I wasn't getting enough nourishment today, and that worried me.
I stopped to think, determined this wasn't just a craving, and also that, based upon the nutrition I'm getting out of my diet, it either had to be too few calories (1500 for the day) or too few carbs (a little under 50% recommended daily allowance per day), so, seeing no healthier options in sight in our kitchen, I allowed myself a hot dog bun (140 calories, 7% daily allotment of carbs). Yeah, it could slow down the weight loss, but that's only assuming my body wasn't in need of those extra calories (which I think it was). So my only real concern is the extra 9% daily allotment of sodium it gave me (I'm already at 103% each day).
So we'll see if tomorrow goes any differently. If it doesn't, I'll have to adjust the diet somewhat. There's disciplined, and then there's sticking to the diet to the extent that it becomes unhealthy. I'm trying to find the right balance.
Successes: Stuck to the diet for the most part and then thought rationally before eating anything else. No binging.
Struggles: See above. Even now, I still have a splitting head ache, though I feel VERY full now.
Failures/cheats: Planned hot dog bun
All in all: Giving myself an A++ because I think I handled today very well, deciding that it was appropriate and necessary to eat more, but doing so purposefully instead of just gobbling up the tastier things readily in sight (we still had leftovers of my favorite pizza in the fridge, as well as fish sticks that the rest of the family was chowing down to).
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 2, 2015 18:54:38 GMT -5
Seeing as we are in it for the long haul, you can benefit from tweaking things when needed. My only question is ; could you have chosen something healthier than a hot dog bun?
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Post by shaxper on Jun 2, 2015 18:56:50 GMT -5
Seeing as we are in it for the long haul, you can benefit from tweaking things when needed. My only question is ; could you have chosen something healthier than a hot dog bun? No. There really wasn't anything else around that was high in carbs and healthier than that. The family dinner was drowned in saturated fat, and the fridge held microwavable meals, tater tots, and leftover pizza and BBQ (which is a week old by now, anyway). The cupboard had my cereal (which is also high in iron -- I don't want to overdue iron) and a lot of relatively unhealthy snacks. The bun gave me the calories and carbs I needed. Again, the only drawback was the sodium. |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 2, 2015 20:54:18 GMT -5
Well I solved the problem of what was wrong with me. I'm sick. I think I kept my lunchtime stew around for a little too long. Today I ate the last bowl from last week's batch. Not a good idea, for future reference.
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