ChefChiTown's Rebirth: I'm Back, BABY!!! (In More Ways Than One)...

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We don't have the most reliable scale. I do NOT trust it completely. At all. Anywho...

I weighed myself on Monday and I was, according to that scale, 259.2 lbs. I weighed myself today and it said I weighed 252.3 lbs. I don't buy it. I didn't lose 7 lbs. I lost weight, but I didn't lose 7 lbs in 5 days. No way.

Anyway, I'm just counting my calories. No low-carb, no gimmicky diet, nothing special. I'm just watching my calories and working out at least 4 days per week. So far, so good.
 
ChefChiTown said:
Anyway, I'm just counting my calories. No low-carb, no gimmicky diet, nothing special. I'm just watching my calories and working out at least 4 days per week. So far, so good.
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Sounds good to me!
 
Sounds like you are on the right track, Chef. Sounds like you are in the right mindset as well. Great job!!
 
My scales are playing tricks as well, which may make rely less on the numbers and more on how my body feels. Or it might make me go insane, of course.
 
I'm tired. More like exhausted. On top of dieting, I've been exercising regularly. Also, I've worked six straight days in a row, tomorrow being my seventh. After that I get a four-day weekend, but I am absolutely exhausted. My body wants to quit. My mind wants to quit. But, I'm not going to do that. I toughed it out tonight and worked out. I'm about to get into the shower and then cook myself some dinner (a chicken breast stuffed with pepper jack cheese, smothered in buffalo hot sauce, and a side of steamed pasta, broccoli and cheese sauce - one of those frozen, bagged steamer things). I'll be ok today. And, I'll probably be ok tomorrow. However, to be honest, I might have a cheat night this weekend. By that point, I'll have gone two straight weeks sticking to my diet and exercising so I won't feel that guilty if I'm a little bad. But, if I can, I'll avoid it. At this moment, I want to have a cheat day really bad. But, by this weekend, I might feel differently. So, we'll see.

cowboy48 said:
Sounds like you are on the right track, Chef. Sounds like you are in the right mindset as well. Great job!!
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Thanks, Cowboy.
 
I know how you feel. I'm feeling absolutely exhausted but am forcing myself to eat well & to move. I think we both know that in the long run, it will make us feel better. Chef, what G & I do is have a treats night on Sunday night &, before your rude mind goes crazy ;) I mean food treats. We have some good quality chocolate, maybe a bit of a nice slice & a few other bits & pieces, alongside a fruit platter. That way, I don't feel deprived of sweet treats, but I keep it under control. It's not a cheat day or a cheat meal, just a treat, only once a week.
I'm glad you are getting back on track. It's important to look after ourselves as best we can. I'm glad you & Jen found one another xoC
 
I like Cate´s treat night idea - don´t think I could stick to it and not go overboard if I were to try it alone, though.
 
I like the idea too. My wife and I sometimes binge on cheese, crackers and salami. I'm not much of a chocolate/dessert person so that is our indulgence.

And Chef, I'm with you there on the burnout. After days of dieting and exercising, I get tempted to just really let go for a meal or 2 but I end up talking myself out of it because I know the temporary pleasure of enjoying the meal won't hold up against how bad I'll feel the next several days afterwards as I try to make up for it.

I ate some birthday cake last night that my wife got me for my birthday and as good as it tasted, I felt pretty bad that it set me back a few days progress.
 
cate said:
Chef, what G & I do is have a treats night on Sunday night &, before your rude mind goes crazy ;) I mean food treats.
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Oh. Well, that's not as fun, HAHAHA. That reminds me...

Hey, honey? When the kids go to bed tonight, you want to have some treats?

LaMaria said:
I like Cate´s treat night idea - don´t think I could stick to it and not go overboard if I were to try it alone, though.
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That's the hard part - not going overboard. I mean, having a cheat day is definitely something that a lot of people need when they're trying to lose weight - myself included - but it's hard to not overdo it and go crazy. If I do end up having a cheat day I think I will make the effort to leave the bad food out of the house. Jen and I plan on going out to eat this weekend, so I'll probably have my cheat meal that day. And, if I end up getting something for later that night, I will plan on getting a limited amount - nothing that will still be there the next day.

Mowens1984 said:
I like the idea too. My wife and I sometimes binge on cheese, crackers and salami. I'm not much of a chocolate/dessert person so that is our indulgence.

And Chef, I'm with you there on the burnout. After days of dieting and exercising, I get tempted to just really let go for a meal or 2 but I end up talking myself out of it because I know the temporary pleasure of enjoying the meal won't hold up against how bad I'll feel the next several days afterwards as I try to make up for it.

I ate some birthday cake last night that my wife got me for my birthday and as good as it tasted, I felt pretty bad that it set me back a few days progress.
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I like eating cheese, crackers, salami and all that stuff too, it just never "satisfies" me. My personality type makes it so I need a BAD night to get that satisfied feeling. I almost need to regret what I've done in order to feel ok, HAHAHA. I know, it sounds horrible, but that's just the way I am.

So, if I have a cheat night I'll probably eat some crap, have a few drinks and deeeeefinitely have some ice cream. Ice cream is a good treat that works. For me, anyway.
 
ChefChiTown said:
I like eating cheese, crackers, salami and all that stuff too, it just never "satisfies" me. My personality type makes it so I need a BAD night to get that satisfied feeling. I almost need to regret what I've done in order to feel ok, HAHAHA. I know, it sounds horrible, but that's just the way I am.
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Yup. Very much this. It´s not about the food so much as it is about the feeling of indulgence/not needing to be in control for me. Aaand that´s not helpful.
 
LaMaria said:
Yup. Very much this. It´s not about the food so much as it is about the feeling of indulgence/not needing to be in control for me. Aaand that´s not helpful.
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Oh, it's DEFINITELY not helpful. It's half the reason I got fat in the first place, HAHAHA
 
I don't know what's causing it - maybe I need to eat more, maybe I need to lay back on the exercise, maybe it's because I haven't had a day off in a week or maybe it's just one of those random things - but I had a headache last night and I woke up with one again this morning. The weird thing is, my headaches are often felt on the left side of my head, but this one is purely on the right side. So, either this is something new for me or my brain decided to turn 180-degrees inside of my skull yesterday just to fuck with me.

Either way, this week has went well. I ate well, I exercised, I stuck to it. Chances are, I WILL have a cheat day tomorrow, but I'll be ok. I'm not trying to rush my weight loss this time. I understand it will take time, so if I take 'two steps forward and one step back' every once in a while I'm not going to feel guilty about it.
 
You're doing really good! You should be proud of yourself. I am. After the last week, you deserve a bit of a cheat day. :)
 
jen_renee said:
You're doing really good! You should be proud of yourself. I am. After the last week, you deserve a bit of a cheat day. :)
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I said before that our scale wasn't very reliable (I don't think so at least) and this morning offered me more evidence. I weighed in two Mondays ago (August 8th) and I weighed 259.2 lbs. After one week (August 15th) I weighed 251.2 lbs which totaled an eight pound loss, something I think is reasonable FOR MYSELF (I always lose a lot of weight the first week). The next time I weighed myself was yesterday and the scale registered 249.4 lbs. I wasn't thrilled, but I was still happy that I had lost some weight this week so far.

However, I weighed myself again this morning and the scaled read "ERR" for "error." So, I stepped off the scale and started over. It registered 244.8 lbs. But, I noticed that the readout had displayed waaaaay too quickly (usually it takes a few seconds and shows a few different numbers before it settles on your 'actual' weight, but this morning it immediately stayed on a number). So, I weighed myself again. 256.1 lbs. Then again. 248.9 lbs. Then one more time. 253. 3bs.

I'm buying a new scale today.
 
I think I´ve given up on scales being accurate. I´ll weigh regularly and see if I get something like an average.
 
Ok, soooo my cheat night didn't happen. Ruby Tuesday GOT RID OF OUR DESSERT!!! That was pretty much the only reason we went there - to get the dessert - but they CHANGED IT!!!

So, I had a sensible dinner including the salad bar, diet pop and no dessert. Not even close to a cheat day. The worst I had was two bites of chocolate cake that they gave me for free (I ordered it but they said it was 'still in the freezer,' then when the waitress brought our check she said the manager was giving me the cake to take home for free - so, I had two bites). Anyway, I didn't have a cheat day today like I sort of planned. I think I might have one tomorrow though.

Anyway, guess what? I got a new phone. Who cares, right? Well, let's put it this way - I haven't gotten a new cell phone in, oooooh, 6 or 7 years. So, upgrading my phone is like a huuuuuge deal for me, HAHAHA. I like my new phone, but it will definitely take some getting used to. On the bright side, it has a reeeeeally good camera. I'm going to test it out later and use Jen as my model. Hopefully my nude model, but I don't really have anything I can bribe her with at the moment. Hopefully she takes cash. :newangel:
 
Yay on the new phone! Maybe your cheat meal not turning out as planned wasn´t a bad thing, but the good thing (read: terrible no good horrible reason I´m fat) is that you can always catch it up. Have a nice Sunday. O, and I remember a WW-discussion about the accuracy of scales where the conclusion was that you need to have a completely even surface (the same every time), weigh something other than yourself before stepping on and then weigh in three times in a row. Not sure if I´m that fussed about it.
 
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