Diet Advice for 50 lbs of weight loss

Hahaha I find it hilarious that you ate 48 oz of pasta sauce for dinner. No offense meant, I just find it really funny for some reason. I guess it's the mental image I get of a big guy chugging a jar of Ragu.

But seriously... good luck with your routine.
 
Lord_Tiberius said:
Losing weight sucks, the dietary change can be a shock. But I find myself feeling better and having more energy and better able to react to sitautions. I find putting limits on myself liberating to a degree. I am closing myself of to the spontaneous eating and looking forwad to the Saturday dinner meal where I treat myself within reason. I won't have any desert until I am at 200lbs.

Current weight 243 which is down from 248 a week ago and 245 two weeks ago.
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I'm glad to see you're noticing positive changes!! Keep up the good work :)
 
This morning after a 40 minute run, I had a bowl of cereal with milk and my lunp of soy sans the bananna. At 10pm I had my oatmeal with soy and now I am having chicken spinach salad trying to observe the 3 oz requirement.

Yesterday

12pm 1/2 Chicken Breast Spinach Salad

3 pm Roast Beef Sandwhich/ 1/2 cup Coleslaw/ Diet Pepsi

8:00 pm 4 rolls of suishi :(

Today

6:30 AM
1/2 cup Fiber One Flake Cereal
1.2 cup Milk
1 lump of powdered soy

7:00 Wt Lifting

8:00 Swam for 20 minutes

8:45 AM
1/2 Chicken Breast
Spinach Salad
2 tbls of Italian Salad Dressing

12:00 PM
1 cup of oatmeal
1 lump of soy

Thanks Spock, for the encouragement. I am one of those guys who hates criticism but feeds on praise and a little positive encouragement plus some accountability is helping me keep going. I know it's only been two weeks. But a week ago I weighed 248lbs. I was going backwards. But today I weighed in at 240lbs. Thanks again Spock et al for the advice, criticism and of course ENCOURAGEMENT!!!
 
Today


10am bowl of cereal
12 pm bowl of cereal
6:30 pm 1 1/2 chicken breast and spinach salad
8:30 pm calarami fried 9 oz\
1 glass of red wine
 
Monday
Cereal
Oatmeal
Prawns over cabbage
Egg Foo Young

Tuesday
Cereal
Oatmeal
Sonic Chicken wrap
6 mozerella sticks
9:30 PM Sandwhich 4 oz of salmon, 3 oz of cream cheese French bread

Wednesday
Cereal
Sandwhich 2 oz of smoked trout 2 oz of cream cheese French Bread


I am losing focus. I have been cheating on my diet and there are gaps in my diet journal. I had some initial success and now I am getting disheartened.
 
Lord_Tiberius said:
I am losing focus. I have been cheating on my diet and there are gaps in my diet journal. I had some initial success and now I am getting disheartened.
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it happens... sorry to hear, though. Just remember the progress you have made!
 
Hey - I'm brand new here too and I'm certainly not one to be doling out advice, but don't beat yourself up for falling off the wagon. I'm sure we all do it sometimes. I've only started eating right within the last 2 weeks and I've fallen off a few times already.

Keep up the clean diet as often as you can. Try not to overeat when you do cheat. Keep exercising. And don't get discouraged! You've already seen results - more than me actually. I GAINED 5 pounds in one week!

You've lost what? 8 pounds! That's phenomenol! Keep it up and keep going.

Good luck!
Shel
 
6pm
Sandwhich (Crossaint, Beef, Cheddar)
Salad

7PM
Herbal Tea

9PM
Gin and Bitters
White Russian

***

8:30 AM
1 Chicken Breast

10:00
Celery Sticks

12PM
6 oz Whitefish

Spock,

Thanks for the encouragement. I decided to take my exercise log off the boards, but keep my diet on thier for accountability.

Slack,

Thanks for the encouragment. Reading your words keeps me going.
 
4 PM
Starbucks Southwestern Turkey Sanwhich
2 32 oz Cappachinos
1 32 oz OJ

6PM
1/2 Turkey and Havarti Sandwhich

7PM
1/2 Turkey and Havarti Sandwhich

****

8:30 AM
1/2 Chicken Breast
1/2 cup of oatmeal

I weighed myself in at 240 this morning. No change from last week, but I was not really focused.
 
May 20
1200 1/2 Chicken Breast

1700 1 Glass of White Whine
1 1/2 Crab Cakes
1/4 Iceberg Lettuce Slices of Tomato with Blue Cheese
2 Glasses Red Wine
10 oz NY Blue Cheese Steak
1/2 Choc Cheese Cake

May 21 0800 Turkey Sandwhich

1230 2 Suishi Rolls

1700 2 Suishi Rolls

0200 1 Krispy Creme Donut
2 pints of Gatorade

May 22

1200 8 oz Steak Sandwhich

1600 6 in Turkey Havarti Sub Sanwhich
2 pears

1700 32 oz Cappacino

1800 32 oz Cappacino

1900 32 oz Cappacino

2300 10 oz Broccoli
5 oz Spinach

May 23
1200 6 oz of broccoli
3 oz spinach dip
Sandwhich
French Bread
8 oz salmon
3 cream cheese
Sandwhich
French Bread
8 oz Trout
3 oz Cream cheese

I have made healthy choices in some respects. I have not completely gone off the reservation. But I did not adhere to the five to seven meal rule and thus my portion sizes increased slowing down my metabolism. My diet has been lacking fiber. I attribute my early gains two weeks ago to comsuming healthy amounts of fiber. I have also cheated a bit. I can have a donut or a couple drinks of alcohol but not both. I have to stop eating after 9pm and if I do - maybe a piece of fruit or vegetables.

I weighed in at 243.

Suggestions?
 
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i hate to say this but you're NOT going to lose weight on the diet you're posting. you're eating huge amounts of processed, high calorie, high fat & often high sugar foods.
my suggestion? dump the alcohol, cappucinos, gatorade, donuts, cake, fast food, mozzerella sticks & anything else that comes from a restaurant. the reality is, you cannot eat these foods and lose weight. you're eating an almost entirely eat-out style of diet, these are almost always huge in calories and fat, dont kid yourself. you need to set a calorie goal for yourself for every day and stick to it. start making your own stuff, use lot's of whole grain foods, veggies, grilled fish etc - and exercise portion control. dump the eating out or you will not, IMO, make progress. oh and the late night eating/snacking has to go, no way around that. as someone else on these forums pointed out recently, "if you want to lose weight, sacrifices will have to be made".
 
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0845
1 bowl of Fiber One Cereal with Skim Milk and 1 sliced banana
1 Fiji Apple

1145
1 6 in Rueben
1/8 cup of coleslaw
1 16 oz diet cola

1600 32 oz of herbal tea (I hope this is an acceptable substitute for Cappacinos)

1700 1 Pork Burrito

Look I am trying this portion things. But it is going to take more dedication than I have currently demonstrated right now.
 
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you seem like some days you eat a bit healthier than others, try for this every day. and get a cooler! it's easy to carry healthy food with you that way. lot's of folks here carry them when they drive places - including me. allows you to eat healthy and skip the fast food. those cream cheese and fish sandwiches arent do you any good, BTW. switch to lower fat meals. also, try and stay on a more steady, even time for eating. contstantly eating at different times - sometimes early, sometimes late - and eating out a lot will kill your weight loss goals. i dont mean to be harsh but if you want to lose weight, you need to follow the advice that has been put forth to you by several people in this thread. everyone here who has lost weight has had to watch their diet and work at it, cant do it eating whatever you feel like, whenever you feel like it. like other's on this board - you can do this.
 
25 May 2005

0900 Fiber One Cereal, Banana, Skim Milk

1130 1/4 Chicken Breast Spinach Salad

1300 1 Slice of Cheese Cake

1400 Fiber One Cereal, Skim Milk, Banana

1400-1700 Took a Nap

1700 1/4 Chicken Breast Spinach Salad

2300 Turkey Wrap. Salmon Cream Cheese Bagel Sandwhich

0200 Went to Bed

26 May 2005

0830 1/2 cup of Fiber One Cereal, Sliced Bananna and Skim Milk

1100 1/2 cup of Oatmeal and 1/2 cup of Cottage Cheese

Notes: I weighed in at 239 which is down four pounds from last week. Second, I am tryiong to follow the advice of the posters. If I didn't care aqbout what other people have said, I would not keep posting my diary - I try my best to be very honest. Third, I understand that carrying around a cooler is the panacea that everyone is preaching but eating stale oatmeal that has been heated up in my car is not exactly appetizing. I do appreciate your advice. But I have been living like this for three decades and these things take time. I hope even you would concede that.
 
ok ok ok... i feel i need to say something here... i read this whole thing and i am proud that you are making a change and you are willing to work at it! I can help a bit...

portions shouldnt be bigger then your fist, a drink shouldnt be more then 8-12 oz. and a Tablespoon of any type of spread (ie. cream cheese) is enough... anything whole wheat is your friend, chicken, steak, and tuna should be in your diet... what exactly in a rueben? i know you like them but lets look into what is really in them... as for the sweets everyone here says it so i wont... just keep working hard... maybe on your lunch break you can carry an aple with you and take a 30 min walk around the building...

ok now im warmed up... cream cheese bad!! krispy kremes bad!! sleeping on a full stomach bad!!!

vegtables good!! fruits good!! water very good!!

just look at what youre eating and ask yourself. will this give me energy? or will it make me sluggish? foods that give you energy will most likely be healthy and sluggish foods tend to be heavy and no very healthy...

try to watch your portions and eat healthier... maybe we should make a grocery shopping let for you... would you want that??
 
well, not sure what eating stale oatmeal in your car has to do with carrying a cooler with you, but it comes down to you either changing your eating habits or not. i dont know what else there is to say. good luck.
 
Your doing great tiberius... dont give up. The commitment to permanently loosing weight is a really big one, and as "Yoda'ish " as it sounds, it start in the mind. You've gotta tell yourself over and over again, every day that your going to make the nessecary sacrifices. Dont think of it as a diet change, thing of it as a LIFE change... once you get that through your head, your set. You've already made great progress, and I understand what shimmering is trying to say.
Sometimes, a good hard kick in the bum bum is what a person needs... im a HUGE eater man, just like you... when I visit the parents and my mom makes her famous (and extremely grissy and filling) pasta sauce, I can honestly put half a block of cheese on top of this GIANt mound of pasta and sauce that would probably feed four of my friends.
I have an addiction to food, but I overcame it... but I had to prepare my mind... the fact that your constantly on the move is a big pain... and food out of a cooler often sucks... but just do it, no matter how crappy it tastes... I PROMISE you, you wont be sorry!!! But always take a day once a week to just endulge... if you love food as much as I do, this day is such an AWSOME day...
Like im sure you've read, balance is also key... you wont achieve weight loss unless your watching what you eat, doing cardio AND weight lifting. Do weight lifting to maintain what you've got, but cardio is where you need to focus your mind when it comes to excersice. Dont just jump on the bike, or tread mill and shut your mind off... you have to be constantly pushing yourself... the myth that a nice, slow pace is best just isnt true. Push yourself, and make sure your absolutely SOAKED when your done your workout... if you are a big guy like I was/am, your gonna sweat like you wouldnt believe. Proper cardio SUCKS, ESPECIALLY for big guys, but the gratifcation you get after you did that cardio is AWSOME, and thats what I live for every day. Anyways, ive blabbed too much. Good job bud, ill be watching your success, i know how much easier it is to have someone there keeping track.
 
Going to try this again.

I weighed in today at 237 which is about what I weighed two months ago. I have been running about three to four times a week pretty consistently.

***The forward slashes indicate what I actually ate versus what I planned to eat.

Planned Actual
0830 1 bowl of Fiber One Cerea l//1 bowl of Fiber One
Skim Milk // Skim Milk
1 Banana // 1 Banana
1 Apple // 1 Apple

1030 1/2 Cup of Cottage Cheese // 1/2 Cup of Cottage Cheese

1230 1/2 Cup of Oatmeal // Turkey Keilbasa Sandwhich
// whole weat bread
// Havatri Cheese
// 4 Cerlery Sticks

1330 // 1 piece of pepperoni pizza
// 8 oz of diet cola

1430 1/2 Cup of Cottage Cheese

1530 // 1/2 Cup of Cottage Cheese
// 1 Fuji Apple

1630 Turkey Sandwhich
w/ Havarti Cheese
w/ Avocado
on Wheat
An Apple

1730 // 3 rolls of Suishi
// salad
// soy broth
// 8 oz diet cola

1830 1/2 cup of Oatmeal

1900 // 1 Cup Cottage Cheese
// 4 oz of Imitation Crab
 
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