Little John's trying again. And again. Aaaand again.

Day 1: I was pissed to see my weight at 327.... grrrrr, up 10 from late March... WTF. So here we go.

Breakfast of 2 hd-boiled eggs, Lunch of big salad, Dinner TBD. I have hiking gear in the car (aka: shorts, t-shirt, clean socks and a water bottle).

Vee - drive-thru and late night snacking. Last night was no exception. Done. No more. I have to get angry at them both.

Kaplooie - I can't really grip right now, but I will do some squats and (maybe) some lightweight bench presses. I have a gym basement since escape from the house is a big PITA.

Oaks - thanks, I do need to force myself to stop taking seconds (and thirds). I was raised in the empty-plate club, so it's hard to say no, and really hard to waste food. But you're right.

Q - thanks, the daily check in is mandatory. Even on weekends, even if I have no access to a scale.

MR- I seem to remember our roles reversed a few months back. Stay vigilant to your own goals!
 
I was raised in that club, too. Also, I was raised that you had twenty four hours after some sort of treat arrives in the house to eat your "share", otherwise it's fair game for other family members to eat it all. How's that for encouragement for binge eating? Let's break some habits, shall we?
 
I was raised in that empty plate club too & wasting food was never an option. It's hard to unlearn something you had drummed into you from an early age. That really sucks about your hand LJ! I had the tip of my middle finger cut off in a door (long story) years ago & had it sewn back on. After the initial shock the pain was excruciating & I realised just how much you use your other hand. Hope it heals as best as it can as fast as it can!
 
Another member of the club here but I fought the process every bite of every meal of every day. I´ll feel full after a third of the portions I used to get as a kid - unless what´s put in front of me is unhealthy, in which case I´ll eat until I burst. Habits can be truly stupid!
 
Day 1: Calories in: 2380, Calories burned: 890 (1 hour hike). Goal of 2100 calories net.
Day 2: 327.4 lbs.

One screw up of over-doing dinner, but the dinner was a mostly healthy recipe (baked quesadilla cups with black beans). I was good otherwise, though, even with fresh-made brownies in proximity of me doing the dishes, with no one to watch me not behave.

Nice to know so many are in this not-so-exclusive club!

Oaks – in my house, desserts/junk foods were a rarity, and so was confrontation. So when they showed up, they were devoured when no one looked, knowing there’d be no consequences. Guess that’s why I’m so prone to gorging when no one’s looking….

Cate – thanks for the wishes, I’m more than happy to be an advocate for hand safety now!

LM – Unhealthy food… really is amazing how much can fit in your gullet, isn’t it?

By the way, Vee – forgot to mention that jokes are just fine. I was a regular comedian at the ER, had the PAs chuckling fairly regularly (between apologies of various painful things that they had to do, I would make a lousy spy based on some of the things I went thru).
 
Lunchtime walk followed by a big salad. Bonus points to me for resisting the cupcake truck that was parked in front of the main lobby. The bakery won best of Hartford county for cupcakes, and I think it was in one of those cupcake warriors reality shows. Anyway, I kept on walkin'.
 
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Lunchtime walk followed by a big salad. Bonus points to me for resisting the cupcake truck that was parked in front of the main lobby. The bakery won best of Hartford county for cupcakes, and I think it was in one of those cupcake warriors reality shows. Anyway, I kept on walkin'.
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Well done. Give yourself two thumbs up, unless that was the one who met Mr. Saw. In that case give yourself one and a half thumbs up.

Walking past the bakery section in the grocery store isn't always easy. But I tend to just try and remember that even if I have it in my mind that I'd like to devour an entire coffee cake, I want to reach my fitness goals more than I want the coffee cake.
 
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Well done. Give yourself two thumbs up, unless that was the one who met Mr. Saw. In that case give yourself one and a half thumbs up.
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Day 2: Calories in: 1790, Calories burned: 232 (30-min walk). Goal of 2100 calories net.
Day 3: 326.6 lbs.

Not a lot to report from yesterday, wife made another Pampered Chef recipe that was awesome - my boy was loving it after we gave him a serving fork to eat with. Instead of watching TV I did some work on the garage to make it more to my liking. When I was done, I ignored the idea of being hungry and had two big glasses of H2O.

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What a little cutie LJ. Your son looks like all his Christmas's have come at once. Not just one fork, but two! :D Well done on ignoring the hunger & drinking water instead. Cheers, Cate. PS Thanks for repping me.
 
Awww, what a freakin cutie! the kid, not your thumb.
Re: junk food and secret eating, speaking to the choir!
 
Day 3: Calories in: 2170, Calories burned: 345 (1 hr hike). Goal of 2100 calories net, actual net = 1845
Day 4: Forgot to weigh.

Thanks all, he's the current comedy relief in the house. His sister has been somewhat psychotic the last couple weeks. Hoping there's just some standard rewiring going on in her brain, and it's not a preview of things to come.

Foodwise was OK yesterday, more carby than I wanted, but not horrible. I skipped milk with dinner to make up for the planned dessert, so pat my back there. Couldn't resist having an oatmeal cookie with lunch, either, but I'm forcing my hand to reduce the bigger issues first.

There seems to be a massive discrepancy between MFP and my Vivofit. MFP says a 1-hr hike should be around 800 calories, which seems high to me. But the vivofit said I burned a total of 345 calories, both hiking and regular walk-around. My hike, while not being anything crazy, definitely was a workout. I suppose sticking to the Vivofit will keep my calorie intake down, but the engineer in me wants accurate data!

Cate - Three forks if you count the one he threw on the floor.

LM - I was going to say he's pretty trouble-free, but then he went and filled the cats' water dish with toys and cat food. Of course, because we're cruel to our pets, it's no ordinary dish, but a filtered, 3-tiered fountain that needs to be taken apart to be cleaned.

Kaplooie - Are you calling my thumb ugly? ;)

Vee and Sun - thanks! I didn't do as well yesterday, in that I had some ice cream after dinner, but it wasn't late night, it wasn't sneaky, and it was a reasonable amount.
 
Day 4: Calories in: 2700, Calories burned: 45 (walking around). Goal of 2100 calories net, actual net = 2655
Day 5: 335.8


Not much to report. I overdid dinner last night, though not terribly, and thanks to the random woman at lunch who said to her friend "You know how long it took me to finally come to the salad bar?" Cuz I was in the same boat, but I finally choose wisely.


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LJ,

Here's an online calorie burned calculator based on average heart rate that I've always found to be useful:

http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx

So if your device tracks heart rate you can get a decent idea there.

That same site also has this:

http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/walking-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx

If you walked two miles on level ground during your hour, at 326.6 pounds that thing says 467 calories. It also has a link to figure out your net calories too (IE how much you burned walking versus how much you would have burned sitting on the couch at home).

I don't know what formulas viviofit or MFP uses for it's calorie burn so I can't critique it. I do know the one that my HRM watch uses was way too high when I was roughly your size.
 
Day 5 & 6: Lost track, definitely went over, though.
Day 7: 334.2 lbs

I lost track of my count over the weekend, I didn't do too much exercise, yet I lost weight. I also suspect my scale's batteries are needing replacement, since I weighed in at 291 lbs at one point... not quite.

Took my daughter out for a ride on her first bike ride, she's hooked. I made the mistake of assuming she understand my non-clear directions on using coaster brakes - and I had to run to catch her on a downhill runaway, which meant I had to run, and I want to say "you're welcome" to the people who got to watch the spectacle of a fat man running after a little girl on a bicycle while holding his bandaged hand over his chest.

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Interesting, Vee, that may be my solution - my device records heart rate, tho I need a chest strap. But I can use it as a starting point, or go old-school on monitoring heart rate.
 
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Took my daughter out for a ride on her first bike ride, she's hooked. I made the mistake of assuming she understand my non-clear directions on using coaster brakes - and I had to run to catch her on a downhill runaway, which meant I had to run, and I want to say "you're welcome" to the people who got to watch the spectacle of a fat man running after a little girl on a bicycle while holding his bandaged hand over his chest.
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At least you went after her. When I was learning, my dad sent me down a hill towards a copse of trees and considered it a learning experience in either braking or emergency dismounts. Whichever came first. :p
 
Nice link MrVee

At least you caught her before she had a bad experience and never got on the bike again. You are her superhero.
 
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