MegaDeuce's Weight Loss Journal

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Update for today:

Jan 21, 2020​
Weight: 237 lbs, 107 kg​
Calories: 2200 / 1780​
Exercise: 15 / 15 mins walking​

LaMaria, I took your advice and used some step exercises to round out my "walking" today :) It's 20 degrees out there- nobody's trying to walk in that! Went overboard on calories today, one of my habits is that once I go significantly over my goal I tend to say "screw it" and graze the rest of the night. Need be aware of that...
 
Weight / Goal for today:

Jan 22, 2020​
Weight: 237 lbs, 108 kg​
Calories: --- / 1780​
Exercise: --- / 30 minutes cardio machine​

Back to the bike!
 
Missed a couple days there, things have been a little hectic. Let's get back on track!

Weight / Goal for today:

Jan 24, 2020​
Weight: 237 lbs, 108 kg​
Calories: --- / 1820​
Exercise: --- / 15 mins walking​

Bumping the calorie goal back up to 1820 for now. For some reason that felt reasonable and achievable, but I wasn't able to hit 1780...
 
MegaDeuce said:
Bumping the calorie goal back up to 1820 for now. For some reason that felt reasonable and achievable, but I wasn't able to hit 1780...
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That´s how it is sometimes. Good job recognizing it and adapting instead of beating yourself up and dropping out.
 
Didn't do so well yesterday:

Jan 24, 2020​
Weight: 237 lbs, 108 kg​
Calories: 2386 / 1820​
Exercise: 5 / 15 mins walking​

Weight and goal for today:

Jan 25, 2020​
Weight: 237 lbs, 108 kg​
Calories: --- / 1820​
Exercise: --- / 15 mins walking​

I dunno, between looking back at the last week of NOT meeting my goals, and thinking about how many more weeks and months I have ahead of me, I'm starting to feel a little discouraged. Luckily my weight's held steady at 237, so it's not like I've reset my progress.

What do you guys do when you hit a rough spot?
 
MegaDeuce said:
What do you guys do when you hit a rough spot?
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Realize that giving up would just make things worse, try to figure out WHY I got off track*, and try again. Some days suck, sometimes multiple days suck, but in the end if you want to reach a goal you have to keep moving. Or at least get moving again after having been stuck.

*Did I feel deprived? Have difficult emotions I tried to numb with food? Eat too little protein or fat? Not enough calories for the amount of exercise I´m doing? Not drink enough?
 
MegaDeuce said:
I dunno, between looking back at the last week of NOT meeting my goals, and thinking about how many more weeks and months I have ahead of me, I'm starting to feel a little discouraged. Luckily my weight's held steady at 237, so it's not like I've reset my progress.
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That's too bad you're feeling discouraged. I would focus on your wins. Like wasn't your starting weight 245? That seems great to me that you're down at 237!
Sure there are going to be times of not meeting your goals. Knowing that's just a part of the journey helps I think. Each day we just begin again :)
 
Thank you LaMaria, Cate, and liza :) I wasn't posting here for a while and was still doing calorie counting- though not as successfully.
I do think this forum definitely helped me stay on track and I don't know if I would have made my progress without the support here!

So here we go again!

Weight/ Goal for today:

Feb 1, 2020​
Weight: 235 lbs, 107 kg​
Calories: 1820​
Exercise: 10 mins walking​

Was 235.4 this morning, which is 10 pounds down from where I started!
 
Thanks! 10 pounds since Dec 9th :)

Update for today:

Feb 1, 2020​
Weight: 235 lbs, 107 kg​
Calories: 1820​
Exercise: 10 mins walking​
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Calories: 2090​
Exercise: none :/​

Over on calories but not too crazy... I did have to do some estimation today and didn't get precise values for dinner. Lately I've been keeping track pretty well during breakfast and lunch, but then I find it's hard to look up solid numbers on "calories per gram" for dinners, which are more complicated and include one or two sides. One solution might be to come up with some "typical" calories per gram value for a "typical" dinner, but there's alot of uncertainty there.
 
Calorie counting is definitely more work the more varied your diet is. With time you´ll know a lot of it by heart though.
 
MegaDeuce said:
Was 235.4 this morning, which is 10 pounds down from where I started!
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Hooray!!! What a great result! :hurray: Ten - solid - pounds! I mean - that's really something. Well done, and here's to it being just the beginning!
And yes, LaMa's spot-on, when she says that calorie-counting can get very finicky and tedious (not that she said exactly that :p ). I'm reminded that I was going to - just out of interest - check just how many calories there were in the cake I baked this morning... tell you what - I'll take a guess and be back here tomorrow to say how close I got. I'll take a stab right now and say... ummm.. 350-400kcal a slice! (It was a cake with pretty rich icing.)
 
LaMaria said:
Calorie counting is definitely more work the more varied your diet is. With time you´ll know a lot of it by heart though.
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:iagree:That's for sure! Maybe I should take a morning and just look up the densities for a bunch of different foods and put it in the back of my notebook
aiminglow said:
Hooray!!! What a great result! :hurray: Ten - solid - pounds! I mean - that's really something. Well done, and here's to it being just the beginning!
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Thanks :)
aiminglow said:
I'm reminded that I was going to - just out of interest - check just how many calories there were in the cake I baked this morning... tell you what - I'll take a guess and be back here tomorrow to say how close I got. I'll take a stab right now and say... ummm.. 350-400kcal a slice! (It was a cake with pretty rich icing.)
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It does suck some of the joy out of dessert to immediately look up how many calories you just packed away!

Weight/ Goal for today

Feb 2, 2020​
Weight: 235 lbs, 107 kg​
Calories: 1820​
Exercise: 10 mins walking​
 
Or do it my way, and not count at all! :p

Though that's overstating it - I don't count fruit and veg or suchlike ordinary food at all, and don't add up how many calories I've had in a day, or anything like that, but I do check how many calories there are in packaged snacks (most usually rice crackers - 50kcal-ish an individual packet - or wheat-based crackers - 115 kcal a packet - or the recently-discovered dried seaweed - 15 kcal a packet).
And I do check out how much the ingredients in any baking I do add up to, but I don't bother counting the calories in ordinary cooking, like chilli beans or soups etc.

Which brings me to Odlum's Coffee-Walnut Cake, as baked, served and eaten yesterday. My guess was pretty close! The cake itself came out at 3167, and the filling/topping (as per the recipe, but I only put it on top, so didn't use this much) came to 1565, which adds all up to 4732, call it 4800, and say twelve slices, and that's 400 calories a slice. Definitely an only-once-in-a-whiler, but it was a big hit with the guests, who carried away not only the recipe, but the third or so of the cake which was left uneaten.
 
Amy I'm glad your cake was a hit! I like the idea of calorie counting for baking but not day to day cooking, especially since that's more of an optional thing.

Also- it's interesting that you use kcal instead of "cal". I think most people don't realize a food calorie is 1000 chemistry calories (the energy needed to raise the temperature of 1ml of water by 1 degree celcius). I've heard that they use Joules in Australia- so you might drink a "low-joule soda".

Update for today:

Feb 2, 2020​
(Goal)​
Calories: 1820​
Exercise: 10 mins walking​
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(Actual)​
Calories: 1900​
Exercise: 10 mins walking​

Again, had to resort to some estimation here, but not too far over the goal, and I got my walk in! Happy about that.
 
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