SakanaUshi's Diary

That's awesome! Keep it up! (or keep it down, or off - isn't English a playful and confusing language?)
Yeah, maybe there is some water weight in that loss, but there is fat in there too. Be proud of your initial accomplishment. Sometimes I think that water loss is there just so that we can feel good about that initial weight change, which provides impetus to continue working at it. Positive reinforcement, y'know? :)

I also make my own sushi - living up here in East Nowhere, BC, there isn't any sushi worth the name.
Don't feel bound by tradition, or other's expectations - feel free to experiment!
Okay, I admit I also only use proper sushi rice, but after I made the suggestion to you I'm frankly curious as to how it would turn out.
I wonder if I can find any suitable brown rice in this town...
 
Hmmm... I'm thinking that a combination of brown rice and proper sushi rice could work. However, I'm not sure how easily one can cook the two things together, so you might have to cook them separately and then mix them when you add the vinegar, sugar, and salt.

....

Might be worth trying.

Anyway, I had tofu steak sandwiches (toasted English muffin, 2oz tofu steak, lettuce, tomato, dijon mustard, a bit of light mayo X 2) for lunch along with some grapes. Water to drink. Good workout this morning (burned ~800 calories).

I was offered a chocolate chip cookie just now, and I refused. Then they offered to split it three ways with me, and I accepted. A third of a cookie is almost as good as a whole one, and only 1/3 the calories! ;)

Okay, off to run errands. Gonna buy a proper tape measure and maybe some workout clothes. We'll see.
 
SakanaUshi said:
Hmmm... I'm thinking that a combination of brown rice and proper sushi rice could work. However, I'm not sure how easily one can cook the two things together, so you might have to cook them separately and then mix them when you add the vinegar, sugar, and salt.
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I think you would absolutely have to do that. The cooking times are just way too different.
 
Major grats on the loss, that's a lot in such a short space of time. But it isn't that unusual as you say. Still it's a great motivator even if you can't tell if it's fat/water/whatever. Nice going on the working out too. And sushi, havent had that in a couple of years and I now have a huge craving for it!
 
Easter was a bad day for keeping track of things, but I managed to piece it together at about 1am. Also, I took a day off from the gym.

Today has been odd. My wife is back at work, so I don't have someone to watch my daughter first thing in the morning. What I think I'm going to do is go by a baby monitor with a good range, and then set it up where she sleeps. She usually doesn't wake up until 8:30, and I'm usually up by 7:30, so I can probably go work out if the handset can reach the gym. Keep in mind that the gym is across the parking lot from my apartment (maybe 250 or 300 feet).

Oh, I was bad again and weighed myself this morning. Yesterday I had bounced back to 311.5, but this morning I dropped to 308. :)

My eating has been a bit odd, too. I had a normal breakfast, but then I never had lunch... I just snacked all morning and afternoon. Of course, I snacked on things like grapes and some leftover cocktail shrimp, but I did have one pitfall: the dreaded Reester Bunny. I ate his ears yesterday, and that was fine. But then I ate the rest of him today, and that's about 500 calories and 30 grams of fat. Ouch. I guess dinner is going to have to be tight.
 
Noo, not the poor bunny!

The 311-308 is weird. I wonder what causes such a jump in only a day. Least the dreaded choc holiday is over so time to get back to normal eating. How do you feel after a week or so? Still fully motivated?
 
To be honest, I'm losing a little steam. I drove my wife in to work this morning, which tends to be dangerous: I used to stop for a sausage mcmuffin meal pretty regularly when I'd drive her in. I was quite tempted today. However, the thought of entering McDonald's into FitDay kept me from stopping there. Instead I swung by the supermarket (needed dishwasher soap) and bought a package of kiwis and strawberries from the produce department. So, I'm still making good choices, but last week I felt a bit more gung-ho about it.

Incidentally, this thing of fruit is not worth the money... the strawberries aren't ripe enough. Oooh, neither are the kiwis. I mean, it's edible, but it wasn't worth the inflated price. Should have just bought the whole fruits and cut them up myself.

Oh, and last night, I had a fairly healthy dinner. I ate a bit more than I should have, and when I entered it all into FitDay, I was 700 calories over my goal... so I went to the gym at 9pm and burned 500 calories on the elliptical. ;)

Today is busy, and a workout will probably not happen til the evening. I have to take my daughter to story time, and then make a tub of chicken salad for dinner. Then I have to pick up my wife and rush back for my NWN game. That should wrap up by 8pm, so I can probably work out then. I prefer morning workouts, but I can't be too picky or I'll stop working out entirely.
 
SakanaUshi said:
To be honest, I'm losing a little steam. I drove my wife in to work this morning, which tends to be dangerous: I used to stop for a sausage mcmuffin meal pretty regularly when I'd drive her in.
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I have the same problem. I just drove my daughter to school, and I used to always stop and pick up a couple of doughnuts on the way home. I wasn't actually tempted today, but I did think about the fact that I used to do so.
 
SakanaUshi said:
To be honest, I'm losing a little steam.... So, I'm still making good choices, but last week I felt a bit more gung-ho about it.
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I think it is natural to falter a bit at this point. The first week we are all piss and vinegar, ready to take on the fat and make it our bitch.

A week later, we realise that it isn't going to happen in an instant, and that we are really trying to make permanent changes. We see that the task ahead is actually pretty big. It can be daunting.

But look - you're still eating well, you're still exercising. You're still gonna lose weight. You know you're in it for the long haul. You can do this. You will do this.
And every time you notice how much better you feel, that will be incentive to keep it up.
 
Today wasn't great. I was over in calories--pretty much equal to my burn for the day, so basically I've stalled for a day. But tomorrow will be better!
 
SakanaUshi said:
Today wasn't great. I was over in calories--pretty much equal to my burn for the day, so basically I've stalled for a day. But tomorrow will be better!
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It happens, but don't let it get you down because it's sounds like you have been doing really well. When you get stalled look at how far you have already come and all the hard work you've done to get there. Keep it up!
 
Seems everyone stalled a bit past couple days. Must be something in the air. Just make sure you don't let it drift. Back in the saddle. Kick arse and chew gum or whatever that saying is.
 
Well, I tried something today... I used our baby monitor to go to the gym while my daughter was asleep. The only problem was that the gym has the TVs broadcasting signals to the machines so you can plug your headphones in and listen to the TV you're watching. This caused massive interference with the baby monitor, so I didn't hear it when my daughter woke up.

Long story short, when I left the gym, I heard crying. I ran home and found my daughter sitting in the dirty laundry basket sobbing.

Guess that didn't work.

On the bright side, I hauled ass on the elliptical and burned over 500 calories in about 30 minutes. Had a banana beforehand, so I figure I'm at about a 400 calorie deficit right now at 10am. Not a bad way to start the day.
 
SakanaUshi said:
Today wasn't great. I was over in calories--pretty much equal to my burn for the day, so basically I've stalled for a day. But tomorrow will be better!
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One stalled day does not equal stalled progress. Add in the other days where you have been doing awesome, and all that exercise you are getting, and on the whole you are still in a calorie deficit. It's all good.
 
Hmmm...

Been a terrible day for eating. I had a banana, took my wife to work, then came home and had a bowl of cereal.... and didn't stop eating for two hours.

Banana
Bowl of cereal
Another bowl of cereal
Bowl of leftover salmon bisque
Wasabi peas
Reese's cup

Then I went and picked up 10 large pizzas at Domino's...


...for my wife's class. :p

I had a single piece of cheese pizza.

Then my daughter fell asleep on the way home, and i didn't want to wake her up too soon, so I drove past my house and ended up in the Taco Bell drive-thru.

Had a #3 (3 crunchy taco supremes) with a wild cherry pepsi.

And now I'm stuffed, I feel like shit, and I'm dreading entering all this into FitDay. I mean, it's 1:30pm, and I've eaten my whole allowance for calories.

Part of me feels like crap for slipping so badly, but part of me is determined to make it right. I'm gonna grab my jump rope and punish myself for awhile.

Then I'm gonna hit the elliptical for an hour and see if I can burn 1000 calories there.

Sigh....

Deep breath.

Okay, really, this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to enter all this into FitDay. I'm going to assess the damage. I'm going to figure out what dinner is going to cost me (I think we're having pork chops and green beans). Then, I'm going to figure out how much ass-kicking I need to do to burn the calories to get to -1000 again. I'm not going to overreact, nor am I going to let this get me down. I'm going to pay the consequences of my actions, and then I'm going to move on. Then I can look back on today with pride instead of shame.

We bought a new baby monitor... one that's guaranteed to not be interfered with by certain wireless devices. It has a 2000-ft range, too. It was the most expensive baby monitor sold at Target. If it still doesn't work in the gym, at least we'll know that we tried everything. It's charging right now (it doesn't need disposable batteries). Of course, my daughter just woke up as I was typing that last sentence, so I might not get to try it.

Anyway, I'm going to enjoy this Wild Cherry Pepsi, and then I'm going to go bust my ass.
 
Okay, here's the math:

Calories burned (lifestyle): 2952
Calories so far: 2135
Estimated Dinner Calories: 600
Estimated Deficit: -217

So, if I'm extra specially good about snacking today (as in, no snacking), I only have to bust my ass on the elliptical for an hour to be back on track. I feel better. I just can't snack at all.

Or, I'll have a stalk of celery with a tbsp of peanut butter or something later, and then exercise just a bit more. There, a contingency plan.

So, I'll get my haircut, cook dinner, wash up, and then go burn some calories. It'll be fun. :)
 
SakanaUshi said:
Sigh....

Deep breath.

Okay, really, this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to enter all this into FitDay. I'm going to assess the damage. I'm going to figure out what dinner is going to cost me (I think we're having pork chops and green beans). Then, I'm going to figure out how much ass-kicking I need to do to burn the calories to get to -1000 again. I'm not going to overreact, nor am I going to let this get me down. I'm going to pay the consequences of my actions, and then I'm going to move on. Then I can look back on today with pride instead of shame.
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That's the way to do it, buddy. We take our lumps and keep soldiering on.
Kudos to you for the sober response.
 
Trying not to snack is so difficult! I thought about getting frozen yogurt today, but didn't end up getting it. Ohh the temptation.
 
Well, I crossed the street to the gym, and I think the new baby monitor works. It had the occasional static spike, but it sure didn't act like the other one (which was constant static the entire time I was in the gym). But then I got paranoid, so I only did 15 min (burned 225 calories). Then I went back to check on my daughter, and she was still sleeping. I'll test the monitor more carefully when my wife gets home. In the meantime, 225 calories down, maybe 700 to go. Shouldn't be a problem, as long as my wife is cool with watching the baby for an hour.

Oh, I had a yogurt a few minutes ago. That's why there's 700 to go instead of 600.
 
I think instead of trying not to snack you should just have some good snacks pre prepared you know? If not you'll want a snack you'll skip it and then be super hungry later!
 
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