Trops Diary

I love chicken wings, especially good and spicy, but I haven't had one since I started this. I'll eat 50 easy of the big ones. That's including beer, and lots of it. Better to just stay away completely. I'll probably have them again some day, but not for a while.
 
Trops said:
I'll eat 50 easy of the big ones. That's including beer, and lots of it. Better to just stay away completely.
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Ugh. That's exactly why I must avoid them. It seems eating wings causes my stomach to become an endless void that allows me to continuously shovel wings in it, quitting only when I can no longer chew another bite.

That is exactly how I put on my first 20 lbs in college. Every Wednesday night -- 40 wings (minimum) and numerous pitchers before, during and after said wings. And that was just Wednesday's bad habit. It's a wonder I didn't put on way more than I did.
 
oooh pizza. I haven't had it in so long. Call me crazy but I love it cold. I've even ordered a pizza, and put it in the fridge and waited till it got cold before eating it. But no pizza for me until I lose this weight.
 
I will openly admit that I ate 2 pieces of pizza today. I was proud that I limited myself to 2 pieces though. I did well calorie wise today, so if I can do that and still eat pizza, dagnabit, i'm gonna do it!
 
Day 96

Evening Shift

This morning I woke to a nice surprise. Scale said 204.0. A new low for me. 199 is coming fast, I can feel it. It's funny how seeing a number on a scale can change your whole outlook on the day. I ate my cereal, but didn't feel like going back for a second bowl, drank my coffee, and started the day. When lunch time came I ate a cucumber on a wrap and called it lunch. No biggie. Just like I did when I started this. Dinner came and I made the chili that I was too depressed to make yesterday. It didn't come out as good as other times, but it's still good. All good choices and not feeling too bad about it.

I tried to do the fit day thing and I'm all confused. I can't find anything on there. It seems like it would be easier for me to just figure all this out without it. I'm sure it's easier then I'm making it, but I don't think I'm going to do it. Also, I don't measure. I know that for most that's a big no-no, but hey, one cucumber is one cucumber. I'll play with it more later. It is cool seeing all the hidden nutrients. The .167 g of fat in vegetables or whatever. I knew those cows were getting it from some where. :D

I did go running tonight. I decided to go all out for a half mile, then walk and then run. I did the half in just under 3:30. I was happy with that, but I think I could have done better. I walked for two minutes, then ran again. By the end of one mile I was sucking wind. I know I was going too fast and that's what killed me, but I want to get those sprints up. My heart rate wasn't up too high, so I jumped some rope and I felt a pain in my chest. I'm sure that it is indigestion, but I stopped anyway. No reason to push it. So, lesson learned: You can not take off 11 day and expect to come back to close to the same level as you left. Idiot. Now I'll have to see what kind of punishment I can do to myself tomorrow. :banghead:
 
Don't beat yourself up! At least you got started again, right?! :)

I do understand that it is frustrating to take steps back. I'm not as good of a runner as I once was. But we can both make up the lost ground if we stick with it!

A HUGE congrats on the new low! 199 is just around the corner!!
 
daiseeangel said:
Don't beat yourself up! At least you got started again, right?! :)

I do understand that it is frustrating to take steps back. I'm not as good of a runner as I once was. But we can both make up the lost ground if we stick with it!

A HUGE congrats on the new low! 199 is just around the corner!!
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Thanks, Tyly. Does beating myself up count as a workout?
 
OK, I found the custom food part on Fit Day. I think it would be cool if they had something where you could add the ingredients and they would tell you the result. The way I had to do it was to add up all the ingredients on a piece of paper and then divide by 12 servings to get one, then add that as a custom food. There must be an easier way. Anyway, I got for my chili, 280 cal, 3g fat, 49g carb, 14.4g protein, and 14.4g fiber. Not bad. My sandwich was only 157 cal and breakfast was 226. That gives me for the day 662 calories plus whatever my coffee was. I don't feel like figuring it out now. That's way too little. No wonder I'm hungry. Now I feel like I should eat something.

What to do? What to do?

Oh, I had a banana, so that adds 109 cal, so I'm at 771 plus the coffee which is probably 100-150.
 
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Hon... there is a pretty simple solution to this problem. EAT!!

If you are hungry, eat. Especially if you have not even had 700 calories the entire day. The goal is not to starve yourself, remember?

How are you doing? How is your son doing?
 
I know, but it doesn't make sense to eat something when I'll be going to bed in, well four hours. That doesn't sound like a good argument, huh? I did pick up some greek yogurt, maybe I'll have that. I guess I don't trust the whole fit day thing, yet. Especially since I'm guessing at most of it. Who knows, I might be off by 50% and I've really eaten 2000 cal.
 
With the foods you've eaten, I highly doubt that you have had 2000 calories. I've eaten about 4 times as much as you have today and still haven't hit 2000 calories. I think you are safe to eat the yogurt. :;):
 
OK, I had a little snack. Greek yogurt with TJ's peanut butter and reduced sugar preserves. First of all, it was 390 cal with 17g of fat, but it was so so very good. The greek yogurt makes it so much better then regular NF yogurt.

I'm still hungry. I could eat that again and three more times and I'll still be hungry. That's one reason I have to not listen to these signals that my body sends out. It's telling me that I have to eat when I really don't. well, at least I'll sleep well.
 
JustJessie said:
With the foods you've eaten, I highly doubt that you have had 2000 calories. I've eaten about 4 times as much as you have today and still haven't hit 2000 calories. I think you are safe to eat the yogurt. :;):
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I'm tellin ya, Jess, I'm getting to that 199 this month. :willy_nilly:
 
I didn't eat that much either today. For me it seems like I either eat like 1200 calories and am fine with it, or like 3000. It just doesn't make any sense. So you're not trying to eat that few calories? It just happens? What about adding a few calories here and there in order to get more. Add cheese to your chili or nuts and fruit to a salad or peanut butter on toast in the morning. That yogurt with pb & j sounds really good by the way.
 
Heh, heh. I know how to add the calories. I'm a bit too good at that. I just want them to pass on through me without causing any problems. "Thanks for the visit, calories, you can go now."
 
Ha ha and don't forget you ran today, so wouldn't that be a minus x amount of calories... Ugh, this is why I don't count calories! Way too much work... he he... but I agree with everyone that you need to eat! 700 is waaay to low... or seemingly....
 
Trops said:
OK, I found the custom food part on Fit Day. I think it would be cool if they had something where you could add the ingredients and they would tell you the result. The way I had to do it was to add up all the ingredients on a piece of paper and then divide by 12 servings to get one, then add that as a custom food. There must be an easier way.
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I used to complain about the software I use all the time until I discovered that other software sucks even more. I use My Apex and it costs $15 a month for the calorie and body bugg stuff. It sucks that I have a monthly fee, but I'm addicting to using it now and I think it's made all the difference between gaining weight and losing weight.

Can't wait for you to hit 199!!!
 
I suck as a friend. This is the first time Ive posted in your diary. Sorry man. Can you believe you are down 41 pounds. How close are you to 200? Looks like you are almost there. So close. 20 more to go and you arnt off by that much from your original goal. Keep it going.
 
Coffeebro said:
I suck as a friend. This is the first time Ive posted in your diary. Sorry man. Can you believe you are down 41 pounds. How close are you to 200? Looks like you are almost there. So close. 20 more to go and you arnt off by that much from your original goal. Keep it going.
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Thanks, brother, and no you don't suck as a friend. You've been keeping tabs elsewhere, so that's cool. Thanks for stopping by, though.

I weighed in at 204 even yesterday. I didn't get a chance to weigh in early this morning, so I'm not too sure what my morning weight was, but I'll be sure to weigh in tomorrow.

My original goal was 195. I'm thinking about dropping that to 185, but I'll see when I get there. I might want to maintain at 195 for a month or two and then drop. It's hard to think that way, though. Here I am with extra fat on my body and deciding to keep it there to help me in the long run. Seems a little backwards. Maybe I'll get some kind of accurate BF% at 195 to see where I am and where I should be.
 
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