Category: Weigh-In

Daily Log: 18 September 2023

   18 September 2023  Leave a Comment on Daily Log: 18 September 2023

FOOD:

  • 4 small potatoes, enchilada sauce, Southwestern mustard
  • GV SF Lemonade
  • corn tortillas, Walden Farms Sweet & Tangy Chicken Dip’N Sauce, Southwestern mustard
  • salad: iceberg lettuce, cucumber, green bell peppers, unMeat Chicken-style Chunks, pepperoncinis, kidney beans, Brussels sprouts, Napa cabbage, kohlrabi, broccoli, carrots, kale, Southwestern mustard
  • Stuffed collard green (collard green leaf, Smoky Rice, Gardein Ground Be’f), grilled squash (yellow & zucchini, grilled pepper (Anaheim & Bell), steamed onions, steamed bell peppers, Corn & Beans, 2 small russet potatoes

NOTES:  I weighed-in this morning 373 lbs.  That’s a loss of 47 lbs since I started this plan.  As usual, I spent the two days prior dreading stepping on the scale.  I’m worried that it will stop showing progress at some point, but I need to get over my anxiety with that.  I’m doing the thing. Continue reading “Daily Log: 18 September 2023” →

Five More Pounds!

   4 September 2023  Leave a Comment on Five More Pounds!

Weight: 385 lbs

Okay, okay… so I was wrong.  I’ve lost another five pounds.  I’m so pleased with that.  I’ve been working at this for about a month now and I have lost about 25 pounds.  While I cannot be sure of that number, losing ten pounds in ten days of a fasting mimicking diet is completely normal and I assume it was around that.

I worried that increasing my calories would have hurt my progress, but it seems to have not slowed me down at all.  To be fair, I’ve had so much energy that I’ve been up cleaning the house a lot more than I had been.  Still, If I can keep this up I should be able to set some goals that I thought seemed unreasonable and now feel obtainable.  I’m being cautious about those kinds of goals still.  I want to see the weight headed in the same direction over the next month to really trust that I can rely on losing weight.  Dr. McDougall always tells people that if you are eating this way you should be able to get to your ideal weight in a year.  Most of those people are starting out significantly smaller than I am, but it is still encouraging to see numbers today that suggest that he isn’t wrong.  Maybe more like two years, but still.  I’m doing almost no exercise still.  I need to work on that and stop being scare of my own legs.

While I’m not ready to set dates for goals, I have already decided to set some achievement gifts to myself.  That should serve as just another way of keeping me motivated.  I’m working on that now and I’ll post it when I have it outlined better.

Discouraged

   21 August 2023  Leave a Comment on Discouraged

I lost 4 lbs.  While that is more than reasonable weight loss in a week, I still felt discouraged when I saw that number.

One thing I am used to when losing weight is the initial extreme loss, which granted is normally water.  Because I was heavier than my scale could record, I was  unable to get my weight until 14 August.  By then, I had been working hard on my plan for more than a week, so I imagine I missed out on some of that initial loss and the excitement you feel on seeing the numbers decrease so quickly on the scale. 4 pounds is a good amount of loss in one week.  It just is.  And I need to remember that.  That is a week with almost no exercise.  That is a week when I felt full everyday. 

I’ve felt generally discouraged.  Emotions cycle all the time and I understand that they will constantly change while I’m trying to lose weight.  I feel just as motivated as I did, but just somewhat less optimistic.  I’ve had too much time to sit think about food and dieting and my plan.  I have a tendency to obsess over whatever I’m working on, but to the exclusion of everything else.  Focusing on losing weight just keeps me reminded that I have so much weight to lose.  It is a reminder of my failures.  I need to get back to other things in my life, but hopefully the way I’ve set everything up will allow me to be successful without too much effort.

Today I’m finally getting my exercise bike set up, so that will add at least 30 minutes of exercise daily.  That should help see these numbers continue.  And I’m going to try and keep reminding myself that losing 4 pounds in one week is still pretty good.