Derrick's ongoing journey

[Derrick]

Day 4

Woke up to nearly 5" of snow on the ground this morning and it snowed another inch by noon.

This morning, my Tanita scale said:
215.5 lbs (-1.0 from yesterday, -5.5 total)
28% body fat according to Tanita. I think she is a liar though.
42" stomach
40.5" hips (forgot to mention that the other day)

Not bad for four days. No loss in my stomach or hips yet but it sure looks like it in the mirror, especially in other areas of my body.

Last night and the night prior my wife was telling me my breath smelled funny. I sort of noticed it too but thought there was a chance it was just the foods I am eating. Yes, I do brush my teeth well so it is not that.
My urine has also been an odd color all the time now. I am guessing ketones for both the breath and urine? Finally, I have been getting hit with waves of exhaustion and difficulty concentrating. They don't last very long, maybe 30 minutes to an hour at most. However, I have become somewhat sensitive to noise again so that concerns me a little bit. (That was my number one complaint during my hypomanic and depressed years in 2009 and 2010. It hasn't been an issue since I started Lithium back in August.) I really don't want to go through that again so I will watch that one closely. For now, it is manageable. The good news is I have not been hungry at all and the weight is coming off fast. I did decide to have my free meal today so I do not expect to see a loss tomorrow. Most likely a gain.

Breakfast 7:00am
Scrambled egg whites with diced turkey breast lunch meat, diced green peppers, diced red peppers and shreds of low fat cheese.
Salt
Pepper
Ghee butter (1/2 serving maybe)
2 bottles of water
1 large black coffee
All my vitamins and minerals (I am not doing the EC stack because my Psychiatrist advised me not to. She says it could effect my Lithium levels. I am also not taking a sodium supplement because it appears I am getting enough in my diet anyway.)

52 grams of protein
<5 grams of fat
1 gram of carbs
Haven't totaled the others yet.


Lunch 11:00am
Salad made of lettuce and 2 cans of tuna, salt and pepper and balsamic vinegar
1 bottle of water
1 cup of black coffee
Fish oil capsules and potassium

After I ate I re-read the chapter on free meals and refeeds because I was realizing I may need to take my free meal today. Long story short, I did decide to take my free meal today and wait until Monday to do my first re-feed.

Free Meal 3:00pm
I left work early so I could get home while it was still light out and play in the snow with my 4 year old daughter. She had never been on a sled before so she was really looking forward to it.
So at 3pm I went to Panera and had:
You Pick Two with a
tuna salad sandwich and
a bread bowl of chicken wild rice
Frozen Mocha Grande minus the chocolate syrup on top

I don't eat the bread bowl, well not much of it anyway. The tough decision was wether or not to get a frozen mocha. I decided to get one without chocolate syrup on top. The meal was not as enjoyable as I was hoping but my jaws got over excited and bit my tongue very hard. I bled a little and then I couldn't really taste the rest of the meal. LOL The whole time I ate I was also worrying about the actual fat and carb grams of the meal. Initially I thought it was going to be an acceptable free meal but the more I thought about it the more I began to wonder about that frozen mocha. Just about an hour ago I went to Panera's website and looked up my meal.

Here's what Panera's website said just a bit ago:
860 calories
21 grams of protein
38 grams of fat
111 grams of carbs
1600 mg of sodium

I need to dive into Lyle's book again to see if he specifically says certain numbers for fat and carb grams regarding free meals. I would say I went a little too far today. It sucks because it wasn't due to lack of control, simply ignorance. Live and learn.

Final meal at 8:00pm
The first hour after my free meal I felt like going to sleep. I rested a bit on the couch but finally went sledding with my daughter. I had plenty of energy but I did have to wear ear plugs in case of dogs barking outside. Again, noises are bothering me so far with this diet.

Finally by 8 I was ready to consume the remaining amount of protein I needed. I was tired and not wanting to screw around with a long meal so I simply made the following.

Ground Turkey (Fried) with hot salsa, salt and pepper.
2 bottles of water
2 large cups of black coffee
The rest of my fish oil capsules and potassium pills.

The meal should have been 70 grams of protein and only 1.5 grams of fat. Unfortunately I was only able to eat a little over 3/4 of it. So I'll call it 50 grams of protein. A total of 175 grams of protein today. Again I have fallen short. This time by 35 grams. I blame it on the free meal today because I am able to get 50 grams of protein in me pretty consistently now. Four meals of that will get me real close to the 210 I am supposed to be getting.

I am sure tomorrow morning will be a weight gain but I'm not going to let it bother me. Tomorrow is a workout day. I'm curious to see how I am going to feel.

Derrick

 

[chubbygirl]

How do you drink 2 cups of black coffee at 8pm? I don't think I would ever be able to fall asleep? Do you stay up late?
I'm curious to see how the workout goes too!
The free meal didn't seem that bad to me but I guess I haven't read the book.
Keep it up Derrick!! I'm so excited to see what next week brings for you!

 

[Derrick]

Oops. I meant black Decaf! LOL I was passed out by 10:30 or 11:00.

 

[Happychubette]

Hey Derrick just came by to see how you're doing. Looks like you're doing good, fighting the good fight. Just want to cheer you on. Let's burn up this fat!

 

[Derrick]

Hi Kelly! I'm doing great! Haven't posted the past couple days because I literally have not had time. The only time I have is after the kids are asleep (around 7:30 or 8:00). However, that is usually time my wife and I spend together before falling asleep around 10 or 10:30.

Here's an update on the past couple days.

Day 5 (Friday)

This morning, my Tanita scale said:
216.0 lbs (+0.5 from yesterday, -5.0 total)
28% body fat

No doubt the half pound jump was due to water retention from the free meal on Thursday. I'm not worried about it.

By Friday afternoon I was definitely having many symptoms of hypomania. While I absolutely love hypomania (the good parts of it), this was a very bad sign. If it continues I might have to quit the diet. I can't go through another 2 year episode of that again. It seems like every time I start losing a lot of weight I become hypomanic. I was hoping my new medicines would help with that this time around.

Breakfast 9:00am
Scrambled egg whites with diced turkey breast lunch meat, diced green peppers, diced red peppers and shreds of low fat cheese.
Salt
Pepper
2 bottles of water
1 large black coffee
All my vitamins and supplements

50 g protein
370 cals
0 g carb
1.5 g fat

WORKOUT at 11:00am
I was feeling very agitated before and at the beginning of this workout. It slowly changed to euphoria by the afternoon and eventually back to feeling normal by dinner time.
I also started the Gold's Gym 12 week Challenge today. Ironically I weighed in at 221. Maybe it was my clothes plus the food, water and coffee from the morning? The measurements were pretty close to my own, within a half inch I believe. 42.5 on the stomach, 41 on the hips, etc. We also did a before picture but I didn't see it. I have done a few of these types of contests in the past and I've always done well, weight loss wise. I hope to do well again this time. They seem to motivate me.

Here's the workout today:

2 x 8 reps 160 lbs Leg Extensions (still too easy)
2 x 8 reps 90 lbs Leg Curls (about right, need to work my way up)
2 x 8 reps 185 lbs Bench Press (tough but I got them all)
2 x 8 reps 15 plates Seated Cable Rows (tough but I got them all)
2 x 10 reps 20 lbs Lateral Raises (tougher than usual but I got them)
2 x 10 reps 30 lbs Standing Dumbbell Curls (very hard, again, but I got them all)
2 x 10 reps 13 plates Triangle Tricep pushdowns (still too easy)
2 x 8 reps 150 lbs Weighted Crunches (tough but I did a good job)
2 x 8 reps 150 lbs Weighted Back Extensions (easy but still feeling a twinge in my left lower back muscles)

Lunch1 1:00pm
Salad made of lettuce and 2 cans of tuna, salt and pepper and balsamic vinegar
2 bottles of water
1 cup of black coffee
Fish oil capsules and potassium

52 g protein
1 g fat
0 g carb
200 cals

Dinner 1 4:30pm
I had a father/daughter princess dance at church that started at 6:00pm so I was in a hurry and decided to just eat an easy meal, tuna salad again.

Salad made of lettuce and 2 cans of tuna, salt and pepper and balsamic vinegar
2 bottles of water
1 cup of black coffee
Fish oil capsules and potassium

52 g protein
1 g fat
0 g carb
200 cals

Final meal at 9:00pm
We got home from the Ball around 8:30pm so I made something quick again.
2 (4 oz) lean burgers wrapped with lettuce leaves
1 tomato slice per burger
mustard
salt and pepper
1 bottle of water
1 can of caffeine free diet Pepsi

260 cals
48 g protein
9 g fat
0 g carb

This meal was so delicious I ate one burger per 45 seconds. I knew something had to be wrong. I re-read the book and saw that I am only supposed to have one serving per day, not two per meal. Oops.

TOTALS
1030 cals
202 g protein
0 g carb
12.5 g fat

All in all, another good day on this diet.

Derrick

 

[Derrick]

Day 6 Saturday

This morning, Tanita said:
216.5 lbs (+0.5 from yesterday, -4.5 total)
27% body fat (Sweet! I must have gained muscles!!! )

It was a bit disappointing to go up yet again but I'm not really worried about it because my diet is nearly perfect and considering I am weighing myself everyday, these things are going to happen. We'll see what tomorrow brings.

Breakfast 8:30am
Liquid Egg white omelette w/ sliced turkey meat, and diced peppers again.
Vitamins and supplements
Black coffee
2 bottles of water

370 cals
72 g protein
4 g carb
2 g fat

I made a mistake in yesterday's calculations on those numbers. I "misremembered" the label on the turkey meat.

Shortly after breakfast I "crashed" as they say. I was so exhausted even sleeping sounded tiring to me. I guess this is why they are called "crash diet?"
Nonetheless, my wife took my daughter to dance class and my son and I took a nap. Thankfully he slept long enough to give me about a 1 hour nap, which seemed to rejuvenate me a little bit.

Lunch 2:00pm
Salad made of lettuce and 2 cans of tuna, salt and pepper and balsamic vinegar
4 oz Low fat burger wrapped with lettuce leaves, one slice tomato and mustard
2 bottles of water plus my fish oil and potassium
1 cup of black coffee

350 cals
80 g protein
0 g carbs
4.5 g fat

The snow was starting to melt off and I was wanting to take my daughter to this church that had a big hill so we could go sledding together. I felt more energetic but I was irritable. I decided to take her anyway. As soon as we got out of the house I felt much better. We ended up sledding for an hour. We both were exhausted but it was a lot of fun. I felt like a kid again for the first time in quite a while.

Dinner 5:00pm
Baked Ahi Tuna with magic salmon seasoning
Green Beans with salt and a little pepper
2 bottles of water plus fish oil caps and potassium

180 cals
40 g protein
3 g carbs
1.5 g fat

Dropped the kids off at my mother-in-law's house around 6:30. My wife and I went and hung out at Starbucks and had dessert...black coffee! I also re-read some more of Lyle's RFL book. I'm preparing for my re-feed on Monday.

Late Snack
Low Fat Cottage Cheese sprinkled with chocolate whey protein
90 calories
13 g protein
5 g carb
2.5 g fat

This was just a snack to help me get closer to 210 grams of protein.

TOTALS
990 cals
205 g protein + the whey
12 g carb
10.5 g fat

Derrick

 

[Derrick]

Day 7 (Today)


This morning, Tanita said:
215.0 lbs (-1.5 from yesterday, -6.0 total)
26% body fat

I was very pleased to say the least. Six pounds in six days is awesome for me. It's not like I was 215 just a couple months ago, pigged out over the holidays and now I quickly lost my holiday weight. I haven't been 215.0 since December of 2009!

Breakfast 8:30am
Liquid Egg white omelette w/ sliced turkey meat, and diced peppers again but only half the amount of egg whites. We were late to picking up our kids so I had to hurry.
Vitamins and supplements
2 cups Black coffee
2 bottles of water

185 cals
40 g protein (I'll make up for it later)
3 g carb
1.5 g fat

I had a rough time getting through the second half of church today. I was really starting to feel the effects of this diet, I think mentally more than anything but I was exhausted and just feeling bonked.

Lunch 2:00pm
Salad made of lettuce and 2 cans of tuna, salt and pepper and balsamic vinegar
4 oz Low fat burger wrapped with lettuce leaves, one slice tomato and mustard
1 serving of low fat cottage cheese w/ chocolate whey sprinkled on top
2 bottles of water plus my fish oil and potassium
1 cup of black coffee

440 cals
93 g protein
5 g carbs
2.5 g fat

After lunch until now I have really been having a bad day. Family difficulties for one but also I had cravings for the first time while on this diet. I really wanted to just pig out on carbs and sweets. I fought it all day though, knowing I will probably see another drop in weight tomorrow. Also, tomorrow is my re-feed so I am hoping that will help me mentally as much as physically.

Dinner 7:00pm
14 egg whites with salt
1 can of tuna mixed with lettuce, balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper and mustard
2 bottles of water
2 cups of DEcaf coffee

304 cals
76 g protein
0 g carbs
0 g fat

TOTALS
929 cals
209 g protein + the whey
8 g carb
4 g fat

If anyone actually were to check my totals you'd find that I am sometimes off. I often go by what the can or package says even though they seem to be wrong sometimes. For example, taking the grams of each macro and multiplying the appropriate number of cals in each, then totaling them says I had 936 calories today. Somewhere 7 calories snuck in, maybe the tuna cans or the beef or who knows? I'm not really concerned with being off such very little amounts.

Hopefully I'll lose one more pound tonight and hit 214.0 tomorrow morning. I think 7 pounds the first week would be awesome.

Derrick

 

[chubbygirl]

Great work with sticking to it over the weekend Derrick! Your daughter sounds so adorable - I hope if we are lucky to have kids we have girls!
Keep it up and the scale with keep going down!!

 

[Derrick]

She really is my little princess. I think more than anyone in this world, if something ever happened to her, I might as well be dead. My son is awesome too but not old enough to have as close of a bond too.

214.5 this morning. (-0.5 from yesterday, -6.5 total)
27% according to Tanita. She can't make up her mind.
41.5" stomach (-0.5" in one week)
40.25" hips (-0.25" in one week)

Pretty good for just one week. My overall goal is to look great year round, swim competitively again, kickbox once or twice a week and slowly gain strength and flexibility. I admit that's a long list but step 1 is to lose most of my unhealthy fat so right now I'm just focusing on RFL but I am already preparing and planning for the next few phases of my overall plan.

 

[Melancholy]

congrats man! Looks like some incredible results for only one week of measuring.. and tanita, that siren woman! She lures you in one week with an encouraging number, only to CRUSH your dreams the next! I think she is more accurate over a month+ than daily/ weekly. I am guessing even salt in your blood changes the conductivity of the body (what she uses to calculate %).. congrats man!

 

[Derrick]

So here's my starting photo from last Monday 1/17/11. Wait, maybe the photo was taken on Tuesday? Anyway, I had just finished lunch which included a huge meal of protein and veggies along with at least 2 bottles of water so I was definitely "full." Nonetheless, I have a lot of fat to lose. No smiles in your before photos, right? And definitely no shaving. Save all of that stuff for the after photo, right?

 

[Alta818]

hahaha. I love it!!! This is what Weight watchers recommends along the lines of PLANNING YOUR SUCCESS STORY:

Do you ever read our Success Stories and wonder if that could one day be you?


Why not do some positive planning to help you reach that big time life goal By taking a few simple steps, you could make great strides towards your weight-loss objective.

It may seem a strange idea, but planning your own Success Story may just be the key to your own success. If you can visualize the person you’re going to be, you may well be halfway there. After all, you need to know where you’re going to get there.

Plan your appearance
Visualize your Success Story photo shoot by answering a few questions…

What can you see yourself wearing? Is it the perfect pair of pants or a sharp new suit ?
What kind of colors do you see? Are they different from what you’re wearing now?
How do you seem to feel? Do you see yourself smiling or serious?
Just how slim are you? Can you translate that energetic, slim person to a target weight?

By answering these simple questions you may be able to identify the kind of clothes you really want to wear, the style you need to aim for and even your target weight.

Plan your turning point
As you probably know from reading other people’s Success Stories, people who’ve lost weight usually report some kind of turning point. Looking back , what turned out to be the key to your own weight loss? (Did you start planning more carefully? Did you pick up a new sport? Did you start tracking in a new way? What kind of new exercise did you try out?)

There’s bound to be something that will trigger you forward to higher levels of success. Work out what it could be in your own personal Success Story…

Plan your people
Looking ahead, who is it that made the difference to you? (Was it your leader? Was it the people you got to know the in the Weight Watchers Community? Was it your weight-loss buddy Did you manage to talk a relative into joining you on your weight-loss journey?

Plan your new priorities
Most success stories include some mention of a change in priorities. How will your life have changed? What will your new perspective be? What new routines will you have? Which part of your new lifestyle will have been an essential part of getting you to this point? (Is planning now your top priority? Is it finding in healthy meals? Is it regular walking? Do you see yourself regularly going to the gym?)

Plan your pointers
What will your Tips be? If you can guess what your keys to change are, you’ll be well on your way to that real Success Story write-up. (If you're already there, tell us .!)

 

[Derrick]

Thanks for those Alta! I like them.

Day 8 (Yesterday)


As mentioned above, in the morning Tanita said
214.5 lb (-1.5 from yesterday, -6.5 total)
27% body fat

Measurements were
41.5" stomach
40.25" hips

I expect a jump tomorrow because today included a 5 hour refeed.


Breakfast 7:30am
Liquid Egg white omelette w/ sliced turkey meat, and diced peppers again but only half the amount of egg whites. I was late again so I kept it small.
Vitamins and supplements
2 cups Black coffee
2 bottles of water

185 cals
40 g protein
3 g carb
1.5 g fat

Lunch 11:30am
Salad made of lettuce and 1 cans of tuna, salt and pepper and balsamic vinegar
1 serving of low fat cottage cheese w/ chocolate whey sprinkled on top
2 bottles of water plus my fish oil and potassium
1 cup of black coffee

220 cals
42 g protein + the whey
2.5 g carbs
1.5 g fat

After lunch I went to Panera to send out emails and get some work done. I also checked their website to come up with a full refeed that included a lot of their food, which are unsurprisingly high in carbohydrates. I made sure to choose mostly lower fat options. This is what I came up with...

Refeed 3:00pm to 8:00pm
Bread bowl of Chicken Noodle Soup
Smoked Turkey Breast on Sourdough with lettuce, tomato and mustard
Apple
2 large coffee with a little skim milk in each and one equal in the second one
1/2 whole grain bagel with low fat hazelnut cream cheese
2 cups of water

WORKOUT 4:30 to 5:30pm
2 x 8 reps 165 lbs Leg Extensions
2 x 8 reps 95 lbs Leg Curls
2 x 8 reps 185 lbs Bench Press
2 x 8 reps 15 plates Seated Cable Rows
2 x 10 reps 20 lbs Lateral Raises
2 x 10 reps 30 lbs Standing Dumbbell Curls
2 x 10 reps 14 plates Triangle Tricep pushdowns
2 x 8 reps 150 lbs Weighted Crunches
2 x 8 reps 160 lbs Weighted Back Extensions

*Every exercise was very difficult and I was barely able to get everything with the exception of bench press, which I needed a little help with the last two. So at this point, these are the right weights for me. However, my lower back / right leg was bothering me last night and this morning so I may have to drop back down if that happens again.

*Sipped Powerade entire workout (close to 2 servings)

Refeed continued
Pure protein shake immediately following workout
1/2 whole grain bagel when I got home
1 cinnamon crunch bagel with hazel nut cream cheese
Slim fast shake with 2 cups of skim milk and colon cleanse powder
1 bottle of water
vitamins and fish oil capsules

Totals for Refeed
2740 cals
132 g protein
457 g carbs (target was 500)
42 g fat (target was less than 50)
92 g sugar (not sure about this one)

So I hope I did the refeed properly. I felt very full but my stomach wasn't sticking out as much as it should have been. That was nice.

TOTALS for the day
3145 cals
214 g protein
462.5 g carb
45 g fat

From here forward I plan on being a lot more brief with my posts so that will mean a lot less nutrition info. I'll still list what I ate but just not add it all up.

Derrick

 

[Derrick]

congrats man! Looks like some incredible results for only one week of measuring.. and tanita, that siren woman! She lures you in one week with an encouraging number, only to CRUSH your dreams the next! I think she is more accurate over a month+ than daily/ weekly. I am guessing even salt in your blood changes the conductivity of the body (what she uses to calculate %).. congrats man!

Thanks for the encouragement and the laughs! When I lost 58 pounds from May of 2008 to May of 2009, I only weighed myself once/week. With this diet, especially the first week, I wanted to record each day. At least for a while. You are right about the bioimpedance scales. They even fluctuate a lot throughout the day, body fat % wise.

Congrats to you on how far you have come! That is a true success story if I've ever seen one.

 

[Derrick]

Day 9

This morning Tanita said:
216.5 (+2.0 from yesterday, -4.5 total)
27% bodyfat

I just wanted to record this to show the 2 pound jump from the refeed yesterday. I won't be able to weigh myself until Friday morning but I expect to be close to 212 by then.

Derrick

 

[Derrick]

Day 9 went without a hitch. Today is day 10. My stomach is visibly shrinking but I still have a long way to go. Looking forward to my free meal on Friday but even more so to my weigh in Friday morning.

 

[Alta818]

Congrats on the stomach getting smaller!!! !!!

I wanted to tell you thank you for the inspiring words in my dairy today! I read them just as I left to go to bootcamp. I read them, and realized YES! I will continue my journey and SHOW MYSELF!!! ! This is a priority.

Mind you though, it didn't stop me from going to bootcamp, and kinda having a down day. I got there, my bootcamp had been pushed back an extra hour to a different class and I worked out with 3 women. One, same lady as always, Karen. She is older, yet works hard and is somewhat larger than me. The other two, can't remember their names, but one is an asian very petite woman, and the other a hindu maybe indian mother, who is looking might FIT!! They were both WAY smaller than me.

Today, I decided to wear a short sleeve shirt, right.. So I guess the negativity and yuck feelings came when I was doing pushups on the floor sweating buckets, I saw all the little cellulite in my arms as I did them, and felt like my journey was SOOOO FAR and LONG. I then even allowed my mind to go to the point (in seconds) that I may not get there. I've been at this 28 years now! My entire life! I was even born at 10lbs! We would make jokes with my mom growing up, that I didn't even need the car seat I was so heavy coming out of the hospital! ...The joke evolved so far, that , .."SHIT, Mom! I even walked out of the coochie, with a breifcase, ready to work I was so large!" hahah!

Makes me laugh, but on the other hand. It doesn't. This is the reality that was projected onto me that I made my own. So mind you, it was really hard at the bootcamp. ...THEN, to top it off right, as I'm walking with the ladies out of the bootcamp,..the girl the trainer is seeing whom he is REALLY excited about , walks out, and she is HOT!!! Beyond hot!!

It made me feel at that moment, (because my logic knows otherwise) that the only time, men are ENTHUSED about their women to the point that he was at, are when they look like that!


It was a passing emotion. I am feeling better now, and went for a 1 hour walk after bootcamp with a pregnant friend and felt much better. But still, I THANK YOU for reminding me that in the past, I have quit on myself. In the past, I confirmed to others that I am a quitter, (though through other acts, like the marathon I have confirmed otherwise too),...but still...what your comment did to me, is instill more DRIVE! I can do this!

I give myself one year to smash off 25 lbs. Even if that's only .5 lb per week, that's 2lbs a month, that's 24 lbs in a year, and STRONG! ...In 8 months before, I have smashed 50lbs. But this time,..I am guiding myself slow and steady. You are very right, Derrick!!! Thank you again so much!

Your discipline and actions are encouraging me a lot also right now! I'm very PROUD of you for sticking to this program because it does take a quite a bit of research to do it right, which you are investing! Good for you!!! !!!

 

[Derrick]

Alta, you have helped me through many days with your uplifting words. Haha. I sound so freaking corny! I'm too tired to reword it and it's true anyway. Seriously, a year ago I was struggling so much with my mental disorder I couldn't even comprehend how I was even going to get through the day let alone lose weight and be happy again. I didn't post here as often as usual but many times you encouraged me to keep trying and not to give up. Now I don't want to see you give up and I'm very happy to see you are strongly motivated again.

Today was Day 11.

I have adhered to the diet flawlessly other than one or two possible meals that were a little high in fat. No one commented on my refeed so for now I'm going to assume I did it correctly. As I type, I am a little discouraged because my night time weight is higher than I was hoping for. I was away from home since Tuesday and I was really hoping my Friday morning weight would be close to 212. I don't think there is a chance in @&!$ that is going to happen. I know I ate dinner too late tonight, 7:30. I am also pretty constipated. I'm not uncomfortable or anything, I just haven't gone very much the past 5 days. I have also inadvertently dropped down to 2 or 3 liters of water the past few days. Finally, that delicious trout may have acted more like a free meal than I wanted it to.

Otherwise, perhaps I might already be looking at metabolic slow down? I haven't felt as bonked the past few days. At least not as often. Who knows? Maybe I should just wait and see. I think more than anything, if I show no or little weight loss tomorrow I am going to be hesitant about eating a free meal anymore this week. That will be at least slightly mentally defeating.

 

[chubbygirl]

I was hoping for a better weigh-in today too. We can't get frustrated and give up - we just have to keep pushing next week and hope for a better result! Have a great healthy weekend Derrick! Keep it up!!

 

[Derrick]

Thanks Lisa. I can't help but to expect to lose 2 lb when my deficit is over 6000 calories every 3 days.

This morning Tanita said:
213.5 lb (-1.0 since Monday, -7.5 total)
26% body fat

Not what I was hoping for but I need to forget about it and keep moving forward.