Trying to lose 60

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I am going to use this as a food and exercise journal. Getting back into Keto (worked wonders before) over the next couple of weeks, have been yo-yoing for my entire life from morbid obeseity to very physically fit and now back to morbid obesity (after welcoming new baby). Will incorporate food scale once it's unpacked (just moved across the country). As a rule I tend to overestimate calorie amounts in food when I'm counting so that I don't underestimate, and I don't attempt to count calories burned from exercise because I find that I use it as an excuse to rationalize eating more. Trying to keep daily calorie counts under 2000 for now, and exercise 2-3 times per week, but focusing more on intake than exercise until I get down in weight for the sake of my knees and hips.

Breakfast
150 - 2 eggs, over medium in Pam spray w/salt and pepper
110 - 1 slice baby swiss cheese
110 - 1 bagel thin
60 - coffee w/ cream and sugar
430

Snack
60 - Coffee w/flavored cream
16oz water
490

Lunch
380 - 1 Campbells microwave soup (2 servings)
180 - 2 dinner rolls
16oz water
1050

Dinner
 
Snack:

70 - Coffee w/flavored cream
1120
 
CeeShill said:
I am going to use this as a food and exercise journal. Getting back into Keto (worked wonders before) over the next couple of weeks, have been yo-yoing for my entire life from morbid obeseity to very physically fit and now back to morbid obesity (after welcoming new baby). Will incorporate food scale once it's unpacked (just moved across the country). As a rule I tend to overestimate calorie amounts in food when I'm counting so that I don't underestimate, and I don't attempt to count calories burned from exercise because I find that I use it as an excuse to rationalize eating more. Trying to keep daily calorie counts under 2000 for now, and exercise 2-3 times per week, but focusing more on intake than exercise until I get down in weight for the sake of my knees and hips.

Breakfast
150 - 2 eggs, over medium in Pam spray w/salt and pepper
110 - 1 slice baby swiss cheese
110 - 1 bagel thin
60 - coffee w/ cream and sugar
430

Snack
60 - Coffee w/flavored cream
16oz water
490

Lunch
380 - 1 Campbells microwave soup (2 servings)
180 - 2 dinner rolls
16oz water
1050

Dinner
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Thats a good idea and it sounds like you do this in a similar manner to how I do it.....

The only thing I'd recommend is to break your 60lb goal up into smaller ones, it might help keep you going. (it does for me)

Either way, good luck and keep us updated.
 
John Henry, thanks for the reply! I agree.. I should look to small victories. I'm almost at the point where each minute is a victory! Ha. Tonight I did well at dinner and that was a huge thing for me - I'm notorious for having decent healthy meals for breakfast and lunch (no snacks! just coffee), but coming home and binging on dinner and finding something to make for dessert, even if it means whipping out cake pans at 9pm for a 10pm slice (or five) of cake. But tonight was good and it makes me feel great that I "won" over my mind for once in a great while.

Breakfast
150 - 2 eggs, over medium in Pam spray w/salt and pepper
110 - 1 slice baby swiss cheese
110 - 1 bagel thin
60 - coffee w/ cream and sugar
430

Snack
60 - Coffee w/flavored cream
16oz water
490

Lunch
380 - 1 Campbells microwave soup (2 servings)
180 - 2 dinner rolls
16oz water
1050

Snack
60 - coffee w/flavored cream
16oz water
1110

Dinner
750 - homemade ham soup w/ sweet potato chunks, cream based (guessing on calories)
120 - asparagus with butter
180 - 6oz skim milk (should have had water...)
2160

What made tonight SO GREAT was that there was a big plate of store-bought rolls on the table with the soup tonight - and I didn't even glance at them. THEN, I think based off that 'high' of saying no to bread, after dinner I scooped up a big handful of Hershey's chocolate kisses (from easter), looked at them.. and put them all back in the bowl and walked away. I seriously think knowing that I would need to come back here and write about my weakness made me stay strong. I know I will feel light and airy tomorrow morning for not binging tonight or eating a ton of carbs.

It's only my first day and I'm already better because of this board! Haha.
 
Today at work I also started noticing how much I sit. I do have a desk job, and so it's easy to pass one, two, three hours without even getting up once. So I started a timer on my phone to go off every 10 minutes, and 10 minutes I was standing doing stuff around the office, and 10 minutes sitting doing things at my desk. I'd love to get a standing desk but I am new at my job and I don't want to make waves, requesting all kinds of things.

I will weight myself tomorrow, and then every few days after that to track my progress.

Come on lady... you can do this.
 
So today I woke up late and didn't get a breakfast. I am relying on some roasted almonds that I grabbed and coffee with creamer to get me through to lunch. I am pretty good about bringing food to work and not going out to eat, #1 to save money and #2 because I know I overeat.

This morning I weighed in at 218.5, which I think is due to my cycle. I notice though that the work pants I bought in December are fitting consistently better - they were tight then - so that's good.

There is a group of girls that go out every single day for lunch, and usually they invite me to go or I tag along once a week. I shouldn't but it's nice to make friends and get out of the office. There is also a Jimmy Johns about a mile down the street that will deliver their delicious sandwiches here to our office... so when I do crave that, I get the lettuce wrap instead of their bread - which is surpisingly delicious. I do love the kettle chips though! And I get a diet soda. I know it's not the best but it's better than it could be.

Breakfast
320- 2 servings honey roasted almonds
60 - coffee with flavored creamer
16 oz water

Lunch
300 - leftover soup (no bread! yay!)
160 - string cheese
32oz water

Dinner
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Hmm well lunch went a little differently than planned. A girl in my office asked me to go to lunch with her, so I did. But, I did pretty well as far as Keto goes.. probably not so well as far as calories goes.

I got Smashburger!

BUT I didn't get a bun OR french fries AND I had unsweet tea.

So I had according to the calculator on Smashburger's website
670 - 1 beef patty, avocado slices, tomato, lettuce, mayonaise, "Smashburger Sauce", bacon

Daily tally so far:
1050

When I was using the calorie calculator on the Smashburger website I realized all of the things you can get on a burger there.. a fried egg! Onion haystacks... extra bacon. It's Keto heaven. I'll have to go there when I'm craving a treat meal.
 
CeeShill said:
Hmm well lunch went a little differently than planned. A girl in my office asked me to go to lunch with her, so I did. But, I did pretty well as far as Keto goes.. probably not so well as far as calories goes.

I got Smashburger!

BUT I didn't get a bun OR french fries AND I had unsweet tea.

So I had according to the calculator on Smashburger's website
670 - 1 beef patty, avocado slices, tomato, lettuce, mayonaise, "Smashburger Sauce", bacon

Daily tally so far:
1050

When I was using the calorie calculator on the Smashburger website I realized all of the things you can get on a burger there.. a fried egg! Onion haystacks... extra bacon. It's Keto heaven. I'll have to go there when I'm craving a treat meal.
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Don't let little "slip ups" or really little gifts to yourself like a trip to SmashBurger bother you. As long as you are tracking it and are are of it, you will be fine. I know for me, in the past, I would allow myself an indulgence like that and then get upset and say something like, "well whats he point now?!" and then go of the rails for awhile.

Keep at it! You are doing well.
 
OK so...
Dinner last night was carby but I did a good job with portions and made some good choices. The spaghetti was really good and I will still hungry after one serving, so instead of having more noodles I just scooped some sauce on my plate, and topped it with cheese. I had a small glass of red wine also.

Dinner
125 - red wine
600 - homemade spaghetti (no bread!)
120 - green beans w/ butter
120 - jello w/ lite whipped cream

2015

Today for breakfast I made some more good choices. Instead of having milk, I had water. Instead of having toast, I had a "Flat Out" wrap which has 100 calories and 15g carbs. I did have four easter candies from my co-worker but they were SUPER delicious dark chocolate and I felt rewarded for having them. So it's ok!

Breakfast
100 - flat out wrap
140 - 2 eggs fried in pam spray
220 - 2 slices baby swiss cheese
60 - coffee w/flavored creamer

520

Lunch
400 - small serving of leftover soup from a few nights ago
160 - string cheese
103 - 4 dark chocolate easter egg candies (1 serving on the bag says 7 pieces at 180 calories - i blame my adjacent coworker for having these, but only 4!!)

1183
 
Just a little tip. Have you ever heard of macronutrient? Basically calories are carb grams x4 proteins x4 and fats x9 it's more technical than calorie counting. But you can increase the volume of food you eat and get more nutrients for the same calories. I eat 6 meals a day.. never hungry never bloated, tons of energy and I sleep better. My macros for the today are in an attachment ,basically I have loads of good stuff, enough to stay motivated I'm not hungry and feel great. Also just to add anything less 0.8 calorie per pound of body weight is extremely dangerous and could cause all sorts of medical issues may be why you have yo-yo'd in the past
 
Daniel Egan said:
Just a little tip. Have you ever heard of macronutrient? Basically calories are carb grams x4 proteins x4 and fats x9 it's more technical than calorie counting. But you can increase the volume of food you eat and get more nutrients for the same calories. I eat 6 meals a day.. never hungry never bloated, tons of energy and I sleep better. My macros for the today are in an attachment ,basically I have loads of good stuff, enough to stay motivated I'm not hungry and feel great. Also just to add anything less 0.8 calorie per pound of body weight is extremely dangerous and could cause all sorts of medical issues may be why you have yo-yo'd in the past
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Forgot to add that's all under 1600kcal
 
...I'm back.

I have been unsuccessful, at best, since I last logged in.

But here I go again. I need to see what I am eating in order to make changes and be held accountable! I hope I can stick with it this time. My only changes to current lifestyle are to continue to exercise 3-4 times per week, and write down my foods so that I can drive home what changes I need to make. Before when I was about 80lbs lighter, I used this message board under a different name, and simply the act of recording my food intake made such a huge difference. One time in my life I was running marathons and feeding myself healthy foods. I want to be that person again, I know that I have the knowledge required to make good choices, I just can't figure out what is not clicking in my life to support that.

B - 2 eggs, 1 piece whole grain bread, coffee with heavy creamer, 2 sugar cubes
L - leftover egg noodles, 1 meatloaf-muffin, water


EDIT - a man I work with LITERALLY WALKED IN TWO MINS AFTER I POSTED THIS and offered me an apple fritter doughnut. I said no. LOL - success.
 
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For my future notes -

Basal Metabolic Rate @ 228lbs = 1816cals
Sedentary calories needed to maintain each day = 2332cals
 
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