The following is meant primarily to serve as a Bullshit Detector for me. If anyone Out There derives inspiration from My Struggle, that's lovely, but I don't have any expectation that anyone other than myself will be interested in this. Just sayin', sir.
Continued from http://songsofinnocenceampexperience.blogspot.com/2017/02/for-fellow-fat-people-only-not-short.html
Week 5: Tuesday, 3/21/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, ham and egg 254c, 10 oz water
coffee 10c
Lunch: sunflower seeds 58c, 16 oz water, pretzels 110c
Dinner: vegetable mix 180c, hoagie 780c*, 10 oz water
yogurt 70c, banana 105c, ff fudge bar 80c
1657 calories
36 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching + 21 minutes (-223 calories) stationary bike. (I did the bike before I'd eaten any lunch, so I burnt most of the calories I had taken in to that point. Felt a little woozy, but not so bad, really.)
* Not exactly diet foot. This was in the refrigerator and I thought about throwing it away, but I hate throwing out food . . . and I just decided to go for it. Fortunately this has been a low calorie day, so I won't be pushed over my 113 limit even with this. Unfortunately, it wasn't really all that good, either, but that's life sometimes.
Wednesday, 3/22/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, sunflower seeds 87c (4 am)
second breakfast coffee 10c, crackers 120c, 2 soft boiled eggs 156c, 16 oz water
sunflower seeds 58c, pretzels 220c, 16 oz water
Lunch: oatmeal 140c, crackers 200c
Dinner: buffalo chicken wrap 610 c, 16 oz water
2 sweet pickles 30c, ff fudge 80c
1721 calories
48 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching + calisthenics (-60 calories) + 21 minutes stationary bike (-230 calories)
Thursday, 3/23/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, hominy toast and fried egg 215c*, 15 oz water
coffee 10c
Lunch: sunflower seeds 145c, apple 95c, 16 oz water
Dinner: salad w/ olives, tomato, bbits, croutons, salad dressing 175c, pizza 600c, 16 oz water
Pretzels 120c, yogurt 70c
1440 calories
31 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching + 21 minutes stationary bike (-231 calories) This was still strenuous, but I felt much stronger today, and was able to hold my speed at 11 mph for most of the ride. Da da DAT da, getting stronger.
* I know I'm proving my ignorance by commenting on this, but what the hell. I was just astonished as how much food--
--I got for 215 calories. I mean, a bowl of Cheerios with 2% milk has more calories (228 total, so 13 more, to be precise). And it would leave me much less fulfilled than my hominy, toast, and egg. My aforementioned scale came in very handy with the measuring of the hominy, by the way. I'm glad that I added that to the regimen.
--I got for 215 calories. I mean, a bowl of Cheerios with 2% milk has more calories (228 total, so 13 more, to be precise). And it would leave me much less fulfilled than my hominy, toast, and egg. My aforementioned scale came in very handy with the measuring of the hominy, by the way. I'm glad that I added that to the regimen.
Friday, 3/24/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, hominy and egg 150c, 10 oz water
Lunch: sunflower seeds 145c, pickle wedge 0c, 16 oz water, pretzels 110c, coffee 10c
Dinner: salad w/ lettuce 5 + roma tomato 20 + 5 bolives 30 + 2 baby carrots 8 + 2 baby sweet pickles 30 + croutons 30 + ffdressing 20 = 143 c, 16 oz water, soup 360c, ham sandwich 253c, 15 oz water
fffudge 80c, crackers 200c, 16 oz water, 7 vanilla cookies 130c, banana 105c
1696 calories
73 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching and calisthenics with weights (-60) and 21 minute stationary bike ride (4.0 miles, -234 c)
Saturday, 3/25/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, eggy in a basket 155c, 10 oz water
Lunch: ham sandwich 253c, pretzels 110c, granola bar 160c, 16 oz water, chips 140c. Coffee 10c
Dinner: salad 117c, rice 185c, beef tips 170c, vegetables in cheese sauce 60c (532 c dinner)
Pretzels 110c, 15 oz water
1480 calories
41 oz water
Exercise: stretching and calisthenics with weights, 20 sit ups
Sunday, 3/26/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, ham (45) bread (65) egg (90) 16 oz water [210c]
Lunch: ham sandwich 253 c, coffee 5c, 16 oz water [258c]
Dinner: salad 105c, spaghetti 560*, sauce 80, fake meat 70 [815]
16 oz water
sunflower seeds 277c, pretzels 110c, fudge bar 80c
* Man, and this was for vegetable spaghetti. Sheesh. Might want to steer away from that shit in the future . . . had no idea it would be so many calories until I did the weight with my food scale.
1750 calories
48 ounces water
Exercise: stretching + 20 sit-ups + 21 minutes stationary bike (4.1 miles, -241 calories). Not doing the bike yesterday seems to have given me a boost--was able to maintain steady 11 mph the whole time. It's always become obvious that this stationary bike is a much better work out than riding my real bike. Maybe I'll just reserve that for a break on a sunny day.
Weight: 248 pounds
My initial reaction on seeing those numbers on my scale was disappointment. I want to lose more faster. But then I tool a breath and looked back at my first entry on this My Fat Struggle journey: It was 2/21, and I weighed 260 pounds. So not quite five weeks ago. And twelve pounds down. It really looks a lot better when I look at it this way. Which is important, because I know what happens if I allow myself to get frustrated: I say, Well, fuck it, then, I want to go eat a bag of lime-flavored tortilla chips. And then I'm off and running. Running slowly, that is. Until I start rolling. And roll right back up to 270 pounds. Or more. And that's something else that I should keep in my mind. I have actually lost 22 pounds from my heaviest. Actually maybe more. I think I was actually up to 276 pounds at my highest. Okay, I'm officially going to stop thinking about this now. I lost a couple more pounds. Woo-ah.
Monday, 3/27/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, ham (45) bread (65) egg (90) 10 oz water [210c]
Lunch: sunflower seeds 165c, 16 oz water [165c]
Dinner: salad 105c, soup 200c, vegetable mix 140c, crackers 86c
16 oz water [531c] *
16 oz water, ff fudge bar 80c
986 calories
58 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching + weights + sit-ups + 22 minute stationary bike ride (4.0 miles -237 calories)
* Something I haven't experienced for a very long time happened after dinner today. I felt full. And dinner wasn't really anything impressive . . . so I'm thinking it is probably at least in part due to the fact that I hadn't eaten much for breakfast and lunch.
Speaking of dinner . . . Jacqueline wanted macaroni and cheese. And that sounded good to me, too, and it'd been a long time since I'd had any of that kind of thing, so I thought about joining her. Then I looked at these facts:
Wow. That is a hella big difference, isn't it? So I went for the soup. Two cups of it. And I dumped in a mixed vegetable thing, too. And ate 8 saltine crackers with it. For a total of 426 crackers. (And if I'd only eaten five crackers it would've been an even 400.) I'm sure that's no big deal to anybody else, but it is a bit of a revelation for me. There was a time when I wouldn't have thought twice about eating macaroni for dinner. And I'd probably have had two cups of it. And maybe a couple of slices of ham as well. Which would have put dinner at around 1,000 calories. Which is still not all that terrible, I suppose, but it's a lot more than 426, foe shoe. I've also stopped (1) sampling foods I make for the kids and (2) cleaning up the leftovers from their plates. Learning that a few bites here and there really add up over the course of a day.
Week 6: Tuesday, 3/28/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, ham (45) bread (65) egg (90) 10 oz water [210c]
Lunch: sunflower seeds 165c, 16 oz water [165c]
16 oz water
Dinner: rice w/ butter 210c, vegetable mix 180c, 1 ounce ham 41c [431]
yogurt 70c, pretzels 110c
986 calories
58 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching + 20 sit-ups + 21 minute stationary bike (4.2 miles -244 calories)
Wednesday, 3/29/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, oatmeal 170c, 16 oz water [180c
Lunch: coffee 10c, 16 oz water, sunflower seeds 165c [175c]
16 oz water
Dinner: salad 115c (lettuce 5+bolives 60+ pickles 30+ dressing 20), ham 123c, spaghetti . . . lots of spaghetti . . . 680c, 16 oz water [918c]
Pretzels 110c, yogurt 70c, banana 105c, fffudge 80c
1638 calories*
64 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching and calisthenics with weights + 20 sit-ups + 22:30 minute stationary bike ride (4.3 miles, -250 calories)
And according to CalorieLab, cutting the lawn with a walking mower burns 306 calories per hour, so there goes another -459.
* After two under 1000 calories days I kind of wanted to see if I could keep that going, but I started cutting the grass before I eat any dinner except for my salad, and with a mere 470 calories in me . . . and having already burned 250 on the stationary bike (and probably another 60 or so on calisthenics), I knew that I was asking for trouble. So I ate a whole 6 ounces of vegetable spaghetti with tomato sauce. Mmmm. It also marks the third day in a row in which I've actually felt full after eating dinner. It's a good feeling.
Thursday, 3/30/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, oatmeal 170c, 10 oz water [180c]
Lunch: small banana 90c, sunflower seeds 165c, 16 oz water, eggs 270c, almonds 80c [605c]
16 oz water
Dinner: salad lettuce 5 + croutons 30 + bbits 30 + radishes 3 + tomato 20 + salad dressing 20 108c, vegetable mix 60c, steak 443 c, rice 160 c, 16 oz tea 10c [781 c]
artichoke heart 10c, yogurt 70c pretzels 110c, 16 oz water
1756 calories
58 ounces of water
Exercise: cut sister's grass, 1 hour = -306 calories. Which is why I ate the eggs. Shakespeare got to get paid, son.
Friday, 3/31/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, instant oatmeal 140, small banana 90c, 16 oz water [240c]
Lunch: almonds 80c, ham sandwich 253c, pretzels 110c, 16 oz water [443c]
Dinner: salad lettuce 5 radishes 3 tomato 20 bolives 30 croutons 30 bbits 30 dressing 20 138c, beef tips 170c, rice 185c, vegetable mix 90c, 16 oz water [583]
cookies 140c, sunflowers seeds 165c, crackers 100 c, fffudge bar 80c
1751 calories
48 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching, weights, 20 sit-ups (up to 20 minute regimen now, - 175 calories), 21 minute stationary bike ride (4.2 miles, - 245 calories)
Saturday, 4/1/2017
Food:
Breakfast: 16 oz water, coffee 10c, eggy in basket 155c, ham 41c, [206c]
Lunch: coffee 10c, almonds 80c, sunflowers seeds 165c [255c]
Dinner: banana 105c, vegetable spaghetti 600c, vegetable mix 140c, ham 123c [968]
pretzels 110c, apple 95C, yogurt 110c
1744 calories
32 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching + 20 sit-ups + 22 minute bike ride (4.3 miles, -250 calories)
Sunday, 4/2/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, banana and oatmeal 245c, 16 oz water [255c]
Lunch: sunflowers seeds 165c, 16 oz water [165c]
16 oz water
Dinner: salad lettuce 5c, roma tomato 20c, radishes 3c, dressing 20c, cucumber 12c, sprouts 10c 70c, 3 crab cakes 435c, vegetable mix 140c, vegetable spaghetti 350c [995c] *
crackers 120c, 16 oz water, yogurt 70c
1605 calories
64 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching + weights + 25 sit-ups (-175 calories) + stationary bike 23 minutes, 4.5 miles, -260 calories)
Weight: 242 pounds Um . . . did I really lose 6 pounds in the past week? Doesn't seem possible, but maybe. I did have a couple of really low calorie days, no over my goal days, and I did a couple of hours on the stationary bike . . . and cut two lawns. So maybe. As I've said previously, I don't really trust these weigh-ins completely because a meal or a shit or a drink or a piss can change your weight, but . . . my scale said 242 pounds, so I'm going to let myself feel good about that.
* As for this diet . . . this so-called diet . . . I just finished dinner, and I am very full. Here's what it looked like:
That's a whole lot of food, ennit? Of course, part of the reason that I was able to have such a prodigious meal is because I had a smallish breakfast and virtually no lunch to speak of, but still . . . this is a diet? Does Nutri-System know about this?
Monday, 4/3/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, eggy in basket 155c, ham 66c, 16 oz water [231c]
almonds 80c, 15 oz water
Lunch: 5 pringles* 50c, sunflower seeds 99c [229c]
Dinner: salad lettuce 5, roma tomato 20, radishes 3, dressing 30, cucumber 12, sprouts 10 80c, 3 crab cakes 435c, 19 oz water [515c]
almonds 80c, pretzels 110c, crackers 120c, yogurt 70c
fffudge bar 80c
1435 calories
50 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching + sit-ups 25 + stationary bike 23 minutes, -260 calories
* Therein lies the rub. I'm not sorry that I ate five Pringles. Not at all. And they were quite tasty. But (1) I wanted to eat a lot more than five, (2) two months ago I would have eaten a lot more than five . . . say twenty-five, which would have been 250 calories, and (3) there are other things (vegetables, fruit, meat) which would have given me more bang for the buck than five Pringles. Just sayin', sir.
Week 7: Tuesday, 4/4/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, eggy in basket 155c, 16 oz water [165c]
Lunch: coffee 10c, sunflowers seeds 165c, almonds 80c [255c]
16 oz water
Dinner: salad lettuce 5, tomato 20, radishes 3, cucumber 12, artichoke heart 10, dressing 20 70c, soup 160c, 2 slice bread 130c, 16 oz water [360c]
yogurt 70c, pretzels 110c, 16 oz water, crackers 120c
1080 calories
64 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching + weights + 25 sit-ups + stationery bike 23 minute, 4.4 miles, -257 calories) It occurs to me that this stationary bike business, which I was very adverse to doing, has proven to be a great boon in my attempts to lose fat. Those long bike rides (over ten miles) were good, and I obviously burned some fat by doing them, but I am absolutely sure that I am burning more on the SB because there is no let up, no coasting. No uphill effort, either, but I am sure that I am entering the aerobic zone for a sustained period of time is the way to melt the fat. I just looked up a couple of articles on this which seem to say that burning calories without being in the aerobic zone really is a different kettle of fish. I might look into that a bit more. Or I might not, because what I care about is that I just burned over 250 calories in 23 minutes, and that as of this writing that puts me at -92 calories for the day, so ahmo go eat something.
Wednesday, 4/5/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, eggy in basket 155c, 2 ounces ham 82c, 16 oz water [247c]
Lunch: sunflowers 165c, almonds 80c, 16 oz water
Ham sandwich 123 + 130 = 253c, pretzels 110c, 16 oz water. [608c]
Cookies 140c
Dinner: salad lettuce 5 radishes 3 cucumber 12, artichoke heart 10, sprouts 10 olives 30, artichoke juice 8 78c, organic chicken wild rice soup 180c, roll 90c, 16 oz water [348c]
granola bar 160c, cantaloupe 137c, pretzels 110c
1750 calories
64 ounces of water
Exercise: cut my lawn (-459 calories) And that was going to be that for me, but then late afternoon my legs started hurting, so I started to do some stretches, and I was listening to NPR as I did them and there was a story about how Diabetes is now the number one killer in Mexico, and they interviewed a guy whose mom had to have both of her feet amputated because of diabetes, and I went in and got on my bike and started peddling. 23 minutes, 4.4 miles, -260 calories. Let's go, baby. I think I'll try to go to 25 minutes starting tomorrow.
Thursday, 4/6/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, 2 soft boiled eggs156c, 2 pieces of toast 130c, 16 oz water [296c]
Lunch: banana 105c, almonds 80c, 8 oz vegetable juice 50c
coffee 10c, sunflower seeds 165c, artichoke heart 10c, pretzels 110c [530c]
Dinner: salad lettuce 5, bolives 30, radishes 3, cucumber 12, bbits 30, croutons 30, dressing 20, tomato 20 150c, porch chop sandwich 295c, steak 375c, rice 90c, 16 oz water [910]
Sugar free jello 5c
1741 calories
32 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching, calisthenics with weights, 25 sit-ups, 25 minute stationary bike ride (4.7 miles -277 calories)
Friday, 4/7/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, eggy in basket 155c, ham 41c, 16 oz water [206c]
Lunch: coffee 10c, pork chop (118c) sandwich 298c, almonds 80c, sunflower seeds 165c, 16 oz water [553]
cookies 140c, crackers 120c, popsicle 30c 290c
16 oz water
Dinner: salad lettuce 5 tomato 20 cucumber 12 bolives 30 radishes 3 dressing 20 90c
crab cakes 435c, brown rice 150c [675]
16 oz water jell o 5c
1729 calories
64 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching and 25 sit-ups
Y'know, the past three days have been a little more difficult than the couple of weeks preceding them. I've been feeling hungrier, eating more--though still keeping under the 1773 max. I don't know if it's because I've been (overall) exercising more or if it's just my body yearning to return to its old, not-accountable-to-you days. But I'm pretty sure that if I let myself say, "Hey, I've been working hard; I deserve to have a little extra today" that that will be the beginning of the end for this little endeavor. So I'm trying to keep my feet on the asphalt. Which would be easier if I could see the pounds dropping off of me more rapidly, but that's not how it works, I suppose. It seems like there is slow progress, plateau, plateau, plateau, slow progress. C'est la graisse.
Saturday, 4/8/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, oatmeal w/ small banana 140 + 90 = 230c, 16 oz water [240c]
Lunch: sunflower seeds 165c, coffee 10c, ham sandwich 273 w/ olive oil mayonnaise 50 (and yes, it actually was worth it) [498c]
16 oz water
Dinner: salad lettuce 5 tomato 20 radishes 3 cucumber 12 croutons 30 bbits 30 artichoke 10 110c, Kroger V8 50c, chicken taco w/ rice 305c [415c]
fruit 70c, almonds 120c, yogurt 70c, pretzels 110c, popsicle 60c, crackers 120c
1703 calories
32 ounces of water
Exercise: cut Mary's grass (only 50 minutes today, so -257 calories), stretching, weights, 25 sit-ups and stationary bike 25 minutes 4.7 miles -277 calories. Was feeling quite fatigued whilst exercising, and my first thought was, I should feel better today, not worse: I took a day off yesterday, after all. But it was only a couple of hours after I cut Mary's grass, and I think that took a lot more out of me than I realized. Time for a nap now.
Sunday, 4/9/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, eggy in basket 155c, 8 oz Kroger V8 50c [215c]
Lunch: sunflower seeds 165c, 16 oz water [165c]
Dinner: salad lettuce 5 radishes 3 cucumber 12 tomato 20 croutons 30 bbits 30 artichoke 15 = 115c, rice 185, beef tips 170, veg in cheese sauce 60, 16 oz water [530c]
pretzels 110c, yogurt 70c
ham sandwich 143 + 130 +50 = 323, cookies 130c [633c]
popsicle 60c
1603 calories
32 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching + 30 sit-ups + stationary bike 25 minutes, 5 miles, -291 calories
Weight: 240 lbs
Monday, 4/10/2017
Food:
Breakfast: coffee 10c, oatmeal 140c, 16 oz water [150c]
Lunch: coffee 10c, sunflower seeds 165c, vegetable juice 50c [225c]
Dinner: salad lettuce 5 + tomato 20 + croutons 30 + bbits 30 + artichoke 15 radishes 3 + cucumber 12 = 115c, crab cakes 290c, rice 213c, fruit175c, pretzels 110c, cantaloupe 93, 16 oz water [996c] *
yogurt 70c, ham 143c
1584 calories
16 ounces of water
Exercise: stretching and weights+ 30 sit-ups+20/10 bench+25 minutes stationary bike (5 miles -291 calories)
* Good example of how calories can pile up. Nothing that I ate in this dinner was bad, but the calories really added up. Good thing that I had a really low calories morning and afternoon, or it would have been very difficult to come in under 1773 today.
875@11:22am 4/4/17
886@ 8:11am 4/8/17
892@12:26pm4/10/17
907@11:42am4-23-2017
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