My weight is up a pound today from yesterday. I am not sure what my body is doing, but I'm just going to keep pluggin' along and let it do what it's going to do. I don't feel as bloated today as I have felt for the past couple of days. I did manage a couple of visits to the porcelain fairy, but I honesty feel like most of the food I've been consuming lately has simply been getting used by my body. I think that's the reason why I do not frequently visit the fairy anymore. I makes sense. My body is using the protein to repair and build my muscles. It is burning the exogenous fats first, and the burning my bodies own fat stores for fuel later on. What little is left takes a while to make its way out. I think it makes all the sense in the world!
Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 368.4 lbs ⇧
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 359 lb
I seem to have hit the first plateau following the initial water-weight loss. I wish it was at 366 lbs and not 368 lbs, but I'm still under 370 lbs, so that's fine. That changes the total weight I've lost thus far to only 17.6 lbs. My rate of loss has fallen to .68 lbs per day. That's fine, too. Apparently I'm only shooting for an average of 2 lbs per week, and I'm above that so far.
According to my app, I should consume about 1866 calories to lose 2 lbs per week on average. I'm currently eating between 1000 calories and 1300 calories, and I feel fine. This week I have been hitting closer to the 1200 to 1300 range, and getting all that food into me all at once is difficult. It tastes great, though, so I'm fine with it.
I struggle with whether I should drop some calories or consume my food more spread out and forego the OMAD plan. A lot of people are having success with 2MAD (2 meals a day) and spacing them about 4 hours apart to get the benefit of the 18- to 20-hour fast depending on how long it takes to consume each meal.
I don't look at food the same way now. I see it as fuel instead of some kind of reward. My husband said something very interesting. He noted that those who have been failing with Keto (I've been watching some of those YouTube stories lately) treat this more like a diet that you go on and then go off when you're done rather than a lifestyle change. And it occurred to me that they are revolving rather than resolving their wight issues with this method of dieting.
They are revolving in the sense that they go down to a lower weight, stop the diet, and then go right back up. Then they go down again while dieting, then right back up when they go back to their old habits. This is a bit of a revolving door, and it is not the proper method toward a resolution.
Anyhow, I'm confident that I can keep up this way of eating (WOE) and make it a new lifestyle so that I can ultimately be thin and never go back to how heavy I am now once I am done. In maintenance I can start looking at interesting to recipes to try and stuff like that, but for now, I need to remain utilitarian with my eating.
I have been making these rather simple casseroles, but I think I can actually make it simpler. To fit my macros, I can make 7 fried eggs with about 5 tablespoons of butter, and put all that on top of 10 cups of greens. That's all I need to eat. This meal is simple to make, and it is roughly 1100 calories. It fits all my nutrient needs, too. I think that when I finally finish eating all the food I bought from the last trip to the store, I'll start just doing this instead. This is so much easier, and it will free up my mind and my time so I can make my husband's meals without complaint.
I have a new food plan graph:
Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 368.4 lbs ⇧
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 359 lb
I seem to have hit the first plateau following the initial water-weight loss. I wish it was at 366 lbs and not 368 lbs, but I'm still under 370 lbs, so that's fine. That changes the total weight I've lost thus far to only 17.6 lbs. My rate of loss has fallen to .68 lbs per day. That's fine, too. Apparently I'm only shooting for an average of 2 lbs per week, and I'm above that so far.
According to my app, I should consume about 1866 calories to lose 2 lbs per week on average. I'm currently eating between 1000 calories and 1300 calories, and I feel fine. This week I have been hitting closer to the 1200 to 1300 range, and getting all that food into me all at once is difficult. It tastes great, though, so I'm fine with it.
I struggle with whether I should drop some calories or consume my food more spread out and forego the OMAD plan. A lot of people are having success with 2MAD (2 meals a day) and spacing them about 4 hours apart to get the benefit of the 18- to 20-hour fast depending on how long it takes to consume each meal.
I don't look at food the same way now. I see it as fuel instead of some kind of reward. My husband said something very interesting. He noted that those who have been failing with Keto (I've been watching some of those YouTube stories lately) treat this more like a diet that you go on and then go off when you're done rather than a lifestyle change. And it occurred to me that they are revolving rather than resolving their wight issues with this method of dieting.They are revolving in the sense that they go down to a lower weight, stop the diet, and then go right back up. Then they go down again while dieting, then right back up when they go back to their old habits. This is a bit of a revolving door, and it is not the proper method toward a resolution.
Anyhow, I'm confident that I can keep up this way of eating (WOE) and make it a new lifestyle so that I can ultimately be thin and never go back to how heavy I am now once I am done. In maintenance I can start looking at interesting to recipes to try and stuff like that, but for now, I need to remain utilitarian with my eating.
I have been making these rather simple casseroles, but I think I can actually make it simpler. To fit my macros, I can make 7 fried eggs with about 5 tablespoons of butter, and put all that on top of 10 cups of greens. That's all I need to eat. This meal is simple to make, and it is roughly 1100 calories. It fits all my nutrient needs, too. I think that when I finally finish eating all the food I bought from the last trip to the store, I'll start just doing this instead. This is so much easier, and it will free up my mind and my time so I can make my husband's meals without complaint.
I have a new food plan graph:
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