I gained 3 lbs. I hate that I gained 3 lbs. I made the decision to change my eating regime and start eating when I feel hungry. I ate with my husband when we got home from work yesterday. We had taco salads. It was good, but I am now 3 lbs heavier than I was yesterday. This doesn't make me feel good.
Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 341 lbs ⇧
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 325 lbs
I had about the same amount of actual salad that he had, but while he had an Italian Romaine blend of lettuce, I had a spring mix with baby spinach. I also drank almost my entire 7-cup bottle of water -- maybe 5 cups of it. I know that fiber retains water, so I'm hoping that when I eliminate the salad as waste, I will lose this 3 lbs and then some. We shall see and only time will tell.
I feel good, though. I feel better than I have in several days. That's telling. Have I been severely dehydrated, maybe? I don't know. Have I been missing out on some nutrients or electrolytes? No idea. What I do know is that I immediately gained 3 lbs, but I feel "lighter" and better.
I'm not certain if I will feel like eating when I get home from work. If I do, I will eat. if not, then I won't. I'm also concerned I may be giving my husband too much protein with his meals. Aside from carbohydrates, protein also triggers an insulin response in the body. That's good to know. This means that if there's too much, it could be halting his weight loss. He hasn't lost much weight if anything at all.
I have prepped some bacon-wrapped chicken thighs -- three to a bag -- and frozen them. I thought I might give him 2 or 2-and-a-half and eat the rest myself. That would give me either a half a thigh or a whole one depending on how much he eats.
I have been feeling a bit overstuffed with even the quarter portions of his meals I make for myself, so I have been giving him the rest of my meals that I can't eat. This is a terrible habit, and I need to stop. So I will try, instead, to make a normal portion for him of whatever protein we eat, and then just take a little off the top for myself. That may work.
Like yesterday, for example, I made taco salads. I made one pound of ground beef with taco seasoning. I took about a 1/4 pound for myself, and I gave him the rest. He usually eats only a half a pound, so this time his meal had 3/4 of a pound in it. And not only did he eat that, but then I couldn't finish my portion of salad, so I gave that to him. He couldn't eat it, so it ended up in the trash, but I should not have made that much to begin with.
The problem is that when I was planning to start cooking, I told him that my plan was to take a little off the top of his plate for me, and he balked a bit. He was hungry, and he felt the loss of food I was about to take, so he asked me to make a double portion. He told me he would simply eat the rest.
I shouldn't have given into this request. I knew full well we could not eat a full pound of taco meat between us in addition to the rest of our salads. We had the meat, cheese, lettuce greens, sour cream, salsa, and guacamole. It was quite a lot of food.
Food lesson learned graph:
Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 341 lbs ⇧
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 325 lbs
I had about the same amount of actual salad that he had, but while he had an Italian Romaine blend of lettuce, I had a spring mix with baby spinach. I also drank almost my entire 7-cup bottle of water -- maybe 5 cups of it. I know that fiber retains water, so I'm hoping that when I eliminate the salad as waste, I will lose this 3 lbs and then some. We shall see and only time will tell.
I feel good, though. I feel better than I have in several days. That's telling. Have I been severely dehydrated, maybe? I don't know. Have I been missing out on some nutrients or electrolytes? No idea. What I do know is that I immediately gained 3 lbs, but I feel "lighter" and better.
I'm not certain if I will feel like eating when I get home from work. If I do, I will eat. if not, then I won't. I'm also concerned I may be giving my husband too much protein with his meals. Aside from carbohydrates, protein also triggers an insulin response in the body. That's good to know. This means that if there's too much, it could be halting his weight loss. He hasn't lost much weight if anything at all.
I have prepped some bacon-wrapped chicken thighs -- three to a bag -- and frozen them. I thought I might give him 2 or 2-and-a-half and eat the rest myself. That would give me either a half a thigh or a whole one depending on how much he eats.
I have been feeling a bit overstuffed with even the quarter portions of his meals I make for myself, so I have been giving him the rest of my meals that I can't eat. This is a terrible habit, and I need to stop. So I will try, instead, to make a normal portion for him of whatever protein we eat, and then just take a little off the top for myself. That may work.Like yesterday, for example, I made taco salads. I made one pound of ground beef with taco seasoning. I took about a 1/4 pound for myself, and I gave him the rest. He usually eats only a half a pound, so this time his meal had 3/4 of a pound in it. And not only did he eat that, but then I couldn't finish my portion of salad, so I gave that to him. He couldn't eat it, so it ended up in the trash, but I should not have made that much to begin with.
The problem is that when I was planning to start cooking, I told him that my plan was to take a little off the top of his plate for me, and he balked a bit. He was hungry, and he felt the loss of food I was about to take, so he asked me to make a double portion. He told me he would simply eat the rest.
I shouldn't have given into this request. I knew full well we could not eat a full pound of taco meat between us in addition to the rest of our salads. We had the meat, cheese, lettuce greens, sour cream, salsa, and guacamole. It was quite a lot of food.
Food lesson learned graph:
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