After much blabbering about how I was going to lose another ten pounds with my miraculous just-don't-eat-anything diet, I think it is fair to say four months later that I have not made any progress.
Where exactly is my mistake? I get up in the morning, and eat an enormous bowl of oatmeal, probably something like ten ounces of the stuff, topped with light yogurt (60 calories, but I have two containers, which ups the ante to 120 calories). (Oatmeal: 600 calories?).
I then have a banana.
Quite full, I then proceed to drink various diet drinks including tea and non-caffeinated coffee, but watch the clock for noon!
At noon, I demolish a small sandwich. Today it was tuna, tomorrow fake balogna. This is reasonable. About 500 calories. But I also generally pop a handful of peanuts (100 calories). Today I added a cup of Campbell's Soup: 220 calories.
In the evening, I eat a small plate of spaghetti or some mashed potatoes, or a box dinner, with two slices of bread with margarine. Maybe 500-700 calories. It is here that I often cheat: adding a cookie. 810 calories.
So in total I'm probably doing about 2400 calories a day. On the good side, I generally walk at least a half hour a day, work out for a half hour a day to Gillian's Thirty Day Shred, and take the stairs (which in my building amounts to seven flights). If I need 2200 to maintain my weight, then anything less than that should lower my weight eventually. The problem is that you need to lose 3300 calories to lose one pound. So if I generally lose, but pig out one day, then I'm right back where I started. I can do two days in a row with very low calorie intake: perhaps 1200 calories. But I then feel faint. And so if I take my mind off what I am doing, I might eat a whole pile of mashed potatoes, or anything to make me feel full.
My weight is quite simply stuck. If I get a bit ahead, I demolish a candy bar, or two. Honestly, I need help. I need to pray about this (I haven't yet), plus I need to get a team of advisors going. Yesterday, I signed one on.
A masked hero (someone I shall not name) has arrived to give me lessons. He himself is 5'9" and has a waistline like you wouldn't believe. I still resemble a bowling pin. He is more like a straw.
He weighs 155.
I weigh fifteen pounds more!
He has suggested that I get a tape measure, measure my girth at navel level, and work on reducing it. Toward this effort, he says that I should drink a glass of water before each meal, carefully notate everything I eat in a pocket notebook, and this should be sufficient.
I'm to check in with him on June 15, 2010, in order to reveal my progress.
While I have occasionally dipped down to 168 pounds, I then bulk right back up to 170, in a yo-yo process. I want to see 159 and stay at it.
He is trying to get to 145 pounds. And he claims that I in turn have inspired him! So I finally have a weight-loss friend (met in cyberspace). Together, we intend to get the lard off, and live to see another day. We are also both Conservatives!
We need to eat more conservatively, too. Enough of these liberal portions!
4 comments:
How tall are you?
170's not necessarily huge or anything...
I'm 6 ft. 175, and just about the right weight. But I have long arms and legs that carry a lot of long muscles...still, I'm the skinny guy.
You should probably be lifting weights.
I have hand weights which are part of the 30-day shred scenario.
But that disk didn't work last night so I did thirty minutes of crunches.
I'm now moving into a new six-week threnody of movement which shall result in my seeing the high 50s once more!
Watch out for the fake soy products! Most companies use a chemical, forgot name, to isolate the soy protein from the fat, which is supposedly a neurotoxin. This sucks as I love my white trash vegetarian food and have had to cut back! You just can't eat anything anymore. If the product is organic, then food processors are not allowed to use this process.
Ook. I don't eat a lot of very funny stuff. Try to find the name of this neurotoxin. I haven't heard of this issue.
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