Adjusted Reality

“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.” – Mark Twain

What’s Working…

I am totally jinxing myself but I have to share.  I’m making progress.

My lowest weight in the last month before this week was 162.6, and I think the planets had to align properly and I weighed myself after exercise and ya know, making a deposit in the bank o’ bathroom because I saw the 162’s TWICE in all of December.  I started Monday morning at 163, Tuesday morning I was 161.6, and today I was 160.8.  That’s 2.2 lbs in 3 days.  Whaddya know, being super mindful of what I’m eating works!  Quickly, in fact.  If I could keep this pace up, I’m pretty sure I’d be at or around my goal weight by my birthday instead of August.  However, I’m experienced enough at this to know the first week back at it is MUCH easier to shed a bunch of poundage and it gets harder.  The realist in me (who the eternal optimist would like to kindly shut the fuck up and stop raining on my happy parade please) knows I’m going to hit some rough patches, so I just want to remind myself what I’m doing now that seems to be working, so that I can refer to it in case I get off track.

  • I am tracking all my food and laying off the “bite of this, nibble of that” stuff I was doing before.
  • I am getting in my servings of fruits and veggies (at least 5).
  • I am eating at home as much as possible.
  • I am eating around 1300 calories on weekdays, and as low as possible but under 2000 on the weekends.  Not comfortable, but not miserable here.  I don’t feel extra tired, cold, or running-on-empty at all yet, but I’ll have to keep an eye on that.
  • I am eating at about this ratio: 70-80g protien per day, 160-200g carbs per day, 35-40g fat per day (of course, a little more on the weekends).
  • I am burning approximately 3200 calories per week, not including strength training (full body 2 times per week).
  • I am tracking vital stats daily (on spark, I wouldn’t bore you all with that here).  Here is an example of yesterday’s report:

BMR + Calories Burned = (1533 + 801) = (2334)
Calories Consumed = 1387
Calorie Deficit = (947) total 1803
Protein= 78 (good)
Fruits/Veggies = 6 (good)
Hours of Sleep = 7.5 (ok)
General Mood/Notes = New low weight! Today was a pretty good day, though I am soooooore and excited for a rest day tomorrow!
Weight= 161.6

  • I am committed to doing what it takes to lose the weight instead of just trying to be as good as possible like I was last fall.

Let’s just hope I can stay as good as I have been so far!  It helps that the Zliten monster is doing it with me this month!  I know that it’s not realistic to restrict my food intake this much forever, but I’ve proved to myself twice now I can be trusted to maintain with very little trouble left to my own devices so it’s not like I’ll be ill prepared to relax.  Anyone want to critique me?  Am I batshit crazy?  Have something that’s working for you right now?  Share with the class, if you wish…

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2 Comments

  1. I say if you find something that works then run with it until it doesn’t! I’m impressed with your new commitment!

  2. Awesome! Congrats on your new low! (Which sounds funny, but all of us know what it means, so it’s cool, right?)

    I also think it’s great that you’re giving yourself credit for the things you’re doing to make this happen. Those Beck books I keep blathering about on my blog totally talk about the fact that dieters need to give themselves more credit and positive reinforcement for every constructive action they take.

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