Nice start, and good advice ITT.

Alan Aragon highly recommends reserving about 10% of your calories for your favorite unhealthy foods, to increase compliance.

You mentioned trying to quit soda, and mentioned it as kind of an addiction, but also "but god it tastes so good!" It can help a lot to keep the former idea in mind first. Luckily, I never smoked, but soda feels a lot more like cigarettes to me than food - just something you do for a quick high.

That's great that your fiancee is on board, and helping. An obstacle you'll run into in a couple weeks is when you're sick of cooking delicious, healthy meals. Sharing that job should help a lot. Not a bad idea to have a reasonable restaurant in mind for this, as well. I had a 500 cal sandwich that came with an apple and a pickle, at Panera the other day, and I think the bulk of their menu is under 800.

Hey Dude,

Thanks for the response. Funny I was thinking about restaurants today. It's the gf's birthday in 2 weeks so had to think where the best place to go is. We decided on our favourite Persian. MOst of the food is grilled, so I can have grilled chicken, and I can just ask for a half portion of rice ..

Good idea with the reserving cals for your fav things, but I don't think it would work with me.. Portion control is my killer..Best avoiding them for now. As I mentioned earlier, I will have a big slice of the gf's dessertss when its rare and appropriate, otherwise its just going to be too tempting!

GL OP.

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Woops! Sorry it's roast butternut squash

Thanks go get it.

I have nothing to add to the good advice already in this thread, so I'll just wish you luck so I'm subscribed to your thread.

Cheers mate! Thanks for the support!

Breakfast: Porridge and strawberries

60gramms oats: 225 cals
300ml semi skimmed milk: 147cals
100g strawberries: 32 cals

404cals for breakfast

Lunch: Chicken salad

Feta 40g: 114 cals
Salad leaves 70g : 44 cals
Beetroot 140g: 60 cals
Chicken breast 144g: 236 cals
1 tea spoon mustard: 11 cals
2 tea spoons of olive oil: 123 cals:

Total for Lunch 588

Dinner: Home made chilli in slow cooker

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Mince 125g: 341cals
chopped tin tomatoes: 0.2 tin: 22cals
kidney beans 130g: 52cals
tomato puree: 25g 24 cals
Peppers 100g: 145 cals
+ seasoning: 0 cals

Dinner total:586 cals

Total for day 1578


Mouth is still sore from wisdom tooth removal. They were serving free cake in work. Didn't even look at the stuff. Drank over 2l of water... When I was cooking my food last night for this morning, I had paper everywhere on the bench converting stuff into cals!... My salad boxes for the next 2 day have the calorific values on each box...Reckon thats pretty nerdy... But fail to plan, and plan to fail and all that!

First real threat today. In train station as I planned to go home early. Train delayed. Didn't pack snacks as I thought I'd be home soon (rookie mistake)... Do I go for the 700cal bretzel pieces....no... do I go for the nougat filled chocolate bar..no...I went for the 170cal roast chicken breast pieces..

Discipline 1- eating bad **** 0

Exactly the same menu as before, except additionally eaten 170cal packet chicken as a snack and a slice of toast pumpernickel bread at 119 calories

Breakfast: Porridge and strawberries

60gramms oats: 225 cals
300ml semi skimmed milk: 147cals
100g strawberries: 32 cals

404cals for breakfast

Lunch: Chicken salad

Feta 40g: 114 cals
Salad leaves 70g : 44 cals
Beetroot 140g: 60 cals
Chicken breast 144g: 236 cals
1 tea spoon mustard: 11 cals
2 tea spoons of olive oil: 123 cals:

Total for Lunch 588

Dinner: Home made chilli in slow cooker

Mince 125g: 341cals
chopped tin tomatoes: 0.2 tin: 22cals
kidney beans 130g: 52cals
tomato puree: 25g 24 cals
Peppers 100g: 145 cals
+ seasoning: 0 cals

Dinner total:586 cals

Total for day 1787

GL OP.

1800 wow that is fairly extreme. Your goal is to lose 140 lbs in 14 months! I guess getting married is highly motivating and one of the
best times to do this.

If you are a fast food Junkie.. get a copy of Super Size me and
watch it every time you have the urge to eat fast food.

Hi mindflayer. Thanks for the post. Absolutely, this is probably the most motivated I have ever felt about anything, as it's not just about me. All my friends and family are going to be there, but more importantly I want to look good for the missus ☺

I have the book in the house, and although it is horrifying, it never stopped me before. Trying to change that now!!!

I think it's counter-productive to think of fast food and stuff like that as "bad" or "horrifying". It isn't. It's just high in calories. Calories are the enemy, not types or classes of food. I'm not arguing that you should survive on mcdonalds but it's not something so horrific that you can't eat it if you can fit it into your calories/macros. I crush a Burger King Texas Double every other week or so.

Of course your right....but truthfully I don't want to go anywhere near fast food (at least initially) because I am worried I will get back into a bad routine.. The next hurdle for me is the gf's birthday. We ate going to a persian restaurant and we are going to change our normal order to something more healthier!! I think once I have got into a good routine (more like pavlova programmimg), then I can think of reintroducing that kind of food. (Thats if I even want too).

Two things you see on the video that do not have the same effect in a book.. Puking. and the effect of time on McDonalds Food.
Real Food goes bad.. stinks.. rots/molds after a few days or weeks. Somewhere in the movie I think he someone puts a fries and burger in a bag on the shelf out of site. A month later they pull it out and it looks EXACTLY the same.

I saw the film, and that was definitely scary....My enemy isn't burgers though! It's fried chicken!

Breakfast: Porridge and strawberries

60gramms oats: 225 cals
300ml semi skimmed milk: 147cals
100g strawberries: 32 cals

404cals for breakfast

Lunch: Chicken salad

Feta 40g: 114 cals
Salad leaves 70g : 44 cals
Beetroot 140g: 60 cals
Chicken breast 144g: 236 cals
1 tea spoon mustard: 11 cals
2 tea spoons of olive oil: 123 cals:

Total for Lunch 588

Dinner Chicken Curry

2 chicken breasts 254g: 500cals
100g sauteed red peppers: 145 cals
1/4 onion: 15cals
100ml coconut milk:189 cals

Dinner Total: 849cals

Day total: 1761cals

Tough day today...didnt get home late, so by the time I got home was hungry..anyway curry was lush.. Friday is 1st weigh in day following this lower calorie, healthy eating thing

Good luck. Off to a good start. That is a heck of a deficit you are trying out of the gate so as others said don't be afraid to set your daily goal a bit higher at first if it makes it easier to keep doing what you have been doing.

I started out on my cut 3 years ago at ~210 pounds 5'8 and my daily goal was 1600 - 1800 and not always easy when I first started. Now at my goal weight of 150 pounds I often find it hard to eat enough to hit my maintenance goal of 1930 now that I am eating clean, whole foods.

Thanks Fozzy!!!

Man I dream of getting to 200 pounds! At the moment it's not to bad, just need to remember to always pack more snacks or, I just get hungry!

Eating clean def helps... Also much tastier!

Also this is impressive!

Takes advice, posts calorie counts, posts food pics, writes reasonable things.

Log is off to a great start, good luck going forward!

Agreed, YTF should take notes on how to attempt to do it right.

Thanks guys, but it's week 1. I don't want to get to far ahead of myself.. I reckon I just need to take it one week at a time.

I read this quote in an article on Breaking Muscle website yesterday. It could not ring more true for you and many others.

"It is perfectly fine to be hungry all day long. Learn to deal with it. This is the price you pay for having not been hungry at all for however long you’ve been overweight."