Fri 9/28 log:
3077cals

Thurs 9/27 log:
3154cals

I weighed 225.8lbs this morning. An increase of 1.8/lbs this week.

I dont need to worry about cutting at this point, I just need to get back into the habit of logging and being concious of what I'm eating and not eating on impulse.

Right now I am going to focus on just getting my calories logged and being at mainly calories.

Here's an approach you haven't tried. When I brought it up the first time, you poo-pooed it because you thought it would "take forever" to work. How about you give it a try for a month and see if it works.

Make different food choices!

Those aren’t healthy food options. You can do better.

You don’t need a brownie every day, esp if you have goals you want to hit.

Long and winding road ahead.

(didn't insert the Beatles video)

Anyhow, good you are posting also those 3000cal+ days, that's honesty. GL!

If you're trying to lose weight, why are you eating two desserts a day? I mean it's fine to have dessert sometimes as long as you save calories for it, but two desserts on a day when you're eating 4 cups of rice and half a naan, or two desserts and a bag of Cheetos on a day when you're eating 1/2 cup pesto and lasagne, or two desserts after eating a 1,500 calorie lunch? How do you do that on three consecutive days when you're trying to lose weight? What do you mean you don't need to be cutting calories at this point?

I don't have great impulse control and it's worse when I'm not in a regular routine.
The weekend has been better and when I get home it will be better.
For the past couple of months, I have not been thinking about what I eat and eating on impulse. I have to break this and get back into a good rhythm of logging calories and be more cognizant of what I'm eating and how I'm feeling.

This week has been an off schedule and a lot of anxiety with leads to less impulse control and then leads to overrating, eating a lot of sugar+crap to make me feel good.

Sat 9/29 log:
2078cals

The Indian food was split between 6pm and 1am

It was this build your own pasta station.
I love pesto+chicken+pepperoni

So you ate build your own pasta without pasta one day?

I had the pasta and missed logging it. Thanks.

10/1/18 Weight:
224.5 on my home scale this morning.

Let's see more of those 2k days, MLY!

Thanks for the support.

My kid and I both fell asleep at 8:00 last night, was meaning to log calories then. Will get the past 3 days tonight.

This is a great improvement in attitude from the old days when you oftentimes couldn't remember what you had eaten even a day before.

It's great that you're back to logging and I hope to see it continue for a long long time!

How serious about this are you? I didn't follow your former thread on H&F as it seemed very non-productive. Now that you're starting again, I decided to check this one out.

As a former garden variety fat turned micro bro, people ask me for weight loss help non-stop. The ones whom succeed almost always hit or beat their caloric goal the first month or so, with a couple random off days tossed in. It's a badge of honor for them to show off how they were under target on a regular basis.

You seem to be fitting the profile of the ones that do not hit their goal. You've already missed target more since opening this thread than I figured you would in the first three months combined.

What is the root cause of this? How do you plan to correct it? I get the start/stop thing, and the old log being closed, etc. My journey started about 225 and ended at 149. It took me a while. The whole time though I knew what course of action I needed to take, and then executed it to a T when I was cutting.

Help me understand why you would create another log and then instantly start missing targets please. I've got another friend in the same situation. She's 260 lbs to start. She came to the Mrs and I and wouldn't stop asking for advice until we had given her the complete playbook. Laid out a timeline to reach 200. From there we'll develop a new plan. She did the same thing. Um. Why? I'd have more respect for her if she just said "nah, I'm good, I'd rather stay at 260 then do that".

It's frustrating. I don't understand.

I started a new log because I felt myself backsliding. I don't do well with dieting outside of a concrete routine and would often slip when I had to travel. I happened to be traveling the week I started the new thread.

I've found that I have to take baby steps and do one thing at a time:
1. Start logging calories everyday
2. Start cutting out certain foods
3. Get a meal plan organized
4. Start cutting calories

Since I stopped logging, I'm back at step 1

I have to be completely focused and consumed with thinking about losing weight to do it. Just starting to log will get me refocused.

Sun 9/30 log:
1683 cals

Mon 10/1 log:
2194cals

10/2 Weight:
225.8

Try throwing out a bun on one of the two burgers and making a quadruple if you feel like you have to go to McDonald's.

I don't understand the two nachos and cheese from Taco Bell. You could eat a giant bowl of better tasting Tostitos chips and salsa with just as little effort for the same calories. Is that an estimate from another restaurant where the table ordered? Just pop a piece of gum or some tic tacs and skip eating during the appetizers. (If it's another restaurant the Taco Bell quesadilla estimate is definitely low...)


I've found it easier to focus on other things in the routine and try to forget about eating.

Get out of my log Rapini

FWIW, even if the log is helping MLYLT from weight increase, it's arguably beneficial (or actually pretty obviously beneficial) to some pretty bad case scenario like adding .5 pounds a week while not logging or being at all concerned or accountable for her caloric intake (though hypothetical scenario, close to the truth perhaps).

Obviously MLY has room for improvement, but she's shown the ability to hit 1800-2000 calorie targets fairly consistently at times.

I ha e actually been taking two buns out of those double cheeseburgers!

The food was guestimated from another restaurant.