Nope. I have to get her from Daycare by 6:00 and there are no drop in places here. Dallas has places you can drop you kids until midnight, code3 and I have used them a couple of times to go out for a couple of hours, but there is nothing like that in this ****ty town.

Yes. This reminds me of early December when she spiraled out of control and flatlined on weightloss for a month.

Chili dogs out of the vending machine? I didn't even think that was possible.

Stop telling yourself you are starving. I actually think you believe it. Remember, Gandhi 21 days no food. If you are hungry, tell yourself okay I will eat something filling. Don't tell yourself you are starving and raid the vending machine!!

Thurs log:



The chili dogs were actually not that bad. Today is not going to be good, at least for breakfast it wasn't. I've already had McDonald's for breakfast.
I have to go buy some eggs!!!
When I prep my meals next week, I'm going to cut up some tomatoes, onions and spinach to make inlets for breakfast. I'll make four ziplocks of this so that I will have no reason to grab fast food. This week I have been really hungry in the mornings.

That's amazing that those chili cheese dogs are 310 cals. And from what I can see you did log it right.

I actually want to eat some now. Lol.

Seeing you already started your day with McD you might as well end it with a super bacon cheeseburger

Well we have to give her credit, the calories part she has been doing great on.

I wonder if this is all my fault. I told her any day under 2000 is always a win, no matter what you ate.

No of course we talked about the sustainable eating part also. But that's the hardest part, so she has plenty of time to turn it around.

I will give you a B+ for January MLYLT. Exercise. Calorie counting. Calories mostly on target. But needs to have better more sustainable days. Good work.

Loco,

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Loco,

IMO b+ is more like a c-. Have you forgotten ytf already?

Edit: actually maybe c+ for the reasons you state.

While pre-prepping meals may be a good idea in theory, it seems like you use it as an excuse to eat like crap ("aww shucks, I didn't prep my meals this week, guess I have to drink cheese for lunch today") as much as a positive tool for eating right. It's a starting point, but after this many months you really should be learnng good habits in situations when there is no plan and nothing's been prepped. Every time this gets brought up, you just lament how you're bad at that and restate your half-hearted commmitment to prepping better next time, but then there's always an excuse for why you couldn't do it again.

I think you're doing yourself a disservice by convincing yourself that the solution is always just better planning in the future instead of facing the real issue, which is that your instinct is still to eat fast food or garbage out of a machine when there are plenty of other perfectly good options available. Healthy people don't do that and you can change that if you care to try. Making better choices in those situations is only going to happen through practice though, which is what you should be focused on when you don't have something prepped, instead of just giving up and thinking about what you're going to do better next week.

Okay I am willing to meet you at B-. She eating shiet but kid's got heart. And lost 4 pounds for the month. That's where we measure results. We want to be naysayers but we gotta look at the facts. Daily calorie counting +weightloss + exercise. Just one step away from full beast mode (better food choices).

B-?

lol, c'mon loco. It's been over a year now and she is still having fast food for breakfast all the time. She just doesn't want to lose weight that badly. Which is fine, I guess.

You would never eat vending machine chili dogs.

El D's C- seems right on.

Like I said, you have to look at the facts.


I am sorry if her "If It Fits My Calories" strategy is tilting you, it tilts me too.
But she is trying to change a lifetime of awful eating. It's going to take time.

She is down 60+ pounds the last year. Facking excellent. Kid has heart.

I know I need to change what I eat and I need to try harder. My eating habits feel the same as smoking. I litterally ate fast food for almost every single meal everyday for 10 years just like I smoked 24 times a day for 10years; it's hard to go from that to not eating fast food and smoking at all.
Oh, I'm doing great not smoking!!! I'm not sure how many days I've been without, but it feels like a lot and I'm still using patches, but I'm not having to have a losenge every two hours anymore....slow change, but progress.

Thanks for bringing up the weight I've lost! It's now 65lbs, and 90% of that was lost in the past 8 months. 80lbs to go!

If she reaaaally loves McD's breakfast, should she work that into her calcs? I would think with what she's eating there it would be satiating enough where she could eat something lighter at lunch that wouldn't require the same degree of prep as what she's been doing.

It seems like hardcore compliance to beast mode eating and prep would've happened by now if it was going to. Should she be looking at more of a realistic middle ground to the behaviors she shows a willingness to do?

I understand the strat, and it could be accomplished with ice cream, potato chips, or anything else. But to encourage (or at the very least excuse) that seems crazy.

And yes, I know it takes time. We are on year #2 now.

Losing 60lbs is fantastic, no one is disputing that. If you personally had 100+lbs to lose, would you be satisfied doing it ~1lb/wk at a time?

Can't she get away with eating a 550 calorie breakfast if that's her one leak?

I have tried working fast food breakfast into a daily diet, and it's not possible.
Some donk suggested the yogurt and I think that's even worse even though lower calories.

There are excellent solid options at both IHOP and dennys. But that takes time.

By far her best option is making her own breakfast. You can make some mean omelettes, breakfast sandwiches, and maybe even burritos if you bust out the egg whites.

But the key is the YTF omelette. Lots of veggies and plenty of meat. It was like 365 cals and super filling. My guess it takes 10min to make and eat.

Absolutely. It could be done that way.

Wouldn't be my advice for a client, but it will work.

Yes. It took her 20 years to fatten up. Three years to lose it would be a dream come true.

My goal for her this year is to be near 200. That's 36 pounds away. Less than a pound a week. Of course with an emphasis on building sustainable eating and habitual exercise. Very modest goals. We in it for the long run.

Pretty sure I was that donk. I had a lot of success losing weight with a reasonably frequent breakfast of an Egg McMuffin and the yogurt parfait. 450 calories total, decent protein/fat/carb ratio. I don't know why that's such a horrid suggestion. I found it tasty and filling.

Fair enough.

It's hard to discount all the things that she said she was gonna do that she hasn't/won't come close to accomplishing.

I think your help is needed and I'm glad you guys have a plan.

I hope MLYLT doesn't chime in right about now and say she gained 100 pounds in one year (she did). Because that would weaken my point.

I have always believed in slow weightloss. She is not on board, I think her goal is sub180 this year.

I just don't think people see the power of addiction + habit. It's extremely powerful, it's going to take time.

I don't think it's filling. Way too many simple carbs. They be problem.

MLYLT

Hey next time you are at Walmart try these new yogurts called powerFull. They are not that great tasting because no artificial sweetener and only 7 g sugar.

But wow, they filling. I don't think I can eat two. That and a banana might work when you on the run in the morning.