Friday's log:

8 oz Cod: 186cal
1 cup Sweet potatoes: 114cal
Cornbread: 188cals
10" turkey sandwhich: 550cal
Chicken Cease salad: 500cal

24oz Unsweetened tea: 10
12oz Coke Zero

Total: 1548cals

Good luck with this!

Try to remember; motivation is fleeting, habit and discipline are what stay the course.
If you're relying on motivation to get you out of bed for a workout, it may not work- having the dicipline to maintain a habit will.

I'm going to try to get a workout schedule going the coming week. The past few days have been spent on the road, visiting family, and playing poker.

Making a chicken, broccoli, and green bean stir fry......mmmm


Cooked the chicken in olive oil and only added soy sauce.

Sat. Food log: (casino day)

Sausage burrito: 500cal

Shrimp+Chow Mein: 450cal

12" Roasted Chicken Sandwich: 640cal

12 oz soda: 150cal
48 oz Coke Zero

Total: 1740

GL OP.

you are crushing

Food Log Today:

2 Eggs: 200cal
1/4 Cup Mozzarella: 80cal
2 Oranges: 124cal

Tuna Fish: 180cal
Light Mayo: 80cal

1 Chicken Breast: 141cal
1 Cup Broccoli: 31cal
1 Cup Green Beans: 31cal
Olive Oil:40cal
Soy Sauce: 20cal

16oz Sugar Drink: 130cal
12oz Sweet Tea: 135cal
24oz Water

2 Lemon Cookies: 140cal

Total: 1337

I have never been a big dessert/sweets person, but not having sodas all day is really making me crave sweets. I really want another lemon cookie right now!

Once you get used to coke zeros you will not like the taste of sugared sodas anymore. It only takes a couple of weeks.

I'm going to go to a kickboxing aerobics class today, but I keep trying to talk myself out of it. I'm completely fine walking around the gym in my swimsuit, but it feels so embarrassing to be awkwardly kicking and punching air.

Is doing an aerobics class in a swimsuit normal? I've never been.

Anyway, I definitely think you should go!

Lol. I swim laps, so I'm always in my swimsuit at the gym. The pool is separated by a clear glass wall so everyone lifting weights can see me in the pool.

Dinner: Talapia, veggies, fresh pinapple

Well my daughter accidentally knocked all of our dinner in the floor, now I have to find something else.....I'm very tempted to go get a spider roll right now.

Just weighed myself at the gym and it was 288lbs Ugggh. I've been close to 1k deficient in cals everyday.

I walked 1mile last night and ran 1/8 mile

Today: 10min walk@3.0

Incline bench: 50x15x3
Bench: 50x15x3
Leg press: 120x20x3

I was headed to swim laps as well, but forgot my goggles. I'll go back tonight.

I going to weigh in every Fri morning.

Consistency when weighing yourself is super key (I wrote about this up-thread). Your weight will be different on different scales, it will be different depending on time of day, depending on when you last ate, depending on what you've eaten in the last couple days, depending on your menstrual cycle, etc etc.

This is why it's really key to consider the overall trend of the number your scale is showing when weighing yourself under as identical conditions as possible, and not caring about one individual weigh-in, especially not during an unusual time of day on a different scale.

Monday's log:

2 Toast+Jelly: 240cal
2 eggs: 200cal

3 turkey burgers: 1000

5 lemon cookies: 350

Unsweetened tea
Water

Total: 1790 cals

Today's log:

Oatmeal: 160cal
Banana: 105cal

Sushi: 420cal

Tuna fish+light mayo: 240cal

Chicken sandwich: 800

24 oz diet Dr. Pepper
32 oz Coke Zero
16 oz water

Total: 1725

This is a 10 day overview. Does anyone have a good calculation for BMR?
One said I was 2478 and another 2044. I took the deficient calories and lbs using 2044.
If my BMR is only 2044 and I am averaging 1709.8cal/day, then I am only on track to loose 1.53 more lbs by the end of the month and 7.26lbs in 3 months. Ive really got to start hitting my target 1400cals/day!


Day Calories Deficient lbs
1 1713 331 0.095.
2 1596 448 0.13
3 1510 534 0.15
4 1554.5 489.5 0.14
5 2584.5 -540.5 -0.15
6 1548 496 0.14
7 1740 304 0.087
8 1337 707 0.202
9 1790 254 0.073
10 1725 319 0.091

Total lbs
0.955
Avg Cal/Day
1709.8

I spaced all those #s out, and it still didn't show up right.

I've been tracking my weight on Sparkpeople since 2012. This is my weight gain over 4 yrs.

You should lose tons of weight at 1700 cals, unless you ubersedentary.

1700-2000 is fine for now but add in more exercise. I mean fitbit has my maintenance at 2900+ and I am only 160 lbs at the moment. I would think your maintenance at 287 lbs if you got in 10000 steps per day would be something like 3500!!

I mean maybe fitbit is wrong but it looks accurate to me.

Get active, eat 1800-2000 for now, and you should start dropping weight like mad. If you are not, go to the doctor and have your thyroid checked out.

3500 seems absurdly high. She's probably (her weight statistically selects her to be) an endomorph. She's a female.

I don't like the last bit (about the thyroid) because even if it's true, it's just setting her up to have an excuse when she's no longer dropping weight like mad at 1800-2000, which, by the way, seems like the higher end of what an average female should eat per day and maintain weight.

She's trying to lose >2.5 pounds per week (per her OP). We're talking a 1250 calorie per day deficit. In no way is that gonna happen at 1800 calories unless she raises her activity level to a degree which just isn't possible for a sedentary 287 pound person. Her OP stated she was going for a 1400 cal/day target, which to me seems MUCH more likely to meet her weight loss goals.

I think she should focus way more on diet and ease really gradually into exercise. If she goes HAM on both, it's just going to make her life miserable. At this stage of the game she probably doesn't have the fitness capacity to burn a significant number of calories anyway.