I was having yogurt around 3:00 for a few weeks. I could start having a snack again.

Durs makes a good point. If you eat more frequently, you won't be as hungry, and it will force you to meal prep/meal plan instead of just saying "**** it" and going to McDonald's.

This. When you don't eat for 8 hours and then have to make dinner it is difficult to stick to the plan. Much easier to get fast food and/or over eat.

Why do you think the pizza is underlogged? What exactly did you eat and from where?

I think the suggestion of eating more, smaller meals depends wildly on the person involved. I tend to only eat within a 3-4 hour window on any given day because that works for me. I tried eating smaller more frequent meals but found that tended to lead to a greater chance of overeating.

It's not bad advice, it's simply not going to work for everyone. But it wouldn't be a bad idea to get the notion that you must eat exactly three meals a day out of your head. There's no scientific evidence that this is optimal, so try to find out what works for you. That might be more frequent smaller meals or it may be less frequent larger meals.

What isn't working is putting off planning what you're going to do or relying on fast food still for at least one quarter of your caloric intake.

There's no substitute for plain and simple self-control. It's gonna take a short period of detox where you are basically miserable without your fast food fix for a few weeks. Then you'll look back at this thread with bewilderment. Your behavior is like that of a drug addict who has the sense to know that she really needs to quit using right away, but invariably gives in and uses on a daily basis anyway.

She has a problem with delayed gratification. It's understandable based on her background.

This goes deeper than the average person being lazy or whatever.

I think what would really help is if you could shift the way you look toward food and stop looking at it as a source of pleasure. Big hindrance to that is if you don't have a lot of other sources of pleasure or joy.

Or, she just ends up eating more.


ETA: What SGT RJ said.

I ate a pizza the same size as Cicis, but with slightly larger pieces. I had 2.5 slices and don't eat the crust..

Todays workout:

Walking 10mins, 3.0, 5°

DB rows:
4x12x30lbs

Bench:
1x8x95lbs
1x15x65lbs
1x12x65lbs
1x10x65lbs

Lat pulldown:
4x12x95lbs

Today's log:

Avg for the weekend: 2075cals

I suspect since she didn't answer, there is no interest in such a bet.


This is always true.

The unfortunate (or fortunate, depending on your perspective), is that she's had a moderate amount of success doing exactly what she's doing, despite it not even being in the same ballpark as optimal. Which again, just illustrates how simple the process is.

She's basically at the poker table of life, grinding out $10 per hour. She could easily be making $60 per hour if she fixed a few leaks, but she's not interested in working on her game...cause hey, she's making money.

How were the cod and shrimp prepped? Restaurant or home?

At home. Just stovetop with cooking spray in a nonstick pan with seasoning.

In Shell (Grilled Shrimp)
Serving Size: 6 large shrimp, Calories: 155, Fat: 7g, Carbs: 2g, Protein: 19g

I'm reading a medium onion rings at sonic is 440 calories. I'm not a calory/nutritional expert but it seems to me 8 onion rings should be more than 150 calories.

But I'm likely totally wrong, oh well.

The onion rings and burgers aren't from Sonic. They are either from dairy palace or Keller's in Dallas. Ill add up the calories for those later and make an entry in Sparkpeople.
The burgers are: 1/3lb hamburger
1oz cheese
2strips bacon
Ketchup
Mustard
Onions
Pickles
Tomatoes
Sesame seed bun

And I only logged 4 onion rings

Since buddy and I aren't making much progress, I proposed and addition bet for the month. I can't have fast food and he can't have beer.

MLYLT,

Remember when you were talking about how the prop betting meant unsustainable starving episodes in between binge eating (ie basically the worst possible approach to lifestyle changing, lasting, weight loss), and that now that the prop bets were over, you could finally start focusing on what's actually important, developing sustainable eating habits?

This idea you have of a $50 prop bet isn't going to do anything positive for you. Stop eating fast food for you, not for your dumb bets. Entering into all these bets are a mistake for you, and in your more lucid moments you seem to realize this yourself.

This time around I'm not as focused on winning the bets. The bets are just reminding me to focus on my goals everyday. It's just an extra incentive to stay on track. And, I don't plan on starving myself at the end or trying to dehydrate or anything, just sticking to my daily goals one day at a time.

It's also helping these guys out to get started and focused on their weight loss.

And, everyone is being so negative. I'm actually doing really great this month calories wise. Everyone thinks im hugely miscounting, but the numbers don't make sense.

My current monthly avg calories is: 1718
I am 1.1lbs higher than the beginning of the month(237.5 to 238.6)

I would have to have eaten 3850 calories in addition to my maintenance calories for this weight to be true.

That means I would have had to have eaten 2500+320cals=2820/day to have gained 1.1lbs.
Which would be miscounting my calories by 1102 every single day. I might be miscounting, but it is no where near 1k+ off each day.
I suspect that I'm retaining water and will see greater losses in the next two weeks if I maintained my avg calorie intake.

Yes, I'm still eating fast food but I'm not having huge blowout days. I have had ONE day at maintenance calories this month and the rest were way under. It seems like you guys still have it in your mind that I should be losing 20lbs a month because I'm so fat. Maybe y'all have been watching too many get thin quick infomercials or watching too much "my 800lb life" where people are getting gastric bypass surgery and only consuming 500cals a day and losing all of their weight in one year.

I have lost 47.9lbs in the last 8months, I'm on track to lose 72lbs/year and I lost 63.5lbs last year with not trying for the first 4 months.

I will be at 150lbs in 15 more months at this rate. That's losing half my body weight in 2yrs 3 months. What's wrong with this?

Whats wrong is that there is little indication that you are making lasting changes to your behavior. It is more important that you improve your habits than any week to week scale progress. I feel that if you were banned from 2p2 and everyone browbeating you constantly, you would have a high chance of backsliding from the progress you have made.

M,

Due to drinking and not being too active over the weekend, the scale says I weight XYZ, however after normal work week I will prob show XYZ - 7-8lbs, due to activity and not drinking.

However me getting into an additional bet saying I can't drink beer means I either insta lose on weekend or drink liquor and end up even worse.

If you want motivation double up our bet

This is with the assumption that your BMR/TDEE/etc... calculation is all 100% accurate.

The negativity is just because you continue to eat food that is terrible, and terrible for you. But again, if the goal is solely weight loss, then you could do it with candy bars or cotton candy if you really wanted to.

That said, here is nothing wrong with your weight loss, just like in my example above where there is nothing wrong with making $10 per hour. Kudos for sticking with it.

What I do find lolworthy is how many times your write down a goal only to make it less than a day before breaking it. Or how you describe yourself at your job (disciplined, efficient, etc...) but that doesn't seem to carryover to anything else. Just don't do those things, make better choices, and have better results. Simple.