2 bell peppers +dressing: 70

2x Lean cuisine chicken Parmesan l: 620

2x California rolls: 510

20 shrimp: 100

Total: 1300

48 oz water



I'm starving tonight; all I can think about is having a big bacon cheeseburger!

2 month progress photos compared to initial photos.
Currently 15lbs down

Could someone photoshop my last pic to show what I would look like with 50lbs more lost?

no. do it the hard way.

re: what are you doing wrong counting?

IMO there's no way to know for posters to know because you're not honest. I'm not saying you lie in your posts but....2 posters reminding you 'hey what about that hard question, relevant to your weightloss? answer that' is way too many. you have to do 99% of the work.

I doubt you log EVERYTHING you eat or drink. I'd guess you're still feeding your daughter fat person food to keep her from crying and you snack on it.

0.0% you measure everything accurately. 0.1% chance you spend the $20 on a food scale to plug that leak. it's harsh but I think you should declare defeat and start all over. throw out every 'healthy' habit you're proud to have developed these past months. don't pick and choose, buy into the entire system of treating your body with respect rather than as a landfill.

or not I dunno Tyler gives easy advice to follow and his punctuation is excellent. that's a road you can take too.

post face pics, your face should have leaned out a bit @ 15lbs

You're really doing yourself a lot of harm by obsessing over short-term results. Look at it like live poker. Just put your head down and grind. The best way to grind live is to just put in hundreds of hours a month and ignore the short term variance. Celebrating big winning days or weeks is fine, but counting on every week being a winning week is a bad policy.

Just grind as many consecutive <1400 days as you can (I guarantee you will see rapid fat loss at <1400, regardless of how many Diet Cokes you quaff). Reward yourself when you hit 10lb milestones, but don't count on losing exactly 10lb every month or whatever the calculations say. Other than your bet with 72, what difference does water weight make? You can lose it all at once any time you want just by cutting carbs and electrolytes from your diet for a few days. Why place such significance on losing 50lb more? It's an arbitrary number. You'll still have 50+ more lb to lose, and it's such a distant goal besides.

I'm not going to tell you not to set goals, but it might be better if your goals were more process-oriented. It would be like a live grinder making a volume/hours - based goal rather than a winrate-based one. It's generally better for motivation and the best part is that you have 100% control over the outcome; it's exactly proportional to the effort you put in.

Posts like these make me want to bang my head against a wall and stop trying to help you.

Look back on the items in your food logs. Now think, "given the information provided, how would someone go about figuring out if these numbers are correct?" If you came up with "they would have absolutely no idea", then you're correct.

"2 bell peppers +dressing: 70"

What's the dressing? How many grams of oil did you use?

Just a quick and obvious example from your latest log. Maybe this was 50 kcal, maybe it was 70. Maybe it was 455. Who the hell knows.

If you want us to be able to give meaningful feedback on your log/numbers, tell us weight and kcal/100g numbers for the things you eat. The lack of detail you're providing makes me doubt even the things you do specify after being prompted, you come across as completely uninterested.

Agree Fabian - but on the rare instances she's given sufficient information for us to make a good guess to if the numbers are correct they more or less seem to check out. So, I've really got no reason to doubt them in general.

The dressing was 20cal/2tbs. I measured out 4tbs+2bell pepper cals

When I say dressing, I am using these.



This is the 100cal and 80cal yogurt that I eat.



Healthy choice and lean cuisine pastas


Chicken breast. I estimate the weight of each breast based on the price/lbs and take the calories from that.


Fish I'm going to eat today and divide into two portions

The scale shows that my water weight is always in the low 40s, and I looked up that normal water weight in 55-65%.
What does it mean that mine is so low? I'm dehydrated?

It means that for anything other than weight those scales are crap.

MLYLT,

Unless I'm misreading these USA#195WOAT nutrition labels, those dressings are half the calories you've been specifying, no?

Thanks for the pics, that's a great start imo!

Sharing with my daughter, and will prolly have two servings from this.

Yeah, the calories were half than what I thought lol

MLYLT,

lol

Mlylt,

Why did you quit tinder?

Does sodium not really matter much? Those TV dinners are jam-packed with it.

I know it plays a role in water retention.

it matters a lot more than diet drinks thats for sure

Code 3 got on tinder; it bothered me, so we both decided we would delete it for now while we are in close proximity to each other.

I didn't think to consider the sodium in the TV dinners as the culprit for the water retention; you are prolly right, I'll cut them out for a few days and see if my weight comes down.

This is a great post, thanks!
I think my bet with 27 has me on edge with wanting to lose a quarter of a lb/day.

Thurs log:

Banana:120

Lean cuisine chicken Parmesan: 310

0.84 lb grilled catfish: 586

1cup green beans: 31

2xpepperoni pizza: 570

Total: 1617

450m swim

Did you make the catfish at home, buy it frozen and heat it up, or get it at a restaurant?