Day #170 - Monday
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Starting weight: 285.2
Yesterday’s Calories/Carbs Goals (limits): 1928 / 40.0
Yesterday’s Intake: Calories & Net Carbs: 1223 / 18.3
Yesterday’s Exercise: 7 hours remodeling
Weight Yesterday:242.0 Today: 241.8 bmi:45.69
Change today:: -0.2 lbs. Loss-so-far: 43.4 lbs.
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I didn’t add up yesterday’s food until today. I thought I was being liberal with my portions and my choices. Certainly I thought I racked up at least 1600 or more for the day. Ha! I didn’t even make it to 1300! I think it’s pretty funny that I can’t seem to eat 1900 calories a day! There was a time not so long ago that I could have consumed that many calories during just one meal!
It says a lot, I think, about how my mindset has changed. Even though I’ve upped my calorie limit, I haven’t been tempted at all to start eating anything other than what I’ve been eating all along. Keeping away from the carbs - the wheat stuff, the starchy stuff, and the sweet stuff - just naturally results in less calories. Oh, I could rack up some major calories really quickly if I widened my food selections to include french fries and chocolate milkshakes!
It’s tempting to stop counting everything and logging every morsel that I eat. On the days when I don’t count-as-I-go, I almost always find that I’ve consumed way less calories and carbs than I thought I did. How liberating it would be to just trust myself to make good choices every day and never actually log in my food to find out! Thing is, I guess I don’t trust myself. Logging my food makes me accountable. I’m just a little bit OCD so I’m not so sure I could go without knowing anyway! Sooner or later I think I’d break down and try to recreate any days I missed. And then I’d be all like omg-I-know-I-forgot-something!
*Smirk* I guess I’ll just keep doin’ what I’m doin’. It would be nice to see an actual LOSS though. I am still stalled since December 4th - that makes 18 days now! But hey I’m still plugging away. =D
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Yeah for keeping on recording, it will be helpful to see later on, when you have more data - about what in the world could have possibly caused the stall and what broke it.
I lost a whopping 2.6 in November, but December is one of my best months yet - if that helps. You’ll see, you’ll see.
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I am so OCD myself! I have to know and record on paper or on here.
Dont worry too much. Sterling is right this may be your slow month and next month it will kick up a notch. Keep strong, stay on the path and you will soon be losing once again.
Joy
Recording is the most important part! I wish I actually did it more
I think you are kicking major ass, Eileen! Just keep swimming.
What a great surprise that you didn’t go over like you thought you did. And I’m so inspired by the fact that you’re not giving up even though you’re stalled. I’m going to use you as inspiration.
I think different people use data differently. For some recording is a stress, for others, it’s just information. I am more in the second category, although when i’m not doing it I fear it’ll be a stress. That said, i record pretty liberally (no portions or nutrient breakdowns, just the list of foods I eat) If I dont know why I’m not losing only then do I dial it up to more detail.