This morning’s weigh-in was 235.0, which is 1.8 pounds down from last week. The 9-week loss is 13.0lbs (1.44/week) which is usually the ‘number’ I look at to see how things are going overall. The other little compulsive number I look at is how many days I’ve been ‘on plan’ primarily with food. I still consider a maintenance week ‘on plan’ since I accomplished what I wanted to. So this is day 30 on plan with food.

The ‘experiment’ worked well this week. Basically I stuck to what I came up with:

Breakfast: my egg bake, 1/2 sandwich thin, orange
Lunch: tortilla, meat, lettuce, apple
Snacks: 1 pc zucchini cake, soy nuts and/or hummus and flatbread
(single or separate depending on schedule)
Dinner: various
Evening: protein shake, 6-oz fruit salad

I’m going to track what I’ve had, but not particularly plan. The only things that will change slightly are the orange and apple weights, possibly the meat with lunch. Looking at my dinners over the last couple of weeks they’ll range from ~500 to ~800 calories, depending on what I choose. It’s just an attempt to simplify things for the next few weeks. So, for the week I averaged:

1887 cals (53g fat, 195g carbs, 166g protein) - about 35% protein

My lowest day was Monday at 1746 and the highest day was Tuesday at 1996 (hamburger day - no surprise there). The before adding dinner range is either ~1250 or ~1280 (depends on the snack and the weight of the apple/orange I have that day). It’s made the week fairly easy to get through, and kept me on track.

Next week’s plan is:

Same thing, with probably no lifting as well. Although once I get past Monday’s test I might be able to justify taking the time off.