Weight this morning 217.4
calories yesterday 2217

Thought I would share yesterdays food fight with any that care to read it:

Yesterday morning I picked my helper up. He had with him 4 home made taquitos the lady of the house made for me. I had only had coffee so far and was not hungry, but liked the idea of hot fresh made taquitos so I chowed down on them as we headed to work. I figured 500 calories, one each for the corn tortillas and 100 for the small amount of meat they contained. No biggie, as that would kill appetite for quite a while and can easily be worked in my days eating.

Did first job, went to second some 16 miles off. After we had been working there for a couple hours the lady offered us some bagels with pumpkin cream cheese. I figured one bagel would be no deal, probably about the same calories as a slice of bread. But she brought two apiece, and that pumpkin cream cheese that I had never heard of before let alone taste... was DELICIOUS !! I ate both bagels with a bit of the cream cheese on them. The left me wanting more but I did disregarded that.

We finished the job, headed to the next one some 24 miles off. I googled the calories on the bagels as we were underway and was astonished to see them 254 calories apiece. 508 calories plus the cream cheese, about 60 calories more. 1068 calories total for the day and only snacks !! Exceeding what I was trying to stay under already! But the worst part was, I was still hungry. I thought it was probably just the carbohydrate desire kicked off by the bagels. We had to stop for gas and that hunger was not subside, it was not just a "I want to eat thing." It was a persistent nagging hunger type that I knew was not going away by me being occupied, working or otherwise. It had to be taken care of before we got to the next job. I did not want that hunger causing problems on the job.

So we had to get gas and next door was Santanas, a Mexican food place, fast food type that made authentic Mexican food. I got a fish taco which they make extremely tasty and nice sized along with a glass of ice water. I knew that should fix it but I also knew the calories were going to add about another 550 to my total. 1608 total.

I picked up some huge nice yellow cling peaches at the store on the way home after work and when I got home I ate one, I wanted fruit in my diet and try to eat some daily. 120 calories for that. And my helper gave me a pomegranate. It was showing a lot of age and I don't know why being as they were only starting to ripen in our area. So I did the right thing and cut it open. It was ripe but had not been vine ripened. Figured it must have came from Mexico. 200 more calories, most of which were sugars. 1808 total.

I wrote down all I had eaten for the days and totaled the calories. But I was not done yet. I still felt like I needed to eat something solid. I decided on some popcorn as 2 oz popped in a teaspoon of oil would be a tasty filling snack and only about 200 calories, and of at least 50 of that would be given to my two dogs. So I did... 2008 calories now.

Then I sat pinching up some of the chili/lime-salt left in the bottom of the bowl to eat. TASTY !! A big cucumber was sitting here on my desk so I peeled some of that back and cut some slices to pick up the condiments with. Very tasty, I love them this way and usually have one cucumber with this lime/chili/salt plus some Tapatio or other chili sauce on it for late morning snack which is only about 14 calories and usually holds me until about 2 in the afternoon, helping a lot with a low cal diet. Anyway, I wound up eating the whole thing before it was over.

2022 calories, way over what I had been eating, but still under the daily maintenance amount of 2200 for my weight.

That was yesterday. So far today is going fine :)



B F R

You have illustrated exactly where we all often go wrong.One snack leads to another and before we know it we have exceeded our calorie count and not even sat down for a meal.This is why it is so important to have a breakfast and bring compliant snacks with us as often as possible.You have also shown how hungry we can get by constant snacking.I feel it is best to eat 3 good meals with no or minimal snacking to decrease appetite and insulin spikes.
I have found in my case that as I dieted I became less hungry and realized that I was just as hungry(sometimes more)when I snacked more than I am now since I stopped snacking.
Thanks for sharing with us your experience.It reminds me of how hungry I was when not dieting.

SW:254.4
GW:244.4

10/01 254.4
10/02 254.8 +.4
10/03 254.8
10/06 260.2 +5.4 total up 5.8
10/07 259.0 - 1.2 total up 4.6
10/08 258.6 -0.4 total up 4.2
10/09 256.4 -2.2 total up 2.0
10/10 256.8 +.4 total up 2.4
10/11 255.6 -1.2 total up 1.2
10/12 253.8 -1.8 down -.6
10/13 253.6 - .2 down -.8
10/14 253.8 +.2 down -.6

Moving at a snails pace and getting so frustrated, but I am hanging in there. I feel like I have wasted half of the month :(

10/1 - 165.2
10/2 - 165.1
10/3 - 164.8
10/4 - 164.8
10/5 - 164.7
10/6 - 166.1
10/7 - 163.7
10/8 - 162.6
10/9 - 163.6
10/10 - 162.8
10/14 - 164.6 Post weekend
10/15 - 164.3
GW - 159

SW: 80 kg
GW: 78 kg

10/01 = 80
10/02 = 80
10/03 = 80
10/04 = 79,4 I did nothing diferent... still eating on maintenance... not sure if it's a real loss.
10/05 = 79,4 It was a real loss after all! :)
10/06 = 79
10/07 = 79
10/08 = 79, 8
10/09 = 79, 8
10/10
10/11
10/12
10/13
10/14 = 78, 8 :halffull:
10/15 = 79

BFR I get the same results (never-ending hunger and snacking almost all day long) if i don't sit down and have a meal in which i use a knife and fork... lol... A sandwich, no matter how healthy it is, will leave me snacking through the day most of the times. Eating when it's not a meal or snack time will also make me feel really hungry even though i'm really not. I used to feel hungrier when i didn't follow a meal schedule. Another interesting point is that we can have a great deal of food and still maintain/stay within our daily goal. Sometimes that still amazes me. There are days (those crazy hungry days) in which it is wiser to just eat on maintenance and avoid binge eating. I used to fight them, but now i'm learning to recongnize them and i up my food intake to maintenance. It does slow down the weight loss, but it keeps me from binging, so it's great.

BFR - Man, do I feel you! I have hungry days like that too, where once you start you just can't stop. I hope yesterday was better for you!

Sw: 189.6
Gw: 182.6

10/1: 189.6
10/2: 189.6
10/3: 187.2
10/4: 188.2
10/5: No weigh in
10/6: 191.6
10/7: 189.2
10/8: 188.8
10/9: 187.8
10/10: 186.8
10/11: Did not weigh
10/12: Did not weigh
10/13: 189.6
10/14: 188.2
10/15: 188.2 Happy about this, as I ate out and had a few beers last night :)

Weight this morning 215.4
Calories yesterday 1133

Thanks for the responses :)

I was thinking sharing one of those "days" might help some others with their weight loss knowledge is the key for solving many problems we face, and after all weight control is just another one of life's little problem resolve.

Hmmm..... was "little" a slight understatement ???? ;)

I use "snacks" throughout the day but they are intentional and usually fruit which do not cause a food craving.

The taquitos did not set off a craving, it was those bagels setting off that craving, a non ending desire to eat more.

Anyway, yes, yesterday was much better. I could have just done a 700 cal day easily but chose to eat more. I was at a little over 500 calories at 7 PM and thought I had better eat more, so a few peaches, another cup of brown rice with gumbo, then sat sharing some hard coffee flavored caramels with the dogs for another 100.

I have half the month left for the last 4 lbs so it should be fine. If I don't drop all 4 I will just add the balance to next month again. The scales have a mind of their own anyway and just do not show what is really happening, it has the lags, plateaus, "whoosh's" etc with the ups and downs, shows what is happening in us weight wise some days after the fact. I think I am actually a few more lbs down than the scales show. (I do not count water weight as "weight", as that is what all the spike portions of our weight spikes and valleys on the weight graph are about anyway)

GL all and thanks :)

B F R

Warning! Long post! :o

10/5: 255.0
10/6: 254.6
10/7: 253.6
10/8: 254.6
10/9: 253.6
10/10: 252.8
10/11: 251.3
10/12: 251.4
10/13: 252.6
10/14: 251.8
10/15: 251.4

Last night I had kind of a break down. I cried like a baby!:bb: I guess I should first tell you that TOM always makes me emotional and I was greeted by this lovely monthly visitor just today. I do hope you saw what I was doing there, with the sarcasm. TOM usually makes me want to throat punch people and then make snotty apologies later. :dizzy: :tantrum: :hug:
ANYWAY, I went to the gyno yesterday. It's a new doctor, to me, so I always hate having to do the whole weighing thing. You know where they start with the WAY lighter weight, even though EVERYONE knows that ain't what you weigh. I suppose this is some kind of scheme thought up by someone who has NEVER been overweight, their "sensitive" way of not offending you. In reality it rubs in your face that some people actually weigh in that neighborhood. So, it was no shock to me that they would have to put that dreaded 250 weight on there. Dude, I weighed yesterday before going. It wasn't that it was a shock but it still hurt! You see, one of my goals was to be down low enough that they wouldn't have to do that, even with more than my birthday suit on. I have had a really rough go of it, for the last 3 weeks. I've been bouncing back and forth and it has, somewhat, stalled the weight loss that I needed to see in order for that goal to be realized. Like I said, no shock but still painful.

So then the cute little doctor comes in looking like she could wear one of my pant legs as an entire, very modest, outfit. During the exam, that is very comfortable (again the sarcasm....in case you missed it) she asks about exercise and I told her my exercise routine. And I proudly announced that, while I know that I have a long way to go, I have lost 30 pounds in 10 weeks! Her response? "Oh, ok." Maybe I'm being stupid but it took EVERY ounce of my being to not throat punch her......WITHOUT a snotty apology to follow. I know that it shouldn't mean that much, this strangers indifference, but her being in the medical field led me to believe that she would be a bit more encouraging and understanding of what it must have taken to do this!

This may not have bothered me so bad if I hadn't been talking to one of my friends (that knows that I am on a diet) on Sunday. When we were talking about the diet, in general, because she didn't ask how it was going or anything, I mentioned that I had lost 30 pounds. No congrats or anything. Her response? "Well, the weight is really melting off of Misty!" Misty is my sister that has lost 45 pounds (low carb) in about the same amount of time that I have been on the diet. Again, maybe it shouldn't mean that much but it hurt. And it's not that I am jealous of my sister. I am tickled pink for her! It's just that EVERYONE is going on and on over how much she has lost and no one even notices that I have lost an ounce! Well, except my hubby and mom.

Even this may not have been so bad if my MIL hadn't asked me, on Sunday, if my diet was working. She didn't ask me this on the phone. I was sitting beside her and had been at here house for 2 hours. Sorry, she wouldn't have gotten an apology after her throat punch either. When I said "Well, I've lost 30 pounds in the 10 weeks since I've started...so, yeah." She just nodded. Don't get me started on her! I'd like to throat punch her for a lot of different reasons!

Am I being a baby? Do you all not want to be encouraged and get some affirmation from people?

10/2-163.3
10/3 - 162.3 Weekly WI
10/4 - 163.4
10/5 - 166.5 blaming tostitos, TOM and rain normal weekend gain
10/6 - 164.3
10/7 - 160.6 after fast day and jog, lost some bloat
10/8 - 164.9 apparently it didn't want to stay gone...
10/9 - 163.8 I have to look, I think I was 164.0 yesterday...it was .0 oops
10/10 - 165.5 weekly WI +3.2 eerg better days ahead
10/11 - 166.5
10/12 - 166.8 happy weekend!
10/13 - 165.5
10/14 - 164.9
10/15 - 165.5 ok, sigh, acceptance,

best to all :sunny:

BFR thanks for sharing the food fight, I think you did great under the circumstance, bagels kill me, sometimes peanuts get me, some days I think I have a tapeworm, sorry for the imagery...you did a great job keeping track of what you were eating, think of what could have happened, sometimes journaling what I've eaten can stop me or at least slow me down.

Boatingmommy I feel like I fight the weekend back off every week, I'd love to be doing that at 10 lbs. lighter but after how many months of saying that I guess I have to accept this is me. Keep fighting girlfriend!

Marinabrasil great job losing while away and congrats on getting your parents support I remember posts from awhile back where you were wishing for that support!

JB sorry for the ordeal, you showed amazing restraint not throat punching anyone in your post :lol: I can't imagine showing so much restraint, especially pre-TOM! Congrats on your 30 pound loss, that's a great accomplishment over any amount of time, keep at your program, the truly important peeps are noticing, you'll get that affirmation from others soon enough, it happens at different times for everyone. Nobody notices then everyone notices...

Best to all :sunny:

Thanks kelijpa :)

JB, I understand how you feel about all that. I was once like that also :) Once long ago I started losing weight and lost 50 lbs. I was at my sister's house out of state and something was said... and I proudly announced with a big grin, "Well, I have lost 30 lbs." :D My sis looked at me with a stern look like this :sumo: and loudly says "WHERE ???" LOL I just said never mind and went on. :) But in fairness she had not seen me in a long time and I put on most all of that weight since the last time I saw her.

My very good friend whose house I stop by at every few weeks has not said a word.... I keep thinking he will. I have lost 63 lbs that he has seen. But in fairness, he knew me from when I was less than 200 lbs and up to 279 and never said a thing about my weight either.

My mother was after my sister constantly to quit smoking. (which she really needed to bad) This bugged sis. Talking on the ph with her, she angrily said, Mother has been bugging me to quit smoking but has not said a word about me not smoking anymore. I asked her how long since she smoked and she said 3 months. I understood her also.

I quit smoking 38 years ago and no one mentioned it. Myself, when I stopped I just kept it to myself. Same with drinking when I stopped 22 years ago. Only a few did notice that and asked when I kept not taking a sip from the jug when it was passed around.

Bottom line, I stopped smoking for myself. I stopped drinking for myself. And I am losing this weight for myself. Nobody is going to make me eat, drink, nor eat more than I want. And I gotta tell ya, controlling eating is more difficult than stopping drinking or smoking. With those, stop and two weeks later practically all the craving is gone. I didn't have to drink some in order to live, nor did I have to smoke some in order to live. But eating.... that is another matter. :( That is an addiction for some of us, some more than others. And we HAVE to eat to survive, which requires controlling a habit. In drug use that is considered practically impossible. So a big YEAH :carrot: for all of us who are doing that, and bottom line, we are doing it for ourselves or ought to be. Those losing not for themselves will not succeed. Same with drinking and smoking.

Well, I will climb down outta da pulpit now... after this one last line. Bottom line, we are doing it for ourselves, for a longer happier healthier way of living and to live longer. ;)

B F R

SW: 135.6
GW: 132.x

10/1: 135.0
10/2: 134.4
10/3: 134.0
10/4: 134.2
10/5: 134.6
10/6: 134.4
10/7: 133.8
10/8: 133.4
10/9: 133.0
10/10: 132.6
10/11: 132.4
10/12: 132.4
10/13: 133.6 - preTOM
10/14: 133.4 - preTOM
10/15: 133.4 - TOM
10/16: 133.0 - TOM

10/5: 255.0
10/6: 254.6
10/7: 253.6
10/8: 254.6
10/9: 253.6
10/10: 252.8
10/11: 251.3
10/12: 251.4
10/13: 252.6
10/14: 251.8
10/15: 251.4
10/16: 250.8 TOM

Thanks guys, and I know I'm doing this for MY health and not for praise but that doesn't make me want affirmation any less. My MIL wouldn't give me props if I had been the virgin Mary so I really shouldn't expect it from her. LOL, since one of the MANY reasons she didn't want me marrying her son is because I came, as a package deal, with a child I had out of wedlock. The fact that I was overweight while we dated and got married was another reason she didn't view me as good enough for her son. I don't know why I expect her to be supportive of something she thinks I should have done a long time ago or never needed in the first place. Oh, well, she CONTINUOUSLY has her nose in our business (to the point that she told my husband that she would pay for birth control for me after our first child together, which made it child number 2, out of 3.....and then asked why I wasn't on birth control when he told her that we were expecting our last child). I'd rather be fat than like that!

10/1 - 165.2
10/2 - 165.1
10/3 - 164.8
10/4 - 164.8
10/5 - 164.7
10/6 - 166.1
10/7 - 163.7
10/8 - 162.6
10/9 - 163.6
10/10 - 162.8
10/14 - 164.6 Post weekend
10/15 - 164.3
10/15 - 163.2
GW - 159

Jb1975 - Sounds like you have a lot of issues with your MIL, or she has them with you. Some women are NEVER going to like their son's choice of wife...simply because you are replacing them. Sounds like she needs to get over it. You are doing a fabulous job and I'm sending you a big hug and a pat on the back!:hug: All of us here know the struggles you are going through and can appreciate your desire to have people notice. Like Rooster said, you have to do it for yourself...but it sure makes it easier when you are being cheered on by others!:cheer:

kelijpa - More weekend fun coming up...last camping weekend of the year. We are going with 7 other couples and my hubby is taking the smoker and smoking a pork shoulder for shredded pork sandwiches. Of course there will be a dozen side dishes. Sigh...just keep swimming.:dizzy: (Sorry, "Nemo" reference).

Marina, apo9 - I have similar problems...if I snack instead of eating a good meal, I'll quickly ruin the whole day. I have been getting better about making the snacks fruits instead of junk. Wish there was a better variety of fruits here...half the produce around here isn't ripe, or it overly ripe when it gets to the store.

Sally - I too feel like "WOW, the month is half over and what have I accomplished?"...well, we haven't gained any, and that is always a good thing. :D Hang in there, chickie!

Underanalysis - As always, looking good!!!:carrot:

Noname - a couple of beers sounds good...damn beer! :devil: Haha!

Hope EVERYONE on this thread is doing great and making healthy choices!

weight this morning 214.4
calories yesterday 1200

Boating Mommy, :) yer an inspiration !!

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