Trying this again. Sage2 is returning to straight cal counting after a brief experimental foray into another methodology.
Same old format, starting with today's cals, going to do my first tracking challenge of the year, posting cals for the previous day and weekly weigh-ins and all that jazz. This little challenge will run from January 6 (today) to January 16.
This is just a tracking challenge; a lot of changes are about to happen in my life and I just want to focus on getting consistent with sane calorie counts. Exercise is a given but not relevant to reaching my weight goal, which is now 120, although I'll be ecstatic to get ANYWHERE in the 120s at this point.
Here's the tracker; I'll periodically shorten it as I go along:
Ok, dokey, so the week I played around a few days with another "diet" tracking method that shall be nameless, I basically gained 2.4 for the whole seven days, even though the cals on both the experimental days and the straight tracking days were not so bad. But the sense of disorder and deprivation and restriction when I didn't straight-out count cals as I am used to (and it's the method I believe is the most accurate and easiest), contributed to (although did not solely cause) just too many cals over time and I gained 2.4 from last Sunday.
New weekly weight is 136. Goal, as was stated last week, is 120.
I don't care when I get there, but have a tentative date in mind of May 22, because that's when I'll have a schedule change again following one I will have on Monday, January 18.
So, that sounds a little complicated, but the basic thing is I'm BAAAAACKKK, and the first thing to do is get control of the cals and start back down to the 120s direction again.
I'm going to do the cal tracking challenges here in seven-day chunks, starting with today (next post).
I don't regret this crazy week (it was crazy in more ways than just diet) but I have no intention of gaining anymore dang weight.
Calorie counting works (for me, anyway) and I enjoy it. So here's to the downward slide starting NOW!
Exercise was not great this last week either, but sometimes that happens. I consider food quantity to be the main issue in weight management (for me, at least), so that's all, as always, that I'll address in this little bloggety blog.
Ha, no worries, Aria. I'm in steady state now, very comfortable cal zone and showing a bit of a downtrend in the daily weigh-in, although too soon to tell what the weekly will do.
Sage2's 2016 Calorie Blog
Tracking Challenge #1
Sunday Scale Tale
