kccougar's daily food intake

[Surfah]

Leftovers and Family Home Evening last night.

4/6
2 pork ribs
tortilla soup (1.5 servings)
water
4oz Sprite
rice crispy treats

Fitday says that equals 1,200 cal but I'm probably underestimating the rice crispy treats. They don't weigh much. At least they were homemade.

I don't know how you do it. I would have eaten my own hand on this kind of diet.

[kccougar]

I don't know how you do it. I would have eaten my own hand on this kind of diet.

Head to work as soon as my son is off to school. Try not to leave the office (I don't keep any food here). Eat as soon as I get home.

Today I even walked to work so I'm trapped here.

[kccougar]

I'm posting tonight so I can resist the urge to wolf something down right before bed.

4/7
1 orange
1/2 package of honey roated peanuts
3 trisket crackers
3 pieces of french toast - 2 w/ powdered sugar and strawberries, 1 w/syrup
more water

[TripletDaddy]

I'm posting tonight so I can resist the urge to wolf something down right before bed.

4/7
1 orange
1/2 package of honey roated peanuts
3 trisket crackers
3 pieces of french toast - 2 w/ powdered sugar and strawberries, 1 w/syrup
more water

dude, seriously. you need to eat more food.

today's lineup looks like something you get if you are on D block doing 30 in solitary.

[kccougar]

dude, seriously. you need to eat more food.

today's lineup looks like something you get if you are on D block doing 30 in solitary.

Unfortunately, weight is not dropping. What I really need to do is start an exercise routine. Then I can up the calorie intake as well. I did walk to and from work today - 3.6 miles round trip at about 4 mi/hr.

[TripletDaddy]

Unfortunately, weight is not dropping. What I really need to do is start an exercise routine. Then I can up the calorie intake as well. I did walk to and from work today - 3.6 miles round trip at about 4 mi/hr.

I agree on the exercise (walking 3.5 miles to and from work is awesome, and probably a nice way to wind down after work. lucky that you live close enough to do it).

I am just wondering (based off my own attempts to develop a better eating regimen) whether it is a good idea to eat so little and in inconsistent bursts, as opposed to smaller meals consistently.

You weight will not drop with this current diet because you are starving your body through long stretches, so it is reacting by storing fat for the long hauls. If anything, you are also losing some muscle in the process, as well.

[Babs]

Unfortunately, weight is not dropping. What I really need to do is start an exercise routine. Then I can up the calorie intake as well. I did walk to and from work today - 3.6 miles round trip at about 4 mi/hr.

Have you thought about lifting? That's a pretty time-effective way to start getting rid of the fat, and it's doable even if your cardio strength isn't yet what you'd like it to be.

[TripletDaddy]

Have you thought about lifting? That's a pretty time-effective way to start getting rid of the fat, and it's doable even if your cardio strength isn't yet what you'd like it to be.

I've been eating lots of yogurt.

Valerie Bertinelli wishes she had my midsection right now.

[Babs]

I've been eating lots of yogurt.

Valerie Bertinelli wishes she had my midsection right now.

Good to hear. I still don't believe she's fifty. Either that or there was some serious photoshop action going on there.

I saw your this-is-what-I-eat post the other day. Our diets are quite similar, even down to the ice cream sandwiches. (I religiously eat one per day, usually before breakfast.)

[TripletDaddy]

Our diets are quite similar, even down to the ice cream sandwiches. (I religiously eat one per day, usually before breakfast.)

Sorry, sister. In the LDS Church, we are not given to vain repetitions.

[kccougar]

Have you thought about lifting? That's a pretty time-effective way to start getting rid of the fat, and it's doable even if your cardio strength isn't yet what you'd like it to be.

Several months ago, I had a routine that had just about become a habit - jogging 2 miles every other morning and lifting weights on the off days. Unfortunately, I got sick for a week or so and fell off that wagon.

This written food log has been good for me for two reasons:

1) I've stopped drinking soda and am drinking 5x more water than I was before.

2) I've demonstrated to myself that I have some modicum of willpower. I was beginning to think I was "addicted" to food. Since starting to write down everything I eat, I have cut way down on the big lunches I was eating.

I agree that what I've recorded here over the last couple weeks is far from an ideal diet and not good for the long term. My plan after I get back from our spring break trip this weekend is to begin a new routine that includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner along with exercise.

[kccougar]

I can't believe this thread is from three years ago. Mind boggling. The bad news is that I weighed 200 lbs in 2009 when I tried this experiment, and today I weigh 205 lbs.

The good news is that I recently started tracking my food again, and I'm enjoying it much more this time around. I also have lost 10 lbs in two weeks. I'm even eating breakfast, though only a little. I haven't had soda or fries in several weeks, and while I still prefer eating out for lunch over brown-bagging it, I'm choosing a chicken sandwich over a burger or a small sub over the foot-long because I know I have to enter my calories.

I'm using myfitnesspal.com these days, and I've learned a couple things:

1. If you make reasonable food choices, it is relatively simple to control caloric intake.

2. Desserts can completely blow up the best executed day.

I've set what sounds like a pretty aggressive calorie goal at 1,320 cal per day. That puts me on a trajectory to lose 2 lbs a week, which again is aggressive but not way too extreme. And that is just for my baseline activity, and doesn't include any exercise. Any exercise I do provides for an equal jump in calories allowed for the day. It really is not as hard as I thought it would be to stay right at that level.

My typical day over the past couple weeks.

Breakfast:
A slice of homeade spelt bread toast with peanut butter or a fried egg on toast
Water

Lunch:
An 8-inch sub or chicken sandwich, easy on the mayo or no mayo at all
Water

Dinner:
Whatever my wife is cooking. And lately it is very healthy - a LOT of beans, vegetables, grains (quinoa, barley, etc)
Water

Snacks:
None during the day usually. If there's dessert, I've been good at having just one or two cookies instead of a half dozen. Basically I'm just taking what I have room for on my calorie count for the day.

Sounds very similar to what I've just read through in this thread from 3 years ago, but at the same time seems much more sustainable to me.