It's been almost two weeks since my last post. Today, I weighed in at 277.2 and that makes me pretty happy. After about 3 weeks of dieting I've lost almost 11 pounds. But I've still got a long ways to go.
Let me tell you about my experience this last Saturday. I got up in the morning and had a yogurt and an apple before leaving home to run a paintball event. For lunch, I brough a Fiber One bar, an apple and an orange. So far, it's looking pretty low calorie (much less than normal). But, when the event ended, I had a dinner activity to go to an no computer to look up how many calories were in what I was eating. I was going in blind (as we usually do when we eat at events). So I ate a reasonable dinner, but the dessert looked too good to pass up.
In the end, when I calculated my daily calories for Saturday, I had eaten over 3000 calories. This would be pretty good compared to my normal eating habits. But for the last 3 weeks I've been eating around 2000 - 2200 calories per day. I was afraid this would set me back a little. Fortunately, I had played a lot of paintball that day and I had been really good during the rest of the week. So in the end I still lost around 4 pounds this week.
This little story is a perfect example of what usually happens when I eat out. The only way I have to make sure I don't go overboard is to track everything, even if I know I went over. It's best to track it beforehand in order to only eat what fits within my goals, but even if I can't do that, I still need to track it all. Eating too much on Saturday helped me have greater resolve to eat right on Sunday which I did.
3 weeks and 11 pounds later I'm feeling pretty good about where this is going. My energy level is up (a little) and my pants are a looser (again, just a little) and I'm heading in the right direction.
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