Started today off with breakfast at Subway on my way into the office. I got a foot-long egg-white and Ham on wheat. No cheese, small amount of mustard, and lots of veggies. I was surprised to see this was around 650 calories. I use CalorieLab.com right now to count with, does anyone else have anything better? This means I have 850 left for the entire day, unless I get to the gym and work out what I eat more than.
Tonight is going to be hard though. My buddy is having BBQ for his birthday. Oh yeah, it kinda sucks. My friends are all really really really active in shape people. Most are in the armed forces, and that tell me they do crazy stuff like run 10 miles a day. My friend Allan yesturday told me he planned a light run for himself that day, 3 miles to the beach and back home, but when he got to the beach he saw some girls running and he wanted to run with or near them for a bit, and then another group of hotter girls ran by him, and he could let any girls run faster than him so he started running harder, until he found himself in the next city 16 miles he ran. 8 there and back. My other friend Matt, we were hanging out at the beach and he decided to take a run. He came back what felt like 2 hours later after running 5 miles down the beach and 5 back... in the sand. So sick. But hey, they are basically paid to keep themselves in top condition, so Im not hating on it. They have tried to get me to work out with them, or run on the beach with them, but its kinda lame when Im jogging along at what I feel is a fast pace and they are running zig zags in the sand so they still run "with" me. lol. I need to get in better shape. But more on that later.
Im still pumped. Lets do this. What I've learned so far - eat the 6" instead of the 1' long. Save some calories for yourself later in the day.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Monday May 30th
Monday May 30th was the day I set to be my first day. I woke up and had an open faced tuna sandwich with light non fat mayo for breakfast. I went on a 2.5 mile hike. Came home and made and shared a Jamba Juice make it yourself smoothie and 1 pita with some hummus. Went to see a movie (Hangover 2), and then went to Islands and had a Turkey Burger on a wheat bun...with fries. I dont know calories that well, but my guess is 350 for the tuna sandwich, 120 for the jamba juice, 120 for the 1 pita and hummus, and 1100 for the turkey burger and fries for a total of 1,690. Not terrible, I know I should not of eaten the fries, and to be honest, I dont know if those calories are accurate. But here comes the worst part. As we are leaving Islands, the wife says, "your daughter wants something at Dairy Queen, pull in there" meaning she was having a pregnant craving. Well... she got excited I was going to come in with her which I normally just wait for her to get it and come back to the car...and I fail on day 1. I got a small blizzard. 600 calories. For a total of 2,290. I also ate a handful of strawberries and some cherry tomatoes throughout the day.
So - as I was writing this I did some research from the Internet and found out how many calories my body burns a day (I know this could be off by a bit). Using the Harris-Benedict Formula, my BMR is 2,341. My activity level is probably a little less than Lightly Active, so I will say its a 30% multiplyer (702), and my digestion calories are 304. So my total daily caloric expenditure is 3,347. Is that right? It seems crazy. Can someone out there help me out? haha. So, does that mean my body burns 3,350 calories day right now? Is that really how much Im eating? It doesnt make sense. So, if I want to loose 2 lbs a week, I need to intake 1,000 calories less than 3,350 so 2,350? So, even with the Blizzard I ate I still hit my goal of 2lbs a week? It seems too easy, and also doesn't make sense as to why I haven't lost weight already. Well, maybe I was eating a lot more than I thought. Lets plan it out. If I can limit myself to a net of 1,500 calories a day including exercise my weekly intake would be 10,500 which is 12,950 calories under what my body burns a week which is around 3.5 lbs a week. My goal is to loose 55 lbs which at that pace would take me about 16 weeks. This is the first week. The end of September is around when I will hit my goal. When my daughter is born in the middle of August I will have lost near 35 lbs. Now, I also know that as you get skinner, the daily calorie burn gets smaller so I have to work out more. I understand that, but I think I can do it. Lets loose some weight.
So - as I was writing this I did some research from the Internet and found out how many calories my body burns a day (I know this could be off by a bit). Using the Harris-Benedict Formula, my BMR is 2,341. My activity level is probably a little less than Lightly Active, so I will say its a 30% multiplyer (702), and my digestion calories are 304. So my total daily caloric expenditure is 3,347. Is that right? It seems crazy. Can someone out there help me out? haha. So, does that mean my body burns 3,350 calories day right now? Is that really how much Im eating? It doesnt make sense. So, if I want to loose 2 lbs a week, I need to intake 1,000 calories less than 3,350 so 2,350? So, even with the Blizzard I ate I still hit my goal of 2lbs a week? It seems too easy, and also doesn't make sense as to why I haven't lost weight already. Well, maybe I was eating a lot more than I thought. Lets plan it out. If I can limit myself to a net of 1,500 calories a day including exercise my weekly intake would be 10,500 which is 12,950 calories under what my body burns a week which is around 3.5 lbs a week. My goal is to loose 55 lbs which at that pace would take me about 16 weeks. This is the first week. The end of September is around when I will hit my goal. When my daughter is born in the middle of August I will have lost near 35 lbs. Now, I also know that as you get skinner, the daily calorie burn gets smaller so I have to work out more. I understand that, but I think I can do it. Lets loose some weight.
249.7
249.7 is my starting weight. I'm 28 years old, and 6'1" tall and I dont like the way I look anymore. Ive tried diets before, well... that's not really fair to the diets, I should say I THOUGHT about diets before and tried to be more aware of the food Im putting in my mouth, but I often fell off within a day or two. I havnt narrowed it down to what the cause is, to be honest. One problem I know is that I eat a lot of fast food, but I dont really LIKE fast food. I feel sick after eating Jack in the Box or McDonalds. Then why do I eat there? Because its fast. I feel like i have such little time durring the day with how busy I am at work to actually prepare a meal, or take more than 5 minutes to run down to the nearest drive through, start eating on my way back, and be finished or only have 1 burger left when I sit in my chair. Oh, that brings me to another point. I eat too much when I do eat. I know I do. Somedays I will try to be good and grab a sandwich at Subway, tell them to hold the mayo, and feel better about my lunch option, but as I drive away I find myself going through the Jack in the Box drive through for curly fries and feel like a fat ass as I eat them on my way back to work so no one sees when I get there. Yeah, I guess I do have a problem.
If someone asked me to describe myself, I dont know if the word active would come up. I could say without a doubt that it would have earlier in my life, but I'm not so sure now. I would describe myself now as... quick witted, funny, intelligent, hard working, married, soon to be father, video gamer, enjoys cooking but rarely does it, a sucker for terrible reality TV (which my wife watches but I cant turn away from... I tell her its like a train wreck that you cant help but look at), and... lets see... I dont sleep very well. There, that about sums me up. I get to work between 7:30 and 8:30am (I should be there around 7:00 - 7:30), I work until around 6pm, I get home around 6:30. We have dinner, sit down at 7:00 to watch some TV and our recorded shows from the night/week earlier, and then the wife goes to bed at 10pm and I play video games until midnight. Go to sleep. Repeat.
Ive been married for 2 1/2 years. I love my wife. We are expecting a child in August, a girl. Sympathy weight is a bitch and real. I gained about 15 pounds since she has been pregnant. I don't know if its from the extra eating we are doing, or the lack of exercise and activities we are able to do, or I'm sure both. I dont blame all the weight I've gained on my wife, but I was 185lbs when I met her 5 years ago, and now I've hit the 250 mark. My goal weight is 190-195, but In all honest, I don't care what I weight, I just want to feel and look healthy. I want to say my wife is supportive of me trying to loose weight, but when I told her I'm going to do it FOR REAL this time, she just said - OK, good luck. As in, I know you will be eating a double bacon ultimate cheeseburger by the end of the week. Its OK though, I know she wants me to loose it, and I know she has tried to nag and nag me about it in the past. Maybe she is just trying a different approach with me now. Either way, this is something I need to do on my own - and of course with the internets. Hi internets.
I actually "started" this weight loss diet/exercise yesterday - May 30th, 2011. I'm not sure the format I will use for this blog, or what Im going to say, but I figured it might help me and keep me motivated. Even if no one reads this, its still something I can use. So... here we go.
If someone asked me to describe myself, I dont know if the word active would come up. I could say without a doubt that it would have earlier in my life, but I'm not so sure now. I would describe myself now as... quick witted, funny, intelligent, hard working, married, soon to be father, video gamer, enjoys cooking but rarely does it, a sucker for terrible reality TV (which my wife watches but I cant turn away from... I tell her its like a train wreck that you cant help but look at), and... lets see... I dont sleep very well. There, that about sums me up. I get to work between 7:30 and 8:30am (I should be there around 7:00 - 7:30), I work until around 6pm, I get home around 6:30. We have dinner, sit down at 7:00 to watch some TV and our recorded shows from the night/week earlier, and then the wife goes to bed at 10pm and I play video games until midnight. Go to sleep. Repeat.
Ive been married for 2 1/2 years. I love my wife. We are expecting a child in August, a girl. Sympathy weight is a bitch and real. I gained about 15 pounds since she has been pregnant. I don't know if its from the extra eating we are doing, or the lack of exercise and activities we are able to do, or I'm sure both. I dont blame all the weight I've gained on my wife, but I was 185lbs when I met her 5 years ago, and now I've hit the 250 mark. My goal weight is 190-195, but In all honest, I don't care what I weight, I just want to feel and look healthy. I want to say my wife is supportive of me trying to loose weight, but when I told her I'm going to do it FOR REAL this time, she just said - OK, good luck. As in, I know you will be eating a double bacon ultimate cheeseburger by the end of the week. Its OK though, I know she wants me to loose it, and I know she has tried to nag and nag me about it in the past. Maybe she is just trying a different approach with me now. Either way, this is something I need to do on my own - and of course with the internets. Hi internets.
I actually "started" this weight loss diet/exercise yesterday - May 30th, 2011. I'm not sure the format I will use for this blog, or what Im going to say, but I figured it might help me and keep me motivated. Even if no one reads this, its still something I can use. So... here we go.
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