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Re: Diet

By: De_Composed in GRITZ | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 14 May 25 9:31 PM | 15 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Grits Breakfast of Champeens! 		Msg. 08314 of 08393
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Re: “...though I will occasionally cheat when going out, visiting with folks or celebrating something.”This is Day 31, and I've turned it into the first of my cheating days. I had chicken and baked potatoes (no butter) for lunch. My wife and I will have steak and brussels sprouts tonight, and then it's back to the routine.

Here at one month, I'm "officially" down 14 lbs, but only because the official weigh-in is at 10 p.m. I weighed myself a minute ago and I'm down 15! Pretty good for a cheating day. I'm sure that 14/15 lbs per month is faster than doctors recommend, but I'm also sure that month 2 won't be nearly as successful in that respect. My goal is to lose 25 pounds in 90 days. It's realistic.





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Re: Diet
By: De_Composed in GRITZ
Tue, 06 May 25 3:01 AM 		Msg. 07904 of 08393

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Re: “Cutting out the sugary sodas . . made losing the first ten pounds easy. More exercise and dropping the cookies out of my lunch bag made the second ten pounds go away. The last ten pounds were a DOG.” My previous doctor told me that people don't often lose weight through exercise. His recommendation was to keep track of what I'm eating. He said that if I do that, I'll automatically trend toward reduced calories.

I'm not doing that, but I like the diet I'm on now. I've got three easy meals that fill me up: Bean burritos, Tuna fish sandwiches, and Mushroom soup. The burritos are about 135 calories apiece. I just ate four and I'm full. A can of mushroom soup with dry milk is 550 calories. Three tunafish sandwiches are 390 calories.

If that's all I ate, I'd be consuming 1,480 calories per day and would definitely lose weight. But I also eat miscellaneous fruits and vegetables, zero calorie things like coffee and soda and salad dressing (often as a dip), and a glass of NON-DIET Gatorade (80 calories most days).

My daily intake is less than 2000 calories for sure. Importantly, I'm not suffering and am dropping weight at roughly ½ pound per day. I think I can keep this up indefinitely, though I will occasionally cheat when going out, visiting with folks or celebrating something.

But I will probably find, as some of you have, that diet expectations and diet realities are two different things.





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