That's right boys and girls it is time for you weekly fat-spam from yours truly who managed to loose another 5.2 pounds this week. For those of you actually keeping score this drops me down to 299.6 pounds and puts my total loss at 20.4 pounds in the past three weeks. This is despite going way off my eating plan this week, something which I need to rectify next week. This loss pushes me past a few benchmarks which I had set for myself. First I have dropped below 302.5 pounds which is one-quarter of the way to my current goal of 250 pounds. Second I dropped, albeit just barely, below 300 pounds which has been where my weight hovered for years.
While the exercise component of my plan is going well with me hitting the gym three mornings this past week and I got my walk in on Saturday, I went off my initial eating plan and tried a couple of things this week which I do not think worked out real well. The first thing I did was to add snacks into my eating. I found the things which had been suggested to me tasted pretty much like butt (Atkins Advantage Morning Bars are from the Devil). I also would find myself craving a specific snack where as before I had just been hungry. Yesterday I removed the snacks from my desk to see if just knowing they were there was part of the equation. I plan on increasing the amount of vegetables I am eating with dinner to make up the volume.
The other thing I tried this week is starting the morning with a drink suggested by my boss. It is 1.5 cups water, .5 cups unsweetened cranberry juice, a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, and the juice from half a lemon. The idea is that this helps cleanse your kidneys and keep them operating at peak efficiency which is important when trying to loose weight because the liver is what processes fat in to energy. You might find yourself wondering what kidney efficiency has to do with the liver processing fat and you would not be the only one. When the kidneys are not keeping up their work then the liver can step in and take some of the load but when the liver does this it pulls resources from other duties, like burning fat. While the idea here is good the drink is perhaps the nastiest thing I have ever had to drink (and I have tried gin more than once) primarily due to the smell of vinegar. I have tried mixing it a couple of different ways to no avail so I am going to drop it from the repertoire and see what other options are out there. I may just go to drinking a glass of cranberry juice in the mornings or, as Cyn suggested, look into some cranberry pills which are supposed to have all the cleansing fun of cranberry juice but in convenient pill form.
Here is what I consumed:
Friday - 2-15-08
1 Banana1 Yoplait Yogurt
Hooters Buffalo Chicken Sandwich1/2 side of Baked Beans
Kellogg's Blueberry Nutri-Grain Bar2 slices of Salami
3 Chicken EnchiladasRice
Refried Beans20 minutes on the elliptical
Saturday - 2-16-08
1 Yoplait YogurtMed. salad with 1/2 hard-boiled egg, ham, turkey, and Ranch dressing
Lg. glass of Apple JuiceSoba noodles with shiitake, sprouts and snow peas
Iced Tea (no sugar) Walked 4+ miles, last half with 15 lbs. pack
Sunday - 2-17-08
1/4 box Four Cheese Lasagna Hamburger Helper
1/4 can Green BeansClif bar
Med. salad with 1/2 hard-boiled egg, ham, turkey, and Ranch dressingMonday - 2-18-08
1 Banana
The Drink*Medium salad with chicken chunks and Ranch dressing
12 oz. V81 piece Green Tea Candy
1 Atkins Advantage Chocolate Peanut Butter bar1 serving Bertolli Rosemary Chicken, Linguini, and Cherry Tomatoes
30 minutes on the ellipticalTuesday - 2-19-08
The Drink*1 Yoplait Yogurt
Tuna Fish Salad Sandwich with lettuce and onionsHard-boiled Egg
12 oz. V8Atkins Advantage Morning Peanut Butter Crisp Bar
Medium Salad with 1/2 hard-boiled egg, ham, turkey, and Ranch dressingWednesday - 2-20-08
1 Yoplait Yogurt
Medium Salad with chicken chunks and Ranch dressing12 oz. V8
Clif barTofu pasta with sauce
Steamed AsparagusLotus Tea
30 minutes on the ellipticalThursday - 2-21-08
Medium salad with 1/2 hard-boiled egg, ham, turkey, and Ranch dressing
12 oz. V81/4 box Four Cheese Lasagna Hamburger Helper
1/4 can Green BeansAs you can see I was pretty much off-book on Friday. Wednesday evening I ate too much and had a bit of a belly ache because of it. I think I just did the same thing with lunch. Oh well, plenty of time to make up for it.
I spent some time recently thinking about benchmarks for progress in this process and here there are:
310 lbs. - 10 pounds lost
302.5 lbs. - 1/4 way to goal weight300 lbs. - 20 pounds lost
290 lbs. - 30 pounds lost285 lbs. - 1/2 way to goal weight
280 lbs. - 40 pounds lost270 lbs. - 50 pounds lost
267.5 lbs. - 3/4 way to goal weight260 lbs. - 60 pounds lost
250 lbs. - GOAL WEIGHT and 70 pounds lostSo far I have achieved the first three by the hair of my chinny chin chin.
* The Drink is the foul concoction of cranberry juice, vinegar, and water which I discuss above.
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