I hate to admit this, but those McDonald’s pedometers are cool. As such, (God! I don’t want to say this!!!) I find myself trying to walk more, so I can get that little digital number higher than yesterday. Did their marketing work? In the spirit of being defensive: no. I’m easily amazed. However, after looking at 2 days’ tallies, I’m wondering why I haven’t lost weight before.
Yesterday: Almost 5.5 miles
Today: 6.1 miles
I don’t eat particularly healthily, but it’s not bad. Last 3 days’ food logs:
Thursday:
Breakfast: bowl of cereal (honey nut cheerios)
Snack: Diet Pepsi and a small bag of Combos snacks
Lunch/Dinner (it was in between…): Diet Coke, grilled chicken caesar salad (Mcdonald’s), light vinaigrette dressing.
Snack later: An apple pie and a bottle of water.
Friday:
Breakfast: Cereal (honey nut cheerios)
Some Halls Fruit breezers (A pack = 6 or 8) and Diet pepsi spread out over a couple hours
Lunch: Slice of pizza, one of those 1.5 ounce bags dry roasted peanuts (Hijack: Does anyone here think those have a weird meaty taste?), some fries, pineapple chunks, carton of milk
Dinner: Diet Coke, grilled chicken caesar salad (Mcdonald’s), light vinaigrette dressing, an apple pie.
Today:
Breakfast: Sandwich, with pepperjack cheese and turkey with mustard, glass of milk.
Lunch: Frullati sandwich (turkey), with strawberry banana smoothie
Dinner: 2 apple pies, diet coke, part of a piece of grilled chicken, but then I had to clock in and work.
What, exactly, am I doing wrong? I have enough willpower to not eat certain things, but I feel awkward when with groups of people and I order something that sounds ridiculous to them, like any sort of something that isn’t a huge honking steak or entire side of a pig, since I am a Fat Guy™. (6’ 0", 284#).
I don’t want to jump on any sort of bandwagon right now, since I’ll be leaving for Germany in 3 weeks, and I know anything I have going will be destroyed, due to convienience issues/being a foreigner, etc.
However, afterwards, I’m thinking about Atkins. Now that the big hubbub/risks talk has died down, it looks OK, and I saw a documentary on Food Network. (The TV’s always right, you know.) I don’t need carbs at each meal to feel full or satisfied, and it seems breakfast will be the hardest part to bear, considering my cooking senses wake up far after my body. If I do go Atkins, I’m thinking pre-cooking some bacon or something with boiled eggs. Redundancy doesn’t matter much for me when it comes to breakfast, because I usually don’t care what it is. I’m hungry, and my belly wants food :P.
Where I’m moving for college has a gym type thing in the dorms, so that’s covered, and all I plan to do would be light weight training and treadmill… maybe, haven’t quite thought that far ahead yet. Cooking would also be easier b/c I wouldn’t have to worry about making things at multiple friends’ houses, etc. The dorm room has a small kitchen, but it’s enough to do what I’d need to do.
I know that motivation is going to be the key factor, but I know I can give myself a full month of “Dammit, I hate you! I hate you and your… ass face, diet!”, but then comply. It’s just I’d like even some 6-7# loss after the first month that I can say “Hey, that’s good!” continue
I’d like to get something started when I get back from Germany… I’m still in the planning stages right now, but I don’t want to put it off until I go to school. I guess a realistic goal would be to get down to 235 by the end of my freshman year, and hopefully, as long as I can keep this going, 200 by the end of sophomore. After that, it should just be maintenance.