I did it… I don’t know how, but I did it!! This morning, I came in at 290.0! That’s almost a 2.5 lb drop from last week’s gain, though still only 1.8 lb down overall from my last low. Still, that’s not bad… bringing my total loss since day one up to 33lbs! Last week, I think I did pretty good, as far as going to the gym and keeping my days healthy. Right now, I’ve got several ideas on what could be stalling or helping my diet, and I’m not sure which one is the direction to go, or whether I should combine them, or take even another direction altogether. Here are the current hypotheses that I have:
1) During the week, because I’m dining out more and not fixing my own meals, the overall quality of the food is not nearly as good as I should be having, even if the calories overall are down. On the weekend, I “usually” eat most of my meals at home… so that meals less grease and fat overall, much more “controlled”.
2) I’m not getting enough calories during the week, so my body slips into starvation mode by midweek. On Friday, or whenever I have “Free Day”, it slips out of starvation, and for the rest of the weekend, I get results!
3) I’m usually spreading meals out on the weekend. I’ll usually have a decent breakfast, then have something light for a snack a few hours later, followed by lunch, and then dinner. So, 4 meals instead of the 3.
Each seems plausible… and I’m curious to “test” each to see how it works… 1 week, eat everything from home… bring in my lunch everyday… 1 week, beef up the calories… get it to the 2000 – 2200 range. Make sure I get there each day. 1 week, start bringing in 2 snacks to have mid morning and mid afternoon. Then I can see which one had the least or biggest effect. Just not sure if a week would be enough to really call it an accurate “test”.
I discussed this with a friend earlier, and she seemed to think the first one would be the best route overall, also making sure that I do hit my 1800 or so calorie minimums. So, I think that’s the direction I’m going to go, though I might have to wait until later this week to fully put that into testing.
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