22 Pounds in 8 Weeks

I made a promise to my wife that I would put some effort into losing weight after we got married in August. I had been having health problems that my weight may have contributed to, and so I began tracking calories.

My goal is, and always has been to lose 1lbs a week. Despite this, I’ve managed to lose closer to 2lbs a week. I use a food scale to measure out almost everything I eat. I even go as far as making sure meals are split into perfect portion sizes for my me and my wife. For example, first I’ll measure the rice and make sure the portion on both plates is equal. Then the meat, then the vegetables, etc.

There’s some foods I don’t measure, like my daily sandwich. I estimate the cheese and condiment entires based off past entries where I did measure. I will also not measure the soup I eat as I always eat half the can one day and finish the other half the other day. Regardless, I’m eating the full can over two days.

My wife has been doing this just as long as I have but eating at maintenance. She frequently eats under her maintenance goals by a few hundred calories and has lost 7lbs in roughly the same amount of time as me.

Her weight loss seems to match more closely to her caloric intake than mine does (taking into consideration our daily average for each week and how much extra weight we’ve lost). I have suspected for a while that my restless legs might be influencing my daily caloric needs and based off my research it would almost account perfectly for the extra weight loss.

Anyways, my goal is still to lose 1 lbs a week. If I can manage to eat more in a day I would be more than happy too. As it is I’m never hungry and often find myself too full to eat. Big contributing factors to my weight gain must have been the 4 daily energy drinks I used to have and the half brick of cheese I’d eat daily (not really true but I ate a lot of cheese).