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Thanks for that encouragement. It is so hard to force myself to eat 1800 (with exercise its more like 2300) and see the scale move up. I want to starve myself just to see the numbers go down. I had my wife hide the scale from me for the next 3 weeks, so hopefully I will not have to deal with it and can keep it out of mind.…
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So, I have been doing 1800 calories net every day for the past week since I originally posted. I have been in the pool for at least 30 minutes on six of those days and I have been drinking more water than I ever thought possible. My weight increased by 1lb. I did note a 2/3 inch reduction in chest measurement, but other…
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MFP suggests that I eat 1800 cal per day (net). For a while I had manually lowered that to 1300 (net) per day, but due to the advice of lots and lots of people, I've raised it back to 1800 net. I do not measure everything that passes my lips. At home I weigh meats and estimate volumes of veggies and fruits, but while at…
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My Thursday food calendar was pretty bad, I went to a baseball game a Wrigley and at stadium food all day :-(. Coupled with our mother's day cookout it was a bad week. I'm trying to take the advice of several and on here and several articles that were posted and try to fill up my calories with balanced foods and to…
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Opened it up.
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A typical food diary for me in a day would look like this: Breakfast: 2 eggs scrambled, small serving potato hash browns. (~270 cals) Lunch: Large salad with egg/cheese and low fat dressing or soup and sandwich (multi-grain with lean meat). (~400-600 cals) Dinner: A 3-6oz portion of lean meat, broiled or baked, salad and…
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@Hernandezedw- I have some pretty bad back problems that prevent me from doing much of anything outside of the water. I try to rotate swimming strokes used weekly, and I also do water running one or two days a week for a change of pace. How much variation should I have in my routine?
