I am having a strange week, food wise. This morning, I was very hungry. I thought this was due to my low calorie day yesterday, so I didn’t worry about it. I had a nice breakfast. Then I wasn’t hungry for lunch, until an hour late. Then I was Really hungry! So I ate almost all the rest of my calories for the day, for lunch. I wasn’t hungry for dinner, so I thought it all worked out. Wrong! By 9PM I was hungry again, and am now way over for today. If you average yesterday and today, it works out…..
My daily food intake and calorie count:
Breakfast – 6 x pyrohi with butter (75 + butter)
- 600 calories
Lunch – Costco pizza slice (350); chicken and hummus wraps (350)
- 700 calories
Dinner – noodles (75)
- 75 calories
Snacking – 35 grams of chocolate (175); 3 x chocolate hazelnut coins (55); tea with half and half (80)
- 425 calories
9PM meal – sloppy joe sandwich (300); pretzels and hummus (100)
- 400 calories
Total for the day: 2200 calories (limit 1800)
Weight loss review
I’ve been reading some of the many, many websites dedicated to losing weight. Most interesting to me right now are those which describe ideas from someone who has lost a lot of weight. I am having fun fitting their ideas into the Doctor of Things weight control framework. This is so I can see if there are agreements and any contradictions. Always listen to people who have lost the weight already, right?
The article I am reviewing right now – click here.
This article has weight loss tips from twelve people who lost weight successfully, most of them lost 100+ pounds. What follows is my summary of the advice they would give to other people.
Sarah – devote a lot of time to weight loss.
David – make sure you have your desired foods and snacks ready to go
Julie – monitor your weight by any method that works
Megan – create new values to live by
Jessica – Focus on today and this week
Olivia – create new values to live by
Kate – create new values to live by (the article wrongly calls this motivation)
Haley – build in small goals (persuade yourself), find a support network
Laura – create new values and aims to live by
John – change your mind and your body will follow
Justine – lead with your powerful spirit
A lot of this sounds familiar to me. I use the same points in my post on how to start a diet 120 pounds overweight. None of it is contradicting what I have been doing, which is nice. The last piece of advice, from Justine, I am not sure how to interpret. She is quoted as saying that your spirit is powerful and the person in the mirror has all the motivation you need. I’ll have to think about that one. The article itself layers its own advice on top of what these guys are saying. And it’s not the kind of article that has a lot of nuts and bolts. None of the twelve mentions a food journal.
This article also continues the strange obsession with motivation that I see in all the weight loss literature. Pretty much every overweight person is motivated to be thin. Trust me, I was very motivated for years. Motivation was not the problem. If it was just motivation, I would already be thin. What I needed was a whole new way of thinking.
A key difference with the Doctor of Things diet is that I have put a lot of thought into the need to let go of your old life, change your values, listen to your desires, negotiate with yourself, and satisfy yourself, with a goal of controlling your weight. Your life should improve in its quality and satisfaction. Losing weight is hard enough, you don’t need to be punishing, depriving, and starving yourself at the same time. Self knowledge is the key to maintaining control.
-The Doctor