I didn’t post yesterday! I am skipping days. Or maybe I am slipping – no longer able to post due to lack of nourishment! My calorie total yesterday was 1535, so that’s not a lot. But considering how sedentary I have been the last few weeks, it may be just right.
I had a Russian friend once, and she was ferocious. I told her I was thinking of going on a diet (this in my 20s when I was just a bit overweight). Two years later, she wrote me an email asking if I could still cast a shadow. Ouch! Abraham Lincoln once described an argument that had gotten so thin it was like soup made from the shadow of a pigeon which had starved to death. It was that kind of a situation. Obviously I could still cast a shadow. Two shadows, in the years to come.
My food intake and calorie count
Breakfast – Beef and broccoli with rice (200)
- 200 calories
Lunch – 2 pieces Spanish tortilla (333); Lavash wrap half (60)
- 400 calories
Dinner – Lasagna (500); salad (30)
- 530 calories
Snacking – Pretzels (200); Cheddar cheese (100); Snickers ice cream bar (180);
- 480 calories
Total for the day: 1610 calories (limit 1700)
Guesstimating the portions
I didn’t make the lasagna and didn’t measure the serving. I am guessing 500 calories but don’t know for sure. It felt like that.
Normally I like a bit more control in my food portions (OK, I am a bit extreme about it) but my priority recently has been work. One thing that has had to give is food preparation. So I am just rolling with it.
It’s been interesting to devote the last year and a half to losing 100 pounds and I want that to go further. But maybe it’s time to change my focus a bit. I have been blogging for a while now about making a transition from losing weight to maintaining a weight and I will be thinking a lot more about that, even though I still have a way to go. A weigh to go, haha. My original goal was to lose 120 pounds, ending at 205. Probably I will end up going for a lower number even than that. But for now, 205 is still a good goal – I haven’t gotten there yet. I am at 225.
It’s hard to believe, isn’t it? I used to weigh 325 pounds and have weighed around 300 for maybe 10 years. Now I weight a good bit less. I am a different person now and that person won’t gain back the weight. I am aware that the old me is still in there somewhere and he has had a lot of practice being in charge. I will always have to make sure my new life is attractive and that I will have to do some work.
What have you learned?
-The Doctor