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31 agosto 2010

Yesterday was a very difficult day. I realized the day before that my RDI calculated at fatsecret.com was apparently significantly higher than the RDI calculated by two other methods. I decided to use the tool from WebMD as it seemed to ask more questions and have more answers than the fatsecret.com tool. That means my RDI is 1805 calories per day. I'm strictly calorie counting to weight loss at this point. In spite of the RDI difference, I've done remarkably well measuring weight only. Since last Wednesday, I've lost 6.5 lbs.

But yesterday, I felt terribly hungry all day - ravenous even. It was the first time I've felt that way on my calorie counting plan. I was prepared to eat anything in sight just to appease my feelings of being hungry. The thing is, I wasn't really all that hungry, more like I felt the need to eat. This is likely a sign of my compulsive eating.

I ran off to the store and purchased rice cakes and some low fat granola. The rice cakes were the caramel kind at 50 calories per cake and I've always enjoyed eating them (even when not calorie counting). The granola was 90 calories per bar. I hoped one or the other would satisfy my feelings of hunger. I was wrong, but stayed true and decided to go to bed early rather than sit there thinking about food. Funny, food has consumed my every thought lately. I did eat a lot of the rice cakes (7 of them, 350 calories - being the maximum I could have without exceeding my calorie limit).

I woke up feeling starved, but avoided the chocolate cupcakes on the counter and instead headed off to the office where I have some fiber bars that I generally eat for breakfast and find fairly satisfying (thanks to the fiber, I'm sure). On the way, I stopped and bought a diet Snapple - the flavor was horrible as it competed with my toothpaste, but after the first few drinks, I decided it was pretty refreshing and tolerable. I've always hated diet drink flavors due to the aspartame.

Upon arriving at the office, I immediately grabbed for my fiber bars and ate one as slowly as my starvation would allow, trying to enjoy it. Thankfully, I do like the taste (although I'd rather have a KitKat). I ate that and considered a cup of coffee. While coffee isn't high calorie by itself, I can't stand it black. I demand a lot of cream and sugar. Ultimately, I decided that the coffee would just depress me and had some Crystal Light to drink.

Now, I'm about 25 minutes from the lunch hour and can't stop thinking about food. I've had 140 calories today so far (including the drinks and the fiber bar. I'm debating about lunch still. I have a few low calorie options, but most of my lower calorie dieting has been about portion control and stopping myself from eating everything in sight. Because I feel so hungry, I'm going to try to find something that is a large portion, but low cal.

In spite of the 6.5lbs of weight loss, I'm not noticing a visible physical change. In fact, I don't even seem to have looser clothing. I see the people in before and after photos on television and they lose about 17 lbs and have this enormously different body to show for it. Of course, they are likely weight training, so the muscle mass contradicts the lost fat. That's my excuse for it anyway. For me, I'm strictly losing weight now and will focus on the rest (i.e. weight training and balanced diet) later.

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31 agosto 2010

Peso:	Disminuído hasta ahora:	Aún para ir:	Dieta seguida:
128,1 kg	2,9 kg	14,7 kg	Bien

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30 agosto 2010

Weekends are tough.

I didn't have any problems last week sticking to my reduced calorie plan, but the weekend was really tough, mostly because we had lots of company and food and cake and cupcakes and cookies and ice cream and all that horrible high calorie junk food that I love. I managed to make it, eating only one cupcake... but that made me terribly hungry and I ate dinner later than I intended. Then, I gave in to temptation and had some ice cream. I suppose I can consider it a "treat" for doing so well. The result +0.5 lbs dropping my total weight-loss to 5 lbs (note that my original weigh-in was a guess at 285lbs, but I later stepped on a scale and resentfully noted that it should have been 289lbs). All this weight gain has been caused predominately by my eating habits and addiction to colas.

After going several days without a cola, I decided to try a diet cola. I bought a Diet Dr. Pepper (because Dr. Pepper is my favorite cola). It was horrible. It tasted like I was drinking medicine. This morning, I decided to try Coke Zero, at the recommendation of a friend. Not so good either. In fact, I think I'd rather do without cola than have diet colas. I'm very fond of many of the Crystal light flavors, but I do wish I could find something carbonated that is satisfying and low (or zero) calories.

After a while of calorie counting and losing weight, I hope to start the balancing of the diet - eating healthier foods instead of the fried foods that dominated my eating habits over the weekend (an atypical pattern).

Now, I'm trying to reset my fatsecret.com account to show the actuality - but having trouble. I'll just use tomorrow's weigh-in. Granted, it will look like I lost 5 lbs-ish in 24 hours, but, it will be more accurate than before.

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30 agosto 2010

Peso:	Disminuído hasta ahora:	Aún para ir:	Dieta seguida:
131,1 kg	0 kg	17,7 kg	No Aplica

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29 agosto 2010

289.0 - this should have been my original weigh in amount.

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