Weight Loss and exercise

Kind of a surprise this morning - 156.4 - my lowest weight yet. So I said the heck with trying to make up for the overage and changed yesterday's logging to go over and pretty much start fresh today. I plan to paddle today if no new crisis occurs. An I plan for it to be a long paddle; lots of calories. We'll see.

I weigh 174 pounds. Interesting. I have been losing weight for the last week and a half. Perhaps I am overstating calories. What stands out here is my trail mix. When I make some more, I will carefully take down the nutrition information in each ingredient that I purchase, including weight, and caliculate the calories accordingly for each 1/4 cup. I will then create its own separate food entry on MFP. I will then have this nailed down. Also for now I will stick with foods that I can easily and accurately assess for calories.

Another possibility is that my watch may be actually underreporting calories burned during exercise. I will review this possibly once I get the calories from my trail mix correct. What is interesting is that I have been doing very little to no exercise over the past week, yet I still lose weight. This must be caused by something else. There is an off chance that I may be understating my activity level to MFP. I will comnsider this possibility last since I do not think this is the case. My weigh scale may be off, but I use two scales to check for inaccuracies. I think it is that trail mix!

I weighed 156 today. I had a doctors appointment. I had seen her a couple weeks ago and I was 155. She’s very hard on me about my weight. She did comment about the 1 pound weight gain. But she said it’s ok to go up one or two pounds and it’s probably just the heat.

I decided to have a cheat day today. I had a giant iced coffee and then I went out to eat. I barely ate anything after that iced coffee. So I brought most of the food home. I gave the burger and fries to a family memeber because I knew I couldn’t eat both that and the pizza I had. I want to get back on track tomorrow so I don’t want to deal with the burger and fries. I am having the pizza for dinner.

my doctor measured my waist and it’s 33. I am happy. Anything over 35 is not good. Her tape measure was even colored in red after 35. So that’s good.

Watch says 13830 but they were mostly paddle strokes. Paddled 8 miles over the course of almost 3 hours. Strava put that in over 1300 calories and I only cut it back to 1000.

2869 calories. No, that's not a typo. That's the most I have had in a day since last summer. My weight has been dropping slowly, but it has been dropping. I think I will push it back toward 160 and then let it drop again. Maybe. I think I will paddle again very early Saturday or Sunday morning. Paddling hard with surplus calories should build some muscle. If I really have much surplus.

I walked a whole 954 steps. I performed no exersize. This includes no stretching of my legs for 400 feet. My pain is starting to lessen in my leg, so I am just going to let it heal some more before I stress it through any form of exercise. If it still hurts allot be tomorrow, I will make an appointment with my PCP for next week.

I weigh 174 today. My leg is still hurting, but it is hurting less when I stay off of the leg. I will not do any exercise for today.

I didn’t weigh myself today. I plan on weighing myself on Monday.

I woke up at 10. I usually have my first meal at 11. I had a lean cuisine at 310 calories. At 3:30 I had a hunk of beef from the pot roast the other night. I put it at 150 calories. For dinner I had two kids size quesadillas from Chipotle’s. They had 180 calories each. I fixed two servings of fries in my air fryer. They had 90 calories for each serving.

Total it was around 1,020 calories. Probably less because I think I went a bit high on the pot roast.

I’m having blood work done on Monday. If my numbers are good I won’t be worried about my eating habits.

2735 steps. Another graduation today.

A nice dinner tonight that one of the kids made; a lot of estimation. I had a small grilled chicken gyro and a little rice, but I had a couple of brownies and some frozen yogurt. 1939 calories. i will paddle early am and probably more than account for the overage.

I weighed before paddling; down another half pound or so to a new low - 156.0. Paddled 6.5 miles. Strave gave me 902 calories. I don't think I will edit it.

As planned I didn't weigh myself. My stomach was sticking out more than it has in weeks. Maybe it was just in my head. But I can usually tell I've gone up on the scale based on how far my stomach is sticking out. I'm usually correct.

Today I had a vanillia coke in the morning. 150 calories. At lunch I had a lean cuisine. 330. At 3:30 I had 2 serving of fries at 90 calories each. And 2oz of Turkey deli meat. I'm assuming that was 60 calories. For dinner I had two pieces of frozen fish at 240. I had another serving of fries at 90 calories. I'm pretty low today at 1,050 calories. I feel like I've been eating all day. In reality it was just my usual 2 meals and an afternoon snack and I went hours between them. I may have a handi snack or ice cream sandwich for dessert.

I might actually go over 3000 calories today. I am not even sure that will be surplus calories but I think so. Besides the paddling I did some yard work, but not that long, and a little bit of walking, but not that far. I just walked down to the neighbor hood pond and caught a few fish. Anyway, I need to stop the slow loss. I know I really need to get the average day right and not bounce between extremes (and today probably isn't as extreme as I think it is), but hopefully I will at least stop losing.

Watch says 15812 steps but a lot was paddling 6.5 miles. Some of it was raking grass as it grew too much between mowings and didn't mulch properly; I logged the raking. Some was shopping, walking to the pond and fishing, which I did not log.

3140 calories. Crazy stuff! I'll see how it goes for the next few weigh ins.

My pants that came up to my knees a few weeks ago are now pretty loose.

I had/am eating about 1,140 calories today. I’ve been sitting on my recliner all day. So I think the low calories will be fine.

20209 steps. Soe of it was paddling. Logged about 5 miles of walking and walked a couple of additional miles unlogged. Paddled only a couple of miles today as I went with my son, who kayaked, and his hands blistered and his shoulder hurt so I ended up towing him back across the lake. So half the distance was high intensity. Also, I did some work on technique and fell in several times; climbing back on takes more than you might think. And I never log the pumping (inflatable paddleboard).

2782 calories. Seems like too much; kind of hope it is to creep weigh back up a little.

Since I was wet with lake water from paddling, I showered tonight and went ahead and weighed. It was 157.8 and I hadn't eaten diner at that point. So probably over 158 now. I will weigh next on Wednesday morning.

A total of 595 steps. Incredible! This will change in the near future. My leg is much better, but this time I will work up to intense walking exercise. So my target is 2090 calories. I ate 2062 calories. This included a rich muffin for desert.

I have been depressed lately. I have been letting go doing anything to clean up after myself. This needs to change. I missed my lunch. I think the reason I have been feeling this way is because I have not been exercising. I think tomorrow I will walk around my townhome complex for two miles. I like it since the roads go up a bit in altitude, and then back down. This will give me some exercise.

Exercise definitely can help me pull out of down swings, though sometimes it can make it worse if I stew about a problem while out for a long walk. It seems to depend on whether it is brain chemicals or situational depression, if that makes any sense. paddling seems to help with either, oddly enough. It's still new enough that I usually think of other places and better boards to paddle on brighter days in the future.

I didn’t weigh myself today even though I had planned on it. But I had a psychiatrist appointment today. The vitals lady weighed me and said I was 158. I had heavy jeans on clunky shoes and a t shirt on. The last I was weighed at that doctor I was 167. It was one of those sliding scales. I always think those weigh much higher then digital scales. So I’m thinking I’m more like 153 with my digital scale. Which is a big deal for me.

Today I had 1,200 calories. I wasn’t very hungry. I’m wondering if my new birth control is causing decreased hunger. I’m not sure though, but the weight seems to be pouring off me.

I’ve also started having a schedule with my meals and snacks. The first meal is at 11. Snack is at 3:30. Dinner is at 6:30. Possible evening snack is at 8. It’s almost like it rewired my brain or something.

7539 steps. Logged 4159. Weather was threatening late afternoon through evening so I didn't do a planned late day walk. It turns out I could have, but there was no way to be sure.

2537 calories - about 600 over goal. I am going back to goal again tomorrow and then will weigh Wednesday morning. I don't expect to see much impact yet from just a few days of splurging. I want to get back to 158 or 159 and then try to ease into maintenance again losing very slowly. I was losing too fast on my first attempt. I am still well under goal; that's staying at or below 164.

1712 steps. No exercise. Target of 2090 calories. I consumed 2111 calories. I am not using foods that I cannot ascertain an accurate calorie count. I want to do it this way to nail down the reason I am losing weight. I think I was overestimating the calories for my homemade trail mix when I could calcuoate an accurate calorie count on it. I will not attempt to break any personal record this time.

Tomorrow, I will start exerscisihg by resuming my power walking. I have been on my leg more, as indicated by my rising step count, and have had no problems with that leg. I will start by walk only in a brisk pace, with no running.

PS This time I created very carefully two new food entries in MFP. One is for my tuna fish sandwich, and the other is my trail mix. I will continue to make menus without these until I can determine the total calorie count for the menu was made from specific entries with MFP.