Weight Loss and exercise

At this point, Pacer has given me about 390 calories for 11000 steps.

That gave me a target around 1900, but I had 130 carried over from yesterday. Instead of resolving that, I made it worse and now I am carrying 276 into tomorrow. I plan to paddle tomorrow and the forecast is very encouraging. I will get the big eraser out and clear up the mess. But I weigh in the morning and hope my 2 days of small overages (maybe more than small if this Pacer experiment isn't working) doesn't bounce me up to 160.

MFP 962 calories Apple Watch steps 4,839

Kind of a surprise - 155.4. I am carrying forward about 275 calories from yesterday and will pretty much ignore it with the paddling planned for later today. It better happen as i will likely be down to a really low number of calories left by afternoon.

172 pounds. Another day where I may be too busy to exercise. I will see about this later in the afternoon. I have to keep exercising or if I miss too many days, my performance goes backwards. Then it will take me even longer to catch up to where I was. I have not figured out the calories that I ate yesterday. I had to skip breakfast and lunch sitting at the car dealership while they fixed my car a second time during the same day yesterday. I was way under my target, by about a thousand calories. I guess I can eat anything that I want today.

I have to remember to bring in salads and chicken to make lunches. I am eating nothing but protein bars (which are candy bars with some additives), regular candy bars and pop tarts all day long. I will come in under goal assuming I paddle, which is a virtual certainty at this point. I will only have about 50 calories left when I start paddling, but i will burn more than enough for dinner afterwards.

One of those worst case scenarios today. Last weekend when I was deflating my SUP, someone came too close to me in the parking lot with his boat trailer and ran over the very back of my SUP. It seemed okay. I tested the valve and looked at the tire print an it seemed fine. It turns out it did run over something that made a really tiny tear. I patched it and it's away from any seam and really small so I am not worried about it. But the glue takes 24 hours to set properly. So I didn't get to paddle. But I hiked instead. Pacer said a little over 10000 steps and 4 miles total. I had ~3000 steps and a reading of 1 mile before the hike. Where I turned around on the other end of the trail, there was a sign saying it was 3.1 miles back to where I started. I ran some on the way back because I was losing light. I forgot how much darker it gets in the trees before sunset. Long story to say Pacer logged 393 calories.

I actually consumed 1621 calories today and rolled forward 269 for a total of 1890, which was pretty much right at goal. No veggies, very little fruit, one piece of actual meat, a piece of bread, a low calorie tortilla and the rest was pretty much protein bars, candy and pastry. Not the healthiest choices. But calories are right and nothing is rolled forward. I will eat yogurt at breakfast, salad at lunch, chicken and broccoli for dinner tomorrow. I will have fruit as snacks.

I weigh next on Friday.

Another day where I had to eat high calories foods and icecream to come up to target. Little actual nutrition here. No breakfast or lunch. I was too busy. I should of had breakfast before I left for the day.

I need to straighten my diet out too. I need to go back to yogurt smoothies, some fruit, turkey burgers, salads with sliced meat, and such. This wouid save me money too. I am going to do some grocery shopping tomorrow to pick up some of this for me to eat.

173 pounds. I will exercise today. I am going to start again my old routine by making scrambled eggs for breakfast. I need to do some grocery shopping today.

I did end up having a nectarine and a small amount of chopped walnuts late last night and logged them as breakfast this morning instead of doing my adjustment thing. Since it was right before bed, I figured it really doesn't throw anything (macros for the day).

12667 steps right now, which Pacer has given me 443 calories for (a few more than shows on the report as it updates intermittently). I will probably get a few more steps and a couple of additional calories before bed. Pacer doesn't know that thousands of those steps were behind a lawn mower, so the calorie count doesn't seem that high.

1944 calories consumed. The only dessert items were a small pudding cup and a mini ice cream sandwich. Veggies at 2 meals and once as a snack. Lots of fruit. I feel like I made healthier choices today than I have been making the last few days.

I will weigh in the morning and then I am going to the beach for the day. There will probably be a protein bar or two on my diary tomorrow.

MFP 1,112 calories. Apple Watch steps 2,143
Water intake 33.8 oz
Today I had two meals from Evolve Paleo. Smoked pit ham grab and go salad for lunch. Then I had chipotle chicken breast loaded sweet potato for dinner

I have consumed 2,580 calories. No exercise. I went to the running track late in the afternoon. The grassy middle of the oval track was being used by a football team for practice. I hope this now does not continue every day.

15578 steps, ~6.5 miles and Pacer gave me ~450 calories for it. An hour of surfing on my SUP in tough conditions calculated by MFP to be a little over 200. That seems low; unusual for mfp.

Consumed 2120 calories. A bunch were late after I got home from the beach. I forgot to weigh this morning but weighed before I took a shower tonight (and before the frozen yogurt, peach, watermelon and PB granola). 153.6. I was (and still feel somewhat) dehydrated.

MFP calories 1,140. Apple Watch steps 4,026
Water intake 50.7oz
I did not have breakfast today my stomach was upset. My lunch I was starving. I had Evolve Paleo Blackened Chicken Salad it was pretty spicy but good.
For dinner I had Evolve Paleo Meatloaf with vegetables. The meatloaf was not bad I did not care for the veggies.
I walked my dog throughout the day. We walked by the lake.

I decided to weigh again this morning to keep tracking morning weights. 152.4 - a new low. I still think it is a low spike, but I probably am at or below 155 now. One of my kids is working at Dunkin' Donuts. Maybe I will go look in on him in a bit. Most of their donuts are in the 350-400 calorie range; might have to go for a swim this afternoon (once the donut is at least partially digested so I don't sink ).

EDIT - I went with one of my other kids and got coffee and donuts and only realized when we got home that my donut was not on the receipt and wasn't in the bag (it wasn't my son who took our order or rung us up).

Going way over today; we went out for Asian and I didn't bring home leftovers. Mine was one with rice on the side, which I didn't eat, and wasn't as large as most but probably still 3 normal portions. Then I get my crazy "I'm over anyway" urges and just compound the problem. If this morning's weight is anywhere close to reality I have a bit of room but just the same I will try to go light tomorrow and see what I weigh on Monday. Will probably be able to edit this post in a bit to do the tally...

Woke up this morning and my stomach was upset. After I walked my dog I went back to bed. Finally up around lunch I ate two Texas toast. Later I ate a few saltines crackers and water. For dinner I ate some gluten free cereal.
MFP calories 592. Apple Watch steps 1,932
Water intake 67.6oz

Will post yesterday and today in a bit; probably edit this entry. I went over by 1024 calories yesterday and evened it back out today with light eating and a long paddle. In fact, I have a few hundred left right now. Crazy...

OK, yesterday was basically no exercise outside of some incidental walking for ~150 calories.
Actual consumption yesterday was around 2700 calories, rolled forward 1024 to bring it down to goal.

Today I paddled 8.7 miles. Strava wanted to give me close to 1400 calories and I edited it down to 1050 (120 per mile is about right; it's slower yet harder than walking on my current board). And some incidental walking brought it up to 1162. With the 1024 calories rolled forward from yesterday, net on exercise was 138.

Today I actually consumed about 1634 calories.

So I over ate yesterday and made up for it by doing the exercise for it today and just eating as if I had no exercise. Comes out basically even for the weekend.

After I got back from paddling, I weighed 150.2, but that's a bogus weight because of how dehydrated I was and because I still had a lot of calories left to eat. I ate a pound of watermelon, had a mini ice cream bar, a couple of pop tarts and a couple of large classes of water after that. Probably got my weight up closer to 165 before I was done. I will try to remember to re-weight in the morning or just wait until Wednesday morning.

I weigh 173 this morning. I ran one mile and walked one mile. I burned a whole 189 calories. This makes for a target of 2689 calories. I have consumed 2803 calories due to a rich appke pie. So I am over by 115 calories. I will take care of that tomorrow.

I could not run my normal four mile distance since I appear to be still recovering from yesterday. I broke another personal record yesterday by running a 13 minute and 20 second mile. My first two miles are better than my last two, with the second mile being my best. I averaged a heart rate of 161 when this is normally about 155 or less. Quite a workout. What is interesting is that this required less effort than it has in the past, so I was able to spread my legs a bit more running faster allowing me to come up with this personal record. I still was not as tired as I have been in the past when I finished running the first two miles.

Why did this all of the sudden happen to me? Was it due to the three days that I took off from running? Maybe after a week or two of rigorous running, I need two take a few days off to fully recover? This would be to allow the muscles to fully repair?

Right now my back is aching. I have been sleeping on ir, and I think my run did not help. I will walk at least four miles. I will see what I am up to doing tomorrow morning.

@Tucson - It doesn't seem that unusual. You had a good stretch of conditioning and then pushed yourself a little harder/faster. I think conditioning only gets you mostly ready to step it up a notch but more effort will be more tiring at first even if you are ready for it and even if it doesn't feel like it will be while you're expending the effort.

Because my Wednesday night paddle didn't happen last week, I went from the previous Saturday morning until late Sunday afternoon, about 8.5 days, without paddling and the 8.7 miles I paddled yesterday has me feeling more beat the morning after than usual. There is something to be said for the right amount of rest/recovery. Not too little and not too much.