So yesterday I hit my dietbet goal. I figured from here on in, it was going to be smooth sailing and as long as I didn't binge I would be ok. yeah, not so much.
Yesterday. I had sort of splurged and had eggs instead of egg white, 2 sausages and toast (i always have toast in the morning, without it, I'm hungry again in a couple of hours and I am not totaly against carbs). For lunch I had a spinach salad. at about 4 I was hungry again, but fought agains having a snack pack of oreos. On the way home I realized I was starving and actually got a hunger headache.
I didn't do the easy thing and stop at Wendy's for nuggets. I waited til I got home and had a big bowl of cabbage. I was still kind of hungry so I baked some chicken thighs I had marinating. I probably finished eating at 10. I was satisfied, not full.
I got on the scale today and went from 362.2 to 363.8. 1.6 lbs up. I think if I had cheated I would have beaten myself up, but I didn't yay me. So I am thinking it matters how late I eat at night. I also noticed my ankles were a little puffy. Which means I am retaining water. After about an hour of moving around I was down to 363.4. I'm pretty sure if I had given it a couple of hours I would have gotten back down into 362, or lower.
So today I'm going to eat the same food, but not eat when I get home, and see what happens. I didn't workout today so that will also be an issue.
Of course I had to put my internet MD degree to use and looked up how long it takes to metabolize food and it depends on age, weight, gender and physical fitness. So if I was say jillian michaels my metabolism works alot faster than say...oh me. ...blah. This means my body may not be done with the food I ate at 10pm when I get on the scale at 2am or 4am (damn you bladder). This is kind of true because I'll get up and for roughly 2-3 hours I'll lose a half pound an hour until eventually it levels off and my body's like dude I'm done, whats next.
So if I don't eat after 5. That's 12 hours to see what happens. My only issue was I wanted to eat my foot, so I'll be drink lots of water...blah...
So yesterday I did 21 day fix total cardio. Meh....I don't do the higher impact exercises because of knees issues and while the weights helped I think I'm learning to appreciate Shaun T alot more with pure cardio workouts. So the goal is to work out fri, sat, sun, mon. Since I'm up the 1.6 lbs I doubt I'll have anything off place between now and weigh in. Also we're getting snow, so no having to worry about eating while I'm hanging out.
I don't think I'll be truly comfortable until I'm in the 350s.
Yesterday. I had sort of splurged and had eggs instead of egg white, 2 sausages and toast (i always have toast in the morning, without it, I'm hungry again in a couple of hours and I am not totaly against carbs). For lunch I had a spinach salad. at about 4 I was hungry again, but fought agains having a snack pack of oreos. On the way home I realized I was starving and actually got a hunger headache.
I didn't do the easy thing and stop at Wendy's for nuggets. I waited til I got home and had a big bowl of cabbage. I was still kind of hungry so I baked some chicken thighs I had marinating. I probably finished eating at 10. I was satisfied, not full.
I got on the scale today and went from 362.2 to 363.8. 1.6 lbs up. I think if I had cheated I would have beaten myself up, but I didn't yay me. So I am thinking it matters how late I eat at night. I also noticed my ankles were a little puffy. Which means I am retaining water. After about an hour of moving around I was down to 363.4. I'm pretty sure if I had given it a couple of hours I would have gotten back down into 362, or lower.
So today I'm going to eat the same food, but not eat when I get home, and see what happens. I didn't workout today so that will also be an issue.
Of course I had to put my internet MD degree to use and looked up how long it takes to metabolize food and it depends on age, weight, gender and physical fitness. So if I was say jillian michaels my metabolism works alot faster than say...oh me. ...blah. This means my body may not be done with the food I ate at 10pm when I get on the scale at 2am or 4am (damn you bladder). This is kind of true because I'll get up and for roughly 2-3 hours I'll lose a half pound an hour until eventually it levels off and my body's like dude I'm done, whats next.
So if I don't eat after 5. That's 12 hours to see what happens. My only issue was I wanted to eat my foot, so I'll be drink lots of water...blah...
So yesterday I did 21 day fix total cardio. Meh....I don't do the higher impact exercises because of knees issues and while the weights helped I think I'm learning to appreciate Shaun T alot more with pure cardio workouts. So the goal is to work out fri, sat, sun, mon. Since I'm up the 1.6 lbs I doubt I'll have anything off place between now and weigh in. Also we're getting snow, so no having to worry about eating while I'm hanging out.
I don't think I'll be truly comfortable until I'm in the 350s.
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