Hobo Band 6. up

Posted on November 18, 2014

Day 6. After so many calories yesterday, weight is up today 208.2 lbs. I'm surprised how quickly my body reacts to the calorie intake of the previous day, its odd, I don't remember my body ever reacting so quickly before. Do I? Is this normal? It's been such a long time since I've dieted maybe I don't remember anything about dieting. In any case I was worried that such low calorie intake was making me constantly hungry and actually I still feel very hungry today, it hasn't gone away. oh well, its a journey.

Plan: all veg and fruit is free; count everything else aiming for 1000-1200 cal per day, including 1 handful of nuts per day.

Breakfast: smoothie

1 cup unsweetened almond milk - 30 cal

1 Tbl peanut butter -90 cal

2 Tbl flaxseed meal -60 cal

1 banana -free

1 handful of baby kale -free

ice -free

1 handful of nuts -160 cal

Lunch: Rocky Rococco lite fettucine alfredo -229 cal

green salad -free

ranch dressing -200 cal

diet Coke -free

Snack: 2 serv dried apples -180 cal

Dinner: 3/4 cup homemade scalloped potatoes -162 cal

1/2 cup boiled carrots -free

1 quinoa bun -170 cal

1 tsp butter -45 cal

Total calories for the day = 1326.

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50 Pound Monkey

11/18/2014 2:06PM

So, I've found that my body reacts quickly to things (especially salt). Many times it's water weight. Try knocking out the diet coke... despite it being sugar free, it spikes your insulin. A nutritionist once said to me, "Have you ever seen a skinny person with diet coke in their basket?" DOH! I drink Advocare Spark for a wee kick of caffeine and lots of B vitamins, and amino acids. Best wishes! Keep at it, and keep blogging!

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Clothes Pony

Great advice! Thank you!! Thank you for explaining about the insulin spike, I didn't know that.

Amy P.

I don't think its actually a spike in insulin to the best of my knowledge, but I agree...ditch the diet Coke. Drink water, water and more water.

Robin L.

11/18/2014 8:33AM

Weight fluctation is totally normal. I like this saying, to help with motivation, "I don't diet and exercise, I eat and train!" Puts a little different slant on my thinking.

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Clothes Pony

It's also a little slant on "eat to live", it sounds like you're really adding focus on fueling yourself to work-out.

It is important to move around every day, I learned that we have two main fluids that run through our bodies: blood which is pumped by the heart, and lymph which can only be pumped through the body by using your muscles, when you activate your muscles -- that is what pumps lymph through your entire system. Isn't that interesting?

So it's really true that even if you fidget, you are helping your body be healthy. I often wonder if that's what might be behind restless leg syndrome, I have no idea, but I wonder if it's the bodies way of trying to say "I need more exercise!"

CHUD Hombre

11/18/2014 8:24AM

You should never eat less than 1200 calories a day. In fact, if you are exercising as well, you need to eat more calories. How did you come up with 1000 to 1200 calories as your daily requirement?

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CHUD Hombre

900 calories just sounds so unhealthy to me but if it works for them, I'm not going to knock it.

Anyway, not sure you can really make fruit free as they can pack quite a calorie punch depending on how much you eat and what types of fruit you eat.

Good luck with your goals though! It's a constant work in progress figuring out what foods and exercises works best for someone.

Clothes Pony

Thank you CHUD Hombre, I really appreciate your encouragement!! Good luck with your goals too.