Another week, another hopeful loss, right? Yes, this week started out with a bang after breaking even during our vacation week two weeks ago. While that may not sound all that great, after eating out for 4 days, I'll take breaking even all day long. Coming into this week, I weighed in at 292.4 or down a total of 25.8 pounds in the 5 weeks I've been in reboot mode. It's hard to put that in perspective until you look at something like a few 10 pound bags of potatoes. It's only 25% of my goal, but it's a great start.
This week started off much better with no trips planned or special events going on. It's back to school time as well, so no more late night runs to the mall or other stores that could cause me to fail miserably. I'm almost down to a weight where I can hop back on the exercise bike in the garage, which should help the process along and I'm feeling better and better about what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. I still have some minor concerns about cholesterol and sodium content, but I'm trying to drink more water and keep tabs on that a bit more as well. I guess it's the lesser of two evils to have a bit higher stats in those two and a much lower weight, but I'll let the doctors talk that one over if I head back to see them next month. Enough babbling, let's take a look at this week's numbers.
Enough about the random stuff though, let’s look at how the week actually went. Again, starting out, I was at 292.4 pounds, and today, I came in at a whopping 289.2. That’s a 3.2 pound loss for the week and 29 pounds total. Last week, I averaged about 1550 calories a day, with a good mix of calories going towards all three meals. It seems to be a much better balance for the most part. I have noticed again that on the nights where I just don’t go and sit (even if it’s heading to the store to walk around) I do much better. For the week my macros were very inline as well. I had 74% fats, 22% proteins and 4% in carbs. Now, keep in mind, this is just how I’m choosing my meals. I’m specifically targeting foods to eliminate from my plate. What I mean by this is that I used to be huge into “burner foods” when I would diet. These foods were low calorie options that were supposedly “perfect diet foods”. These included broccoli, cabbage and a few others. With the Ketogenic Diet, you have to eliminate (or severely cut) those down due to the number of carbs that they have. I still eat them, but I have a half a cup of broccoli with dinner instead of 2 cups.
I’m going to have a bit more on the food thing this weekend. It’s been an interesting experience getting this going and I’m just happy to say that so far, this way of eating is working out pretty well for me. Calories are down. Energy is up. I’m feeling better and better every day I do this and hopefully the progress will continue. Until next week!
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