Weight: 365.8 pounds
Loss since 8/12/14 (366 days): 50.2 pounds
Loss since top weight (423.6 on 9/13/10): 57.8 pounds
Percentage of goal lost: 25.10%
Caloric limit: 2080 per day
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Next Milestone (Goal): Repeat past milestone of losing 76 pounds (target date: 10/14/15)
Target Date Using Overall Daily Average: 8/9/2018 (1092 more days)
Target Date Using Daily Average Since 8/5/15:10/5/2015 (53 more days)
Yesterdays food log is NON-EXISTENT
I marked the one year anniversary of this diet yesterday and it was bittersweet (like the chocolate)… I started so strong, losing 90 pounds in 196 days!!! and then the focus was lost.. I hung out at around 326 for about a month… then I lost it and as I gained pound after pound I started monitoring my weight less and less.. knowing what was happening, but trying to ignore it… I got more and more depressed about it.. which caused a spiral until I was eventually ‘power eating’ continuously.. resulting in gaining back 65 pounds in only 161 days!
So officially I lost 47.0 pounds in one year… now including the ups and downs in that year I know I lost more than 271.3 pounds in that year (since I stopped monitoring my weight I don’t know exactly, but it has to be well over that amount based on what I do have).. I noticed that people that saw me stopped asking how it was going since it was obvious that I wasn’t losing, but gaining weight…
On a side note… I really appreciate all my friends in trying to be so courteous and save my feeling… but if you are reading this, please feel free to ask, especially if it looks like I am not losing… it might make me feel bad but that will also help in the motivation… you don’t have to be mean.. “Damn you gained a lot of weight” wouldn’t be the optimal thing to say… “Well I guess you failed on your diet” also might not be the best… “How’s the weight loss going?”… “How much weight have you lost?”… something like that would be fine 😉
On 8/5/15 (last week) I was able to focus and get motivated again.. I believe it is as strong a motivation as I had in the past. We will call this Steve 2.0 diet… I have lost 25.3 pounds in 9 days… That in itself should prove how much I was eating prior to that. To lose that much weight in that period of time while eating a substantial amount of calories each day (right around 2040 per day) is crazy.. not that I am happy about it.. it shows how lost I was… how much my body had just in the digestion process…
I am again adjusting to the changes in my diet and making sure I track and plan my calories every day. I am struggling with water intake, am not exercising and my mood has been up and down. I am trying to not beat myself up over the amount of backtracking I did… I literally fell all the way back to where I as on day 29 of the original diet.. 9/8/14.. I lost 11 months time… I have to forgive myself and just look forward to the next goals….
Speaking of goals, my next major goal is ‘Repeat past milestone of losing 76 pounds’… that means get to a weight of 340.0… 25.8 pounds away. Using past numbers it took me 61 days to go from 365.0 to 339.2 (roughly what this goal is)
“A goal without a date is just a dream” Milton H. Erickson quotes (American psychiatrist and Hypnotist, ) so I will set this goal target date as 10/14/15 (61 days from today)
I have other short term and long term goals and rewards set-up… all of these will be at the bottom of each daily update.
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My goals for the rest of the week are:
- Weight myself daily and log into the chart
- Count every calorie, EVERY day on MyFitnessPal.com
- Work out in some way daily (walking, exercise bike, elliptical, working with weights will be the approved workouts)
- Drink at least 56 oz of plain water daily
- Write here at least once a day (small, quick posts are okay)
- Work on being less depressed
- At the end of the week: Lose 7 pounds
My planned short term goals and rewards:
- Goal: Exercise 30+ days and lose over 75 pounds
- Reward: Buy Season 2 of Bates Motel DVD’s
- Goal #2: Track calories for 90+ days and 100 pounds lost
- Reward: Buy myself some sort of fitbit type device to wear that will monitor my activity and sleep patterns (one that will integrate with MyFitnessPal.com)
- Goal #3: Drink water for 120+ days and lose 125 pounds
- Reward: As much as I hate using food as a reward, I will go to Fogo de Chão