Day 271: 277 lbs
I gained a pound yesterday, and mostly stayed on my diet as I mentioned last night.
But I'm now almost 15 pounds above my lowest weight from around the end of the year. That's not OK. I should be 15 pounds below that point.
I can only blame myself for my lack of willpower and inability to stick to the diet. I need to get tough with myself again.
I am, in short, restarting my diet. Starting today. Even minor lapses are not acceptable, since, as I have seen (once again), they inevitably lead to larger and larger diet lapses until I'm off the diet completely.
Every bite I eat must be measured and logged (except fresh vegetables, diet soda, and coffee). Going over my quota or guessing at what I'm eating are not allowed.
posted by Phantom Dieter @ 6:13 AM
4 Comments:
You really should do e-diets or sparkpeople, you sound as though you are just setting yourself up for failure with that ALL or NOTHING attitude. It sounds as though you are also eating below your caloric needs and your body is in starvation mode.
Also - try weighing ONCE a week not every day. Your body weight will fluctuate from day to day and that can be defeating when you go up a pound or two.
Try e-diets, really, the support is invaluable and the tips are great.
I'm not sure what planet you're from, but where I come from, the only way to lose weight is to consume fewer calories than you consume, i.e. eat below your caloric needs.
Whatever smart ass. The only way to lose weight is to BURN more calories than you consume - eating less and less will just throw your body into starvation mode. Do some reasearch and see that a man of your enormous girth should be eating a reasonable amount of food to lose weight and getting REGULAR exercise.
Maybe if you got a realistic diet plan and exercise plan (as in at least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise 3 times a week on a REGULAR basis) then you'd be losing weight again, not just yo-yoing up and down like you are now.
God forbid you actually EDUCATE yourself on this. All I was trying to do was offer a suggestion that might break your diet platau but you had to go and be a sarcastic asshole. Whatever, enjoy your back slide. Have some more chips while you are at it.
Okay, maybe I could have skipped the sarcasm.
But I've done, well, just about everything in my time on this earth to lose and keep off weight, and I've learned a lot about what works and what doesn't work for me. And I understand that my personal demon is that I have a hard time passing up the immediate gratification of certain foods that push my buttons.
Exercise is not the problem, since I lead a more active lifestyle than most people my age. In a typical week, I get 3-4 hours of moderate to strenuous exercise. But I got tired of writing about and tracking my exercise, especially since the diet software I'm using doesn't track exercise the way I want it to.
I've tried every interval for checking weight, from daily to weekly to monthly to not at all. Daily seems to work best for me, since it lets me see the consequences of my decisions right away.
At the end of the day, I can only try to do what works for me, and that might not be what works for someone else. When I started this diet, I had several months of success (with a couple of hiccups) and lost 50 pounds. Since then, I've had several months of failure, and gained back about 10 pounds.
I've given a lot of thought as to why the success and why the failure, and the only answer is that at the beginning I was very disciplined, and I became complacent as I had that initial success. I knew from experience before I started this diet that the complacency was going to be a problem and wrote about it at the time.
So pretty much the only thing to do now is to dope-slap myself, tell myself in no uncertain terms that I need to shape up, and restore the self-discipline. Yes, that's an all-or-nothing approach, but compromise approaches don't work for me. A compromise jsut gives myself permission to slip off the diet. Just like an alcoholic can't ever let himself have "just one drink," except that food is harder because you can't not eat.
I've tried just about every diet plan, group, and method out there (except the truly faddish ones), and they don't work for me.
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