July the 4th came and went and the good news is, I held fast and didn't cheat at all. I really am trying not to look at it as cheating though because this is now a lifestyle, not a diet. I am going to have to eat like this the rest of my life if I want the weight to stay off. If not I will balloon right up to my all-time high again in no time or worse, get bigger. We grilled out today and had quite the spread of food. I stuck with hamburger patties and grilled zucchini which was excellent. I had beef franks for dinner with a cucumber salad. My only indulgence on the day was some peanuts as we watched the fireworks. This is the first time I've had peanuts since starting. Nuts and seeds are one of the biggest add ins from induction to phase 2. I haven't had any until last night and don't plan on making it a regular occurrence. I have so much weight to lose, I just don't think it would help me to start adding too much more to my plan yet. Perhaps once I lose 100 lbs and start getting closer to my goal I'll begin adding in what I can.
I set a goal when I started nearly a month ago to lose 30 lbs before I go back to Illinois on the 3rd of August. Well, so far so good. I am half way to that date and have lost 19 lbs. Just 11 more to go in the next month. I think I can do it. I've been thinking about my next short term goal after that and I have decided I would like to lose another 30 lbs by November 1st. That date is significant because it is the start of open enrollment for healthcare which means 10 hours a day on the phone sitting at my desk. This is a very sedentary time for me. That 3 month period will also encompass all the holidays. I haven't decided what I am going to do over the holidays. To think that I will stay on plan on Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day is probably a little naive. So I'll just schedule in a 1 day break and jump right back in. Having a goal is probably the best way to not go overboard. If I hit my 1st and 2nd goal that will leave me only 40 pounds from my big goal of losing 100 in a year. I would probably set a goal to lose 15 pounds during open enrollment and would then only need 25 more from February to June 5th to get there. I might have to readjust if my losses slow down but I don't think those goals are out of line or unhealthy. Losing 100 lbs would leave me at 267 next year. I'll be a lot smaller but still way too big for my height. I can only imagine how tough losing those last 73 lbs will be but I look forward to the battle. I look forward to the photo as well. My wife and children have never seen me that size. The lowest I ever made it was 217 lbs while on phen-fen in 1997. I still look at those pictures sometimes and just shake wish I could look like that again, although with grey hair and a few more wrinkles of course.
Day 29 meals:
Breakfast - 2 eggs scrambled, 2 pieces of bacon
Lunch - Bacon cheeseburger, 1 cup grilled zucchini, sugar free jello salad w/cool whip, 2 TBS low carb ketchup, half cup sauteed mushrooms
Dinner - 2 beef franks, 1/4 cup peperoncini peppers, 1 cup cucumber salad
Snacks - AM - Low carb brownie, PM - 1/3 rd cup unsalted peanuts
Total counts for day 29, 21g Carbs, 1,642 Calories, 93g fat, 84g protein
Came in a little low on my carbs and calories today which you would think would be the opposite on a holiday. The problem is, my schedule gets all out of whack on a holiday so I'm not eating at the normal times and often times I'm not planning my meals like I should be. I will make sure my counts are in the right ranges the rest of the week so my body doesn't think I'm starving. In the picture below I had already eaten a lot of the zucchini.
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