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First month complete!
My first weigh in was on New Years Day and came in at whopping 206.6 lbs. This is especially frustrating for me because in 2012 I went through this whole process down to 165. I stopped counting calories and couldn't keep my weight down. When I recognized I was gaining it back, I couldn't keep it together long enough to lose it again.
I finally gained enough weight to motivate me back into doing this. This time I've been listening to some nutritionists who recommending a vegan whole food diet. One thing that I learned from them was that oil was a processed food. I never thought of that before, but it makes sense. Olives are good for you, but when you thought away most of the olive, you throw away a lot of nutrition. Another way to think of it is that oil is similar to refined sugar: remove the plant it came in and it is no longer nutritionally adequate.
So operating on this idea: oils are out, cheese/dairy are out (I was eating way too much). Since I've given these things up, my skin has significantly cleared up (pimples still suck when your in your 30s), but I still needed to adopt calorie counting and meal prepping to lose weight. I've boosting my fiber intake to about 50-70 grams a day. Yesterday, I couldn't even reach my 1800 calorie limit because I just wasn't hungry.
My macros are very different than most people on this site, I have very high carb intake and low fat intake. But, despite the rumors, carbs don't make a person fat. I've lost I weighed in this morning at 197.6, 9 lbs from when I started. I use the libra app to measure the rate at which I'm loosing weight and it determined I am loosing at about 1.7 lbs/week. At this rate, I will reach my goal sometime in June.
The cool thing, I'm running an 860 calorie deficit. At my average 1800 a day calorie intake, my need for maintenance should be about 2660 calories a day. If I keep the diet I am on, I don't know how I could ever reached that amount.
Diet Calendar Entry for 01 February 2018:
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1638 kcal
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Fat: 27.59g | Prot: 67.44g | Carb: 301.54g.
Breakfast: Blueberries (Unsweetened, Frozen), Flaxseed Seeds, First Street Chopped Kale, Ralphs 100% Whole Grain Oats. Lunch: Fuji Apples, Celery, Broccoli, Alvarado Street Bakery No Salt Sprouted Multi-Grain Bread, Radishes, First Street Garbanzo Beans, Sadaf Tahini, Pero Mini Sweet Peppers. Dinner: First Street Chopped Kale, Sprouts Petite Diced Roma Tomatoes (No Salt Added), Sprouts Roma Tomato Sauce, Pagasa Whole Wheat Penne. Snacks/Other: Cocoa Powder (Unsweetened), Bananas. more...
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