wavesoflife

Tonight I bought the book The Spark: The 28-Day Breakthrough Plan for Losing Weight, Getting Fit, and Transforming Your Life. It’s from the site that I started using back in 2008 for weight loss, SparkPeople. I’ve been doing well on my weight loss plan, but I want to continue doing well. My goal is to be down to 120 lbs by the end of the year. I’m currently at 182 lbs, so there’s a way to go.

I also bought The CalorieKing Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter 2010. This is a great little book and very…enlightening. For example, my usual burger at Red Robin has over 800 calories. And that doesn’t include the fries and the Coke.

I like SparkPeople because it makes tracking food fairly easy. It’s the only site I’ve tried for it, so I can’t really compare it to other sites. There’s lots of food items already in the system and if it doesn’t have it, 99% of the time another user has added it and you can use that. You get points for various things and trophies when you reach a certain amount of points. I orginally signed up for that site because I read an article online compariing several diet sites. The author mentioned that Spark People had a long form to fill out to join. I love filling out forms, so I chose that site. This was several years ago, so I have no idea if they still have a long form or not.

My username on there is seafae, if you use that site.

Today I ate 1,246 calories. My calorie range is 1200 – 1,550.

Breakfast: (264 calories)
Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Weight Control, Maple and Brown Sugar with milk
Black tea with 1 sugar cube and honey

Snack: (110 calories)
Campbell’s Select New England Clam Chowder (wasn’t a fan of this)

Lunch: (463 calories)
2 sunny-side up eggs
2 pieces white bread toasted with Benecol (need to stop eating bread again)
1 Boca breakfast link (not a fan of these either)
8 oz. Coke

Dinner: (410 calories)
6 piece McDonalds Chicken Nuggets (BIG fan of these)
Sweet and Sour Sauce
Small Coke

I usually try to only drink one soft drink a day. The McDonalds food was unplanned, otherwise I would have had water with my lunch.

Also, my eating schedule is a little odd. I don’t get up till 11ish, so breakfast is then. Then I have a snack at work after about 3 hours. Two hours later, I leave for home and eat lunch at home. Then several hours later I either eat dinner or a snack. I usually call my lunch, dinner, since it’s around dinner time.

Since January I’ve lost about 10 pounds. I’ve probably lost about 15 pounds since October.

Rather than following any specific diet, I’ve been eating a lot less and making healthier food choices. Plus drinking a lot of water. I sometimes use SparkPeople to keep track of what I’ve been eating, but not always.

I suppose what’s made my resolve stick this time is the doctor telling me I was doing a good job, and to keep doing what I’ve been doing, rather than just saying as many tend to do “you should lose some weight”.

My calorie intake was way too high before. I was also eating larger amounts of food than I should have been. It’s been an adjustment…I’ve felt very hungry some days.