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The food diary may not be all that super accurate.
We ran out of eggs & I ate a late breakfast. I didn't weigh the ground beef. I was in a bit of a hurry to take my daughter to a birthday party and just chowed down a bit on what was left for a late breakfast. It was leftovers from when my wife had made some sloppy joe for the rest of the family and saved some of the cooked ground beef for me. I saved the grease as well and stored it in a container and added some to various meals throughout the week. I added some back to the ground beef breakfast today but it was the bottom of the barrel so to speak so I probably added a little less than I had at other meals. I just guessed at the amount. I could be pretty far off at 12 oz. I never weigh my food.
I had input 7 cup/slices of turkey bacon but when I was my calorie count was 180% of RDI I realized my mistake. I looked at the package & it said 15g per slice, so I multiplied it out & used the grams option which lowered it considerably. I wasn't even sure I had 7 pieces. I know I cooked myself 5 pieces, but at a few leftovers from other people. Ditto for the eggs. Just a guess. Speaking of guesses, I guess I'll need to start trying to track my activities & food better now.
This food tracker thing is pretty slick. The percentages of fat, protein & carbs was about what I expected, which is good. It's good to have a little more objective verification of that as well.
I haven't really been counting calories. I had read Gary Taubes' book, "Why We Are Fat & What to do about it" which is what motivated me to try this diet despite it going against everything I had ever heard and read from the mainstream media about what constitutes a healthy diet.
Fortunately, for me it seems to work. I lost more than I expected in the first couple of weeks, but now the weight loss seems to have stopped, or at least slowed to a trickle.
I'm hoping that may be because I started doing heavier calisthenics and am still losing fat but am adding muscle mass that counteracts that as far as the scale is concerned.
My guess, however, is that that is true to a certain extent, I'm not likely to be losing 1 to 2 lbs per week as I hoped, even if I follow the low carb plan well.
Maybe that's because I am getting closer to the weight I'll eventually stop at. I weighed 165 in college and couldn't gain weight no matter how hard I tried. I was lifting weights, swimming a lot and riding my bicycle everywhere.
My doctor recommended I drop to 180 lbs from 200 and I'm now fluctuating around 187. I was hoping to drop to about 170 but maybe that's unrealistic at my age (55). 180 is at the upper limit of being "normal" weight. Above that & I'm officially "overweight" per the BMI scales.
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