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One week into 2016, and I'm feeling pretty good about this.
Plan for 2016
- Smaller goals, starting with 1/2 a pound per month minimum. Goal Met!
- No less than 2 hours a week for working out. Goal Met!
- Veggies with every dinner. Almost! Fell short by one!
- No more than one alcoholic drink (mixed drink or hard cider) per week (may be altered for holidays i.e. - Saving up the weekly drinks to have multiple at an event). Goal Met! Zero drinks this week!
^This is how I will start every journal for 2016.
First week and I've got a fairly good handle on what I'm going to do. Throughout this past week I took smaller portions for dinner and/or swapped out items entirely for veggies (one night it was broccoli instead of cheesy garlic toast). I read somewhere that a good way to balance your calories through the day was 300 for breakfast, 400 for lunch, 500 for dinner and an optional 150 in snacks. Combined, my normal workday breakfast and lunch is 670 calories, so I've been trying to be more cognizant of my dinner intake than I have been in the past.
Just for giggles I weighed myself everyday after my initial weigh-in for 2016. It was interesting for me as it was after work (when my recorded weigh-ins are always in the morning), and that I typically only check my weight once or twice a week. Basically, it fluctuated the way that most everything I've ever read has said it would, which is within a pound. Neat experiment, but it simply proved I'm not gaining anything by weighing in daily.
Happy Sunday.
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176.6 lb
Lost so far: 11.4 lb.
Still to go: 29.6 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entry for 10 January 2016:
losing 0.6 lb a week
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