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Checking back in after the holiday weekend visiting relatives.
I stuck to my plan of eating only 1 free meal per day on Friday and Saturday, but still had more consumption on Friday that I should have had.
Sunday evening after getting home I had a second free meal of pizza and some beer, along with naan and hummus.
The reckoning came this morning (Tuesday) a day later. I'm thinking three of the six pounds gained are water retention from the excess sodium.
My plan going forward: Stick to meal plan of less than 2400 calories the next four days. Saturday we'll have one holiday party, but I'm going to avoid beer that day and have two free meals, with no evening meals after the party.
3 medium-range (2 week) goals that I'm also jotting down on an index card:
1. On Sunday, Christmas Day, resume the meal plans and on through to the New Year, with a regular routine of meal plan six days a week and a free day, without beer, on Saturdays.
2. Get back into the gym for strength training three days a week. The plan is lower body Wednesday and upper body Friday. Next week between Christmas and New Years will be lower/upper/lower body Monday/Wednesday/Friday.
3. Two hikes, 5 miles plus, between now and January 2nd. One on the beach 30 minutes away and the second on a hilly loop an hour away.
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I had a non-scale victory yesterday of doing some house maintenance where I hoisted up metal roofing using a ladder. I was easily able to negotiate the placing of the roofing, and all the days in the gym with the dumbbells on chest, back, and shoulders have definitely given me strength and functional fitness.
I will check back in Saturday morning with my updated weight after 4 days of proper eating.
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265.9 lb
Lost so far: 65.1 lb.
Still to go: 43.9 lb.
Diet followed poorly.
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Diet Calendar Entry for 20 December 2022:
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2292 kcal
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Fat: 94.82g | Prot: 173.15g | Carb: 201.16g.
Breakfast: Great Value Organic Unrefined Virgin Coconut Oil, Great Value Frozen Whole Blueberries, Trader Joe's Steel Cut Organic Oats, Manitoba Harvest Hemp Hearts, Bragg Nutritional Yeast Seasoning, Cinnamon. Lunch: Cosmic Crisp Apple, Chicken of the Sea Chunk Light Tuna in Water (Can), Great Value Peanut Butter. Dinner: Great Value Steamable Brussels Sprouts, Great Value Pinto Beans (Dry), Great Value Black Beans (Dry), Wal-Mart 93/7 Lean Ground Beef, Goya Dry Lentils, Cooked Dry Red Kidney Beans. Snacks/Other: Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Original Unsweetened Almond Milk, 2% Fat Milk. more...
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gaining 11.0 lb a week
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