calories in vs. calories out

206.6 – Weekly Cheat Meal

Sadly, up a pound and a half from yesterday. Rachel and I went to a restaurant called Po’ Boys last night for dinner.  Due to my improvement in weight loss, I decided to have my weekly cheat meal. We had fried pickles and something called Boom Boom shrimp for appetizers. For my main meal I had chicken tenders and French fries, and yes I had a Coke. It was the un-healthiest of meals but damn, was it delicious. But the high calorie content and no doubt elevated sodium levels contributed to my weight gain this morning.

I can tell that I really haven’t been eating much fried foods the past few months, because afterward this food killed my stomach. Before, when I was fatter and eating stuff like this daily, my stomach was accustomed to it and rarely bothered me. So it’s back to clean eating the remainder of this week. It’s great for my weight loss and just makes me feel better when I eat well.

My target weight for this Saturday’s weigh-in is exactly 202.0 lbs. I’m fairly confident that I can hit that goal with proper nutrition and exercise. My girls are at the in-laws for the week, so I should be able to get in double workouts this week – one in the afternoons when I get off work, and my usual nighttime cardio either at the gym or running through the neighborhood.

Right now I’m about to head up to YouFit for an intense elliptical routine. Bring it!

Limbo

So we just got back from Gainesville and I didn’t weigh in yesterday or today. I like to keep my weigh-ins consistent – same scale, same time of day. I wasn’t able to really track my calories while down there, so I’m not really sure how much I truly ate. And even though I did get in a good cardio session with the 5k run, I’m a little nervous that I may have gained some weight.

I did well to avoid drinking any soda and didn’t eat poorly, but didn’t do so well turning away the  beers. Just comes pretty naturally when I’m down in Hoggetowne. I tried to keep em mostly light beers but even those calories add up quickly. So there’s a lot of mystery calories floating out there.

At least Challenge Week is finally over and even though I had a great time with everything, I’m glad things will be returning to normal and I can get back into my routines. Routines that I know work for losing weight.

Since I was unable to do an official weigh-in in Saturday, I’m using my Friday morning weigh-in as a sub. 228.6 

That puts me about ~2lbs ahead of where I needed to be in order to hit my target weight by August 30th. That’s good news for me because of my predicted weight gain from this weekend, I’ll need all the help I can get in preparing for this upcoming Saturday’s official weigh-in.