After a couple days of hard losses, have had two days of stagnation despite eating at a deficit. Monday and Tuesday were sort of "Resets" for me and it was so encouraging to see those reflected on the scale, but it's one of those psyiological anomalies, and now it's part of the mental game to stay motivated.
I topped out at about 250 this year, in a body that should be down around 220 for a healthier/normal weight (and really if I was super committed like 205-210). I'm committed to taking it slow, but this week calorie counting I weight in at 249.6 on Monday morning, and then had dropped to 247.2 on Tuesday, and then 245 on Wednesday. I was like, holy shit, I shouyld have been calorie counting for years. But then stagnated, 245.6 again on Thursday, and 246 today, despite generally keeping to the same deficit over those days.
Friday and Saturdays are the days that will be hardest for me to stick to a regiment. My wife and I order out or now *go out* (yay, vaccines) on Fridays, and I usually drink plenty of beer... but it's one of those things in life that I enjoy so much, I'm not willing to go full asceticism. So, I'm not going to drink beer from Sunday - Thursday, and then just try to keep it at moderate levels on Friday and Saturday. Offset what'll probably be a big meal tonight by eating light for lunch and getting in some good exercise today and tomorrow with the weather being nice.
Sorry, this is my "Sir...... this is a wendy's..." monologue, but the public rambling is a good way to get my mind straight for what I have to do to achieve steady, consistent long-term losses, and not get too hung up on the daily unexpected weight gains, keep my eyes focused on that ~10-15lbs long term goal, not the short term. And plus, going from 249.6 to 246 in 5 days is an achievement for me, even if the last 2 days were steady state.
Thinking about what I eat has really been a mental shift for me, and one that I appreciate. The calorie counting game (using "Lose It" which is pretty good, although sometimes confusing with the measurements) has really made me cogniscant of not eating extra pointless calories. I usually give my daughter goldfish or w/e after school/daycare, and when I'd go to pick her up I'd bring a bag to "give her some fishies," but inevitably eat 2 or 3 handfuls myself. And when I have this ceiling of calories, it's been a good reminder of, like, "do you want to eat 3 handfuls of goldfish at ~350 calories...? or would you rather preserve that for a proper dinner?" It's also helped me totally cut out the late night eating, like, 6:30 I finish dinner and I'm like, ok, I'm done for the day with eating, I hit my deficit goal, that's that. And that's been really good.
