I made my monthly trek to the nutritionist today. It wasn’t the monthly weigh in I had hoped for but I still showed a loss. I dropped two pounds since my last visit. Im not exactly sure how that is, since I lost 5 pounds on my home scale making a 3 pound difference in there somewhere. In any case today I had my Resting Metabolic Rate tested so I knew how many calories my body burns in a day just by doing nothing. If you have never had this test done. You should. It’s tons of fun. First you get to clamp your nose shut with this tight plastic clamp. I wish I had a mirror handy so I could have seen that! Then you get to sit with a small plastic machine with a mouthpiece attachment sticking out of your mouth for the next 10 minutes or so while you breath through it. I wasn’t in the best of moods today. So, I was too pissed off to be bothered by how ridiculous I might have looked and just read through some papers the doctor gave me on weight loss tips and diet suggestions while I sat and breathed. In the end it said my Resting Metabolic Rate was 2550 calories. So, if I were to do nothing every day and set my calorie target at 2000 I should see a 2 pound per week loss. Now I have something to set my mark at and all I need to do is get myself tracking calorie intake on a daily basis and I will be better off.

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Well, it has been awhile since I posted my last weigh-in. It has also been awhile since I have been this motivated. I spent the week eating healthy and eating less. I paid close attention to portion size and also made better food choices for my daily meals. Breakfast for the most part was fruit and maybe a small bowl of cereal on some days. Lunch was quick and light like my Veggie Wrap. Dinner was big enough to fill me up, but not so big that I felt like I overate. I cut out snacks except for fruit and I stayed completely away from any alcohol. I also made it a point not to eat out all week and the only liquid I drank aside from the 1% milk in the cereal I had was water. Another thing I did was not to eat past 8PM. Not even snacks this week.
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I had my previous calorie goal set to 1800 calories per day. This was based on the rule of 8 calories per pound to maintain your weight. That was to reach my overall target weight of 225 pounds. Because of the fact that I have been so hungry and the fact that I was getting discouraged more often than not, I decided to make some adjustments and instead of setting my calorie target for my goal weight, I am setting it lower in stages. My new calorie target is at 2800 calories per day, which will put me at my current short term goal weight of 350 pounds.
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