Tuesday, October 29, 2019

New calorie plan

Ok, so I just finished my 4th month of healthy eating. The past month or so had some slip-ups and I went a little too crazy on the weekends.  I lost .6 for the month. I think I need more structure for the weekends so I recalculated my TDEE and am going for a 15% reduction. I am reconfiguring to take away from the weekdays to give me more on the weekends. I will track everything on the weekends but will still have more calories to work with.

calculated from EMWL website (Eat More, Weight Less)
TDEE (maintenance calories): 2,612
15% deficit: 2,220
per week: 15,540

reconfiguration:
M-F:  2,000 daily
Sat:  2,770
Sun:  2,770

non-scale victories

month of August - lost 5.8 in a month even with a week of vacation!
9/6 - reached out and found an accountabilibuddy, Vanessa!
10/16 - didn't partake in fajita lunch at work!
10/17 - recommitted to my health goals, determined to have successful days!
10/23 - got super stressed at work, cried and looked at cute animal pictures in the bathroom instead of turning to food
10/26 - got 20, 397 steps in one day!
10/27 - stuck to my calorie limit even though it was Sunday (switched days)
10/28 - resisted pizza in the break room at work!
10/29 - didn't let the scale discourage me (.6 loss in past 4 wks), changed up my goals
10/29 - set up my xbox dancing game so I can turn to that for joy/stress relief
10/31- didn't give in to the pizza, donuts, kolaches and candy that was everywhere at work! (Aside from 1 fun size candy that I was able to fit into my calories for the day!)
11/2-3 - Had a successful weekend of tracking calories for my first time (having to estimate is hard for me!)
11/4  - I resisted the new display of sweets at work (cake, oreo truffles) as well as the huge pile of candy on the reception desk during my lunch coverage duty.  Yay!

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