It wasn’t the plan, but I couldn’t resist, I got weighed. I really wasn’t looking forward to it, but I figured knowing that I am not close to being under 400lbs would take the pressure off and let me not stress about it and hopefully get over the disappointment so I don’t spend my birthday disappointed. I braced myself to see 405lbs or something close to that…take a breath…401lbs. I can’t believe it, to be under 400lbs on the scale I need to drop 1.1lbs in 24 hours, because yes, I am counting weighing in the morning of my birthday as being that weight by my birthday. 1.1lbs, this day is going to be hell. For anyone wanting to comment, yes I am well aware that my approach to this isn’t sustainable, but for 24 hours I’m not on a lifelong journey, I am in a race against the clock and with the exception of wearing a sweatsuit I’ll do what I can to drop the 1.1lbs.
Breakfast
How do I go about this? I want to minimise what I eat, but I also don’t want to not eat and then end up hungry and making bad choices later. By the time I get around to it it is relatively late anyway so I just have a banana for a whopping 58 calories.
Lunch
Lunch goes pretty much the same as breakfast, I don’t want much but I know I need to have something to get me through to tea. A pack of Skips goes part of the way to doing the job, but it isn’t going to be enough. Going through the fridge and the cupboards there isn’t much to pick from, so I settle on thins with something…peanut butter would be nice, but just sniffing peanut butter is about 500 calories so that’s out the window. There is no sandwich meat, and opening anything in the freezer would cause problems down the line. In the end cheese is the last man standing, but rather than making a sandwich I have “cheese on toast”. Calling it that is generous, there was a light sprinkling of cheese, but it was enough. All in lunch cost me 394 calories.
Dinner
Rejigging the menu earlier in the week and using some ingredients that I hadn’t planned on meant I was painted into a corner with tea today. The best option ended up being basically sausage and egg sandwiches/bagels, using HECK sausage rashers, thin bagels and Danish bread. It wasn’t the lowest calorie tea, but given what I had eaten already I had plenty of calories left in my budget. At least if I miss my target weight I have done it eating something yummy. 887 calories.
Snacks
I avoid snacking today, reminding myself that I will get more job from hitting my target on the scale than I would with any snack, at least that’s the lie that I tell myself.
Exercise
With the weather being what it is I couldn’t decide what the best option was as far as going for a walk. In the end I decide to let Darby chill in the garden most of the day and just take him out once. The walk we take is an extended one as we go exploring at little bit, and when I say exploring I mean we walked down an alleyway that we hadn’t been down before, but knew roughly where it went, By the time we get home I’m glad that I decided to only take Darby out once because his mouth is hanging, looking droopy, and he drags me to the water bowl as soon as we are through the front door. I reward him with a doggie ice cream bar. I am rewarded with nothing.
At the gym I know it is my last chance to do whatever I need to get to my target weight so I go hard. I do 2 seperate sessions on the bike, with some weight training in between. I don’t go heavy on the weights because I am cautious of causing too much swelling and throwing my weight off. As I said earlier, this isn’t the lifelong plan, I know I need to balance my cardio with adequarte strength training, but for 24 hours weights are not my friend.
I’ve managed 1025 calories through activity so whether I hit my target or not I know there isn’t much more I could have done, ignoring the Dominos that I had after football the other day…
| Calories | |
|---|---|
| Breakfast | 58 |
| Lunch | 394 |
| Dinner | 887 |
| Snacks | 0 |
| Drinks | 16 |
| Calories Consumed | 1355 |
| Calories Burned Activity | 1025 |
| Calories Burned BMR | 3218 |
| Net Calories | 2888 |