I ate cake multiple times this past week and still lost weight. I have a fairly sedentary moving towards low activity lifestyle, mostly working from home - or reading, gaming, or netflixing for fun. My daily budget is 1200 cal, 1300 on weekends. While I'm increasing my gym and walk time in general, I was an absolute potato this week.
I lost an additional 3.5 pounds since the start of this past week! I was very good at my deficits, but a little stuck at the same weight for 1.5 weeks prior to this - I suspect for hormonal reasons. I have been skeptical over time since starting weight loss about the ability for some of this to stick, as it's so easy to yo-yo 10 pounds over and over again. Today I'm an overall 29 pounds down and finally definitively feel that my choices are impactful. I will echo other posts here that food scales are a game changer, and understanding that there is a balance to all consumption is really starting to click.
That's my key takeaway - end of post! ...but my food summary / diary for the week is below in case anyone is curious and it is helpful. I was on target every other day not mentioned, which for me means that I ended in range successfully within +/- 50 calories of my goal.
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Fat Tuesday: + ~700 over budget
Got damn I really wanted the king cake... and it's mardis gras, baby! I don't really drink anymore, so I went for it. I ended my day with normal food counts under a hundred calories. All extra calories were attributed to planned and consensual king cake consumption. King cake is hard to log as it was a local bakery special, so I referenced a few online nutritional records and estimated my portions generously in my app.
Friday: +235
Today was mostly a normal food day. My husband's birthday weekend was upon us and he went to go hang out with the boys and so the kid and I had a bum around at home date where we watched movies and played video games. It wasn't fair that they could eat candies during movie time on their own without consequence. I had some regular ass tillamook ice cream hidden at the bottom of the freezer at home I had planned to divvy out, but after an internal debate with myself I found myself being selfish and couldn't let go that I could only have a fraction of the amount of "real" ice cream I wanted to stay in range... so to compromise I got my first ever halo top at target with plans to consume half.
- Upon measuring time I was frustrated because I wanted the other ice cream and was scared of the halo top. After tasting, I angry-decided that I deserved and could treat myself the entire halo top pint of ice cream. That sent me over budget, but still kept me under maintenance?! Maintenance calories are magical. I was also satiated and couldn't go more damage than the halo top that I already had in my hands... er, stomach.
Saturday: -537
I feel fine(?) doing this during time periods where I know there is a high likelihood will go overboard or will underestimate because restaurant calories are yummy. Maybe this is not the healthiest habit that I could adjust. Usually it means low calorie grazing for a couple of days out of the week, or fasting a day (drinking only hot tea & water) to get things back in balance. Thoughts, yall?
- I had a fiber bar, and grazed all morning on fruits. This included very low caloric density fruits (raspberries, blackberries) and downed hot teas.
- The most substantial meal was lunch, where I had a 1/2 cup of trader joes frozen elote corn mixed in with 4oz of leftover taco meat, lightly seasoned brown beans, half a lime and one 50 cal corn tortilla. I had a pineapple spindrift. This came out to around ~400 calories total.
- Dinner was 2 cups of minestrone soup with a few saltines thrown in.
Sunday: +1103, my only lesser-potato day
- I fasted in the morning, only had my morning vitamin gummies and water. I was fairly active for around an hour, going up and down stairs, cleaning the house and doing laundry.
- We went to the cheese cake factory for lunch to celebrate my partner's birthday with family. I looked at the portions and nutritional info ahead of time. Today was a greedy day where we would each pick our own flavor of cake slice. I planned to divide my food into thirds, with decision to split my beautiful 30th anniversary chocolate cheesecake slice into thirds as well.
- I slowly nibbled the brown rye bread with a smidge of butter while waiting and chatting for the meal. Food service was pretty slow, though the table bread quickly refilled, and I ate too much bread in summary. That's 5 more slices than the two I budgeted for. Oops.
- I savored my meal, and was sure to put 2/3rds of my meal into a to-go box. That's lunch for two days this week and I'm very excited for it.
- I became weak when the cheesecake arrived and had no choice but to eat half of it. I was good at reserving the rest into a box.
- Also, my partner had a bonus birthday cheesecake slice that the sweet waitress gave to us. That warranted a taste (meaning: 1 slim forkful - the thickness of two fork tines from top to bottom of cake). It was delicious and had a lemon curd filling and toasted marshmallow on top. 🥺 This taste was generously estimated for my log.
- We took a leisurely walk around the mall afterwards for about an hour, mostly window shopping.
- We went to see the new Batman movie. I planned to not eat any snacks and just sip on some mint tea during the movie. I wanted the popcorn, so I doled out a couple of handfuls for myself and left the kid and my mans to eat the rest of the jumbo bag.
- We wanted more sweets that evening while hanging out and the second half of my beloved cheesecake was consumed - oops again. I was able to limit myself to just my slice and not any bonus tastes since I already got to do that earlier.
All in all - I had a particularly rough time calorically on Sunday. I was scared to weigh in Monday, but was pleasantly surprised that my weight had not changed by even a tenth since the weigh-in the morning prior!
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