Starting weight - well, this is interesting. About 5 months ago, the battery on our scale seemingly was getting low. It was giving me a different weight every time i stepped on it, so I'd have to weight myself 5-6 times until I got the same reading 3 times in a row and I went with that one. I replaced the battery and my weight shot up 5 pounds. I switched them back and the weight went back to normal. Over the next few months, for "fun," I switched the batteries a few times and every single time, the weight was different by 5 pounds. This posed the question, was the starting weight of my last J-DOC 5 pounds off from the beginning? I'm going with that, because since today is a new day, and the scale batteries are about empty, I had to officially change the batteries and the weight shot up the 5 pounds, putting me at 242!!!!! EEEEEEK, that would mean only a 5 pound loss since I started the initial round on June 18. BUT I'm going with the 5 pound battery difference, meaning I have kept off 10 pounds since that. So the official starting weight is 242 this time around, which is lower by 11 from the initial 253 (which was showing as 248 on the old batteries.)
Here is my New Year's Day in pictures:
For lunch, I had a peanut butter sandwich on light wheat bread. (I skipped breakfast just because I was tired and didn't bother. Also GORGED the night before on pizza so much that I barely had room for dessert.
Kristyn went shopping and I asked her to get me 3 gallons of water. After reading Heather Coe's reminder about hydration, I was reminded of my best work I've done - and that was when i was carrying around the gallon of water with me all day and finishing the gallon each and every day. Really fools my body into not snacking! Here is a photo of my first gallon of water. See the results later on . .. . ..
For a snack, some strawberries!!!! Yup - I actually ate the strawberries! Only about 5-6 of them, not the whole container.
These Sour Patch Kids ice pops are AMAZING! They really taste like frozen sour patch kids, and they are only 40 calories!!! Really great "cheat" food that's not really cheating. I'm sure there's a good amount of sugar, but I'm cool with it. They are 40 calories and they do the job of 200! Additionally, they are $2.99 for a box of 12, so that's a cool quarter per ice pop. Good for the waste line and the wallet!
No day is complete without munching on a piece of yellow american cheese :-)
For dinner, I made one of my favorite meals - Santa Fe Chicken & Rice. This is so good! I switched out the white rice for brown rice, included chicken, black beans, corn, chicken broth, pace picante sauce (medium,) cumin and we skipped the cheese, because that adds a lot of not needed calories. The whole concoction is about 2000 calories. I probably ate about half of the pan - good for about 1000 calories. That was a bit more than I needed to eat, but remember - for a guy my size, 1000 calories is not nearly the same as it is for someone like Kristyn who is so much smaller than me. I would like to have capped this at 600-700, but at least I cooked at home, so that's a start. Baby steps.
Joey was eating these Ritz Crackers with peanut butter and he REALLY seemed to want to share, so I had 3 of them and he had 3 of them. What a good boy sharing . . . . :-)
And finish off the night with 1 more sour patch kid ice pop. Couldn't help myself. hahahaa.
Not bad for my first day. I almost finished the whole gallon and that was with starting around 12:30pm and passing out on the couch before 9 with my typical "first day headache!" I also set a record for number of times I went to pee yesterday in a 5 hour stretch. :-) I think the results were there for the day. Definitely lightened up on the snacking for sure. The water thing is going to be great if I can keep up on it.
Ok everyone, good start. Let's not call this a new year's resolution. New Year's Day is just a convenient day to start, that's all. Wish me luck and tune back in tomorrow!
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