Luke's Daily Check In
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:01 am
I've just started the diet today. Even though Sunday and Monday are holidays I'm treating them like N days.
A friend had a party at a barbecue place about a week ago, and most of our group opted to get the "all you can eat" plate. Instead of that, I got the child's plate.
I'm not attempting to deprive myself. The fact is... I don't need to eat nearly as much food as I do. So I'm going to eat 3 reasonable meals a day and that's it.
My problem's twofold... Firstly, I do normally snack throughout the day. This is a habit that I am confident will be easy to break. It's not something I've had forever, and it's something I can deal with easily. Secondly, I do get seconds a lot.
It turns out that I naturally don't like sweets. For whatever reason, I don't especially enjoy the taste of chocolate. I'm not tempted to eat ice cream, and I tend to throw a lot of it away because it goes bad in my freezer.
But since I saw the amount of food everyone else consumed at the barbecue place, and I reflected upon it, I realize that the seconds is probably my biggest problem.
I hadn't found the S diet until today, but I had already been doing it since Wednesday. I just eat 3 times a day, or less if I'm not hungry, and I make sure to eat a reasonable amount of food. My body seems to have adjusted really quickly and it doesn't seem to care that I'm eating probably about 40-50% less food per meal.
After eating a plate of food at a restaurant I'd typically do the scrape thing to try to get every last bit of food off the plate. Now I just stop when I'm clearly not hungry anymore (I let myself eat a few bites extra sometimes) and I pack up the rest of the meal. I haven't been to a restaurant since Wednesday where I've felt that I have honestly needed to finish a plate to satiate my hunger.
At this point I have a feeling that perhaps I never had really strong hunger urges, and it was mostly psychological. It's been 6-7 hours since I ate a half a ham/egg/cheese sandwich with chips and a pickle, and I'm not hungry at all. I hope this is true, because if so, once I kick the snacking and overeating habits, it should be dead easy to stick with the diet. We shall see how my progress progresses!
I'm a very busy college student and I won't have time to update every day, but I'll try to keep it up. I'm also going to start Shovelgloving on Tuesday and see if I think it'll be a safe, effective, fun workout for me. I'm guessing that I'll appreciate the routine and it will work really well for me. I have the type of body where it's easy to build muscle, I believe, but as long as I start feeling results within the first few weeks (which I doubt I wouldn't!) I'm going to stick with the workout for some time. I am also going to Urban Ranger it a bit.
I'm not extremely overweight. I'm a 6'3" male around 260 lbs (can't weigh myself right now, roommate is asleep.) I am a pretty huge guy and it doesn't look very bad on me. but I'd really like to be in better shape, and build a fitness/diet routine that'll last me throughout my lifetime. And this seems like a great place to start.
So... Sunday is SUCCESS
A friend had a party at a barbecue place about a week ago, and most of our group opted to get the "all you can eat" plate. Instead of that, I got the child's plate.
I'm not attempting to deprive myself. The fact is... I don't need to eat nearly as much food as I do. So I'm going to eat 3 reasonable meals a day and that's it.
My problem's twofold... Firstly, I do normally snack throughout the day. This is a habit that I am confident will be easy to break. It's not something I've had forever, and it's something I can deal with easily. Secondly, I do get seconds a lot.
It turns out that I naturally don't like sweets. For whatever reason, I don't especially enjoy the taste of chocolate. I'm not tempted to eat ice cream, and I tend to throw a lot of it away because it goes bad in my freezer.
But since I saw the amount of food everyone else consumed at the barbecue place, and I reflected upon it, I realize that the seconds is probably my biggest problem.
I hadn't found the S diet until today, but I had already been doing it since Wednesday. I just eat 3 times a day, or less if I'm not hungry, and I make sure to eat a reasonable amount of food. My body seems to have adjusted really quickly and it doesn't seem to care that I'm eating probably about 40-50% less food per meal.
After eating a plate of food at a restaurant I'd typically do the scrape thing to try to get every last bit of food off the plate. Now I just stop when I'm clearly not hungry anymore (I let myself eat a few bites extra sometimes) and I pack up the rest of the meal. I haven't been to a restaurant since Wednesday where I've felt that I have honestly needed to finish a plate to satiate my hunger.
At this point I have a feeling that perhaps I never had really strong hunger urges, and it was mostly psychological. It's been 6-7 hours since I ate a half a ham/egg/cheese sandwich with chips and a pickle, and I'm not hungry at all. I hope this is true, because if so, once I kick the snacking and overeating habits, it should be dead easy to stick with the diet. We shall see how my progress progresses!
I'm a very busy college student and I won't have time to update every day, but I'll try to keep it up. I'm also going to start Shovelgloving on Tuesday and see if I think it'll be a safe, effective, fun workout for me. I'm guessing that I'll appreciate the routine and it will work really well for me. I have the type of body where it's easy to build muscle, I believe, but as long as I start feeling results within the first few weeks (which I doubt I wouldn't!) I'm going to stick with the workout for some time. I am also going to Urban Ranger it a bit.
I'm not extremely overweight. I'm a 6'3" male around 260 lbs (can't weigh myself right now, roommate is asleep.) I am a pretty huge guy and it doesn't look very bad on me. but I'd really like to be in better shape, and build a fitness/diet routine that'll last me throughout my lifetime. And this seems like a great place to start.
So... Sunday is SUCCESS