Steve's Daily Check-In
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Steve's Daily Check-In
Hi everybody. I found No S last week via somebody's blog and have been lurking for a few days before finally jumping in myself. I've been calorie counting for a couple weeks now and it hasn't been that bad (even kind of fun, using a ruler and junior-high geometry to figure out how much pizza I ate because the US RDA information lists calories per square inch). But I'm liking the sound of No S quite a bit more, so I'll probably overlap calorie counting and No S for the next week or so and then just go to No S exclusively.
Anyway, here we go with Day One:
Wouldn't you know it, today's the day our office manager picked to come around with ice cream treats for everybody. Tempting, but I politely declined.
Breakfast: Yogurt
Lunch: Smoked beef on wheat bread, and an apple.
Dinner: Chinese chicken (some orange, some mandarin) and rice. I suppose the sauces on the chicken might be a borderline case (kinda sweet) but I think that should be okay so long as I don't make a habit of it.
So I'm thinking I can call Day One (Tuesday) a SUCCESS.
Bonus: a little over 3 miles of (Sub)Urban Rangering. Probably won't be an everyday occurrence, but I'm surprised at how easy it was.
Anyway, here we go with Day One:
Wouldn't you know it, today's the day our office manager picked to come around with ice cream treats for everybody. Tempting, but I politely declined.
Breakfast: Yogurt
Lunch: Smoked beef on wheat bread, and an apple.
Dinner: Chinese chicken (some orange, some mandarin) and rice. I suppose the sauces on the chicken might be a borderline case (kinda sweet) but I think that should be okay so long as I don't make a habit of it.
So I'm thinking I can call Day One (Tuesday) a SUCCESS.
Bonus: a little over 3 miles of (Sub)Urban Rangering. Probably won't be an everyday occurrence, but I'm surprised at how easy it was.
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Thanks Deb! Yesterday at the office they actually had cake for some reason. It's not usually this common to have work-provided junk food, I guess this week was just kind of an anomaly.
Anyway, Friday/Day Four happened to be an S-DAY for me on account of it being my birthday. Just a little bit of seconds on breakfast and dinner, and a sweet for dessert.
Plus about 3 miles of Urban Rangering. (Which is going to get tougher as we head into summer -- better stock up on mosquito repellent...)
Anyway, Friday/Day Four happened to be an S-DAY for me on account of it being my birthday. Just a little bit of seconds on breakfast and dinner, and a sweet for dessert.
Plus about 3 miles of Urban Rangering. (Which is going to get tougher as we head into summer -- better stock up on mosquito repellent...)
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Thanks.
Saturday/Day Five: S-DAY with another 3+ miles of Urban Ranger.
Sunday/Day Six: Ditto, though this time around my walking didn't have a destination to speak of. I'm really surprised at how easy it's been to walk what I had previously thought of as a pretty big distance -- and how good it feels. I found a great forest preserve to walk in -- but it's 1.5 miles just to get there, so I imagine actually walking through it is something I'll have to work up to.
Saturday/Day Five: S-DAY with another 3+ miles of Urban Ranger.
Sunday/Day Six: Ditto, though this time around my walking didn't have a destination to speak of. I'm really surprised at how easy it's been to walk what I had previously thought of as a pretty big distance -- and how good it feels. I found a great forest preserve to walk in -- but it's 1.5 miles just to get there, so I imagine actually walking through it is something I'll have to work up to.
Thanks Reinhard! I'm surprised at how easy this is so far -- I was expecting a lot more snack cravings, but other than a particularly rough evening of Day Two, it hasn't been bad at all.
Anyway, just to catch up:
Day Ten: Success
Day Eleven: Success with a little funny stuff of the "well, I COULD put this all on one plate if I wanted to, but it'd be awkward" variety.
Day Twelve: S-Day
Day Thirteen: S-Day
No urban rangering, per se, over the weekend, but plenty of practical exercise helping my fiancee move. I sure *feel* like I walked a marathon...
Anyway, just to catch up:
Day Ten: Success
Day Eleven: Success with a little funny stuff of the "well, I COULD put this all on one plate if I wanted to, but it'd be awkward" variety.
Day Twelve: S-Day
Day Thirteen: S-Day
No urban rangering, per se, over the weekend, but plenty of practical exercise helping my fiancee move. I sure *feel* like I walked a marathon...
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- gratefuldeb67
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- Location: Great Neck, NY
Checking back in...
- 2-3 minor failures over the past month or so (granola bar late at night when I get *really* hungry...not a huge deal, but I should still try and get back in the habit of just trying water first).
- another pizza-related "seconds" failure...It's such a specific thing (seconds on pizza on the occasional Friday nights that I'm visiting with my long-distance fiancee) that I'm not too concerned about its overall effect on my diet so long as I don't let it lead me down a slippery slope.
- Overall, things are going quite well. Averaging 2 pounds lost per week.
- After a bit of plateauing, my moving average from my PhysicsDiet profile is finally 20 pounds down from when I started dieting (most of that is no-S).
- Still walking a few miles each day that weather permits, though it's not really for a practical purpose (other than exercise and relaxation) so it's not technically urban rangering as such.
- 2-3 minor failures over the past month or so (granola bar late at night when I get *really* hungry...not a huge deal, but I should still try and get back in the habit of just trying water first).
- another pizza-related "seconds" failure...It's such a specific thing (seconds on pizza on the occasional Friday nights that I'm visiting with my long-distance fiancee) that I'm not too concerned about its overall effect on my diet so long as I don't let it lead me down a slippery slope.
- Overall, things are going quite well. Averaging 2 pounds lost per week.
- After a bit of plateauing, my moving average from my PhysicsDiet profile is finally 20 pounds down from when I started dieting (most of that is no-S).
- Still walking a few miles each day that weather permits, though it's not really for a practical purpose (other than exercise and relaxation) so it's not technically urban rangering as such.
- gratefuldeb67
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Thanks Deb and Cristi! You're right, it is easy, and I am pretty proud of myself. Given some of the junk binges I used to go on, it's really surprising.
Anyway, one more failure to report -- early this week, I had to be in at work around 3am, which threw my whole schedule out of whack and had me eating a second breakfast without even really thinking about it. Whoops!
(...okay, I had a donut too.)
Back on the plus side, I think my weight's starting to go back down after a bit of plateauing, so that's good.
Anyway, one more failure to report -- early this week, I had to be in at work around 3am, which threw my whole schedule out of whack and had me eating a second breakfast without even really thinking about it. Whoops!
(...okay, I had a donut too.)
Back on the plus side, I think my weight's starting to go back down after a bit of plateauing, so that's good.