Breakfast: Bagel friday

Have not been setting weekly goals and my focus has suffered because of it. My goal this week is to lose 3 pounds. Weighed 271 this morning.

Breakfast: eggs bacon and coffee 2 points
Lunch: Freshly steak peppercorn meal 15 points
Dinner: Baked salmon with baby spring mix and honey mustard. 2 points

Snacks: Grapes, pork rinds, glass of milk 12 points

31 of 40 daily points used

Breakfast: 2 eggs, bacon (2) and coffee 2 points
Lunch: left over salmon (0) spring salad mix (0) honey mustard (3) 3 points
Dinner: rotisserie chicken thigh (5) mixed veggies (0) tea 5 points


Snacks: Grapes, Banana, Pork rinds (4), Milk (8) Beef Sticks (5) slice of Muenster (3) 20points

Breakfast: 2 eggs (0) sausage (3) coffee (0) 3 points
Lunch: Chick fila cobb salad with grilled chicken no dressing (4) unsweet tea (0) 4 points
Dinner: Rotisserie chicken breast (0), spring mix salad (0) honey mustard (3) 3 points


Snacks: Grapes (0) Banana (0), beef sticks (3) Muenster cheese (4) milk (8) 15

breakfast: Bacon (2) eggs (0) coffee (0) 2 points
lunch: sara lee delight 2 slices (2) can tuna (0) yellow mustard (0) light miracle whip (1) sriracha (1) pickle relish (1) 5 points
Dinner: Kevin's Hawaiian Pork Tenderloin (7) baby spring mix (0) honey mustard (3) 10 points



snacks: banana (0) grapes (0) Beef stick (3) Milk (8) fiber mix (1) 12 points

29 total points used

I reached my week's goal!! Weighed in this morning at 268. Weighed early because this weekend is my wife's birthday. Wanted the mark because my goal is to maintain this weekend.


Breakfast: Bagel Friday everything bagel (8) onion and chive schmear (6) 14
Lunch: Kevin's Hawaiian Pork tenderloin (7) 7 points

For a weekend celebrating my wife's 40th, didn't do too bad. Gained a pound. 269 this morning. That should dissipate as my body regulates the sugar and alcohol out.

Breakfast: 2 slices toast (2) 4 slices bacon (4) coffee (0) 6 points
Lunch: spicy mango chicken sausage (7) spring mix (0) honey mustard (3) 10 points
Dinner: Kevin's cilantro lime chicken (5) green mix (0) vinegarette (2) 7 points
Snacks: beef sticks(3), milk (8) 11 points


Activity: 20 minute body weight circuit (8) 8 points earned

You are right. As I said in Monday last's post I had not been setting weekly goals and had lost focus. This week the goal is 3 pounds lost.

Breakfast: 2 slices of toast (2) 4 bacon (4) 6 points
Lunch: Bison Patty (7) sauteed veggies (3) 10 points
Dinner: Creole seasoned chicken thigh (4), spring mix (0) honey mustard (3) 7points


snacks: beef sticks (3) 3 points

Breakfast: 4 slices bacon (4) 2 slices toast (2) 6 points
Lunch: Freshly Lemony Mediterranean Chicken and vegies (11) 11 points
Dinner: spring mix salad (0) yogurt with blue berries (3) apple and banana (0) 3 points

Snacks: beef sticks (3), belvita (8) 11points

Breakfast: 2 eggs (0) 2 bacon (2) coffee (0) 2 points
Lunch: Creole seasoned Chicken Thigh (4) mixed green salad (0) honey mustard (3) 7 points
Dinner: Cheeseburger Patty (8) spring mix (0) ranch (3) 11 points

Snacks: Banana (0) fiber Mix (1) milk (8) 1 point

2 eggs is 0 points?

Yes eggs are a free food.

List of zero point foods on my WW plan

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ZeroPoint foods list by category
Dairy

• Yogurt, Greek, plain, nonfat, unsweetened
• Yogurt, plain, nonfat, unsweetened
• Yogurt, soy, plan

Beans and legumes

• Beans (refried, fat-free-canned)
• Beans (adzuki, black, broad/fava, butter, cannellini, cranberry, green, garbanzo, great northern, kidney, lima, lupini, mung, navy, pink, small white, snap, soy, string, wax, white)
• Chickpeas (garbanzo)
• Edamame
• Lentils
• Mung dal
• Salad, three-bean
• Succotash

Fruit

• Apples
• Apricots
• Banana
• Beets
• Berries, mixed
• Blackberries
• Blueberries
• Cherries
• Cantaloupe
• Clementines
• Cranberries
• Figs
• Guavas
• Grapes
• Grapefruit
• Kumquats
• Melon
• Honeydew
• Jackfruit
• Kiwifruit
• Lemon
• Lime
• Litchis
• Mangoes
• Melon balls
• Nectarine
• Oranges
• Papayas
• Passion fruit
• Peaches
• Pears
• Persimmons
• Pineapple
• Plumcots
• Plums
• Pomegranate seeds
• Pomegranates
• Pomelo
• Pumpkin
• Raspberries
• Satsuma mandarin
• Starfruit
• Strawberries
• Tangelo
• Tangerine
• Watermelon

Proteins

• Chicken breast, ground 98% fat-free
• Chicken breast or tenderloin (skinless, boneless or with bone)
• Egg substitutes
• Eggs
• Jerk chicken breast
• Satay, chicken, without peanut sauce
• Tofu, all varieties
• Turkey breast, ground, 98% fat-free
• Turkey breast or tenderloin, skinless, boneless or on the bone
• Turkey breast, skinless, smoked
• ZeroPoint Seafood
• Calamari (grilled)
• Caviar
• Fish (anchovies, arctic char, bluefish, branzino ((sea bass)), butterfish, carp, catfish, cod, drum, eel, flounder, grouper, haddock, halibut, herring, mackerel, mahimahi ((dolphinfish)), monkfish, orange roughy, perch, pike, pollack, pompano, rainbow trout ((steelhead)), rockfish, roe, sablefish ((including smoked)), salmon ((all varieties)), salmon, smoked ((lox)), sardines, sea bass, smelt, snapper, sole, striped bass, striped mullet, sturgeon ((including smoked)); white sucker, sunfish ((pumpkinseed)), swordfish, tilapia, tilefish, tuna ((all varieties)), turbot, whitefish ((including smoked)), whitefish and pike ((store-bought)), whiting)
• Shellfish: abalone, clams, crab (including Alaska king, blue, dungeness, lump crabmeat, queen) crayfish, cuttlefish, lobster (including spiny lobster), mussels, octopus, oysters, scallops, shrimp, squid
• Sashimi

Sauces and condiments

• Lemon zest
• Lime zest
• Pico de gallo
• Pumpkin puree
• Salsa, verde
• Salsa, fat free
• Sauerkraut
• Tomato puree
• Tomato sauce

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There are plenty of other spices and seasonings that have a 0 SmartPoints value but aren't considered ZeroPoint foods. Only foods that form the building blocks of healthy habits are included in the ZeroPoint foods list.

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Vegetables

• Arrowroot
• Artichoke Hearts
• Arugula
• Artichokes
• Artichoke Hearts
• Bamboo Shoot
• Beets
• Broccoli
• Broccoli rabe
• Broccoli slaw
• Broccolini
• Brussels sprouts
• Bok choy
• Cabbage
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Celery
• Corn (baby, white, yellow, kernels, on the cob)
• Collards
• Coleslaw mix
• Eggplant
• Escarole
• Endive
• Fennel
• Garlic
• Ginger root
• Greens: beet, collard, dandelion, kale, mustard, turnip
• Greens, mixed baby
• Hearts of palm
• Jerusalem artichoke (sunchoke)
• Jicama
• Kohlrabi
• Leeks
• Lettuce
• Mung bean sprouts
• Mushroom caps
• Mushrooms (all varieties)
• Okra
• Onions
• Parsley
• Pea shoots
• Peapods
• Peas and carrots
• Peas (black-eyed, cowpeas (blackeyes, crowder, southern), young pods with seeds, green, pigeon, snow (Chinese pea pods); split, sugar snap)
• Peppers
• Pepperoncini
• Pickles
• Pimientos
• Radishes
• Radicchio
• Rutabagas
• Salad, mixed greens
• Salad, without dressing
• Scallions
• Seaweed/ Nori seaweed
• Shallots
• Spinach
• Sprouts
• Squash, summer (all varieties)
• Squad, winter (all varieties)
• Swiss chard
• Taro leaves and shoots
• Tomatoes, all varieties
• Turnips
• Vegetable sticks
• Vegetables, mixed
• Vegetables, stir fry, without sauce
• Water chestnuts
• Watercress

Some fruits and vegetables contain SmartPoints values. These include:

• Avocados
• Cassava/Yuca/Plantains
• Olives
• Parsnips
• Potatoes
• Sweet potato
• Yams

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Breakfast: Everything bagel (8) onion and chive schmear (6) 14 points
Lunch : Cheeseburger patty (8) spring mix (0) honey mustard (3) 11 points


Snacks: Ezekiel Bread toast (2)

Missed my 3 pound goal from last week by a pound. Weighed 267 this morning. Going to push this week and shoot for 4 pounds.

Breaksfast: Eggs (0) Bacon (3) coffee (0) 3 points
Lunch : Freshly steak peppercorn (15) 15 points
Dinner: salmon (0) spring mix (0) honey mustard (2) 2 points
Snacks: Beef Sticks (3) mixed nuts (5) milk (8) 16 points

Breakfast: bacon (2) eggs (0) coffee (0)
Lunch: Tuna (0) light MW (1) mustard (0) relish (1) ezekiel bread (4) 6 points

Breakfast: 2 eggs (0) 2 bacon (2) coffee (0) 2 points
Lunch: Cobb salad with grilled chicken 4 points
Dinner beef tacos. 15 points

Snacks milk 8 mixed nuts 4

OK, I haven't read the entire thread. I'm no food guru, so I'll only make 1 short rec: try to limit anything OTHER than meat/protein or basic vegis to your 3 or 4 "cheat" meals a week. If you need more than that, fine.

As far as exercise, WALK. Like, a LOT. 45 minute a day minimum; work up to an hour and a half. It doesn't even have to be very brisk, although you can do "intervals" and include some running. If you go on YT you'll find guys who've had a lot of success doing the last bit of fat cutting by shortening their runs and lengthening their walks.

Yes, it takes time, but get it done early. I think that you'll see results fast.

As far as the scale, my recommendation is to put it in the cabinet. Your pants size is your scale. If you have a 49" chest and a 32" waist, who cares what you weigh? Besides, you said you were 6' and working to get down to around 210 at 15-18% bodyfat. That tells me you have some underlying muscle mass (are you working that, by the way?) and so weight for you isn't anything to worry about.

91AggieLawyer said:

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As far as the scale, my recommendation is to put it in the cabinet. Your pants size is your scale. If you have a 49" chest and a 32" waist, who cares what you weigh? Besides, you said you were 6' and working to get down to around 210 at 15-18% bodyfat. That tells me you have some underlying muscle mass (are you working that, by the way?) and so weight for you isn't anything to worry about.

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I don't agree with this at all for OP's goals. He's not looking to lose 10 lbs he's looking to drop 33% of his starting weight. That's a journey and takes some learning of new habits. How are you going to learn if you aren't getting constant feedback? That's what the scale is for. Don't step on it every day but you need to weekly or twice a week else you won't know if you are tracking right or not. Waist size doesn't provide quick enough feedback loop if you are looking for a total lifestyle change (which is what OP a is looking for in his objectives without just saying it).

OP, where are you located?

Breakfast: none. Jumped into work this morning and forgot to eat
Lunch : Spring Mix (0) Dressing (3) ground beef (4)
Dinner: tuna steak (0) spring mix (0) Italian vinegarette (3)

Snacks: banana (0) milk (8) blueberries (0) Beef Sticks (3) mixed nuts (5)

Ft Worth

ATM9000 said:

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91AggieLawyer said:

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As far as the scale, my recommendation is to put it in the cabinet. Your pants size is your scale. If you have a 49" chest and a 32" waist, who cares what you weigh? Besides, you said you were 6' and working to get down to around 210 at 15-18% bodyfat. That tells me you have some underlying muscle mass (are you working that, by the way?) and so weight for you isn't anything to worry about.

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I don't agree with this at all for OP's goals. He's not looking to lose 10 lbs he's looking to drop 33% of his starting weight. That's a journey and takes some learning of new habits. How are you going to learn if you aren't getting constant feedback? That's what the scale is for. Don't step on it every day but you need to weekly or twice a week else you won't know if you are tracking right or not. Waist size doesn't provide quick enough feedback loop if you are looking for a total lifestyle change (which is what OP a is looking for in his objectives without just saying it).

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At some point the scale MIGHT quit moving yet he's going to feel healthier and leaner.

As far as quick enough feedback, I think that's a red-herring at best and a fools game at worst. We all know exercise plans and eating routines "plateau" at some point and you don't see the results as quickly as you once did (regardless of what those results are). Yet, the goal of any of this is a lifestyle change that one will adapt forever since none of us are getting younger. Whether you're 25 and out of shape or 50 and obese from a sedentary lifestyle, you should want to continue with a healthy lifestyle REGARDLESS of short term impacts or how much you "learn" from looking at a scale, which I would argue is minimal. My point here is that you aren't going anywhere. Unless you're going to quit totally if you don't "lose x pounds by (date)," which is irrational, short term goals should push you to work hard but not be discouraging if you don't or can't meet them.

Having to buy smaller sized clothing, even if not as often as seeing a scale move, is WAY more satisfying than seeing you've lost 3 pounds this week -- and I can speak from experience that this sort of thing makes me want to go work even harder. Plus, its something you "wear" that everyone will notice. No one knows what his scale weight was unless he told them, AND the important thing I was trying to say is this: according to what I read, his body type seems to be a little different than most. Thus, the scale doesn't tell everything and in SOME cases can be misleading. NFL linebackers are 240 and 6'1". That's obese on some scales, but some of those guys have 5 or 6 percent bodyfat.

I don't think one has to get "constant" feedback, as you put it to "learn" new habits. Even if they do, they can do it in other ways than a scale.

So I respectfully disagree, but people can hear all sides on this forum and decide for themselves.

The reason I weigh in weekly is so I can make mental note of it. I have a goal I am shooting for and it helps keep me more accountable. The weeks I didn't weigh you can see what the results were. I'm not obsessed over it, if I start adding muscle and weight stays the same or goes up a little but I am feeling better and physically looking better and more importantly am in a more healthy routine then that is ok. But right now, my focus is getting my weight to a more healthy range. It is slowly getting there.

AgBQ-00 said:

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Ft Worth

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close to the chisolm trail toll road?

Far north up by Keller.

AgBQ-00 said:

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Far north up by Keller.

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I'm down in Cleburne, so that's sorta a long run for ya, but I'm sure you can make it!!!

91AggieLawyer said:

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ATM9000 said:

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91AggieLawyer said:

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As far as the scale, my recommendation is to put it in the cabinet. Your pants size is your scale. If you have a 49" chest and a 32" waist, who cares what you weigh? Besides, you said you were 6' and working to get down to around 210 at 15-18% bodyfat. That tells me you have some underlying muscle mass (are you working that, by the way?) and so weight for you isn't anything to worry about.

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I don't agree with this at all for OP's goals. He's not looking to lose 10 lbs he's looking to drop 33% of his starting weight. That's a journey and takes some learning of new habits. How are you going to learn if you aren't getting constant feedback? That's what the scale is for. Don't step on it every day but you need to weekly or twice a week else you won't know if you are tracking right or not. Waist size doesn't provide quick enough feedback loop if you are looking for a total lifestyle change (which is what OP a is looking for in his objectives without just saying it).

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At some point the scale MIGHT quit moving yet he's going to feel healthier and leaner.

As far as quick enough feedback, I think that's a red-herring at best and a fools game at worst. We all know exercise plans and eating routines "plateau" at some point and you don't see the results as quickly as you once did (regardless of what those results are). Yet, the goal of any of this is a lifestyle change that one will adapt forever since none of us are getting younger. Whether you're 25 and out of shape or 50 and obese from a sedentary lifestyle, you should want to continue with a healthy lifestyle REGARDLESS of short term impacts or how much you "learn" from looking at a scale, which I would argue is minimal. My point here is that you aren't going anywhere. Unless you're going to quit totally if you don't "lose x pounds by (date)," which is irrational, short term goals should push you to work hard but not be discouraging if you don't or can't meet them.

Having to buy smaller sized clothing, even if not as often as seeing a scale move, is WAY more satisfying than seeing you've lost 3 pounds this week -- and I can speak from experience that this sort of thing makes me want to go work even harder. Plus, its something you "wear" that everyone will notice. No one knows what his scale weight was unless he told them, AND the important thing I was trying to say is this: according to what I read, his body type seems to be a little different than most. Thus, the scale doesn't tell everything and in SOME cases can be misleading. NFL linebackers are 240 and 6'1". That's obese on some scales, but some of those guys have 5 or 6 percent bodyfat.

I don't think one has to get "constant" feedback, as you put it to "learn" new habits. Even if they do, they can do it in other ways than a scale.

So I respectfully disagree, but people can hear all sides on this forum and decide for themselves.

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This is like setting a goal of passing an exam when you start from a base of knowing nothing on the subject and saying 'do practice problems but don't look at the results of them what's going to let you know you did well is the A you get on the exam.' It's a little bit ludicrous when thinking about it in that light. Of course getting smaller clothes is motivating but it isn't mutually exclusive with weighing yourself either.

And ironic you cite an NFL linebacker when those guys are getting ready for training camp, they start thinking about heir fitness too and the way they generally check it isn't by how their clothes fit or body fat percentage

Breakfast: Everything bagel (8) Onion and Chive schmear (6) 14 points

What is your point goal per day?

It is down to 39 now. I aim to keep my points under and with-in 10 points of the goal. When I started my daily point goal was 42.

Breakfast : western omlette coffee hashbrown
Lunch fajitas one tortilla

Weight this morning 264

Breakfast:
Lunch: PB aand Honey sammich 15 points

Breakfast: 2 eggs (0) bacon (2) coffee (0) 2 points
Lunch pb and honey sammich 15 points
Dinner Morracan chicken breast (0) pan fried okra (3) fresh corn on the cob (0) 3 points