Weight Loss Thread

Sludig said:

Ya guess a little exaggerated but i do eat awful closer to vegetarian many days. Too much carbs, a lot of protein via peanut butter or whatever in a processed item.

i had recently stocked up on sardines, i like the boneless skinless fillets. lately I've also as a hunger kill snack will cut like a hunk of cheddar off a 5lb b block.

I just cry at near prices over ground beef. wish Costco closer, the cord chicken still a nice deal, and last night we turned carcass into 10 cups it so of broth to freeze

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Gurgeh said:

Fillets are nice if you're a noob, but one reason whole sardines are so great especially in this day and age when we don’t eat livers, heart etc.. Not to mention the bones, it’s really great to eat them whole. There are plenty of nutrients we're deficient in, in those parts.

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Sludig said:

Ya it's my diet of course, not meaning to say a higher amount should be hard, but a mixture of using what's in the house and being s cheap bastard.

Like a normal work day where anything is pretty much on the go looks like coffee for breakfast, maybe some kind belvita grain bar or some random wierd foreign snack i grabbed at Costco. Lunch is often leftovers but often is something with like maybe 5 oz of burger, or an extra mre. Ask this week was wiring on old Ramen with a tin of sardines.

Get home, do farm stuff, it's usually like after 8 almost and Dinner i try to skip a decent amount of time while i work on the last 5-10 lbs shooting for 200 6ft1, 34-36 ish waist.
But sometimes diet will be nice large cut of meat, then other days might be like a simple add grabbing a pbj.

So many of those example get a bit over that i guess but not by a lot. Im stopping selling eggs since my birds hardly producing and going to try and start getting 2-3 eggs a day down.


But goal was to start to at least grab a shake in the evening. And once a lot of our old food is it off the freezer i have the containers and was going to start doing s weekly meal prep for the week so i have grab and go as i just don't have the facilities or time at work and kinda working 2 jobs with the farm.
Even just chicken and vegetables with a half cup of rice and little sauce will be plenty for a long time before i get sick of it.

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Caliane said:

I think you should start a food logbook.

you seem not too sure what your eating exactly. cal or protein. also seem very active, but almost seem like, not eating remotely enough.
coffee only for bf, and sometimes a grain bar?

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Sludig said:

I make up for it in an occasional binge, like I hurt myself at buffets, currently my weakness is since my wife hates them out here, if i got to chinese, I'll eat most of 2 entree's myself with a little leftover for later. Been getting better about a lot of places if we eat out together order smaller/less as she often wont finish her stuff.

Or other kinda "binge" is she'll make a huge amount of a dinner, she wont eat it after day 2, so sometimes I just have huge servings left of say enchilladas or something I'm trying to get cleared out of the fridge by day 3/4 because she's on to making whatever else next.

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Captain Suave said:

IMO you need to sort out your food tracking before you think about supplementation. Intermittent grazing and binging is a phenomenal way to make your diet unmanageable. You have no idea how much of what you're putting in your mouth, in terms of calories or nutrients.

Get an app, weigh and measure everything you cook, scan any processed foods, and get estimates for the rest. Then work on eating consistent calories per day so that you can build reliable feedback between satiety and your intake. Quantifying what you actually eat is step 0 of developing enough discipline to change your health outcomes.

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Sludig said:

I would say, I'm at least ahead of some of the folks that needed this thread, at my absolute worst, I was up to like 225/230 6 some years ago, and I fixed that, dropped back to 190/195. Now ive kinda floated between 205-215. And while I'm not going to delude myself and say oh man it's mostly muscle, I wish I had a better idea of body make up as 2 years of hobby farm I'm certainly much fitter than I used to be with visible definition in some areas.

Not to disregard what your saying.

I kinda hinted at, I think I'd like to just eat completely separate from my wife, but that's usually a good way to get her pissy. But would help a lot with controlling and eating the stuff I want rather than just this is whats leftover to clear out. I'm happy eating simple, in college I'd eat a can of kidney beans with some seasoning. But that has translated to in conjunction with my overwhelming busy lifestyle, the hatred to do any cooking it it takes more than 15 minutes of my direct prep time (cooking unmonitored doesn't count). So I think that's one of my big things to gain by trying to do a week or more meal prep ahead of time all in a sitting.

That and come next summer my first home grown beef should be coming in and maybe I'm more happy to play fast and loose eating more steak in things. Part of feeling like I don't eat enough protein is I've kinda lost my taste I think for stuff that's just a big cut of meat unless very saucy (too many calories) or diced up small in another dish. I like fish pretty well but wife wont eat it. And I go in cycles of getting sick of chicken unless it's just super tender and juicy, my mom couldn't cook and any kind of mouth drying heavy chewing bird is instant no appetite. Tonight we have smoked pork bone in slow cooked with pinto's and seasoning and that's kinda a good example of where I like stuff tender and mixed in.

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Sludig said:

I would say, I'm at least ahead of some of the folks that needed this thread, at my absolute worst, I was up to like 225/230 6 some years ago, and I fixed that, dropped back to 190/195. Now ive kinda floated between 205-215. And while I'm not going to delude myself and say oh man it's mostly muscle, I wish I had a better idea of body make up as 2 years of hobby farm I'm certainly much fitter than I used to be with visible definition in some areas.

Not to disregard what your saying.

I kinda hinted at, I think I'd like to just eat completely separate from my wife, but that's usually a good way to get her pissy. But would help a lot with controlling and eating the stuff I want rather than just this is whats leftover to clear out. I'm happy eating simple, in college I'd eat a can of kidney beans with some seasoning. But that has translated to in conjunction with my overwhelming busy lifestyle, the hatred to do any cooking it it takes more than 15 minutes of my direct prep time (cooking unmonitored doesn't count). So I think that's one of my big things to gain by trying to do a week or more meal prep ahead of time all in a sitting.

That and come next summer my first home grown beef should be coming in and maybe I'm more happy to play fast and loose eating more steak in things. Part of feeling like I don't eat enough protein is I've kinda lost my taste I think for stuff that's just a big cut of meat unless very saucy (too many calories) or diced up small in another dish. I like fish pretty well but wife wont eat it. And I go in cycles of getting sick of chicken unless it's just super tender and juicy, my mom couldn't cook and any kind of mouth drying heavy chewing bird is instant no appetite. Tonight we have smoked pork bone in slow cooked with pinto's and seasoning and that's kinda a good example of where I like stuff tender and mixed in.

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Caliane said:

I feel like neither this post, or the response to mine, correctly understands what we were saying..

"But would help a lot with controlling and eating the stuff I want rather than just this is whats leftover to clear out."

we aren't at that stage yet. we can't even talk about controlling what you are eating, if you don't know what you are eating.

step 1. don't change your diet at all. just track what you eat. note ingredients and proportions. weight them. do the math. see where you are landing on cals, proteins, and nutrition.

after a short while, you'll probably start getting an idea of weights/size without actually having to measure every time. like, I don't measure/weight milk in coffee, olives, tomatoes in salads etc. I just know how much 40g of them are.

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