Week's totals

Tough first week, but eye opening to say the least. This week I will start tracking my exercise as well with this blog.

For the week:
Calories - 32,025 - 4,575 per day - 2,075 more calories than dietary recommendations
Fat - 1,419g - 203g per day - 122 more grams of fat than recommended
Sodium - 61,643mg - 8806mg per day - 5806mg more than recommended
Carbohydrates - 3,503g - 500g per day - 125g more than recommended
Fiber - 263g - 38g per day - 7g more than recommended
Sugar - 1,391g - 199g per day - 149g more than recommended
Protein - 1,605g - 229g per day - 179g more than recommended

So week one was a tough start, but it's a start.

Monday totals

A pizza day today for lunch and supper...totals:

Calories 2264
Fat 109g
Sodium 6243mg
Carbs 217g
Fiber 9g
Sugar 24g
Protein 103g

Sunday 3:50pm

Breakfast was a smoothie
Calories 681
Fat 10.5g
Sodium 266mg
Carbs 95g
Fiber 11g
Sugar 65g
Protein 67.5g

Lunch was the leftover Chile Colorado from Mexican on Friday night on wheat toast with a V8 Fusion
Calories 984
Fat 43g
Sodium 1155mg
Carbs 108g
Fiber 2g
Sugar 77g
Protein 40g

Supper packed for work tonight is tuna, an apple, celery, yogurt, and nuts.
Calories 1292
Fat 73g
Sodium 2192mg
Carbs 70g
Fiber 13g
Sugar 38g
Protein 96g

Total:
Calories 2957
Fat 126.5g
Sodium 3613mg
Carbs 273g
Fiber 26g
Sugar 180g
Protein 203.5g

Saturday 8:55pm

Haven't forgotten to keep track, just haven't posted...so here goes:

Wednesday total:
Calories 4880
Fat 255 grams
Sodium 10960mg
Carbs 458g
Fiber 44g
Sugar 110g
Protein 197g

Thursday total:
Calories 4528
Fat 167
Sodium 9610
Carb 483
Fiber 37
Sugar 205
Protein 277

Friday total:
Calories 3841
Fat 176
Sodium 6125
Carb 417
Fiber 21
Sugar 189
Protein 156

Saturday total:
Calories 4584
Fat 250
Sodium 7413
Carbs 411
Fiber 42
Sugar 111
Protein 189

Wednesday 2:15pm

Lunch during a busy work day after my client lunch that I usually have on Wednesdays fell through. Tried the new Subway Chicken Cordon Bleu sandwich in a footlong sandwich. 900 calories, 30 g fat, 3240mg sodium, 104g carbs, 10g fiber, 14g sugar, and 64g protein.

Wednesday 10:15am

Had a rough night last night. At work, all alone, and temptation just got the best of me, and I ordered pizza. Not only that, but I ate the entire pizza, adding 2800 calories, 120g fat, 7600mg sodium, 312g carbs, 16g fiber, 40g sugar, and 128g protein. My entire day until that was 2008 calories, 29g fat, 3705mg sodium, 298g carbs, 33g fiber, 153g sugar, 160.5g protein. Total for the day ended up at 4808 calories, 219g fat, 11305mg sodium, 610g carbs, 49g fiber, 193g sugar, and 288.5g protein. This is actually better than yesterday, but certainly not where I want to be!

This morning, breakfast was a V8 fusion. 300 calories, 0g fat, 240mg sodium, 72g carbs, 72g sugar, 0g protein.

Tuesday 10:05am

Before I forget, I need to report my morning food consumption and exercise. This morning I ended up sleeping in too long to work out. I did as much walking as I could with work today and did some light shopping this morning to pick up some medication. My breakfast this morning was a smoothie. I mix my smoothies with frozen strawberries, bananas, milk, orange juice, flaxseed, and protein powder. The final tally for breakfast: 681 calories, 10.5g fat, 95g carbs, 11g fiber, 65g sugar, 266mg sodium, and 67.5g protein.

Yesterday's final tally on total eating:
Calories - 5687
Fat - 192.5 grams
Carbs - 775 grams
Sodium - 10777 milligrams
Fiber - 41 grams
Sugars - 400 grams
Protein - 260 grams

Obviously WAY too much, so work to do aplenty!

Monday 7:05pm

Pizza at noon got me very off track for the day (and definitely opened some eyes once the calculations were done!), so tonight was a chicken breast, rice, and a smoothie. I also made up lunch and supper for tomorrow as I work at both jobs tomorrow.

Tallies for the three meals:

Supper tonight - 1297 calories, 19.5g fat, 1947mg sodium, 183g carbs, 23g fiber, 93g sugar, 129g protein

Lunch tomorrow - 705 calories, 9g fat, 1769mg sodium, 91g carbs, 7g fiber, 40g sugar, 67g protein

Supper tomorrow - 622 calories, 9.5g fat, 1670mg sodium, 112g carb, 15g fiber, 48g sugar, 26g protein

Monday 4:15pm

Getting ready to head back out to feed some cattle. My lunch today was Pizza Hut buffet, a family "tradition". I had the equivolent of one slice of Pepperoni stuffed crust, three slices of Meat Lover's stuffed crust, three breadsticks, two helpings of pasta, and 2 glasses of Mountain Dew. All together, it was a large meal. The totals were 3690 calories, 7980mg of sodium, 138g of fat, 502g carb, 277g sugar, 18g fiber, and 121g protein. Ouch!!

Monday 12:00pm

On my way to have lunch with my brother after cleaning out a closet all morning. My morning food was a bag of yogurt pretzels - 700 calories, 35g fat, 90g carb, 10g protein, 850mg sodium, 30g sugar. Not the world's best choice certainly, and I ate in my loveseat while watching morning Sportscenter. Also consumed 2 cans of Diet Dew this morning.

Sunday 8:30pm

So started all this today, and lo and behold, I forgot to start supper until late after getting the blog started and then getting caught up doing cleaning. So I will be eating vegetable beef soup tonight for supper @ 8:30ish pm. The soup has, according to nutritional information, 240 calories, 3 grams of fat, 38 grams of carbs, 18 grams of protein, 6 grams of fiber, 960mg of sodium, and 4g of sugar. I'm drinking ice water with the soup.

My "exercise" today was cleaning my kitchen and living room, and also doing some laundry.

An introduction to me

There's always a point. A moment. An incident that makes life crystal clear and overwhelming all at the same time. Your eyes are opened to exactly what is going on, as if the cruise control has suddenly had a brake tapped on it.

I didn't have that. What I had was a mountain that built to such a point that I simply could not deny what was going on any longer. It started in July when I was an adult chaperon for a youth trip for my church. While walking around the French Quarter of New Orleans, I became extremely overheated. I sweat through my shirt (something not unusual for me, but this was more than usual). By the time we stopped for supper, I was shaking. I went to my hotel room and realized that I was not in physical shape to continue on with the night's worship, despite one of my favorite bands playing afterwards. I proceeded to get sick. I took a lukewarm shower, got sick again, and soaked in a cool tub to try to cool my body down. My mother (also a chaperon on the trip) returned approximately 2 hours later, and my body was still very hot to the touch. My eyes were opened.

October, I turned 30. I always set my weight loss goals to be achieved by 30. The age hit without me even working solidly toward that goal. Reality hit.

This week, I climbed two floors of stairs and struggled mightily to regain my breath. I was once in the shape to walk on at a major college university in football. I now am struggling to climb two flights of stairs without nearly wheezing. Shock had been achieved.

Friday, I took my weight. I was flabbergasted to see the number: 480 lbs. I was horrified not that long ago to realize that I had topped 400. Now I was a couple binges from 500 pounds! A baseline had been set.

Over the next two days, I ate as I desired. As I sat down to make supper Sunday evening, I recounted what I had eaten since Saturday morning: a Domino's American Legends Memphis BBQ pizza, a dozen doughnuts, an order of Domino's chicken kickers, a Hot Stuff mini pizza, a bag of ranch Munchies, a V8 Fusion, 3 cans of Diet Mountain Dew, and a total of 4 liters of Mello Yello. It made me sick just to think of the amount of damage I'd done to my body in less than 48 hours, I was sick to my stomach.

Thus came the idea for this blog. I will track my eating and my exercise to have an honest record of what efforts I have made for the bettering of my health. I intend to weigh in weekly to track my progress.

To start this, I am 480 lbs. and have the following measurements: waist - 69", chest - 68", around thighs - 54.5".

A beginning

This is a dual-purpose blog. First, it is a way for me to journal my own eating and workouts to track honestly for myself what I am doing for my body every day. Second, this will hopefully be an eye-opening log for those of you who don't understand why weight loss is so difficult, and also the many layers of emotions that have led me (and many others with significant weight to lose) to gain the weight that I did. I hope that as I work, this will also be encouragement and hope for those who feel like there's no way that they can do it.