@Raymond Lin - nice progress! Your approach sounds super sensible and very sustainable. I literally had to weigh out chocolate and rice to reset my portions. While I’m still not quite pre- Christmas the new intake levels have stuck and I find myself eating less and really enjoying that one chocolate/biscuit rather than nailing a whole pack.
Another good swim this morning. Achieved a PB of 102 lengths (78 continuous) which I’m chuffed with. Certainly earned my M&S chocolate covered round biscuit this morning!
Thanks, my logic is that I need to live normally. I am eating everything I was before, just less of it. I even put sugar in my coffee and tea. The biggest difference I think are these things
1 - My lunch is more consistent, and smaller portions. I limit to about 350cal. I try to have 600 cal max between breakfast and lunch.
2 - I stop eating something after dinner. I have dinner by 6pm and used to eat something at like 10pm, which could amount to like 400 calories very easily. These days, if I do eat something, it's like a few nuts instead...or 1 or 2 tiny pieces of chocolate. So the byproduct of this I am doing like an intermittent fasting for 14 to 15hours some days.
3 - I haven't drank much juice, if at all. If I do, I measure it, 100ml, 150ml. Not like a whole mug full. In this whole time since I started, only had 2 glasses of Grapefruit juice. Not had any pop, not really a fan of them really to begin with.
It is difficult work out accurately the calories with dinner since I eat my parent's food a lot, and you just pick piece of chicken/pork/veg here and there. I aren't going to weight every bite on a scale so by keeping the daily calories down to 600 cal by dinner, it gives me plenty of room left for dinner to play with for margin of error. I have also stopped myself having a 2nd bowl of rice. So now just 1 bowl.
I walk to and from work often, that means I hit my 10,000 steps, meaning that is like an extra 250 calories on top of the 1000cal I have for dinner. 1250 calories is a lot of margin of error I have to allocate for dinner. I guess I just don't hit that everyday, meaning I am at a calorie deficit all the time.
But the food wise, same stuff. Pan Au Chocolat for breakfast, some whole grain microwave rice for lunch. Coffee, tea with a sugar. Eat a full dinner and tiny piece of chocolate, some days I eat an apple, a banana or orange.
The goal really is just portion control, when I hit my weight that I want. I simply can eat more for lunch. But since right now I pretty much eat until I am full at dinner and eating everything I want, mentally I don't feel like I am on a diet at all. There is none of that "oooh, I can't eat that because I am on a diet." kind of thoughts, I can, just less of it. I feel like the difference to the longer term when I am not trying to lose weight isn't that much of a difference lifestyle wise. I guess I could end up eating a whole Snickers bar instead of a Miniature Heroes version of it. That's it really!
