Hysteria Trash Panda, can and glass

Weight Update

Yay! I’m still drinking beer this week. 

Last week, I made the commitment to lose a pound a week or stop drinking beer until my next weigh-in. When I stepped on the scale this Saturday, I needed to weigh 221.7 lbs. or less to continue drinking beer. The good news, the scale read 217.4 lbs.

Saturday's Weig- In, Scale reads 217.4
Saturday’s Weigh-In

That’s a loss of about 4.5 lbs, which is a bit more weight loss than I want, long-term. Losing weight slowly (i.e. 2 lbs. a week), means you are losing mostly fat. Lose weight faster than that and you lose other stuff, like muscle. At least, that is what the experts report on the internet.

With a family celebration planned for Saturday night, the pressure to reach my weight goal was high; our celebration included consuming crabs, beers, and poppers. It would have been very sad to eat crabs without beer. Even more tempting, I had just picked up a 4-pack of one of Howard County’s finest beer – Hysteria Trash Panda.

My diet plan is fairly simple. I plan to cut back on snacks and limit my simple carbs like sugar and bread. I’ll track my calories using Lose It!, an easy to use phone app – and it’s free. For my age, height, and gender, I need to consume about 2,140 calories a day to lose a pound a week.  It’s pretty easy to log food with the app.

For instance, for the crab feast, my logging looked something like this:

  •  4 Med Steamed Crabs – 150 calories
  • Corn, White                         – 77
  • Trash Panda                        – 200
  • Cheesecake, slice              – 257 (ouch!)
  • Beer, Grapefruit Shandy – 150
  • Jalapeno Poppers (3)      – 213

Beer usually logs in around 150-200 calories or about 1/10 of my daily calorie allotment. So, for Wednesday Pint Nights, I’ll need to budget for about 300 calories for a couple of beers.

Next week’s target – 216.4.

Cheers!

Warren

 

 

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