I have noticed that my weight tends to be lower on Tuesday than it is on Monday. I always weigh in the morning before I get dressed for the sake of "consistency". Jokingly I've attributed that to my habit of indulging in takeout Taco Monday at the local mexican place -- they're good and it's hard to beat $1 tacos.
Today because I am a moron and because I don't really want to be at work I decided to attempt to quantify the impact of tacos. I determined that I ate these tacos and recorded my weight both days 24 times since the beginning of 2019*. On the day after eating TACOS my weight was lower 19 times, higher 5 times, with an average loss of 1.3 pounds.
Sounds like I need more taco nights. A lot more taco nights. I could be at my goal by summer!
I know, I know. I'm not serious about suggesting that this "proves" anything. It may be mostly lag from the weekends where I'm usually much more active. On two of the five increase days the gain was explicable due to fast food lunches, but two others showed a 1 lb increase despite "clean" eating. It absolutely could just be variance with the scale -- three of the five increases were just 0.2 lb -- or with fluid retention. I certainly don't trust the accuracy of the scale since I'm up there not too far from the capacity limit.
(* Data is incomplete since there are stretches of no reporting.)
Now, with all those disclaimers, I will say that it's pretty amusing that tacos "could" be a weight loss food. When you are as fat as I am that is.
Anyway, since I'm in active avoidance mode I will also say that getting a new chromebook has been very helpful as far as keeping up with posts. It's just so much more pleasant to use than my old one which was having screen issues. It would be great if I could track the entire year. Also: I'm not going to get carried away with goals, especially weight-related ones since I know how hard I can fail, but I think it would be reasonable to try and be down 25 lbs before my next trip in about two months. I should have at least ten of that in easily disposed water weight, the rest would be attainable just by eating on plan for a stretch ... he says as he plans another testing night of homemade pizza.
Lunch: Leftover italian beef style chuck roast, a little way past prime spelt rye bread.
Satiety! What a concept! This was too much food. I ate maybe 2/3 of it and then I ... stopped eating. I could get used to that.
Dinner: Donkey chips and a can of Herdez salsa verde, homemade pepperoni, mushroom, 4 cheese pizza.
More satiety. I am not even remotely considering eating the other half of the pizza that's cooling on the counter. I'll be satisfied to eat it tomorrow. It was delicious by the way. Now, once I get through this bag of chips, I should see about not buying more.
Exercise: Nope. Super tired today plus I worked very late.
126.8
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