Low-carb Diet Day 6: Ready for My Weigh-in Tomorrow Morning

Because I'm typing these up at the end of the day, these posts don't really seem to be much more than a bunch of numbers. That's not really what I wanted them to be about, but on the other hand, I really want to get to bed. I'm pretty much wrecked by around 10 every night, and then I'm staying up, spending more time on the cross-trainer, putting numbers into CalorieKing and WeightWatchers, comparing graphs, blogging, etc. and not getting to bed until midnight. Asleep by 12:30 and up again at 6:30. I think I'd be doing myself a big favor if I were asleep by 10:30 every night. But honestly, I just don't see that happening.

But apart from that little issue, I have to say that I'm feeling pretty good. My morning weigh-in was 149.8 (330 lbs). Getting back under 150 kilos was a really good feeling. The last time I was here was back in late November, when I weighed-in at 149.7. So unless something bizarre happens, I should go to my weekly weigh-in tomorrow and record my lowest weight since joining Weight Watchers back on 4 Feb, 2010. I'm looking forward to it.

And I'm also looking forward to eating some ice cream.

Today I had the usual breakfast, but with kidney beans instead of borlotti (pinto) beans, and I forgot to add the corn. I guess the excitement of a new bean totally blew my concentration. :) So that was 494 calories, or 12 ProPoints. Then because the meat I was counting on arriving with my grocery order didn't arrive, lunch ended up happening around 3:30. To hold me over, I had the last hotdog frank and the rest of the chilli. A tasty little snack, and it was 294 calories, or 5 ProPoints. Once I'd gone to the grocery store to pick up the things they either didn't supply or I forgot to order, I had a lunch consisting of a hamburger steak, and lentils and mixed veggies (459 calories, 12 ProPoints). And dinner was the same, with the addition of a salad (540 calories, 15 ProPoints). Not exactly a cornucopia of culinary excitement going on, but it got the job done.

Add 'em all up, throw in a couple of cups of coffee, and it comes to 1788 calories, and 46 ProPoints. Six sessions on the cross-trainer burned 1466 calories (35 ProPoints), so I finished the day with 322 net calories. According to Weight Watchers, I've earned 229 Activity Points this week. If all my bonus Points didn't reset when I weigh in tomorrow morning, I'd have something like 250 ProPoints up my sleeve. That's a bit silly, but I don't think the system is really set up for people doing what I'm doing.

And now it's time for bed. I'm really hoping I'm 149.5 kg or below tomorrow at weigh-in. But whatever the number turns out to be, I'm going to keep going. My next mini-goal weight is 145.5 kg. I set that goal after I reached my previous mini-goal of 155.5 kg. That was back on 31 July, 2010. That was over 6 freaking months ago. If I can continue this week's rate of weight loss, I can achieve that goal within a fortnight (two weeks). That would be totally sweet!

Slow-carb Dinner: Hamburger Steak, Lentils and Mixed Veggies

Dinner was a hamburger steak, more lentils, spinach, and mixed veggies, and salsa. It was tasty and filling, and I'm happy to end day 3 with 1840 calories in, 860 1120 burned, for a net of 980 720 (44 ProPoints (out of 66) eaten, and 19 25 ProPoints burned).

Now all I can do is wait and see what happens at weigh-in tomorrow. I was down to 149.7 kg back at the end of November, then up to 152.2 in mid-January. I'm expecting to be somewhere around 155 tomorrow, and I'm hoping to be back under 150 within a couple of weeks.

I'm thinking about trying something a little different, and doing a 10 or 15 minute workout in the morning before weigh-in.

Update: My pace was definitely slower at the end of the day, but I did another 15 minute (4.3km) workout before bed-time. I've updated the numbers up there to include that workout.

I also just noticed that today is my 1 year Weight Watchers anniversary. A year ago I weighed 195.5 kg ( 431 lbs). Now I weigh somewhere around 155.5 (342 lbs). I'm hoping my official number tomorrow is a little less, but even if it's not, that's still 40 kg (89 lbs) gone. Last month I'd hit that 100 lb loss milestone. I'm ready to hit it again, and this time to keep on going. Damn, now I'm really itching to get a new number tomorrow. I'm really hoping it's under 155.5, but whatever it is, I'll deal with it. And make it smaller next week.