I started my "diet" on November 1. Weighed roughly 215 pounds at the time. Today at MEPS I was 192 lbs out of a maximum 194.
I lost the weight by just generally watching my calorie intake. There was only one occasion I went over 1800 calories for the day. New years eve I had a lobster tail, small filet, few crab legs, and a dozen or so glasses of champagne.
For lunch every day I had 2 turkey sandwiches on white bread with kraft american cheese and a diet mt. dew.
some favorite dinners were tacos with 96/4 ground beef mixed with ground turkey. usual toppings: shredded cheese, lettuce, tomatos, taco sauce, black olives. no sour cream or guacamole.
I also ate a whole lot of chicken strips and velveeta shells and cheese light. The velveeta shells and cheese is surprisingly acceptable with about 6g fat / serving and 17g protein. The chicken strips come in a bag from walmart. Breakdown is 150 cal / strip, 6g fat, 12g protein. I would eat 3 strips (they are good size) and about 1.5 servings of m&c.
I ate a good amount of Pasta. My mom makes a tasty sicilian meat sauce that is pretty healthy if you use lean beef and eggbeaters for the meatballs. I also even used the ragu alfredo sauce. It is not that bad if you follow the serving size(measure it out) and mix it right in with the pasta.
I ate shrimp lo mein a couple times. Tuna casserole a couple times(mixed one can of fat free cream of mushroom soup with one can of regular)
Most other meals were your basic grilled boneless skinless chicken breast with potato/long grain rice and a vegetable.
I tried hamburgers with the 96/4 beef a couple times. They dont turn out well.
for the occasional snack I either ate a banana or a bowl of cereral. This happened one or two times / week max.
I think the thing that helped most is that I was still eating real food and didn't burn out on celery and rice.
As for exercise, you could classify it as sporadic at best. I would say that I averaged maybe 5 miles / week running/speed walking around the block which does have quite a bit of elevation change. I averaged about 200 situps / week and 150 pushups. I decided not to do any weight training until after I made weight.
I lost about 5 pounds during the last 3 days when I stopped eating and drinking. Which kind of surprised me when I came back with "Trace Protein" in my urinalisys...wtf protein did I have in my system?. Maybe thats just a result of being dehydrated. I also did about 200 situps / day during the last 3 days.
Now I need to build some upper body strength and concentrate on improving run endurance and speed.
jt
I lost the weight by just generally watching my calorie intake. There was only one occasion I went over 1800 calories for the day. New years eve I had a lobster tail, small filet, few crab legs, and a dozen or so glasses of champagne.
For lunch every day I had 2 turkey sandwiches on white bread with kraft american cheese and a diet mt. dew.
some favorite dinners were tacos with 96/4 ground beef mixed with ground turkey. usual toppings: shredded cheese, lettuce, tomatos, taco sauce, black olives. no sour cream or guacamole.
I also ate a whole lot of chicken strips and velveeta shells and cheese light. The velveeta shells and cheese is surprisingly acceptable with about 6g fat / serving and 17g protein. The chicken strips come in a bag from walmart. Breakdown is 150 cal / strip, 6g fat, 12g protein. I would eat 3 strips (they are good size) and about 1.5 servings of m&c.
I ate a good amount of Pasta. My mom makes a tasty sicilian meat sauce that is pretty healthy if you use lean beef and eggbeaters for the meatballs. I also even used the ragu alfredo sauce. It is not that bad if you follow the serving size(measure it out) and mix it right in with the pasta.
I ate shrimp lo mein a couple times. Tuna casserole a couple times(mixed one can of fat free cream of mushroom soup with one can of regular)
Most other meals were your basic grilled boneless skinless chicken breast with potato/long grain rice and a vegetable.
I tried hamburgers with the 96/4 beef a couple times. They dont turn out well.
for the occasional snack I either ate a banana or a bowl of cereral. This happened one or two times / week max.
I think the thing that helped most is that I was still eating real food and didn't burn out on celery and rice.
As for exercise, you could classify it as sporadic at best. I would say that I averaged maybe 5 miles / week running/speed walking around the block which does have quite a bit of elevation change. I averaged about 200 situps / week and 150 pushups. I decided not to do any weight training until after I made weight.
I lost about 5 pounds during the last 3 days when I stopped eating and drinking. Which kind of surprised me when I came back with "Trace Protein" in my urinalisys...wtf protein did I have in my system?. Maybe thats just a result of being dehydrated. I also did about 200 situps / day during the last 3 days.
Now I need to build some upper body strength and concentrate on improving run endurance and speed.
jt
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