Weight loss Score Card

This is my weight loss Score Card.

It is my version of a weight loss diary. I tried in the past writing down everything I ate, but it was too much work.

One time, I had to write down everything I ate for three day for an assignment in nutrition class. The idea was that this three day diet intake was to be used as a basis for a nutritional accessment. The only problem was that it was impossible to do it without being a better eater.

For example, would I eat that fourth slice of pizza if I had to write it down and be accessed?

Or would I say zone out at the computer and eat a sleeve of oreos?

Maybe I will give up sugar soda for the three days I was doing this assessment?

The exercise changed the results. Everyone in the class was on their best eating behavior for those three days. The activity of having to write down everything and account for my food made me have to evaulate each food choice.

For a dieter that sounds great, but for me it was too much to have to keep track of.

So I created my weekly weight loss Score Card.

I got the idea from golf (mini golf).

When you play golf (or mini golf) you write down how many strokes you hit at the end of each hole.

The idea with golf is to hit par (break even) or below just like dieting.

You don’t write down every little detail of your golf game like the distance diven and club used, the distnaces from the cup on the green, the weather, if you hit a slice, if you hit a divet etc.

On some holes you can be hitting great and then screw up by triple putting.

That is like dieting when we are doing good all day only to triple put with a late night pint of ice cream.

At the end of the 18 holes of golf, you look at your score and see how you did.

Any strokes above par puts you in the plus side over breaking even.

My weight loss score care is like golf, but for a weeks worth of meals.

Eating a moderate breakfast, lunch, dinner and healthy snacks is hitting par for the day. Each day is a par five.

The Extra Eating section is where I usually triple put. Each extra (unhealthy) snack/dessert is an extra stroke that will take me over par.

Some days are a natural Par Six. This is when there is a dessert occasion like having a piece of cake on my B-day. There are a bunch of these occasions, but for me, they have to be real holiday occasion like Christmas, New Years, summer vacation, my anniversity, Valentines Day etc…

And even if I stuck to just the holidays, that would be plenty of occasions for Extra Eating, so I do not have to have a cookie or candy everyday.

Fat Years Day 1

235 Pounds

So what is the deal with this weight loss blog?

 

I suppose there are a ton of weight loss blogs out there and this is mine. The idea is to post an online journal of my weight loss process, which hopefully will keep me focused to..um actually do stuff like exercise, eat healthier and avoid snacking to lose some weight.

 

This photo was taken January 2010, but I pretty much look the same a few months later at the time of this post, so I figure I can still use it for my before.

 

I weight 235. My goal for my 5′ 5″ body is to be in the 155-165 range.

 

So we are talking about 70-80 pounds.

 

When do I hope to reach my goal?

 

Well, doing my fuzzy weight loss math (which I bet most of us do), I figure if I lost around eight pounds a month for nine months straight, I could be at my goal weight by my next B-day, 43, by Jan 7, 2012.