So, here we go. It's been forever. I've been working on losing weight seriously again for awhile, but I figured it would be best to put down what I'm doing, so I can track progress and find out what works.
After looking at several sources for my BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate, how many calories my body burns at rest for the day), I'm estimated at approximately 2200. My plan is to consume about 1700 calories a day. If I don't do anything, I should lose 1 pound a week.
On top of that, I'm walking about 5 miles each day (Approximately 500 calories), and walking stairs for about 30 minutes of my day (Every hour I walk up 6 flights of stairs, approximately 30 calories, so about 270 calories). This should be an extra 770 calories burned a day, ignoring whatever else I do during the day. On top of my simple deficit, that's almost 1 pound every 3 days.
I've been struggling to get my food and proportions down so that I can abide by this deficit. In order to do this, I'm eating carrots and half a pepper when I get to work. This tides me over until about 9 o'clock, where I'll eat a breakfast sandwich (~400 calories). This will tide me over until 12-1, where I will eat a sandwich, or small lunch item of no more than 350 calories. A granola bar and carrots/vegetables and a piece of fruit brings me to about 250 calories around 4, before I go home. All in all, about 1000 calories before I get home. Between having a decent snack so late, I will have a smaller portion of dinner. Still large, around 550 calories. Then, about an hour before bed, round it out with a kale/blueberry smoothie, at about 150 calories.
Here's to starting the serious measurements about this. I have no plans to do anything large for the next month or so, so I shouldn't have any excuses to fall off.
Starting weight 239.6.
EDIT: This will be a lower carb diet. I'm trying to avoid big meals of pasta or lots of bread.
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