April #beyoncebody Push - Food focus!

Zi_Sakura Health, Fitness, Food DK30 New Year 2023 2 1

Description

Now that we’re in April and after today’s dk30, I’d like to take the month and focus on trying to reduce how much I eat again. I have a couple of clear goals: lower caloric intake for 4 days a week to below about 2500, with 1 day below 2000 calories by measuring with MyFitnessPal, and no food intake after 7pm for 5-7 days a week. We’ll keep track until end of April with an Imgur album again and reflect on progress and see how this combined with exercise helps lower our weight, if any.

Recent Updates

Zi_Sakura 2 years ago

Stats

* = under 2000 cal
+ = under 2500 cal
- = above 2500 cal

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Week of 4/5: --+++*-
Week of 4/12: +---*+-
Week of 4/19: +-+---*
Week of 4/26: *-+-+

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under 2000 cal: total of 4 days, goal achieved as we did 4 weeks
under 2500 cal: total of 9 days, goal almost achieved, but I think we’re going to give ourselves a thumbs up and good job for doing so well on this one
above 2500 cal: total of 13 days, and a number of these days we were very close to under 2500 cal, so I think we did good!

Summary

I did a very good job keeping this up! I think the goal of 4 days under 2500, 1 day below 2000 is perfect for where I am currently.

I am so stoked to report that I think I have lost over 10 lbs since beginning to exercise Nov 2022. This is the 2nd month of my #beyoncebody monthly projects. May’s will focus on physical therapy!

Zi_Sakura 2 years ago

I totally thought I already posted an update, but I think I’ve been mostly posting in the day9 Discord.

First, here is the tracking I’m doing: https://imgur.com/a/dRKgSIo

Second, I’ve updated the goal: 4 days a week below 2500 calories, and 1 of those 2 days below 2000 calories.

Third, I will recognize that I am doing very well! 1st week is an astounding success, and week seems like it’ll also be an adjusted success as I am giving myself room to eat a few more calories for working out intensely over the weekend.

One thing that I had to immediately work on was remembering that ice cream is not something I can have everyday: i actually was doing pretty well not having ice cream in the winter even though we had ice cream, but i think i slacked early April because of the end of the official spring day9 dk30 and we bought a fresh batch, and I had one per day for a few days. i can definitely do a few things to shift my focus when i think about ice cream so i’m started with - “i want ice cream, but maybe i don’t need that, I’ll have a sip of water instead, which is right on my desk”. The freezer takes 10+ steps to walk to and pulling it to open, where as I can simply drink water that’s right on my desk, and easily check my phone and see where i am calorically already. The calorie tracker really dissuades me from eating more - which i didn’t really think about until i used myfitnesspal to start counting 2 months ago to gain some points to get some money from the tracking health stats thing my work has.

Estimated Timeframe

Apr 5th - Apr 30th

Week 1 Goal

Count calories after every meal.
Assuming each meal is about 750 calories, and I eat 2 servings of fruit every day, I can snack on about max 300 calories of things and that’s it.
Try to avoid snacking, especially avoid snacking on an endless bag of snacks (which I’ve already been very good about thanks to the last few months.)
Try not to eat after 7pm.
Adjust calorie expectations if 2500 is too low or too high

Week 2 Goal

Count calories after every meal.
Assuming each meal is about 750 calories, and I eat 2 servings of fruit every day, I can snack on about max 300 calories of things and that’s it.
Try to avoid snacking, especially avoid snacking on an endless bag of snacks (which I’ve already been very good about thanks to the last few months.)
Try not to eat after 7pm.

Week 3 Goal

Count calories after every meal.
Assuming each meal is about 750 calories, and I eat 2 servings of fruit every day, I can snack on about max 300 calories of things and that’s it.
Try to avoid snacking, especially avoid snacking on an endless bag of snacks (which I’ve already been very good about thanks to the last few months.)
Try not to eat after 7pm.

Week 4 Goal

Count calories after every meal.
Assuming each meal is about 750 calories, and I eat 2 servings of fruit every day, I can snack on about max 300 calories of things and that’s it.
Try to avoid snacking, especially avoid snacking on an endless bag of snacks (which I’ve already been very good about thanks to the last few months.)
Try not to eat after 7pm.