What is your food plan?

From the motivation thread we learned that we all have our reasons to lose, some share, some unique. Once motivated we need to turn this motivation to action in the form of a plan. One huge piece of this is diet. The stats say that the two major reasons for regain are, you guessed it, Diet and Exercise. What does your food plan look like? Here is mine:

 

Food Journal: Yes

Target Calories: 800

Protein: 60

Number of meals: 3

Number of snacks: 2

Water Loading: Yes

Drink with Meals: No

How long do you wait before drinking: 1 Hour

Typical Meal: 1 cup Salad or veggies with 2 oz of protein

Typical Snack: Greek yogurt or low fat cheese with fruit

 

Comments?

 

 

You look on target for me.  If I want to lose then that is the plan I basically follow.  You didn't mention exercise.  What is your plan on that.

For exercise I try to get a minimum of one work out per day Monday thru Friday. About 35 minutes of walk-run, a few circuit exercises etc..To lose weight it seems like I need to walk as well. what worked best was shooting for 4-5 miles combined per day. On the weekends I like to hike, walk, bike or kayak. I've started looking for additional challenges now. A few weeks ago I ran a 5k

When I was losing my regain, I worked my way up to walking 4 miles a day, 6 days a week.  I never let up.  Between the 800-1000 calories a day and the exercise, I lost 70 lbs. in 8 months.  

Tess,

 

I am also trying to lose some regain.  I am walking about 3.5 miles a day only  Mon through Fridays.  I am not doing anything on the weekends.  Did you do any other exercises other than walk. I have lost 9 pounds of regain, but need to lose about 30 more pounds. Need to really get a handle on my eating, I do fine during the week at work, but on the weekend I eat more.  Did you stay consistent with your eating the whole 8 months that you were losing your regain.

On exercise I found that doing two sessions helped me a lot. My work out and then a walk later in the day. This way I could split it up into two 2 mile sessions if I wanted.

Are you going to do anything about your incisional hernia?

I discovered that I may have one and waiting to get insurance to get fixed

 

All I did was walk.  I was dealing with an incisional hernia that kept me from doing ab work.  I was consistent with my diet.  I did eat a little extra on Thanksgiving and Christmas but not a whole lot as my pouch got full very quickly.  Scheduling my eating is what keeps me consistent.  If it is not time to eat, then I don't eat.  I don't walk every day like I use to but when loosing, I never missed a beat.  I started the day after Mother's Day in May and got back to my goal weight at the end of January, beginning of February.  I have maintained that weight within 10 lbs. in the last two years.  I went up in weight after two plastic surgeries and hernia repair but I am working right now to get this back off by Christmas.  I am losing about a pound a week.  Slow but consistent.

Thank you, Tess.  I always love reading your post.  You are such an inspiration.  Be blessed.

That was my experience as well. Or has been. I lost 65-70 lbs this year since May and that is the level of effort I needed to put in.