Last night I found a bag of dates. I ate a lot of them, resulting in me gaining weight this morning. Fortunately, the weight gain was only 300 g; however, this has affected my daily intake I require to reach my ultimate goal weight (ugw) by summer. See figure 1.
New intake calculation from Pigly.
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| Figure 1, New calculation gives 720 calories a day. |
My options
- I stick to the new calories count
- I reduce the calories even more in order to catch up
- I exercise a lot more to burn extra calories
- I do a combination of reducing calories and working out.
The last option sounds like the best. If I reduce the calories too much, I run the risk of starting a binge cycle. Doing a lot more exercise is likely to create excessive hunger, which I then have to deal with. With this in mind, a small reduction in calories and a little extra exercise sounds like the best way to go.
Risk Assessments
Risk of overeating. The problem here is feeling hungry, so I can use:
- Vinegar trick, sipping a small amount of vinegar to take away hunger.
- Ground cinnamon trick, to take away hunger.
- Ground ginger trick, to take away the hunger.
- Distraction by doing housework, which will also burn calories.
For now, I think that sticking with 2mad is best, along with the revised plan of limiting calories to 700 a day and extra exercise to burn an extra 100 calories at least.
Conclusion
I screwed up, but I can still rescue the plan. Burn 100 extra calories a day and reduce intake by 100 calories a day in conjunction with the revised risk assessments should get me back on track. Once, I am back on track, I can increase the calories back up to <800 per day and drop the extra exercise.