WEEK 1 Reflection : Been keeping detailed food logs, to explain why I'm fat. Turns out I eat a shit-ton...

TLDR: I am logging my progress to become healthier on social media (reddit), for purely selfish reasons, in the hope that the risk of failure is minimised, due to the pure embarrassment of failing in front of the internet.

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I made a post a few days ago and got some incredible feedback on some ideas to lose weight. (See link below) https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/pp067e/its_insanity_how_little_humans_are_supposed_to_eat/"

The reason I'm posting now, is to show the number's I've been meticulously keeping over this last week, in the hope that:

1. It might encourage others to start the process
2. Keep me accountable in the process (it would be too embarrassing to look over this post in 12 months, having not made any progress...)

Here are the numbers:

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- Weight Logs -

13-Sep-2021	13-Oct-2021
16st 3lbs / 227 pounds	TBC

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- Food Intake Logs -

\) calculated with Fitbit app	13-Sep-2021	14-Sep-2021	15-Sep-2021	16-Sep-2021	17-Sep-2021	18-Sep-2021
Total Calorie Intake	1,272	1,855	2,758	2,211	1,916	2,136
Eventual Target Intake	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300
Liquid Calories	262	90	249	125	241	260
Carbs (gram)	187	217	283	216	125	229
Fat (gram)	38	67	114	104	97	85
Protein (gram)	43	97	141	104	126	97

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- Reflection -

Here are some things I noticed this week:

• I'm only eating breakfast 1/3rd of the time. On the days I'm not eating breakfast, I'm consuming a lot more food overall.
• I'm consuming a lot of liquid calories (average being about 10% of daily intake).
• I'm eating a lot of calories at lunch time. The £3.00 meal deal is the biggest culprit, as well as sandwiches in general).

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- Last Week's Goals -

Goal	Progress
Log food intake	Drink only black tea and water. This should knock off a few hundred calories.
Find out what healthy people eat	Got some incredible ideas of others on Reddit. I need to eat leaner meats, and a lot more fresh vegetables.
Come up with a long term framework for recording progress.	I'm going to be posting weekly updates every Saturday night, in a similar format to this one.

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- This Week's Goals -

Goal	Why
Drink only black tea and water.	This should knock off roughly 10% of calorific intake
Eat breakfast every single day.	The stats introduce a theory, that I might eat less throughout the day if I eat in the morning.
Stop eating £3.00 meal deals	The calorie intake for a mere sandwich, snack and drink easily takes 1,000 calories. It's crazy. I got some incredible ideas on easy-to-make salads from other redditors

I've made a printable version of these goals, which I'll put somewhere on my wall:

https://pdfhost.io/v/ytciKkldE_Microsoft_Word_Document1

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