Current Events > CICO Counters Thread

(+) Yeah! (+)

gym is a fallacy. Don't pay for that shit. Do work for others, you will work all your muscles, not just certain ones. You can also do this at home for no cost.

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There is a difference between "gym strong" and "country strong"


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If you access to a gym go for it, but you can do it all at home, or for others. or you can play rhythm games, it's a fun workout.

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Well, right now, I'm neither gym or country strong

The deck is about to be tore down and replaced, so I'll have an outdoor project soon to work on with my dad.

As for me, I prefer at-home workouts. I feel not as comfortable at a gym anyways.

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This is not just counting calories, man. You got to learn how to burn them off.

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PiOverlord posted...

Well, right now, I'm neither gym or country strong

The deck is about to be tore down and replaced, so I'll have an outdoor project soon to work on with my dad.

]No problem mate. I'm neither, and I'm a lazy fuck, I also got no skills, so, I'm at my highest weight in my 38 years.

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I need to find people who know what they're doing before I got back to work. I guess the millennial weakness gao really is true.


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Okay, for 5/5:

Spaghetti (270 calories)
with Sauce (120 calories)
and meatballs (250 calories)
Sunkist can (160 calories)
Pack of m&m's minis (240 calories)
Total: 1,040 calories

A few things to note:

• as always, the spaghetti is an estimation.
• had my first actual soda since March 31st.
• I forgot about the m&m's, but now that I finished those, I plan on not eating chocolate for a month, aka 5/6-6/5

Might get dominos tomorrow, idk.

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Almost forgot!

Burger with fries - 790
Shrimp ring - 240 calories

Total: 1,030 calories

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I've been consistently sticking to 1950 for about 2 weeks now, which is a big enough deficit for me to lose 2lbs per week when combined with my activity. I haven't weighed myself and probably won't until the end of the month, but I'm adjusting to this amount quite well. I have been able to do everything with plenty of energy to spare.


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Pseudomenon posted...

I've been consistently sticking to 1950 for about 2 weeks now, which is a big enough deficit for me to lose 2lbs per week when combined with my activity. I haven't weighed myself and probably won't until the end of the month, but I'm adjusting to this amount quite well. I have been able to do everything with plenty of energy to spare.

Nice!

Good luck with this! Don't be surprised if you lose more because of water weight.

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Oh yeah, for sure. I noticed that after a few days. My face is a lot less puffy than it has been.

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Today:

Shrimp alfredo meal (240 calories)
half a frozen pizza (600 calories)
pack of crackers (220 calories)

1,060 calories. Still hungry today, oh well.

Week 1 of May avg (includes May 1st which was part of the April avg + it for my challenge avg):
1,238 + 1,176 + 1,280 + 1,293 + 1,040 + 1,030 + 1,060 =
8,117 calories
/7 for daily avg of:
1,160 calories

My mom bought ribs, so I guess I'm having that tomorrow.

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Had some ribs today, and they were 1,534 in calories. Over, but it's just one day, one day won't make or break you.

That's all I had since they were so big in calories, but god damn, I love ribs. I was nibbling on the bones for so long after I finished.


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Bad news, scale has dead batteries. We had pork steak, and I have no idea how much it was.

I had some shrimp for 400 calories and a single pizza roll for 36. Also had fries and ketchup for 240.

676 right there. Now, I don't think the pork steak was more than 600 calories, but I have no proof. I'm having another tomorrow, so same issue will be present unfortunately.

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It's not just your intake, but your outtake as well.

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Almost forgot to post in this to keep from dying. Best guess for pork steak is that they are 480 calories with 70 oz of sauce.

5/9: 1150
5/10: 1350
5/11: 1,225

Hopefully, my dad is going to pick up a battery for the scale today, we are having pork loin which is pretty low-fat and low in calories along with green beans and corn. Had half a shrimp ring for 120 calories already.

Been pretty bad lately, so I think I'm going to be a little more tight about calories. Think I've had too many crackers too, so I'm going to find an alternative snack.

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5/12: I had that half a shrimp ring (120 calories), 4 oz of pork loin (160 oz), 1/2 a cup of green beans (15) and 3/4 a cup of corn (90), and 3 taquitos (250) for a total of 635 calories.

How is pork loin so low in calories yet so much more?!?!?!?

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lol I'm not strong, period.

Also I post a lot when I'm drunk.


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How do you stop the cravings? It's a constant scratch in my brain

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Doe posted...

How do you stop the cravings? It's a constant scratch in my brain

A lot of times, I just find something else to occupy my mind. I like to speedrun, so my mind just focuses on the game instead.

Although, today, I had ribs and my mom really wanted me to eat shrimp and shrimp wontons with her. It was a lot. Going to have to take that away over a period of days.

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Today was another bad day, a reoccurring thing lately.

I think I should set a lower target for a week to ensure that I keep my focus. From 5/15-5/21, I think I want my average to be 1,000 calories.

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I really wanna try to lose a lot of weight. My lowest was 195 in sophomore year of high school but I ballooned when I want to boarding school. Highest was like 270. I'm 240 right because I (before covid) lived on a big college campus and had to move around everywhere. I've banned stuff like candy from myself but I still have tendencies to overeat. It's less that I'm not careful and more that I basically have a food addiction.

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Today, I had some shrimp wonton soup for 80 calories, sweet thai chili shrimp for 200, and half a pizza for 600. Total is 880 calories.

Doe posted...

I really wanna try to lose a lot of weight. My lowest was 195 in sophomore year of high school but I ballooned when I want to boarding school. Highest was like 270. I'm 240 right because I (before covid) lived on a big college campus and had to move around everywhere. I've banned stuff like candy from myself but I still have tendencies to overeat. It's less that I'm not careful and more that I basically have a food addiction.

I wish I could offer advice, but we are all different. I had a huge soda addiction where I needed 2-3 bottles of coke a day to feel complete, but I went cold turkey beginning April 2nd, and didn't have anything for a whole month. Now, I have had 2 cans of soda and 1 glass the entire month; I just no longer feel like I have to have it.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not perfect, yesterday was probably the first official "pig-out" day I've had since I started. Couldn't help myself, but I like to believe weight loss isn't decided by any one day of eating better or worse.

I think what helps is to have a goal that is reasonable, realistic, and finite. What I mean by the last one is, too many people go into these things thinking "for the rest of my life" but for 99% of us, the rest of our lives is too long to decide to make a timeframe. When I did the no-soda challenge, I didn't say "for the rest of my life" because I knew there was no way I was going to refrain from soda for the rest of my life. I made it one month because I knew that was actually obtainable. And by not drinking soda, I finally removed soda from being a necessary habit. I trained my body to feel like it doesn't need soda. I'm not saying I won't reach a point where I get back on soda, college could easily ruin what I worked on, but now I know a solution.

I also think having a number like what I do (1100-1300) calories is good because it gives me a target. It goes beyond "eat less" but actually puts a goal to it. All our numbers can be different, but by having an actual number, we have something to work towards.

That is about all the advice I can personally give. I do wish you luck in finding a solution that works for you!

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I think the short term goal idea is good. I can CICO my calories for at least a week

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I went 1100 calories over on Thursday lmao. My sister brought me some badass lemon bars as a late late birthday present and I just went fucking wild on them.

Got back on top of things today (well, Friday). Stayed at my 1950 limit and got in two workouts, one of them being pretty damn intense. I'm only over by 250 calories for the week - still in enough of a deficit to see weight loss - so I'm not that worried about it. Before, I'd have let that spiral out of control for weeks and maybe even months but this was just a little hiccup that I'm already over.

Doe posted...

I've banned stuff like candy from myself but I still have tendencies to overeat. It's less that I'm not careful and more that I basically have a food addiction.

I'm recovering from 25 years of dealing with binge eating disorder and have had to work through a lot of food addiction problems. I can't say what the case may be for you but I had to figure out the emotional eating aspect as well as simple causes like boredom, confusing thirst or tiredness for hunger, etc.

Ultimately, what I've come to find works best for me is one big meal (I'm talking 900-1200 calories) and one regular size meal of 500-700 and snacks to fill out the rest, if anything is left. That way, I still get that "high" of looking at a big ass plate of food and pigging out but ultimately, it's not going to set me back. I also eat larger volumes of lower calorie foods, which helps.

It's obviously not a perfect science, considering I ate a whole pan of lemon bars in one sitting, but that doesn't happen often anymore and I can deal with it much better. Upon reflecting, I also realized that was just a different kind of emotional eating: for once, I was eating positive emotions. That's not something I'm used to doing but it ultimately still had the same effect and I'll have to be on my toes about it.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Yeah, you may have to get to the root of some things along the way.

Doe posted...

I think the short term goal idea is good. I can CICO my calories for at least a week

That's a really good idea. Something I've learned to be mindful of from my time in various weight loss circles is that nobody just loses all the weight at once. "I didn't lose 300lbs, I lost 1lb 300 times" is a sentiment you'll encounter a lot and it's true. I've lost 130+lbs across 2.5 years and usually in sporadic bursts like the one I'm in right now. The rest of the time, I might lose some of it but it's just maintaining.

Using a total daily energy expenditure calculator or something like cronometer or myfitnesspal can help you figure out your maintenance calories. Try sticking to that for a while. Then, when you're more comfortable and accustomed to tracking calories, figure out a modest deficit and give that a go.

Falling back on my maintenance calories has been an invaluable tool for me in weight loss because being in a deficit all the time gets tiresome. It's nice to be able to just say "eh, fuck it" and not gain weight for it.

Good luck!


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mom made homemade pizza for dinner, no idea how to accurately cico it unfortunately

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Doe posted...

mom made homemade pizza for dinner, no idea how to accurately cico it unfortunately

I made some breadsticks and marinara sauce myself from scratch. It was supposed to be like Little Caesars' Crazy Combo, where I know the breadsticks are reportedly 120 calories a stick. When I first did it, I calculated the total calories of a full batch (18 sticks), and divided by 18 to get 124 calories, so pretty darn close. They probably round down a little. Same for the sauce too.

Today, I had 4 sticks (496), 6 raviolis (300), and 3/16 cups of marinara sauce (36) for a total of 832 calories. Keep in mind, the sticks were not even in size, so it could vary one way or the other, but not by too significant of an amount.

While it is definitely harder to find out based on the fact that someone else made it, you can always look at the calories found on each individual ingredient used, and estimate based on how much of each was used. You will find many of the spices are practically 0 in calories, so even if you don't know if she used 1/2 a teaspoon of salt, or 3 cups of salt (exaggeration of course), that shouldn't be as big of a factor in terms of calories (although salt has its own health risks of course) as the things like cheese, flour, toppings, and sauce would have.

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Yeah I found a thing that seemed similar in the myfitnesspal app. It was the rest I ate for today so not too big a deal.

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At least you found some sort of comparison as a way of knowing where you are!

Today, I had a pork loin meal with the loin, corn, and green beans for 300 calories. Additionally, I had half a totintos (350) and a Sunkist can of soda (160) bringing my total up to 810 calories.

My dad went to the gas station, and I was extremely tempted to get a 44 oz polar pop, but I refrained because of the Sunkist. If I didn't drink that, and was at 650 calories, I think I would have been 632 calories under 3,000 calories over 3 days. It felt really tempting, but I didn't do it. Might get a polar pop at some point, maybe make it for a very special occasion, but I don't want to make polar pops a norm. My family isn't really supportive of me, but I try to ignore it all the same.

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I always try to max out my calories per dollar

it's a pretty good strategy when I'm at a new place to eat and don't know what looks good

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Today, I had 4 slices of a medium dominos pepperoni pizza for 860 calories. Wish I had a snack, starving now! I don't want to eat after midnight, though.

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I ate a bowl of ice cream ;_;

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Doe posted...

I ate a bowl of ice cream ;_;

Was that all you ate for the day?

Bowl of ice cream can also differ in definition. Was it like 1 scoop, 2 scoops, 3 scoops, etc. Basically, what was the calorie count?

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Shrimp fettucine meal (300)
6 mini tacos (276)
half a totintos (350)

Total: 926

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beef and broccoli (270)
Shrimp penne alfredo (563)
two mini powdered donuts (140)

Total: 973 calories

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alright, so today

shrimp wonton soup (80)
one mini powdered donut (70)
succer (25)
two pieces of gum (50, wtf, lol)
burger with buns and bbq sauce (560)
chips (160)

altogether: 945

Met my goal of having less than 1,000 calories for the week.

I'm gonna bump myself up now.

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today:

ramen noodles (370)
shrimp spring rolls (453)
calamari rings (285)
sauce that went with spring rolls (50)

1,158 calories

Felt nice to have two meals and one nice sized one.

My mom bought more ribs, which always sadden me as they taste so good but they go above my daily goal.

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Might have had a bad day today...

had a full totintos, a powdered donut and then a Sunkist for 920 calories...

and then my mom got Chilis and I ate the whole bag of chips and salsa. I couldn't resist!!! Would go on a short one-day extreme reduced calorie intake session, but we are having pulled pork sandwiches tomorrow.

I plan on making up for it on Monday. I weighed myself before I indulged myself in chips, about to pass a major milestone for me personally.

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Don't want to forget, had a big lunch and that's it

2 pulled pork sandwiches (880)
chips (160)

Total 1,040 calories.

Tomorrow, I plan on eating a sandwich at dinner. Maybe some shrimp to hold me over. Might make this a 2-day thing so I'm not starving tomorrow.

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Bad and good news:

My 5 year old sister wanted dominos for some reason, so we got two medium pizzas and 16 parm bites. I ate 5 slices of double pepperoni and a good amount of parm bites. I am so weak for pizza.

Good news is that I weighed myself right before eating that big meal, and weighed less than what my license says I weigh (yeah, I lie, can't help it).

Throughout all of this, I really do miss eating like a true pig, I ate 5 slices of a medium pizza, and it felt so gooood. Before, given the option, I'd eat at least 6 of a large if I could sneak in 6. I will say, after eating that, I felt a little sick. Maybe my stomach is finally getting adjusted to my normal meals. Additionally, I really want chocolate now because my mom keeps buying chocolate items. Almost broke a few days ago because my mom was this close to convincing me, but then I had a dream I ate an ice-cream sandwich, and felt extremely disappointed in myself. When I woke up, that convinced me to ride out the remaining days, which is 11 in a few hours.

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Forgot

Yesterday I had throughout the day: 2 pulled pork sandwiches (900), an ounce of chips (160) and a shrimp ring (140) for 1,200 total calories.

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Alright, for 5/27

2/3 totintos (460)
shrimp and cocktail sauce with a soda (540)
powdered donut (70)
sucker (25)
banana (105)

total: 1,200

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Today, I had ribs, fries, and too much soda.

Basically, a whole buncha calories.

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Back on track:

2 tacos with hamburger meat and salsa (393)

1/2 totintos pizza (350)

sucker (25)

3 chips (50)

total: 818 calories


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Had 380 of bagel bites. Then 450 of this one pizza. Finally 140 of a coke and 500 of taquitos. The 640 were part of a board game snack I had with my dad. Don't regret it.

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I lost 11lbs in May.

That's a little more than I intended to lose (slow weight loss has been the ticket for me) but I'll take it. I'm sure there's water weight and other non-fat loss components in that 11lbs.

Feels good though. I've been kind of worried about the slowing down of weight loss as one gets slimmer but this was fairly easy and uneventful. Just burn more than I eat and the rest takes care of itself. Same as it was in the beginning, same as it will be when I hit my next goal.

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I lost 8, bringing my total to 27 pounds. I don't mind this rate of weight loss. I plan on going back on a no soda thing for a couple of weeks soon.

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