Almost There

After losing 1.5lbs yesterday I am within .5 lbs of my goal.  I am working out more and have started eating more.  My 2.5 months of hard work are going to pay off.  I am looking better than I have looked in years.  I am feeling better than I have felt in years.  I am stating to enjoy activities that I have not done for years.  We are now raching the maintenance stage.  this is where it changes from a diet & exercise program to a life style change.  The great thing is that I am not following anyone elses orders and I dont have an official set of rules.  This means that there willbe no feeling guilty if I go to Outback and have a half order of cheese fries, because there is no program to cheat on.  The key from here on out is to be sensible.  If I overindulge one day I will expect negative results, and I will know that I will have to work harder in the following days to get back to where I want to maintain.

I thnk I may have messed up a little by decreasing my caloric intake so far.  i think in hte last couple of weeks my body has gone into starvation mode, my metabolism has gone to a slow crawl and I have had a harder time losing weight.  Now as I stat to increase my food intake I am going to have to watch carefully and not increase too quickly.  If I increase my calories dramatically before my metabolism gets going I will risk adding weight back.  I have purchased some green tea extract which my research seems to indicate is one of the few natural metabolism boosters.  I am going to take this over the next week or so while I increase my food intake.  My goal is to be planning 1500 calories  a day in meals which will give me some room for unplanned snacks and drinks without exceeding 2000 calories per day.  I will monitor this for a few weeks and then adjust as needed in order to maintain a weight of 160lbs.

Yesterday I ate:
special k bars - 3 for a total of 270 cal
Apple sauce - 50 cal
Baked Potato with light butter and bacos - 370 cal
Raspberry sorbet - 70 cal

My workout consisted of:
275 curls 5lbs
60 lateral raises
60 front presses
60 shoulder presses
80 crunches
Walked 3 miles ( in the blistering FL sun)
Cycled 4 miles

My result:
-1.5