The good news is that nobody brought any food for the grazing table. The bad news is that 3pm popcorn time got me. Everyday at 3pm, someone pops up some popcorn and I was starving this afternoon.
I didn’t go crazy and popcorn isn’t very high in calories so I probably didn’t do any damage.
The Wednesday office lunch was called off today so I didn’t have any temptations. It wasn’t actually called off, just moved to Thursday so I am going to have a tough time being good tomorrow.
Weight Statistics
323/171.9/165
4 days to gain almost 14 pounds and now two days to drop almost 9 pounds. 5 more to go before I get back to my pre-Thanksgiving weight.
I’m about 8 pounds from my low but I won’t come close to that again until after the New Year.
Today’s Menu
Breakfast – Turkey burger with cheese
Lunch – None
Dinner – Baked chicken with salad
Snack – Popcorn, turkey burger
Calories – 1500
Not too bad. I just need to have a few good days in a row to get back into induction. The popcorn will probably keep me out of induction. I am praying that the lunch tomorrow had some meat and salad so I can stick to Atkins.
Tip Of The Day
Until January 5th, I will be repeating the long list of start-up tips so that any newcomers will be able to see my guide to getting started. I will try to add 1 new tip each day to the list.
1. Check with your doctor. I’m sure the doc will say to get on with it, but first make sure you aren’t constrained by health issues.
2. Research diets online and pick one that you really think you can stick with. If you are miserable 100% of the time, you will not make it. You need to find a happy medium between losing weight but doing it in a way that doesn’t make you unhappy all the time.
3. Clean out the fridge and pantry of all bad food. THROW IT AWAY! Do not wait until you finish all of the bad food to start the diet. Get rid of it now!
4. Start a food, calorie, weight and exercise journal. You need to be able to see what works and what doesn’t work and a journal will help.
5. Seek online support. It is all over the place on the internet and the best support comes from people going through the same pain in the keister.
6. Weigh yourself at LEAST once a week. I just read some stupid article that said you should not get hung up on the scale. WTH??? You need to be able to gauge your results and the scale is the only way to do it. If your diet isn’t working, you need to know that and you need to make adjustments.
7. Measure everything and read all labels. You need to know the caloric intake to know if you are actually operating on deficit calories.
8. Exercise is fine, BUT DON”T OVER DO IT! We tend to go overboard when we start diets and this leads to burn out. Take things very very very very very very very slowly. I did almost ZERO exercise the first year of my diet and I still lost over 100 pounds.
9. Always have a shopping list and never shop hungry.
10. Use smaller plates when eating.
11. Don’t take yourself too seriously and don’t rush the diet. Just do the best you can each day and one day you will see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Happy dieting, see you tomorrow
The Grumpy Man
The Grumpy Man's Guide to Losing weight & keeping it off 
I think those are some fantastic tips. Particularly the one about just throwing the bad food away. I’ve had to do that many times! The only one I semi-disagree with is the one about the scale. I agree the scale is one important measure but otherways include measuring inches lost as well as body fat percentage. A scale could say you’ve gained yet you could still have lost an inch or fat and maybe just replaced it with muscle. Both are important (so I’m not disagreeing that scales are important ;)) But I can understand why someone would say don’t get hung up over the scale!
I also agree with your point about having a shopping list. Not only is it good for weight loss but for your budget too!
Ha! I was going to mention measuring tonight. I didn’t do that back when I started or ever and it would have been a big help when the scale was not moving even though I was doing everything right. I almost mentioned that one last night.
I just got home so I haven’t decided if I have a blog post in me. 😀