I’m so glad I built a calorie tracker

Sitting here, watching my fatness slowly increase, it has become obvious that something needs to change. The problem is that I have a wife who loves to bake. Every opportunity that comes up, there are a few plates of themed cakes or cookies on the table. Given my regularly scheduled extra-curricular activities, I get crazy hungry around dinner time. That’s clearly the worst time to bring out a plate of sweets.

One night a few weeks back, I smoked up and finished dinner. My wife messaged me, “I’m making an ice cream cake and cut the top of it off to make it even. You want some?” So after finishing that entire third of a freshly baked red velvet cake, I found my hand dug deep into a family-sized bag of pretzels. What’s wrong with me? That’s ridiculous.

So, this is what the plan is now. My calorie tracker is easy to modify and scale. The Remaining Calories section is a running average of my BMR over the last eight days. All that’s needed here is to subtract 500 calories from the daily total (3,500 cals [1 lb.] / 7 days) and go about my life as normal - just a bit hungrier.

Add the calorie deficit to my increasingly less painful ability to exercise, and we’ll be back under 155 in no time. One month - tops. I’ll check back in two weeks on progress.

Updates

• 20250421: It’s been a month and weight / fat is stable. Think I’m trading fat for muscle as I’m much more fit in comparison. I’ll come back in another few weeks with measurements / progress.

• 20250515: Jobs done. Back to a more appropriate weight. Bumblebee tuna! 🥳