Sunday: 1,520
Monday: 1,147
Monday, July 29, 2013
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Wacked-out Wednesday
Today is Thursday, but let me continue the tradition of two days' worth of reporting on one day:
Wednesday: 1,170 calories
Thursday: 1,185
Wednesday: 1,170 calories
Thursday: 1,185
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Friday, July 19, 2013
Just my opinion
Pardon me while I complain, because you're going to hear a lot of it over the next month. This blog is for me; I complain to get it out; read it if you want; click on to some other site and don't come back if you do not.
I'll keep this particular ramble short. This is based on my experience. People vary, and I am not especially big (bigger people have reported different experiences and all sorts of people have reported bull$hit accounts otherwise...) Here goes: While people love to obsess over what they're going to eat while they're on a diet, and entire magazines are devoted to it - nay, entire industries - and zillions of dollars are spent by people trying to buy an easy way out - well... if you're going to lose weight, while you still get to eat *something* each day (lest you die of starvation) - you'd better get used to basically not eating.
In other words, fancy it up all you want by talking about what you're going to eat. In the end, it's a whole lot of NOT eating. It's about not eating. (I just repeated myself.) You don't eat a lot more than you do eat.
It sucks; it's not fun; it works. It's something that has to be endured. Show me the person who says, "...and I was never hungry" and I'll call that person a liar or someone who has not lost any weight.
Maybe it's different for others- whatever - but at my weight, to take a pound off means eating about 1/4 of what I would like to eat, and probably about 1/3 of what I would normally eat.
Over and out.
Calories today: 1,427, and I could easily eat double that and not feel that I overindulged.
I'll keep this particular ramble short. This is based on my experience. People vary, and I am not especially big (bigger people have reported different experiences and all sorts of people have reported bull$hit accounts otherwise...) Here goes: While people love to obsess over what they're going to eat while they're on a diet, and entire magazines are devoted to it - nay, entire industries - and zillions of dollars are spent by people trying to buy an easy way out - well... if you're going to lose weight, while you still get to eat *something* each day (lest you die of starvation) - you'd better get used to basically not eating.
In other words, fancy it up all you want by talking about what you're going to eat. In the end, it's a whole lot of NOT eating. It's about not eating. (I just repeated myself.) You don't eat a lot more than you do eat.
It sucks; it's not fun; it works. It's something that has to be endured. Show me the person who says, "...and I was never hungry" and I'll call that person a liar or someone who has not lost any weight.
Maybe it's different for others- whatever - but at my weight, to take a pound off means eating about 1/4 of what I would like to eat, and probably about 1/3 of what I would normally eat.
Over and out.
Calories today: 1,427, and I could easily eat double that and not feel that I overindulged.
A day for the mistake books
This was posted on a different day but pertains to Thursday, July 17th.
Thursday was a difficult day and I did not restrain myself from eating something late in the day that threw me very far over. Let's see what happens if/when I am able to stick to a more reasonable goal. So here it is, for the books: 2,140
Interesting, when one dietary lapse throws me that far over, to think what I had been consuming when not even trying to restrict calories, and when basically staying the same, weight-wise, for a long time. A quick guess on my part would put it well above 2,500.
That said, I have taken another average for the last 30 days, and it was around 1,700. This is not enough to bring weight down. Either I bring it down and lose a few pounds or I end this project. Simple as that. It looks like this is a summer-long project now.
Thursday was a difficult day and I did not restrain myself from eating something late in the day that threw me very far over. Let's see what happens if/when I am able to stick to a more reasonable goal. So here it is, for the books: 2,140
Interesting, when one dietary lapse throws me that far over, to think what I had been consuming when not even trying to restrict calories, and when basically staying the same, weight-wise, for a long time. A quick guess on my part would put it well above 2,500.
That said, I have taken another average for the last 30 days, and it was around 1,700. This is not enough to bring weight down. Either I bring it down and lose a few pounds or I end this project. Simple as that. It looks like this is a summer-long project now.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Weary Wednesday
Can I keep from eating for the rest of the day? I doubt it. I will edit the number if I simply have to eat a blob of peanut butter on bread, though.
Right now: 1,560 (there's the edit)
Right now: 1,560 (there's the edit)
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Yesterday and today
Yesterday, which was Monday, July 15th: 1,505
Today: 1,500 (really, it came up even like that!)
I wonder if 1500 two days in a row will interfere with weight loss.
Today: 1,500 (really, it came up even like that!)
I wonder if 1500 two days in a row will interfere with weight loss.
Monday, July 15, 2013
It's a bummer
When I can't read Allan's blog anymore, the sun shines a little less brightly, and the victory tastes a little less sweet. I am finally getting somewhere, and I believe my mentor may have cast me aside as detritus not needed, for whatever reason. But I'll go on; maybe someday I'll be let back through the guarded gates and can laugh until I cry again, as was my custom with reading Allan's blog, and I'll feel the camaraderie again.
Sunday: 1,420 calories
Sunday: 1,420 calories
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Let's see if I can pull it off
July - the end of, specifically, is the deadline for this venture. Not sure why, but I have tightened down the last few days. Tired of fooling myself. Willing to put up with the psychic pain to get where I'm going. Mindful of the fact that undereating is similar to withdrawing from opiates, quitting smoking, or a number of dopamine-associated activities. I have no pharmacological assistance.
If any of the people from the original challenge, or any other interested parties, are aware that my husband (on blogroll) was also part of the challenge - well, guess what? He's still doing it, even if not posting. His doctor put him on bupropion. He never knew he "needed" it, but feels that it is helping him. Funny how he now gets to talk me down, like a calm therapist, his brain under mediation of its chemistry. He will update when he's good and finished losing weight, and will probably upload photos at that time, too.
Anyway, let's put in today's total when it's done. Here you go: 1,195.
If any of the people from the original challenge, or any other interested parties, are aware that my husband (on blogroll) was also part of the challenge - well, guess what? He's still doing it, even if not posting. His doctor put him on bupropion. He never knew he "needed" it, but feels that it is helping him. Funny how he now gets to talk me down, like a calm therapist, his brain under mediation of its chemistry. He will update when he's good and finished losing weight, and will probably upload photos at that time, too.
Anyway, let's put in today's total when it's done. Here you go: 1,195.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Internet problems!
Well, I can blame that for one day. Let me catch up here with 5 days' worth of data:
Friday: 2,704 (you do NOT want to know!)
Saturday: 2,227
Sunday: 1,950
Monday: 2,093
Tuesday: 1,389 (funny: My Fitness Pal says "you have 1 calorie remaining")
And today, Wednesday, will be determined later and documented in the space below:
1,492
Friday: 2,704 (you do NOT want to know!)
Saturday: 2,227
Sunday: 1,950
Monday: 2,093
Tuesday: 1,389 (funny: My Fitness Pal says "you have 1 calorie remaining")
And today, Wednesday, will be determined later and documented in the space below:
1,492
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Thursday, my day for Independence from Fat
Well, not really. I have eaten a few things that would make most of you faint. But I logged them in My Fitness Enemy and here is the total for today: 2,247
As usual, honest if nothing else. If I ate it, I tell the truth!
As usual, honest if nothing else. If I ate it, I tell the truth!
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Two more days
Tuesday: 1,470 calories
Wednesday: (today) 1,608
By the way, I have scrolled down and taken an average over the last 16 days. The average is 1,662 calories per day. This is why I am probably not losing weight (I have not gotten on the scale for a while, but I don't need to.) Here's a little bit of interesting factoid I have gleaned over the years:
Weight control is not an exact equation whereby each calorie you consume contributes to, or subtracts from, pounds on your body. I believe that your body "wants" to be a particular weight at any given time, and your body is somewhat flexible in the number of calories taken in that can sustain that weight relatively steadily. To back up my theory, I believe that people (this is true for me, at least) stay steady over long periods of time even with somewhat variable food intake.
My point here is that if a person is 152 pounds for a long time, it's likely that an intake ranging from 1,600 on the low side to 2,500 on the high side (roughly) would just maintain that weight. (note: That was just a guess.) This runs contrary to the popular belief that an extra 100 calories per day would put on X number of pounds per year. Maybe for people grossly overeating in the first place, this could be true, but I happen to believe that there's a lot of "wiggle room" in any person's daily intake that would maintain a particular weight. Restricting calories without restricting them enough to make the pounds budge does nothing except shortchange a person in nutrition and introduce a little deprivation, while the weight stays the same. I might as well have been enjoying myself more and getting a few more vitamins and protein if I'm going to be pedaling in place and not losing any weight, in other words. If I want to nudge a few pounds off, I have to take the calories down a few hundred more per day. That's the bottom line.
Wednesday: (today) 1,608
By the way, I have scrolled down and taken an average over the last 16 days. The average is 1,662 calories per day. This is why I am probably not losing weight (I have not gotten on the scale for a while, but I don't need to.) Here's a little bit of interesting factoid I have gleaned over the years:
Weight control is not an exact equation whereby each calorie you consume contributes to, or subtracts from, pounds on your body. I believe that your body "wants" to be a particular weight at any given time, and your body is somewhat flexible in the number of calories taken in that can sustain that weight relatively steadily. To back up my theory, I believe that people (this is true for me, at least) stay steady over long periods of time even with somewhat variable food intake.
My point here is that if a person is 152 pounds for a long time, it's likely that an intake ranging from 1,600 on the low side to 2,500 on the high side (roughly) would just maintain that weight. (note: That was just a guess.) This runs contrary to the popular belief that an extra 100 calories per day would put on X number of pounds per year. Maybe for people grossly overeating in the first place, this could be true, but I happen to believe that there's a lot of "wiggle room" in any person's daily intake that would maintain a particular weight. Restricting calories without restricting them enough to make the pounds budge does nothing except shortchange a person in nutrition and introduce a little deprivation, while the weight stays the same. I might as well have been enjoying myself more and getting a few more vitamins and protein if I'm going to be pedaling in place and not losing any weight, in other words. If I want to nudge a few pounds off, I have to take the calories down a few hundred more per day. That's the bottom line.
Monday, July 1, 2013
Buckling down
I have until July 15th to finish this !@#$% challenge off, so here I go, ramping into being slightly more serious. The intent is to clamp down even more tomorrow:
Sunday: 1,686 calories
Monday (today): 1,536 calories
Sunday: 1,686 calories
Monday (today): 1,536 calories
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