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2-1-07 -- Day 32 of 100 Days -- still 19 pounds gone
2-1-07
265/246/200 Still 19 pounds gone Day 32 of 100 Days I got on my scales this morning and still weighed 246 (actually, the indicator probably would have gone little bit higher had I let it). Yesterday, no exercise - I came home late but today is my day to go up my little hill, do push-ups, crunchies, etc. "Well begun is half done," said Franklin, and I now have 31 days of good behavior behind me. Yesterday I had about 1200 calories, including a double-cheeseburger from Burger King on the way home (at 9:45 PM). When I got home I looked very closely at a can of soup but I put it away. (I did have a pinch of tuna before giving a dollop of tuna to our cat.) I'm almost at a third through my 100 Days and I have felt no discomfort at all - more simple pleasure at being able to follow the program and lose the weight. I've made an appointment with my physician for an evaluation in two months and expect to have improvement in all major areas of health that are weight-related. Probably this won't help my eyesight but it should do something for hypertension, etc. I remember jogging long distances (when I was younger) and sometimes I would tell myself to continue running to a point I could see in the distance, and then when I got to that point I would walk for a few minutes before picking out another point, or maybe even keep on jogging to another point in the distance. Anything to "keep on keeping on." Having a set time to aim for - 100 Days - is useful for me in losing weight. One I have "well begun" a 100 Day program, it's usually not difficult to maintain it. Maintaining task focus (through a low- calorie, fairly rapid weight loss approach) makes the task of losing weight easier. Not painless, but easier. And yet I sure don't feel any hungrier now than I did when I was constantly eating and taking in calories. For me hunger is present when I am aware that I CAN eat something. But if I know that I CAN'T eat it, my hunger is less. I sure am a lot less hungry now than I would be if I arrived in an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet line with a huge plate - or better yet, two huge plates. I hope everyone has a great month ahead and that everyone can find and follow a program that works to bring them to health! Yours truly, Caleb |
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2-1-07 -- Day 32 of 100 Days -- still 19 pounds gone
Congratulations, Caleb. The low-calorie has always been good for me. I
would not call it diet, though. I prefer saying that I have stopped overeating. From October 2006 my daily calorie intake was about 3000 calories until I reached my personal record of 197 pounds. 44 days ago I've had enough. I then decreased my daily calorie intake gradually starting at 2000 to see the results I would get. In the last 11 days, my average is 1530. I weighted 181 pounds this morning, a decrease of 16 pounds in 44 days. I look forward to leaving the 180's pounds and read the magic number 179 on the scale! I keep track of my daily calorie intake by listing everything I eat or drink. Mike 197/181/175 |
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2-1-07 -- Day 32 of 100 Days -- still 19 pounds gone
On Feb 1, 7:05 pm, "
wrote: Congratulations, Caleb. The low-calorie has always been good for me. I would not call it diet, though. I prefer saying that I have stopped overeating. From October 2006 my daily calorie intake was about 3000 calories until I reached my personal record of 197 pounds. 44 days ago I've had enough. I then decreased my daily calorie intake gradually starting at 2000 to see the results I would get. In the last 11 days, my average is 1530. I weighted 181 pounds this morning, a decrease of 16 pounds in 44 days. I look forward to leaving the 180's pounds and read the magic number 179 on the scale! I keep track of my daily calorie intake by listing everything I eat or drink. Mike 197/181/175 Mike -- Great for you! Your progress is terrific! I'm sure that very, very soon you will wake up and break 180. EXCELLENT!!! It's so easy for me to eat a heck of a lot more than 3000 calories a day. 1530 calories a day seems a great goal for you. Keep going strong! Yours, Caleb |
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2-1-07 -- Day 32 of 100 Days -- still 19 pounds gone
On Feb 2, 4:09 am, "Caleb" wrote:
On Feb 1, 7:05 pm, " wrote: Congratulations, Caleb. Thelow-caloriehas always been good for me. I would not call it diet, though. I prefer saying that I have stopped overeating. From October 2006 my daily calorie intake was about 3000 calories until I reached my personal record of 197 pounds. 44 days ago I've had enough. I then decreased my daily calorie intake gradually starting at 2000 to see the results I would get. In the last 11 days, my average is 1530. I weighted 181 pounds this morning, a decrease of 16 pounds in 44 days. I look forward to leaving the 180's pounds and read the magic number 179 on the scale! I keep track of my daily calorie intake by listing everything I eat or drink. Mike 197/181/175 Mike -- Great for you! Your progress is terrific! I'm sure that very, very soon you will wake up and break 180. EXCELLENT!!! It's so easy for me to eat a heck of a lot more than 3000 calories a day. 1530 calories a day seems a great goal for you. Keep going strong! Yours, Caleb- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hi Caleb. I'm OK with 1500 or 1600 calories a day. This morning, for the first time in about 3 months, I hit 180 pounds. I just weighted myself, 16 hours later, and weight 183... But it's all right, I don't let myself panicking with numbers. I just focus on the lower number I get. Hopefully, I can read 179 by the end of the week. Surely, I would like to get results faster, but I'm thinking that if the weight comes off fast, I can get it back fast, too. So the slower the loss is going, the better. What do you think of the importance of getting lots of fiber? This morning, my breakfast was All Bran Buds with water, pretty disgusting, though. A cup gives me 36 grams of fiber for 210 calories. Adding up the fibers in the Lima beans, I took more than 40 grams of fibers. I'm thinking that getting out of this garbage inside will help me progressing. Am I right to think like that? |
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2-1-07 -- Day 32 of 100 Days -- still 19 pounds gone
On Feb 4, 9:23 pm, "
wrote: On Feb 2, 4:09 am, "Caleb" wrote: On Feb 1, 7:05 pm, " wrote: Congratulations, Caleb. Thelow-caloriehas always been good for me. I would not call it diet, though. I prefer saying that I have stopped overeating. From October 2006 my daily calorie intake was about 3000 calories until I reached my personal record of 197 pounds. 44 days ago I've had enough. I then decreased my daily calorie intake gradually starting at 2000 to see the results I would get. In the last 11 days, my average is 1530. I weighted 181 pounds this morning, a decrease of 16 pounds in 44 days. I look forward to leaving the 180's pounds and read the magic number 179 on the scale! I keep track of my daily calorie intake by listing everything I eat or drink. Mike 197/181/175 Mike -- Great for you! Your progress is terrific! I'm sure that very, very soon you will wake up and break 180. EXCELLENT!!! It's so easy for me to eat a heck of a lot more than 3000 calories a day. 1530 calories a day seems a great goal for you. Keep going strong! Yours, Caleb- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hi Caleb. I'm OK with 1500 or 1600 calories a day. This morning, for the first time in about 3 months, I hit 180 pounds. I just weighted myself, 16 hours later, and weight 183... But it's all right, I don't let myself panicking with numbers. I just focus on the lower number I get. Hopefully, I can read 179 by the end of the week. Surely, I would like to get results faster, but I'm thinking that if the weight comes off fast, I can get it back fast, too. So the slower the loss is going, the better. What do you think of the importance of getting lots of fiber? This morning, my breakfast was All Bran Buds with water, pretty disgusting, though. A cup gives me 36 grams of fiber for 210 calories. Adding up the fibers in the Lima beans, I took more than 40 grams of fibers. I'm thinking that getting out of this garbage inside will help me progressing. Am I right to think like that? Mike -- what you're doing is working great! Super! Let me plug in a few numbers for you. Given a baserate of 170 pounds (erring a bit on the conservative side), the following calories taken in in the course of a day, you probably can expect roughly the following loss over the following time periods: Day's Pounds Lost Lost Lost in 30 days Calories Today in one week 0 0.6 4.4 18.94 500 0.5 3.4 14.66 600 0.5 3.2 13.80 700 0.4 3.0 12.94 800 0.4 2.8 12.09 900 0.4 2.6 11.23 1000 0.3 2.4 10.37 1100 0.3 2.2 9.51 1200 0.3 2.0 8.66 1300 0.3 1.8 7.80 1400 0.2 1.6 6.94 1500 0.2 1.4 6.09 1600 0.2 1.2 5.23 1700 0.1 1.0 4.37 1800 0.1 0.8 3.51 1900 0.1 0.6 2.66 2000 0.1 0.4 1.80 2100 0.0 0.2 0.94 2200 0.0 0.0 0.09 The above numbers (based on your being a male) indicate that at 170 pounds, you probably need about 13 by 170 calories a day to maintain your weight -- hence, about 2210 calories. Given a daily intake of 1700 calories, you are in a deficit of about 500 calories a day, and that equates to about a loss of a pound a week, and a little more than than 4 pounds a month. (This does not take into account exercise, etc.) About fiber -- I don't know. Several very good pluses with it. I believe it's been associated with lower colorectal cancer, lower cholesterol, a greater feeling of being filled up, fewer hemerrhoids, etc. (I'd imagine also fewer gallstones but I've never seen that mentioned.) Overall, fiber is pretty healthy. About weighing -- I don't know if you had a chance to read my views on balance beam scales, but this is a system I've used since 1999. I get on the scale each morning but I do not move the indicator if it doesn't show a lower number. If it has a higher number, I just don't move it. I know that I am on a pretty calorie restrictive diet and that I am losing weight, even if water and roughage caused weight fluctuations don't show it. So, the only motion that my indicator has is to the left, to reflect a lower weight. For me this is very motivating as every morning there is the chance the indicator will be lower and no chance that it will be higher. However, you seem to be doing great, Mike! Super! Keep doing what you're doing! Yours truly, Caleb |
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