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Old May 20th, 2004, 11:11 PM
Heywood Mogroot
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Group is getting kind of cross-post flamey, so thought I'd make an
on-topic post...

Today the scale said 200.5, bringing my daily average down to 202.0,
meaning 30lbs down, 20 to go...

Tale of the tape still says 39", but now I can
just-almost-but-not-quite comfortably wear my old 34" dockers that
started getting too tight 5 years ago (so basically I've nuked ~4
years of fat in just 3 months).

Yesterday I used fitday for the first time, very useful, since it
confirms what my excel spreadsheet is telling me about my weight loss
(too fast again). For yesterday it said I consumed 1450 kcal and
burned 1466 in exercise (2 1/2 hrs of cycling), leaving a daily
deficit of about 2000 kcal (the BMR burn), twice my target deficit.
This corresponds to anecdotal tales of losing 1lb of body weight per
50miles of bike riding (from a National Geographic article on some
30-something guy cycling around Australia).

I've mentioned that on May 1 I went to a bbq and basically nuked the
next 4 days of progress. But as of today I'm again 2 days ahead of
schedule. I think holding oneself to a schedule is a useful dieting
mechanism -- it puts cheats in the category of just delaying progress,
and while the numbers drop slowly, seeing steady day-by-day progress
is indeed very motivating.

After I get down into the low 190's I plan on joining a gym, reduce
the aerobic cycling, and work more on muscle growth on my upper-body.
I've always been lame about going to the gym, but seeing how every
little bit of effort will pay off over a not-so-long period of time
has been motivating to apply this to getting 'buff', too (even though
I'm probably a bit old, 36, to see big growth now).

Heywood

232/202/182