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Mini progress report
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 |
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