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Day 28 of 100 Days -- still 17 pounds gone
1-28-07
165/248/200 Day 28 out of 100 days, 17 pounds gone. I got on my balance-beam scale this morning and again I weighed 248 - well, at least my indicator didn't go over that. I had a few more calories yesterday than I wanted to - about 1500 calories - but then again my right foot hurt a bit and with gout, more severe diets are not recommended, so I eased off a bit on the calorie restrictions. Today my goal is 1200 calories and tomorrow my goal will be a 1000. I went up and down a 14 step stairway here in our house - a gain of about 10 to 12 feet - for 20 minutes with a 45 pound backpack on. Not too quickly, but after about 10 minutes I was sweating and it seemed to be good exercise. My legs felt a bit weak after that and the workout appeared effective. My clothes are looser than before, and some size 42 pants look very large on me. In another month, I'll throw the size 42s away. That article published on CNN concerning the findings by Ravussin is most interesting. Some of the important points were these - that increasing muscle mass does not speed up metabolism, that if one loses weight by dieting there is not a greater proportion of muscle mass lost, etc. There have been many so-called experts in weight-loss that absolutely "knew" that such findings were false. Similarly, everyone "knows" that three meals a day (or more) is the healthiest way to eat. But then how should one interpret the findings of neuropsychologist Mark Mattson, PhD, who finds that intermittent eating helps impart (at least to mice and rats) to the brain resistance to insults related to Alzheimer's, concussion, etc.? There is so much bad advice about losing weight and it just keeps ricocheting around from person to person. Rather like the saying that truth can't even get its boots on before a lie has twice circled the globe. The Eric Ravussin findings again show that the bottom line for weight loss is calories - although exercise is probably important as well. But at the end of the day, weight-loss requires taking in fewer calories than one is expending. The above seems common sense, but, as Benjamin Franklin said, "Common sense is an uncommon virtue." It's difficult to know what is correct and what is not, but it's important to look for the data. And, as Franklin also said something like, "More people have been taken in by a lack of skepticism than skepticism itself." Have a great rest of the weekend and a great week ahead! Yours truly, Caleb |
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