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Day 29 of 100 days -- still 17 pounds gone
1-29-07
265/248/2000 Day 29 of 100 days, 17 pounds gone Got on the scale just now and still was at 248, the indicator showing that I was pretty much right in the mid-range, so about 248.5. Good! It's a Monday and diets go better on Mondays for me. Went out to dinner last night (Sunday) with relatives and had about 1200 calories then. A heck of a lot less than I was having at such dinners several months ago. About 1900 calories for the whole Sunday. Even at this calorie intake, I'd expect to lose about 2.4 pounds a week, 10.5 pounds a month, and 35 pounds in a 100 day period. This is a bit slower than I want, but certainly a heck of a lot better than what I was doing 6 months ago. And of course more than a day at a time, the important measure is what one eats week by week, month by month, year by year. In terms of weight loss advice, one common bit of advice given is for one to shave 500 calories off what it takes to maintain a given weight, but this is troublesome advice to me. It presumes, I think, that one consumes on an ongoing basis the number of calories to maintain one's weight. However, the number of calories a lot of people consume varies hugely from day to day. And so, asking people (with wildly fluctuating daily caloric intakes) to maintain 500 calories less than their body needs to maintain weight will not only will lead to a loss of (only) a pound a week (hardly enough for many of us to maintain motivation), but it also presumes that people will be able to maintain the kinds of regular eating habits that they have not before demonstrated. Seems to me to be a recipe for failure. So far this morning I've had 350 calories, including 50 calories of V-8 juice, and I'm ready to head off to work. I hope to walk up my little hill tonight, in spite of the chill in the air. (It's below freezing here at 7:15 a.m.) I hope everyone has a great week ahead! Yours truly, Caleb |
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