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Old August 22nd, 2004, 04:16 PM
Kalepa
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Day 7 of 100 Days

I got on the scale an hour ago and a pound was gone. Now I am at 235.
I know I was making progress simply by cutting calories and doing a
bit more exercise, but it's nice to have it validated by the scales.

I'm also looking forward to the time my pants fit more easily, and
being able to wear a size 38 or smaller again.

In our small hiking group, one of the people doesn't care for maps,
doesn't like topographic details ("we'll be climbing 600 feet in the
next two miles"), etc., as he wants to be surprised by the next turn
in the bend, by the next vista. Another member of our group really
likes the data-rich approach, and so do I. (I'm learning to use my GPS
better, etc.) I really do like know what to expect in the trail ahead,
and – more importantly – when the general pain of going uphill will be
over. On a very steep or otherwise arduous hill, I might count my
steps, keeping track of them with my fingers in groups of a thousand.
For me, that takes my mind off thinking about the difficulty of the
next step. (And also last weekend, I listened to my little radio –
what reception there was in the Sisters Wilderness area – and that
served me well.)

Whatever works, works.

When I used to jog 5 to 7 miles on a regular basis, I used to listen
to the radio, one headphone askew to hear the traffic. A variety of
people did that, but some greatly disparaged it, saying that one ought
to be able to spend the time just thinking. Well, great for them – and
great for however people do it!

Lazy has a data-rich approach as well to the weight-loss business and
this sure seems to be working for him as well.

Part of the challenge (it seems to me) is to have the data and one's
behavior set up in such a way that the data encourage one to perform
well, rather than demotivate a person. That's one of the reasons a
low-calorie approach makes sense to me as well. It's a lot easier for
me (and many others) to maintain a particular dietary approach if
there is a fairly good payoff for the discomfort in dieting. A diet
that promises to help me lose 6 pounds a year simply would not
motivate me for long, especially as one's weight can fluctuate that
much in a week because of water weight, etc. Hence, cutting back a few
hundred calories a day would be an almost useless approach for me,
especially given the huge variance in daily calories anyway. (I was at
a conference several years ago and heard a presenter discuss an
exercise approach to dieting, and in her presentation she mentioned
the variance in daily calorie intake among the members of her study,
and the variance was huge! Sometimes they might eat 1500 calories a
day, and sometimes 4000, or something like that. That sounds like my
normal way of doing things, but I'm not sure that I would reach the
lower end of the scale very often.)

At any rate, the advice to shave off 500 calories a day to lose a
pound a week largely presupposes that one eats a regular amount of
calories a day (which maintains one's body weight) and that it is a
straightforward process to eliminate 500 calories a day, and that this
will not lead to feelings of deprivation, to jettisoning the whole
business, etc. (Like "Minver Cheevey, child of scorn" who in E. A.
Robinson's poem wanted to be a "Medici" but instead, simply "kept on
drinking.")

I hope everyone is having a great weekend and I hope for a terrific
week ahead!

Yours,

Caleb


236/235/190
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Old August 23rd, 2004, 04:10 AM
Kalepa
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Lazy --

People tend to stray off diets about the second week or before, when
the positive results don't happen as quickly as they would like. I
think your "pound a week" diet is great -- and perhaps it would be
better for me if I did it too, but I find a quicker weight loss
approach much more motivating, much more likely to lead to a "laser
like focus" (to borrow H. Ross Perot's term).

A VLCD approach is fine with my physician as well.

I sure agree with everything you've said!

As the Hash House Harriers say -- On! On! (This is an international
running group that has a lot of fun both running and partying. Heck of
a lot of fun!)

Yours,

Caleb



LazyEights wrote in message ...
Three cheers Caleb. You're on you're way. Gee, you can have my size 38s. I'm
almost done with them!

I agree completely about the need for a payoff. The idea that one might not
come down with diabetes ten years from now is not much of a reward when
staring at a rasher of bacon. But the idea of owning a Miata in a couple of
months sure is, at least for me.

Twenty years ago I did a one-pound-a-week diet. Stayed on it for a year (221
to 168), and kept the weight off for years thereafter?but I don't have the
patience for that now. Hence my VLCD. I want the instant gratification of
fast weight loss. Otherwise I'll lose interest, and later on the diabetes
and cardiac stuff and the gallstones, gee, all these bad things are gonna
happen.

I'm up to 210 today from 209, but that's transient, the result of doing 1000
cals yesterday and being chased inside by rain. I'm going down low again for
a day or two. The weather will be great all week which will allow for a bit
more walking.

All the best,
Lazy
223/210/175

On 8/22/04 11:16 AM, "Kalepa" wrote:

Day 7 of 100 Days

I got on the scale an hour ago and a pound was gone. Now I am at 235.
I know I was making progress simply by cutting calories and doing a
bit more exercise, but it's nice to have it validated by the scales.

I'm also looking forward to the time my pants fit more easily, and
being able to wear a size 38 or smaller again.

In our small hiking group, one of the people doesn't care for maps,
doesn't like topographic details ("we'll be climbing 600 feet in the
next two miles"), etc., as he wants to be surprised by the next turn
in the bend, by the next vista. Another member of our group really
likes the data-rich approach, and so do I. (I'm learning to use my GPS
better, etc.) I really do like know what to expect in the trail ahead,
and ? more importantly ? when the general pain of going uphill will be
over. On a very steep or otherwise arduous hill, I might count my
steps, keeping track of them with my fingers in groups of a thousand.
For me, that takes my mind off thinking about the difficulty of the
next step. (And also last weekend, I listened to my little radio ?
what reception there was in the Sisters Wilderness area ? and that
served me well.)

Whatever works, works.

When I used to jog 5 to 7 miles on a regular basis, I used to listen
to the radio, one headphone askew to hear the traffic. A variety of
people did that, but some greatly disparaged it, saying that one ought
to be able to spend the time just thinking. Well, great for them ? and
great for however people do it!

Lazy has a data-rich approach as well to the weight-loss business and
this sure seems to be working for him as well.

Part of the challenge (it seems to me) is to have the data and one's
behavior set up in such a way that the data encourage one to perform
well, rather than demotivate a person. That's one of the reasons a
low-calorie approach makes sense to me as well. It's a lot easier for
me (and many others) to maintain a particular dietary approach if
there is a fairly good payoff for the discomfort in dieting. A diet
that promises to help me lose 6 pounds a year simply would not
motivate me for long, especially as one's weight can fluctuate that
much in a week because of water weight, etc. Hence, cutting back a few
hundred calories a day would be an almost useless approach for me,
especially given the huge variance in daily calories anyway. (I was at
a conference several years ago and heard a presenter discuss an
exercise approach to dieting, and in her presentation she mentioned
the variance in daily calorie intake among the members of her study,
and the variance was huge! Sometimes they might eat 1500 calories a
day, and sometimes 4000, or something like that. That sounds like my
normal way of doing things, but I'm not sure that I would reach the
lower end of the scale very often.)

At any rate, the advice to shave off 500 calories a day to lose a
pound a week largely presupposes that one eats a regular amount of
calories a day (which maintains one's body weight) and that it is a
straightforward process to eliminate 500 calories a day, and that this
will not lead to feelings of deprivation, to jettisoning the whole
business, etc. (Like "Minver Cheevey, child of scorn" who in E. A.
Robinson's poem wanted to be a "Medici" but instead, simply "kept on
drinking.")

I hope everyone is having a great weekend and I hope for a terrific
week ahead!

Yours,

Caleb


236/235/190


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