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Day 7 of 100 Days
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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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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