Morning weigh-in: 146.6 kg; -0.9 kg
Wow, nearly another kilo gone. Again, I'm not going to count my chickens until I see the number tomorrow. But for now I'm, uh, cautiously optimistic. :)
I'm off to a bit of a slow start this morning, because when that alarm went off at 6:15, I hit the button and went right back to sleep. Woke up again at 6:41 and I've been hustling my ass ever since.
Breakfast was two fried eggs, three pieces of bacon, and a mix of borlotti (pinto) beans, corn, spinach, onions, and salsa. That and a couple of cups of coffee came to 428 calories. Then I jumped on the cross-trainer for 15 minutes and burned 239 calories.
I'm wondering about that 0.9 kg loss, and if it's in any way connected to the changes in my exercise routine. If it's true that exercising earlier in the day results in more weight loss throughout the rest of the day (and that must be true, because I read it on the Internet), then I guess it makes sense that I lost more weight after getting my usual amount of exercise done earlier in the day.
It might also have something to do with the sessions being closer together, and a few of them going for longer than the usual 15 minutes. I mean, all the calorie-counting programs say I burn the same amount of calories doing 30 minutes of exercise, regardless of whether I do it all at once, in two 15-minute sessions, three 10-minute sessions, etc., but that doesn't take into account the intensity of the effort involved.
In any case, I don't think I'm likely to see a repeat tomorrow morning. I'm not even sure I can get all my exercise done today, because it's noon and I haven't done any more since that first 15-minute session. Ordering the groceries, which I thought might take a half an hour, has ended up taking nearly 3 freaking hours. Between problems with the grocery store website and everybody not being clear about what they wanted me to order, it's taken all morning. :(
Oh well. I'll get done what I can get done.
Update: Ok, what I could get done turned out to be one 30-minute session on the cross-trainer (10.4 k; -478 calories), and that's it. It was a good, hard workout, but unfortunately I ran out of time and didn't get to do any more.
Then I had grilled chicken breast and a veggie-lentil mix for lunch (456 calories), and a hastily-prepared soup (427 calories) that consisted of beef mince (ground beef), crushed garlic, mixed veggies, a can of diced tomatoes, and a half a jar of tomato puree (tomato sauce), plus a few herbs and spices to flavor it up a little. I'd thought I had enough chicken to take to work, but I was wrong.
Luckily, it turned out to be pretty damned good, and it gave me a chance to use my Thermos for the first time. I got it for my birthday last year, but it's just been sitting in a cupboard all this time. But it worked brilliantly! Five hours in the fridge at work, and the soup was still hot enough to eat without re-heating.
So all up my total calories for the day was 1380, minus 715 burned, for a net of 660. Hopefully, since I've eaten fewer calories than normal and kept my net for the day about the same, I'll still get a close-to-average loss for the day.
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Slow-carb Diet Day 16: Better Late Than Never
Daily weigh-in: 148.8 kg, -0.5 kg
It was good to see a loss on a Monday morning. Hopefully that will continue tomorrow, and for the rest of the week.
Breakfast was the usual, but with two eggs instead of three, and a smaller serving of the bean & corn mix (485 cals). I finished breakfast shortly after 7 am, and headed straight for the cross-trainer afterwards. I put in a fifteen-minute, 5.3 km session (-239 cals) to get the morning started. Then I put in another 15 minutes (5.2 km; 239 cals) later in the morning, and then that was it until after dinner.
Lunch was three more eggs, another smaller serving of the bean & corn mix, plus a couple of slices of bacon (730 cals). I'd planned to get in another 15-minute workout (or two) between lunch and dinner, but didn't quite managed it in between calling Mom, taking Tom to the park, etc.
Dinner was fish, chips and salad for the kids, and chicken breast, salad, and stir fry veggies (yellow beans, carrots, broccoli, sugar snap peas, red bell pepper with minced garlic, ginger, and red chili peppers) (339 cals). A couple of coffees and a handful of beer nuts for a mid-afternoon snack gave me a total of 1833 calories for the day.
After dinner, a little TV, and getting the kids to bed, I went back to the garage with a plan. 15 minutes on, then a 10-minute rest, then another 15 on, then my blog post, a shower, and bed. Instead, I ended up doing one 30-minute session (10.2 km! -478 cals), then blogging, then realizing that I wasn't going to hit my 500-800 net calorie window. So I've just come back in from another 15-minute session (5.3 km; -239 cals), giving me a total of 1195 calories burned, and net calories of 640.
I'm going to have to start working harder at getting my hour of exercise finished earlier in the day. Summer vacation is over, and I'm back at work on Wednesday. A 4:00 start means I'm not going to get to exercise after about 2 o'clock, unless I do it after I get home at 11:30, and I really don't see that happening.
It was good to see a loss on a Monday morning. Hopefully that will continue tomorrow, and for the rest of the week.
Breakfast was the usual, but with two eggs instead of three, and a smaller serving of the bean & corn mix (485 cals). I finished breakfast shortly after 7 am, and headed straight for the cross-trainer afterwards. I put in a fifteen-minute, 5.3 km session (-239 cals) to get the morning started. Then I put in another 15 minutes (5.2 km; 239 cals) later in the morning, and then that was it until after dinner.
Lunch was three more eggs, another smaller serving of the bean & corn mix, plus a couple of slices of bacon (730 cals). I'd planned to get in another 15-minute workout (or two) between lunch and dinner, but didn't quite managed it in between calling Mom, taking Tom to the park, etc.
Dinner was fish, chips and salad for the kids, and chicken breast, salad, and stir fry veggies (yellow beans, carrots, broccoli, sugar snap peas, red bell pepper with minced garlic, ginger, and red chili peppers) (339 cals). A couple of coffees and a handful of beer nuts for a mid-afternoon snack gave me a total of 1833 calories for the day.
After dinner, a little TV, and getting the kids to bed, I went back to the garage with a plan. 15 minutes on, then a 10-minute rest, then another 15 on, then my blog post, a shower, and bed. Instead, I ended up doing one 30-minute session (10.2 km! -478 cals), then blogging, then realizing that I wasn't going to hit my 500-800 net calorie window. So I've just come back in from another 15-minute session (5.3 km; -239 cals), giving me a total of 1195 calories burned, and net calories of 640.
I'm going to have to start working harder at getting my hour of exercise finished earlier in the day. Summer vacation is over, and I'm back at work on Wednesday. A 4:00 start means I'm not going to get to exercise after about 2 o'clock, unless I do it after I get home at 11:30, and I really don't see that happening.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Low-carb Diet Day 2: So Far, So Good
It looks like my cautious reaction to yesterday's weigh-in numbers was justified. Today's number indicated no change. Still 151.6 kg. I can hardly wait to see what happens tomorrow morning.
I'm not going to keep posting pics of the same meals over and over again, but I'll add more when something new makes it to the menu, or I want to share a recipe or something.
Breakfast was the usual eggs, beans, and salsa. And I decided to add a cup of coffee. Great decision! After that I went out for my morning workout, and did my first 10k. Not quickly, mind you. But I did the 10k and then kept going to finish the program section, for 10.2 km in 36 minutes. Then Later I did another 15-minute (4.3 km) session, which means that so far I've burned around 830 cals. I haven't entered everything to find out the calories in yet, so I'll post now and update later.
Update: Jebus, that was a damned good lunch! Even though it was more chicken, it was different enough that it didn't feel like it was getting old. I ended up having a not-grilled chicken salad (with baby spinach, red capsicum (bell pepper), onion, grated carrot, black olives, sun-dried tomatoes, picked jalapeños, and some smoked ham and Spanish salami). It was hella good, and I figure if it wasn't filling enough to satisfy my appetite until dinner time, I can always make a little snack with the bean mix and some salsa, or something like that.
So that's 565 calories for breakfast and 360 for lunch, (Update: plus 310 for the chicken and avocado mid-morning snack and the after-lunch coffee) for a total so far of 925 1235. 830 burned means 95 405 net cals so far today.
One thing I've noticed on the cross-trainer is that I'm starting to have some pain in my right elbow. Didn't really see that one coming. When it hurts, I've been switching to legs-only, because while I can handle it if my muscles are sore, painful, inflamed joints are much more likely to put me out of commission, and for longer.
It's funny that my ankles and knees, which are all sorts of messed up, seem to be holding up alright (the cross-trainer, while heartless and cruel, is relatively low-impact), but the repetitive arm movements is apparently aggravating an old trombone-related injury (now there's a term you don't come across every day).
Another update: After lunch, I did another 10k (10.3 km in 36 minutes) on the cross-trainer (-586 cals), and after dinner I did another 8.7 km in 30 minutes (-489 calories). One new thing I tried out on both those sessions was that instead of listening to music, I watched TV. I mean, I've been putting the TV on without sound, then listening to music and watching whatever's on the screen at the same time (today that helped me get my exercise and watch the Super Bowl at the same time, but more often than not I watch foreign news).
This afternoon I watched Star Wars. I've got an old VCR hooked up to the TV in the garage because it gets better reception that way, and I've got the original Star Wars Special Edition Trilogy Boxed Set on VHS. Yeah, now I can be that guy. That guy who sits out in his garage trying to keep his old VCR and CRT TV working (while also adding another terabyte of storage to his home media server to hold more downloaded movies and TV shows because he's too cheap to pay $80 a month for satellite TV.)
Anyway, yeah, I think it kinda sucks for keeping up a good pace, but it's pretty cool for longer sessions. So it's good to have another thing to keep me going while the Cross-trainer from Hell punishes me mercilessly.
I got really hungry around 5:00, so I had a handful of nuts (almonds and cashews, 300 cals), and got busy making dinner. The boys had fried rice, and I had a big stir fry with chicken, ham, onion, garlic, red capsicum (bell pepper), carrots, green peas, broccoli, cauliflower, sugar snap peas, minced red chili peppers, and soy sauce.
That was 655 calories, and two after-dinner coffees (I know, at this rate I'll be drinking 9 coffees a day by the end of the week. Oh well, if that's the itch I scratch, I figure what the hell, right?) So all up I ate 2290 calories, burned 1905, and ended up with a net of 385 calories. And watched Green Bay beat Pittsburgh (suck it, Steelers!), hung out with my kids on the last day before they've got to go back to school, and had flashbacks to the first time I saw Star Wars, at the Almeda Mall in Houston with my cousin Marie and her husband Tom. Good times, good times. And now I think it's time to get my ass in bed, because no doubt the morning is going to be a little nutty. First day of school. Glad it's them, and not me. :)
Oops, one more update: The Weight Watchers numbers--breakfast was 12 ProPoints, lunch was 7, dinner was 12, the chicken and avocado was 6, the nuts were 8, and the coffees were 3, for a total of 46 ProPoints (out of a daily allowance of 66). The exercise gave me 45 Activity ProPoints. Okay, now I'm really going to bed. I mean it.
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I'm not going to keep posting pics of the same meals over and over again, but I'll add more when something new makes it to the menu, or I want to share a recipe or something.
Breakfast was the usual eggs, beans, and salsa. And I decided to add a cup of coffee. Great decision! After that I went out for my morning workout, and did my first 10k. Not quickly, mind you. But I did the 10k and then kept going to finish the program section, for 10.2 km in 36 minutes. Then Later I did another 15-minute (4.3 km) session, which means that so far I've burned around 830 cals. I haven't entered everything to find out the calories in yet, so I'll post now and update later.
Update: Jebus, that was a damned good lunch! Even though it was more chicken, it was different enough that it didn't feel like it was getting old. I ended up having a not-grilled chicken salad (with baby spinach, red capsicum (bell pepper), onion, grated carrot, black olives, sun-dried tomatoes, picked jalapeños, and some smoked ham and Spanish salami). It was hella good, and I figure if it wasn't filling enough to satisfy my appetite until dinner time, I can always make a little snack with the bean mix and some salsa, or something like that.
So that's 565 calories for breakfast and 360 for lunch, (Update: plus 310 for the chicken and avocado mid-morning snack and the after-lunch coffee) for a total so far of One thing I've noticed on the cross-trainer is that I'm starting to have some pain in my right elbow. Didn't really see that one coming. When it hurts, I've been switching to legs-only, because while I can handle it if my muscles are sore, painful, inflamed joints are much more likely to put me out of commission, and for longer.
It's funny that my ankles and knees, which are all sorts of messed up, seem to be holding up alright (the cross-trainer, while heartless and cruel, is relatively low-impact), but the repetitive arm movements is apparently aggravating an old trombone-related injury (now there's a term you don't come across every day).
Another update: After lunch, I did another 10k (10.3 km in 36 minutes) on the cross-trainer (-586 cals), and after dinner I did another 8.7 km in 30 minutes (-489 calories). One new thing I tried out on both those sessions was that instead of listening to music, I watched TV. I mean, I've been putting the TV on without sound, then listening to music and watching whatever's on the screen at the same time (today that helped me get my exercise and watch the Super Bowl at the same time, but more often than not I watch foreign news).
This afternoon I watched Star Wars. I've got an old VCR hooked up to the TV in the garage because it gets better reception that way, and I've got the original Star Wars Special Edition Trilogy Boxed Set on VHS. Yeah, now I can be that guy. That guy who sits out in his garage trying to keep his old VCR and CRT TV working (while also adding another terabyte of storage to his home media server to hold more downloaded movies and TV shows because he's too cheap to pay $80 a month for satellite TV.)
Anyway, yeah, I think it kinda sucks for keeping up a good pace, but it's pretty cool for longer sessions. So it's good to have another thing to keep me going while the Cross-trainer from Hell punishes me mercilessly.
I got really hungry around 5:00, so I had a handful of nuts (almonds and cashews, 300 cals), and got busy making dinner. The boys had fried rice, and I had a big stir fry with chicken, ham, onion, garlic, red capsicum (bell pepper), carrots, green peas, broccoli, cauliflower, sugar snap peas, minced red chili peppers, and soy sauce.
That was 655 calories, and two after-dinner coffees (I know, at this rate I'll be drinking 9 coffees a day by the end of the week. Oh well, if that's the itch I scratch, I figure what the hell, right?) So all up I ate 2290 calories, burned 1905, and ended up with a net of 385 calories. And watched Green Bay beat Pittsburgh (suck it, Steelers!), hung out with my kids on the last day before they've got to go back to school, and had flashbacks to the first time I saw Star Wars, at the Almeda Mall in Houston with my cousin Marie and her husband Tom. Good times, good times. And now I think it's time to get my ass in bed, because no doubt the morning is going to be a little nutty. First day of school. Glad it's them, and not me. :)
Oops, one more update: The Weight Watchers numbers--breakfast was 12 ProPoints, lunch was 7, dinner was 12, the chicken and avocado was 6, the nuts were 8, and the coffees were 3, for a total of 46 ProPoints (out of a daily allowance of 66). The exercise gave me 45 Activity ProPoints. Okay, now I'm really going to bed. I mean it.
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