DairyKing's Journal, 02 February 2012

Hallelujah! My change in strategy appears to be working. I am losing weight at a rapid rate of 10.5 lbs. per week. :D FS cracks me up! However, I have had three continuous days of weight loss now, so I'm pretty convinced it's not a fluke. 215.0 lbs. this morning. I breathe a sigh of relief. I was getting stagnant there for a while. Although I have always believed it's about calories in and calories out, there is more to it than that; I am convinced that there are two significant factors that need to be factored in: timing and balance. This may not be true for all my FS friends, but I changed my strategy, based on what appeared to be empirical evidence and scientific rationalization. If I stayed 500 calories under my RDI for the entire day, and then figured I could safely consume 500 calories of carb rich snacks just before bed, and continue to lose weight, I figured wrong. Regardless of the fact that I was under my RDI, I am convinced that consuming carb-rich foods just prior to bed, were doing nothing but generating huge amounts of insulin, whose only purpose was to store those excess carbs as fat, while I was sleeping, instead of continuing to burn off the carbs I had previously eaten during the course of the night. If you are going to have a diet fairly rich in carbohydrates, (which I think runners and other athletes need to do), then you should spread them out over the course of the day, and possibly front-load them around the time of the day when you are most active and need them, and balance them somewhere in the neighborhood of a 50% carb, 30% protein, 20% fat intake. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.Didn't get out of bed until almost 4:00 this morning. This wasn't a normal run day, but I wanted to try out hills on the treadmill, and more specifically this Google Map application that allows you to plot a course anywhere on the globe and run it. I plotted the hills for the race that I am going to run in June. Although the hills in the real race are a 12% incline, I didn't want to overdo it, so I ran up at 7% and down at -1% for a mile and a half. It got the heart rate up, and I had to use my towel quite often. I think I'm going to try this strategy: upping the incline by 1% per week until I can practice this at a 15% incline. Hoo Rah!
My FS friends would have been proud of me last night. We went to a Church Fellowship meeting at the church (normally held at a friends house), because they wanted to celebrate three birthdays at the same time. It was a smorgasbord of nothing but desserts: cherry cheese cake, chocolate and vanilla cake, fudge, hot fudge sundae ice cream, candy kisses . . . you get the idea. Thinking that all they were going to have was cake and ice cream, I decided beforehand that I was going to have none of it. After the formalities, and when it was time to indulge, I held to my resolve. And then I say, "Can I get you something, Honey?" And it's a little of this and a little of that. I filled the plate as I would have wanted to fill it just a few short months ago. I'm sure she enjoyed it. :) I departed the scene of the debauchery and found some friends to talk to in another room, while she indulged and talked to her girlfriends. One of those victories, at great sacrifice, where you are proud of yourself, but still feel like you missed something. Assuaged my pity trip with a diet coke, and went on with life. The scale smiled with favor upon me this morning, as if to say, "Thank you for lightening my load."

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1783 kcal

Fat: 61.24g | Prot: 132.06g | Carb: 167.12g.   Breakfast: banana, Non-Dairy Creamer, Honey, Instant Oatmeal - Plain, Coffee (Brewed From Grounds), white grapefruit juice. Lunch: diet 7 up, Tuna in Water (Canned), kroger cherry akai. Dinner: Simple Rice Long Grain & Wild, Bacon Flavored Bits, Cooked Collards (from Fresh, Fat Not Added in Cooking), Salmon Patty. Snacks/Other: Baken-Ets Traditional Fried Pork Skins, Granny Smith Apple, hard boiled egg, radish, Peanuts. more...

2952 kcal

Activities & Exercise: Calisthenics (heavy, e.g. pushups) - 20 minutes, Running - 6/mph - 20 minutes, Resting - 18 hours and 20 minutes, Sleeping - 5 hours. more...