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~Love your H2O~Let the peeing begin~A little more tweaking~
It's hard not to feel like a guinea pig in this process and yet, there is something cool about understanding how the negative and positive feedback loops in your body work. First, let me start off by stating I'm not very good about getting enough water into my system, especially when one considers how much salt I'll put on my food and the intensity of my workouts, not too mention I can have 2-3 6 oz glasses of red wine a night. Even if I account for my libation calories, alcohol will dehydrate the body and encourage it to cling on to whatever water it has. Lot these factors onto high inflammation levels and it's a wonder I stepped on the scale this a.m. and saw the scale leap from 202.4 to 204. So, since Saturday afternoon, I went from 200-204 in less that a 48 hour period of time.
But, honestly I felt dehydrated when I woke up this morning. My mouth was dry and my rings were tight.
I finally said to myself, "okay, enough with the water retention b.s., it's time to get on the bandwagon here and ensure you're body's hydrated!" I did a little research and noted that athletes are encouraged to drink at least .5 ounces of water/per pound of bodyweight. I did the calculations and that puts me at a recommended 102 oz, and if we divide that by the ounces in my water bottle (34 oz), I need to ingest on average 3 water bottles of H2O per day.
Put it this way, my body was so happy I put water in it, I didn't even clear the first 34 oz, and I already pee'd 5 TIMES. I can already feel a 6th time coming on. LOL. I'm NOT a big water drinker, but I have a goal here and I need my total scale weight to reflect more that just my excessive water weight gains, although it is kind of fascinating. The nice part is if I continue to lose some water weight, I can slowly decrease the amount I'll need to drink as the amount is dependent on your total weight. I'm good with that...
So, now for some weight management tweaking. We're starting a new month and there are some new things I look forward to trying. Outside of weighing in every morning and weighing my food on a food scale, I have a caliper and a tape measure on the way. I read some good advice from a nutritionist about where the best places are on the body to get the most accurate body fat percentage. My mom agreed to help me. Fortunately, I have tattoos on both arms so there will be markers to help us test in the same places every time. I also printed 20 copies of Tom Venuto's muscle progress chart so when the caliper gets here, I can start tracking lean body mass and body fat, and adjust accordingly based on results.
I've also decided to try and get my daily caloric averages into the 1500's. I've actually managed to go down about 100 calories per month. My daily caloric average started out in the 1700's, last month I brought into the 1600's, and this month I feel we can tweak a little bit more more and bring it into the 1500's.
Sooooo, I'm going to do the dirty of dirties and cut my wine intake by half! OH, HEAVEN HAVE MERCY!!! SHE'S CUTTING BACK ON THE WINE. Y'all don't really know me, but close friends and family members be like, "Woooooaaah, I think hell just froze over." ROFL. I'm going to drop from 2-1/6 oz glass Mon-Wed, and from 3-2/6 oz glasses Friday-Sunday. This will actually take about 900 calories out of my weekly average, and will probably help a bit with water retention. so far my daily numbers have been coming up in the 1300-1400 range, so the idea is that "splurge day" will pop me up to the 1500's so I'm not falling to low. We'll see how it works.
Note: Caloric averages will look low this week because there will not be a "splurge" day.
Have a wonderful Monday, everyone!
And, a genuine thank you to those that have taken the time to be supportive along this journey on this site. It means a great deal :-)
Diet Calendar Entries for 01 May 2017:
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1235 kcal
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Fat: 58.42g | Prot: 57.00g | Carb: 89.08g.
Breakfast: Coffee with Cream and Sugar, BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse Barbeque Bison Burger. Lunch: Signature Cafe Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad with Salad Dressing. Dinner: Red Table Wine. Snacks/Other: Chobani Nonfat Peach Greek Yogurt. more...
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2339 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Walking (moderate) - 3/mph - 28 minutes, Resting - 15 hours and 32 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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