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Good morning!
So, we're done with the food related hangovers from New Year, right? :)
For me, it was much more this than the alcohol. I had a few glasses of wine, but nothing much.
The weight - and the body fat percentage - is still a tad up - today it's 10.9%, but nothing worth panicking over. It'll come down as I do good the next days.
I'm already busy compensating, nice and easy. It's no big stress at all, I'm just going by the numbers that my calculations dictate for me.
I do see that I'm taking a hit of quite some calories. The intake is nudged down to the lowest allowed for the day, and will probably be like that for a little while, at least until my average calorie burn comes up a bit. I'm working on that.
My calorie burn average for the week is now over 3000. That's where I want it to be. The 28 days average is lower still, around 2750. All I need to do it keep up my activity level, and it'll come back up.
Right now, it takes effort. When I go back to my regular routines, it'll be a LOT easier. I am generally active, but the holidays - and the surgery of course - has me inactive a lot more than usual.
Still, I'm fixing it.
It's quite a change from the experimantal 3300 calories I did a few weeks ago. Yesterday, my RDI was 2400. I did 2300 of them, but was actually supposed to do them all to not take a muscle hit. It's ok. I doubt that that will do any significant change.
Whenever I change the RDI, I ALWAYS make sure that I still get my protein and fat. The big change lies in the carb intake.
What I'm doing still seems very very easy. All I need to do is focus on real food and not sugars and it all comes together without a hitch.
Today is a good example. I have planned my lunch, my dinner, my snacks. I actually still have 700 calories to go. I'm debating 2nd lunch. LOL. Does that make me kind of a hobbit? Since I don't do breakfast, I can't do 2nd breakfast. I can do 2nd lunch though. Does that count? :D
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My weigh-in today is VERY close to yesterday's weigh-in. I weigh the same, and all numbers are within half a percent. There is no change, and nothing interesting going on.
Of course, I'd like my body fat percentage to go under 10 again soon. It ruins my averages. :) It'll go down in a moment if I keep doing right. And do right I will. New Year was the exception to the rule.
Again, when I do right I have no problem.
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On New Year's Eve, I know exactly what I did "wrong". I could have gone through the day easily, but I ended up taking a massive calorie hit.
Wife and I went to the candy store, and picked the candy ourselves. That's the big, stupid mistake. I don't regret it, it was a great day, but it was a dumb move no matter what.
What I need to do in a case like that is to go to a store with pre-packaged stuff instead of the candy stores here, where you pick and choose from containers and fill a bag. Those bags are evil and seem empty until you have WAY too much in there. LOL.
But if I can just NOT do that, I'm golden.
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Today is free of events. I'm up early sending Wife off to work, then writing my journal, then out for a walk, then go to hang out at the gym a little, and then... who knows?
My main goal is to get to burn my 3000 calories, and stay within RDI for the day, which is 2398 calories. I can easily do that.
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Today, I'm thankful for:
- Knowing that I'm doing well and that I have control.
- The outlook to a great 2014.
- Wife.
- Morning Coffee.
- Avenged Sevenfold on Youtube. :)
Have a great day, buddies! Rock on!
Life is good!
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186.7 lb
Lost so far: 155.0 lb.
Still to go: 0 lb.
Diet followed 100%.
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steady weight
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