euheide's Journal, 10 February 2014

inaccurate measuring from body composition scale from 9.1% BFP
I forgot to measure my waist today :P

Finally the weather has cleared up and the sun is in sight. It doesn't look like it's going to last long though lol. I can't remember the last time I felt so hungry as yesterday. I just couldn't stop eating. :)

edit: I'm reading an interesting article about vitamin D. Here's some important parts:

"...Remember, vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin. The more fat cells your body has, the more you may be at risk of a D deficiency, because the vitamin D in your body becomes trapped in those fat cells. When comparing obese and non-obese people, researchers have found those who are obese have 50 percent less vitamin D circulating in their blood than people of normal weight, despite equal sunlight exposure..."

"...As we get older, it naturally becomes more difficult to convert sunlight into D3. For example, when exposed to the same amount of UVB radiation, a person who is 70 years old will make 75 percent less D3 than a 20-year-old..."

"...Let's look at an example. If you're fair skinned, sunburn easily and live in New York City, you would need to spend just four minutes outside on a sunny 4th of July to produce about 1,000 IU of vitamin D, but that turns into 40 minutes on a sunny New Year's Day. Under those same conditions, a person with dark skin would need 16 minutes on July 4 and about 4.5 hours on Jan. 1 to produce the same amount of D3 [source: NIAR]. And on those days with complete cloud (or smog) cover you can only expect about 50 percent of UV to penetrate..."

"... Live above 37 degrees north of the equator -- in the U.S., that'd put you north of Washington, D.C. and north of the Utah/Arizona border -- or below 37 degrees south of the equator, and you probably aren't getting enough UVB exposure to naturally produce adequate amounts of D3 year-round..." - Some articles say that, it's above the 42 º parallel that it becomes impossible to get enough vitamin D through the sun during the day. I live above the 37 º but bellow the 42 º so, depending on the articles I read, I'm either getting enough or not lol.

link: http://tinyurl.com/phlwcu3

This is from another article "...A lack of vitamin D – known as vitamin D deficiency – can cause softening and weakening of bones and lead to bone deformities. In children, for example, a lack of vitamin D can lead to rickets. In adults, it can lead to osteomalacia, which causes bone pain and tenderness..."

link: http://tinyurl.com/m5zc54a

edit: I ended up weight training today with mixed results. This was 2 days rest. I think I'm going to maintain this resting period for some time and see what happens. If I don't get any progress I'll probably add one more day. :) Today I let the calories go beyond the limit again lol. I hope this is somehow mitigated by the weight training lol... I'm taking it very lightly and never taking any set to failure. I'm betting on more frequency instead of more intensity to produce results :)

130.3 lb Lost so far: 13.9 lb.    Still to go: 6.8 lb.    Diet followed reasonably well.

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2335 kcal

Fat: 138.92g | Prot: 118.58g | Carb: 173.06g.   Breakfast: Bananas, cherry tomato, goji berries, Water, Pistachio Nuts, Hazelnuts or Filberts Nuts, Cashew Nuts, Almonds, Dried Pumpkin and Squash Seed Kernels, Raisins, Sesame Seeds, Walnuts. Lunch: Fried Egg. Dinner: Whole Foods Market Goji Berries, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Mozzarella Cheese (Whole Milk), Arugula Lettuce, Chicken Breast. Snacks/Other: Cherry Tomatoes, Olives, Cashew Nuts, Granny Smith Apples, Whole Milk, Hazelnuts or Filberts Nuts, Whole Milk, Cashew Nuts, Sesame Seeds, Queijaria Cachopas Queijo de Évora (DOP), Whole Milk, Whole Foods Market Goji Berries, Whole Milk. more...