kingkeld's Journal, 16 January 2014

Good morning!

It's been another night with very poor sleep. The third night in a row.

Looking at the Fitbit sleep readings, I'm actually quite shocked. Check it out:

Night after Sunday: 4h50min sleep, 4 mins awake, 77 mins restless
Night after Monday: 4h13min sleep, no mins awake, 81 mins restless
Night after Tuesday: 5h45min sleep, 7 mins awake, 111 mins restless
Last night: 3h44min sleep, 11 mins awake, 108 min restless

No wonder I am tired.

I hope I can sleep tonight. I will do my very best to accomplish this.

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Today, I'm thankful for:
- Feeling completely on track (except for sleep)
- Being able to track sleep numbers, so I can hopefully fix the problem.
- Coffee. More coffee.
- Wife!

Happy Thursday! Life is good!

I had a very active day yesterday. 20,000 steps, 3700 calories burned.

I had an allowance of 2900 calories, and had no problem sticking to it. In essence, I should actually have gone about 100 calories over to compensate a little for my high calorie burn. I didn't though, but I'm sure I'll survive. :)

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Yesterday was a busy day. I was up early as always, went walking, did my little, quick strength training come-back session, then work, then work at the gym. Overall, I was actively exercising, training or working for 15½ hours straight. I only got to sit down for approx. one hour during my lunch break.

I can REALLY tell in my legs today. They are tired. Still, I'm standing up at work, doing the best I can. It's not that bad an ache.

I prefer to work standing up. I feel that I focus a little better this way, and I like it a lot.

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I've been tweaking my spreadsheets a little bit. I had forgotten to take a few things into consideration when I set it up for a weight-loss part of the journey. It would basically reward me for the entire dificit I had created, by allowing me to eat it back in. Can't have that if we want to lose weight, can we? LOL. It would be nice, but that's not how it works.

Obviously, there has to be a continuous calorie deficit when I want to lose weight.

It was hard to see what was happening until I tried setting the numbers more extreme. Right now, I am experimenting to see if I can nudge myself to lose one kilo of fat over the next month. Nice and slow. Just by adjusting a little tiny bit. I need a calorie deficit of 250 on any given day, matched between calorie burn and calorie intake. If I burn more, then I get the difference back, spread out on the other days, if I burn less, then I lose a little bit of the RDI over the next days. It's so little - since I haven't done anything extreme - that it's barely noticable. I am continuously in a calorie deficit, even without trying, so it's not hard to do. I just my usual thing, and it happens.

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The next thing to work out in my calculations is whether I can truly, long term, count on the calorie burn numbers that the fitbit gets me, and if I can count on them being accurate when matched up with the way I count calories.

I might have to put in some kind of factor to make it fit right.

I figure that if I maybe seem to have a too high calorie intake, even if all numbers look right, then I am obviously eating more. I then need to take away some calories.

I figure to simply put in a factor somewhere. Maybe try to then only consume 95% of my normal RDI. Make it automated so I only have to set the factor once.

Then, if I still gain weight doing what SHOULD be right, then simply lower it to 90, etc.

This should be a good solution. The question is where to factor it in, so it affects all the right numbers, and leave the other ones alone?

I haven't decided on this yet. Damn. Nerdism galore. :)

I like working with numbers like this. Creating this tool is good fun, and it seems to work like a charm so far. :)

183.6 lb Lost so far: 158.1 lb.    Still to go: 0 lb.    Diet followed 100%.