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Good mornings!
Now, there is ABSOLUTELY no reason that my scale should insult me by showing a higher body fat percentage today, but still it did.
I'm not too worried. It's the aftermath of the New Year's binge, I'm sure. No biggie.
It DID show that I went up about 0.4%, which equals to almost a pound.
It fits pretty well with the binge.
I think it shows NOW and not then because the water balances are evening out. Remember, when excessive carb intakes occur, our bodies store a LOT of fluid too. It takes a little while to shed this, and the real numbers will start showing.
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I did great yesterday. I had 2400 calories, and I used them like I'm supposed to. I had mostly sane food choices, and my macros were spot on.
I burned a whopping 3600 calories, and took 26,000(!) steps!
This gives me a calorie deficit of 1,200 calories for the day. Not bad. I will definitely be seeing this in my numbers of the next week.
The reward is clear: I am allowed quite some extra calories today, compared to the outlook I had before entering the numbers.
I'm still at 2,400 RDI today. Had I NOT had the burn yesterday, it would have been about 150 less, but would have been nudged up because I can't go that low without tapping into muscle. Again, can't do that. Need that muscle to keep burning calories for me. Anything else is counter productive.
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I'm still pleasantly surprised to see that my muscle mass seems to remain intact. It has now been a FULL MONTH with no strength training.
I'm curious how it will actually FEEL to get going again. I'm very nervous and curious to learn how much damage this is doing.
Still, I will have to start slow, and there WILL be a while before I am back in full power.
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Today, I'm gonna pick up Wife after she's done working a few towns over.
I'm gonna make it my walking mission today. I will go a few hours early, and just go walk. Walk walk walk. I just want my calorie burn up, and I feel that I have seen the close-by area here enough lately. I need a change of scenery.
Roskilde, where I'm heading, has some interesting things. They have, amongst other things, a collection of real, salvaged viking ships. I hope to go see them today.
Bad thing is, the forecast says rain, though light rain, most of the day. I hope it doesn't go through. It's a lot more fun to be out when it's dry.
Most hours it say "less than 1mm rain", so it shouldn't be too bad.
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I'm still really liking my new ways of counting my allowances. I am now in the phase where I am REALLY getting "punished" for my "laziness" being in the hospital. A low calorie burn is a low calorie burn, no matter the reason. I am also being "punished" for over eating - because I used the numbers dicated by my Über Smart Smartscale (Not so smart now, are we?).
Again, over eating is over eating, no matter the reason.
I hope to see that this changes over the next weeks. It should. I can see the trend if I keep it up, and it looks like I will slowly get my allowance up to about 3,000 calories daily, as long as I do NOT go over my RDI (no binging allowed!) and as long as I keep my calorie burn to 3,000+ calories daily.
I'm getting there. The calorie burn average for the week is 3,077 calories daily. The average for 28 days is 2,700. This one, and the adjustments for New Year and the scale intake dictations are what I'm battling right now. Before I know it, things will be easier.
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I have several times been so tempted to just draw a line in the sand and say that January 1st is a new year, reset everything. But then again, why should I?
Sure, it'd make things easier right now. I have a failed calorie intake experiment behind me, I have "laziness" from surgery behind me. It would be so nice to just reset.
The thing is, of course, whether I choose to reset or not, it won't affect the way my body sees it. Calories are calories, no matter. My body doesn't reset on January 1st, right? :)
I think it's just a matter of manning up to the deal and move on. It takes a while, but it's coming along nicely. It just takes patience.
Besides, it's still pretty easy to live at 2400 calories. There is nothing tricky about it.
I remember seeing that the challenges would come when I got close to 1500. Going this low, and getting in protein, is a challenge. I don't want to ever have to do this again.
So, I'm thankful for my 2400, and I shall be looking forward to my 3000+ when I have earned them. That's gotta be the best reward - earning them.
And also, having earned them means I need to keep UP my burn, to get to KEEP them. This is pretty essential.
It's actually interesting. When I look back at my normal activites before surgery, and counting in my LOW calorie intake for many days, I get some WILD numbers that I would have been allowed to use back then.
If I had gone with this system before surgery, at the end of November I would have had an RDI of 4500 calories! Of course, I could have done this ONE day, maybe two, and it would have adjusted to a normal intake again. But it just shows that my counter works. At that time I had a low intake, very low, and a high burn.
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Today, I'm thankful for:
- Numbers! They make geeks like me comfortable.
- The outlook to a great day!
- Walking! Keep the burn going, since I can't do strength training.
- Wife! I'll be looking forward to going out with her tonight. It's nothing big, we'll have a small dinner - it's all planned and counted already - and then go home.
- Coffee! As always, the most important meal of the day. ;)
Happy Friday! Life is good!
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185.4 lb
Lost so far: 156.3 lb.
Still to go: 0 lb.
Diet followed 100%.
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losing 9.3 lb a week
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