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24 March 2010
Weight loss has stagnated. I think the metabolism is slower than before, and I have been erratic with the diet. Very disappointing. Feel annoyed with myself. Some days, like yesterday, have been shameful. I had bunked work to be home with Mimi who had a Ramnavami holiday, and just ate like it was the bad old days again. Even had an icecream in the evening; was waiting for Mimi to finish gym on dark Connaught Place streets for over an hour and a half, and was hot, irritated and bored. But today, looking back while in a different state of mind, feel only annoyance at myself. And the momos (which I had off a van) were quite terrible, actually. They are fattening, probably harmful, and I can no longer appreciate their taste. The body has grown out of most street food, the mind must now follow.
Weigh-in:
206.1 lb
lost so far:
7.7 lb
still to go:
36.4 lb
Diet followed poorly
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steady weight
19 March 2010
March 20, 2.30 am:
Gas is a problem when I am not eating.
I have had gas giving me excruciating pain, kind of like twisting my insides around and travelling from my belly to my chest to my arms -- particularly remember one occasion when I was in a bus travelling to Jamia to meet Rashid, and another when I was at the home in Indira Vihar where Avinash Pandey and Manish Prabhat used to stay, and Amit Sinha Chacha was visiting; both occasions were in 1995 or 1996, and the pain had almost killed me... I remember getting off the bus and sitting down on the footpath under a tree in Jamia, and stumbling off to the neighbourhood park in the dark (a powercut was in progress) on the latter occasion, because I couldn't bear to suffer the horrified sympathy of people and onlookers who would have watched me thrashing, tears and sweat streaming down my face...
Well, today wasn't half as bad, but still painful enough to not allow me to sit calmly all morning, and delay my going to work till 4 pm. I realised that around 6.45 pm on Thursday evening, I had had some whole wheat pasta packed with cauliflower, beans and carrots that were hardly cooked, and then some cucumber, carrots and grapes at around 11 pm, and finally, at around 1.45 am, some strawberries and flavored yogurt. In between, I had had a couple of cups of tea. Which essentially meant that from 6.45 pm Thursday to 9.45 am Friday (when I had some coffee), all I had had were some raw or almost-raw vegetables, fruit, and tea. Classic stuff for a gas attack, in hindsight.
Well, the result is that I have out of sheer panic eaten more than I would normally have today, including lots of protein and carbs. It has added up to 2,469 calories by my estimation; about 700-800 more than what would have made me happiest for a weekday diet, and it bugs me to think that I am likely to eat freely over the next two days (Sat and Sun) as well. Fuck.
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19 March 2010
It is universally accepted that the weight of an individual fluctuates, irrespective of what has or has not been consumed over that length of time. It is because the body may be retaining more or less water at a given time, and because the stomach and other organs may be full of waste or gas at different times of the day. Some foods, like salty foods, cause the body to retain water. Being dehydrated, i.e., being short of water supplies, has the same effect on the body -- it tends to start storing water. Then there is the time of the day: people are at their shortest and heaviest at the very end of the day, and at their tallest and lightest right after getting up from a night of uninterrupted and refreshing sleep. The difference could be 4-5 lbs easily.
(It appears that in the long run, being stressed out and not sleeping long enough leads to weight gain -- and this is not just because stress equals comfort bingeing equals weight gain. I remember that in the golden period of my weight loss, Dec 1994-April 1995, when I think I went down from 110-odd kg to 78 kg, my lowest-ever adult weight, I slept many hours every day, one reason being that sleeping longer meant not eating anything for that many hours.)
All the web sites that I am consulting are suggesting these cardinal weight measuring rules:
1) Never weigh yourself every day. The ideal is once a week, and if you are really keen to know how you've been doing, perhaps every 3-4 days.
2) Always weigh yourself naked, in the morning, and at the same time: after having woken up and gone to the loo so that you have expelled all the waste, and have an empty stomach.
3) Always remember that the weighing scale is weighing fat, bone and muscle all together, and by being hung up on a certain goal weight, you may be attempting to lose not just fat weight, but also bone and muscle weight, which is dangerous and could even be impossible.
4) If you weigh yourself daily, be prepared for fluctuations and daily ups and downs. That is, if you are dieting with the expectation of losing 1 kg in 1 week, then be aware that it will never be a straight, gradual downward graph; it will be jerky, with little daily drops, climbs and plateaus. It may not even end up showing the 1 kg loss you expected. But yes, if your diet is right and you are consuming fewer calories than you are burning, then over time, say a fortnight or three weeks, an average result will emerge which will reflect your expected success.
I think all these things are quite apparent in my own case.
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19 March 2010
Weigh-in:
206.1 lb
lost so far:
7.7 lb
still to go:
36.4 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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losing 3.9 lb a week
18 March 2010
Checked weight at around 2.15 am on March 19, and was shocked to see it record 94.8 kg. In the afternoon, my usual time, it had been 93.5 kg. I know my weight fluctuates, but this was the largest fluctuation I had observed. But a number of web sites say a daily fluctuation of 2-5 pounds, or 0.9 kg to 2.25 kg is normal. need to check tomorrow again.
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