100/100: Week Eleven - A Tough Week - Wraps
It's been a bad week as far as getting exercise
done... as far as getting anything
done. People don't return calls, friends show
up needing this and that when I need to be working, deals fall through.
Things fall apart. The center does not hold.
And so it is with my diet. I held to the diet pretty well, but still... at the end of the week am only down one pound, after being the same weight -- 230 -- pretty much all week, I close at 229. Is that creative scalature? I hope not. I should bounce back with more loss in this coming week. If not, I don't know what's next. FDA says an adult man should use 2900 calories a day, and I'm only taking in 1700. That should leave me 8400 calories down every week... calories that my organism should be sucking out of my fat cells.
On the plus side, I've added a new cooking gadget -- a microwave steamer, which lets me make really, really good corn on the cob, and should lead to good green beans if I can figure out how long to cook them. The less said about my attempt at nuking sugar snap peas in the steamer, the better. But the corn is good. Corn is always good; I could eat corn every day.
Also on the plus side, I've added a new graph to my quiver: Resting pulse. I thought my pulse had gone down, and by George, it has. The stats and graphs follow overleaf.
Things fall apart. The center does not hold.
And so it is with my diet. I held to the diet pretty well, but still... at the end of the week am only down one pound, after being the same weight -- 230 -- pretty much all week, I close at 229. Is that creative scalature? I hope not. I should bounce back with more loss in this coming week. If not, I don't know what's next. FDA says an adult man should use 2900 calories a day, and I'm only taking in 1700. That should leave me 8400 calories down every week... calories that my organism should be sucking out of my fat cells.
On the plus side, I've added a new cooking gadget -- a microwave steamer, which lets me make really, really good corn on the cob, and should lead to good green beans if I can figure out how long to cook them. The less said about my attempt at nuking sugar snap peas in the steamer, the better. But the corn is good. Corn is always good; I could eat corn every day.
Also on the plus side, I've added a new graph to my quiver: Resting pulse. I thought my pulse had gone down, and by George, it has. The stats and graphs follow overleaf.
Stats:
Eaten an average of 1569 calories mean, 1608 median.
That's 131 under target (mean)
Initial weight was 262 lbs.
Current weight is 229 lbs.
lost so far: 33lbs.
I am no longer severely obese (that begins at 231).
I have 32 lbs to go till I'm no longer obese.
I have 64 lbs to go till I'm no longer overweight.
I have 69 lbs to go till my objective.
Graphs:
This is the one that tells the general story, "Weekly Weight." Note that it still shows a week elapsed number that's off by one, because I haven't looked into how to make it start counting the series at zero. (Heck, for a computer, that should come natural). I'm not happy with this week but I'm happy with the general trend.
For the Daily Weight chart, I tried a new format, an area rather than a line chart. The line chart was getting very busy and I thought the area chart might show trend better. You be the judge.
The interesting thing about the Daily Weight chart (which also has the start-at-one error right now) is that it shows jaggedness and fluctuation. That flat area in the first third? That's the one where I was away and didn't weigh myself daily. I interpolated the points where the 2 lb less I weighed went in, and put in dummy data so there wouldn't be zeroes.There is a similar flat area (a couple of them, actually) in the next chart. Note that the jagginess early on is greater than the jagginess later. That's because I worked out a more systematic schedule and procedures, so my weigh-ins run more consistently.
The Resting Pulse chart is new. Data is taken with a Nonin pulse oximeter (I have two, an Onyx medical unit and a FlightStat non-FDA certified unit). The data here is more jagged (and has more lapses, which I fill by just copying the preceding data value) but does depict a reduction in resting pulse. I expect that that is due to the weight reduction, preliminary though it may be (I have more than twice as much still to lose as I have already lost). Right now, this week, it's running around sixty.
This reduction is not as dramatic as the weight drop, yet it may be an even better indicator of general health. When I was at peak fitness, my resting pulse was usually around 43-44. Of course, I also was running an average of seven to ten miles a day, and swimming, and lifting weights. I'm not doing any of that junk now.
So that's the stats at the end of Week Eleven. Could be better, could be worse, I'm hoping for improvement in the coming week. If not I'll have to change something. I do think that a disrupted sleep cycle these last two weeks has been one factor in my slower-than-previous weight loss. I've really had to fight for sleep since returning from Afghanistan. Dunno why. I can rule out PTSD, and a guilty conscience.
Eaten an average of 1569 calories mean, 1608 median.
That's 131 under target (mean)
Initial weight was 262 lbs.
Current weight is 229 lbs.
lost so far: 33lbs.
I am no longer severely obese (that begins at 231).
I have 32 lbs to go till I'm no longer obese.
I have 64 lbs to go till I'm no longer overweight.
I have 69 lbs to go till my objective.
Graphs:
This is the one that tells the general story, "Weekly Weight." Note that it still shows a week elapsed number that's off by one, because I haven't looked into how to make it start counting the series at zero. (Heck, for a computer, that should come natural). I'm not happy with this week but I'm happy with the general trend.
For the Daily Weight chart, I tried a new format, an area rather than a line chart. The line chart was getting very busy and I thought the area chart might show trend better. You be the judge.
The interesting thing about the Daily Weight chart (which also has the start-at-one error right now) is that it shows jaggedness and fluctuation. That flat area in the first third? That's the one where I was away and didn't weigh myself daily. I interpolated the points where the 2 lb less I weighed went in, and put in dummy data so there wouldn't be zeroes.There is a similar flat area (a couple of them, actually) in the next chart. Note that the jagginess early on is greater than the jagginess later. That's because I worked out a more systematic schedule and procedures, so my weigh-ins run more consistently.
The Resting Pulse chart is new. Data is taken with a Nonin pulse oximeter (I have two, an Onyx medical unit and a FlightStat non-FDA certified unit). The data here is more jagged (and has more lapses, which I fill by just copying the preceding data value) but does depict a reduction in resting pulse. I expect that that is due to the weight reduction, preliminary though it may be (I have more than twice as much still to lose as I have already lost). Right now, this week, it's running around sixty.
This reduction is not as dramatic as the weight drop, yet it may be an even better indicator of general health. When I was at peak fitness, my resting pulse was usually around 43-44. Of course, I also was running an average of seven to ten miles a day, and swimming, and lifting weights. I'm not doing any of that junk now.
So that's the stats at the end of Week Eleven. Could be better, could be worse, I'm hoping for improvement in the coming week. If not I'll have to change something. I do think that a disrupted sleep cycle these last two weeks has been one factor in my slower-than-previous weight loss. I've really had to fight for sleep since returning from Afghanistan. Dunno why. I can rule out PTSD, and a guilty conscience.
Posted: Friday - September 15, 2006 at 01:29 AM
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