mynxcat
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mynxcat wants to be svelte
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Sep 24 21:39 UTC 2003 |
This is my blog on my quest to lose weight. You are welcome to comment,
criticize, ridicule, suggest, advise, flame and call people names if you so
wish. However, I am determined to lose all those extra pounds I've put on in
the last year or so.
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mynxcat
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response 1 of 332:
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Sep 24 21:46 UTC 2003 |
So why the sudden urge to lose weight? I have had this feeling that I've been
packing on the pounds for some time now. The biggest indication is when no
pants look good on you anymore, and when you live your life in pants and
jeans, this is Not a Good Thing. However, I've been ignoring the notion for
a while till a couple of days ago. Someone made the following comment on the
"blog" on my website : "Holy cow Sapna. You've put on weight. Start working
out instead of spending so much time blogging" No, I don't spend that much
time blogging (averages less than half an hour a day over the period of a
week), but I also do not exercise. And I love to eat. I'm not big on snacking,
food has to be in plain view for me to think of eating it. But when I do eat,
I tend to really eat. And I hate exercise. I will walk a lot when presented
the oppurtunity, but in Columbus you're best bet on getting from point A to
point B is the car. There's nowhere that I'd like to go that's walkable
distance from where I live.
Anyhow, that comment made me run to the bathroom scale and weigh myself - a
whopping 157 lbs. That's 22 lbs over what I was when I moved to Clevleand in
March of last year. And even then I was trying to get rid of the last 5 lbs
so to speak. That did not make me very happy. I'm determined to lose these
22 lbs and the extra 5 if it's the last thing I do.
Started the "Lose weight projec" yesterday. I will be recording progress or
non-progress, interesting facts about nutrition and exercise, and anything
that catches my fancy while I go ahead with my plan
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mynxcat
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Sep 24 22:03 UTC 2003 |
I started off by looking for "Fitness Planners". I wanted one that I could
download to my desktop, but didn't come across any that are free. There is
the Vivonic Fitness Planner available, but since it's not free, I didn't
really look into it. GNC has a fitness planner on their site, but it's based
on .NET and tends to have too many server errors to make it convenient enough
to use. Chatelaine's Free Fitness Planner
(http://healthplanner.chatelaine.com/) seems interesting enough, though it
didn't really fit my needs. The easing in period into the exercises was 3
months. A little too slow for my liking. It based it's nutrition on the food
groups instead of calories, which is a good, sound plan, but without the
caloric indication, I wasn't really interested. I finally settled on
www.fitday.com. It lets me record what I've eaten, and will calculate the
caloric content, along with fat, carb, proteins and minerals. It will let me
add activities, and calculate the calories burnt. I realise that these numbers
may not be accurate, but it gives me a good visual indoication of what I've
been eating and doing.
Learnt some interesting stuff about the way my bodie burns calories. My basal
calories burnt are about 1590. Based on my lifestyle I burn 443 calories
additionally a day. And yesterday, I burnt an extra 200 calories in exercise.
Playing the piano apparently burns about 2 calories a minute (that doesn't
really seem right, it seems a little on the high side). And just by being at
work I burn about 254 calories. Driving my car to and from work expends about
42 calories.
As for caloric intake, yesterday I ingested about 1700+ calories. About 700
of those were two tuna fish sandwiches that I had as snacks. Each slice of
bread was 80 calories. The butter was about 90 calories for each sandwich (I
used butter on the bread slices. I didn't add mayo), and the tuna itself
(packed in veg oil) was about 300+ calories. That's 700 calories I had in
addition that could have been avoided. However, since 1000 calories is a
little on the low side, I guess that's ok, but I wish I'd used the 700
calories for something more satisfying. 192 calories on a chocolate chip
cookie was way too many calories for so little satisfaction. Counting calories
this way has made me understand food better, and make better substitution
choices. It's helped me evaluate foods that are worth eating, and which can
be skipped (If I hadn't eaten that cookie, I wldn't have had to have
yesterday's workout, theoretically) I found that if I substitue a tablespoon
of coriander chutney for the same amount of oil-based pickle, IK've just
reduced my fat intake by about 5 grams and caloric intake by 90%. Definitely
worth it, especially since I don't have a preferance for one or the other.
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