BRIENMALONE's Jan 2008 CalorieKing Blog
Winning a Convert :)
Wednesday, January 16th 2008
Wife canceled Weight Watchers because I'm doing so well with CK!Amy has been paying $40/mo for meetings she doesn't attend and food she doesn't eat. I've been doing so well with CK that she told me last night she wants to know what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. Now THAT is flattering.
Frankly, I don't think she is quite ready to commit... The messages I'm hearing aren't quite right. Everything she says with regard to starting are "have to" and "guess I should" so...
Prescriptive vs Descriptive Food Diary
Tuesday, January 15th 2008
Tracking foods can either be prescriptive or descriptive - meaning you either write your foods down ahead of time and eat them (prescribing your diet) or you write your foods down after the fact (describing your diet). the closer you get to prescription, the more likely you are to succeed in your fitness goals.Today I prescribed all but dinner. Dinner is the only meal I don't prepare myself (my wife likes to cook - and fortunately, she makes healthy meals). Usually by dinner time, I need 5...
Picture time...
Monday, January 14th 2008
5 Week Progress PhotoI've lost about 14 lbs to-date... and I have to confess, the pictures don't show much. It looks like my moobs are a bit smaller but you can't really see much else! Bummer!
(For the uninitiated, "moobs" are man boobs - You can thank my wife for introducing me to that hilarious word.)
The Words That the Pictures Leave Out
What you can't see in the photo is that the guy on the left couldn't wear size 40 pants comfortably, but size 40 is loos...
Serves Me Right...
Sunday, January 13th 2008
PaybackWhew. 1100 calories burned on the elliptical today... Payback for the junk I ate yesterday. I really should have gone to the gym last night, but it got to be too late. I was 550 calories over maintenance yesterday, so I really needed to be on my game today.
I adjusted my plan to aim for a 25% deficit on my low day which is about 1850 calories. As I've mentioned in several posts, my plan is to eat my maintenance calories every day (appx 2500) and use exercise to create the defic...
Interesting! Making Adjustments
Saturday, January 12th 2008
At a 23% deficit I lost 4 lbs in a week. At 18% I lost 3 lbs in a week. It is so odd to think that I need to eat more and slow down when I have a hard time eating enough to make my target calories (well... when I work out anyway).30% Low, 0% High
Because I'm cycling with low and high calorie days, my low days have been around 30% and the high days have been at maintenance. With two high days per week, the average calorie deficit is around 21%. If I do 750 calories of cardio 5 days per ...