BRIENMALONE's CalorieKing blog
Saturday, Feb 16 2008 - The Strangeness in This Life...
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Okay... How does this work, exactly? By my accounting, I just had the worst diet and exercise week since I started. I worked out three days last week (barely)... I went 300 over on my high day and then had a binge day where I ate TWO DAYS worth of calories.
So someone please explain to me how I lost 2.5 lbs and almost 2% bodyfat???
It's not just the scale and the Omron - My clothes are really loose today and I look leaner.
So What Changed
Well, I changed two things. 1) my polar settings and 2) I started weight training.
I just realized today that I changed one thing indavertently...
The Binge Trigger
My weight training day calories were WAY too low... around 1400. Something happened when I entered my exercise calories and instead of registering 400 it only registered 105; so, I thought I ended the day around 100 calories low, but it was really 400 calories low! Oops.
The very next day was the day I binged and ate double my alotted calories. Now that I know what happened the day before, it's little wonder I lost control at dinner. This is a perfect example of why it doesn't pay to cut your calories too sharply!
So someone please explain to me how I lost 2.5 lbs and almost 2% bodyfat???
It's not just the scale and the Omron - My clothes are really loose today and I look leaner.
So What Changed
Well, I changed two things. 1) my polar settings and 2) I started weight training.
I just realized today that I changed one thing indavertently...
The Binge Trigger
My weight training day calories were WAY too low... around 1400. Something happened when I entered my exercise calories and instead of registering 400 it only registered 105; so, I thought I ended the day around 100 calories low, but it was really 400 calories low! Oops.
The very next day was the day I binged and ate double my alotted calories. Now that I know what happened the day before, it's little wonder I lost control at dinner. This is a perfect example of why it doesn't pay to cut your calories too sharply!
2 comments so far.
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a decade ago
Good to hear from you Otter
:) I am very much a journey person... Goal people gauge success or failure by how close they are to their ultimate goal; journey people gauge success or failure by how well they stick to the plan. Goal people have huge celebrations when they're "done"; journey people are more likely to have small celebrations at milestones but are never "done". In spite of the "target weight" in my profile, I really don't have a target weight. I have milestones: I want my wedding band to fit again. I want to see my abs. I want to be "stage ready" and have a photo shoot to document it... I'd like to be lean and weigh 200 lbs... but I don't really think about this all the time. I know if I stick to the plan, I'll get there.
by BRIENMALONE
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a decade ago
Looks like a good lesson learned. You're still amazingly focused, and you've recognized your binge desires don't materialize out of thin air, but actual body experience. Great work! (Say, sometimes it is hard for me to tell if you're a journey person or a destination person. You're so focused on the methods, I think you're a "journey", but so goal oriented, I think you're a "destination." Care to comment?) ;-) -otter
by OTTER