GLENNBR's CalorieKing blog
Thursday, Jan 8 2004
View GLENNBR's food & exercise for this day
Been working through week 2 of CK University and am debating the "what's my motivation" question. It's kind of strange because I am not completely sure what it is. I see it mainly circling around health issues. My dad died at 53. He died of hodgkins disease but he basically died because his obesity sent him into diabetes and heart trouble which made the doctors unable to really take any drastic measures to deal with his cancer when he finally had the reccurance that killed him.
A few years back I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes and began to realize that I would share the same fate if I did not at least make some efforts to get into shape. I bought a bike with a sign-on bonus when I got hired at a company and absolutely fell in love with that mode of excersize but never really changed my lifestyle fully to see any weight loss. My condition was not getting any worse but it wasnt getting any better either.
Much of that changed when I moved from the suburbs into the city of chicago - something I had wanted to do for years but could only afford when I changed jobs yet again. I was working in the burbs still and hating it. My commute was an hour sitting in traffic every day. When I quit, I gave several reasons for leaving at my exit interview but they all were minor. The real problem was the commute.
I took a job downtown and found my stress level lowered by several magnitudes. My commute time was really no different but sitting there in a car for an hour can really get your stress levels going in a way that sitting on a train doesn't.
On a lark one summer, I decided to bike in. From that moment on I knew that I had found my preferred method of exercise. Since then, I am not just a biker but an advocate of cycling as a method of transportation. It's great excersize, It is great for the environment, it helps to create a more civil society. Everyone should bike more often, in my humble opinion. But more on that later.
Biking helped me to lose a little weight but not nearly as much as I had hoped. My diabetes numbers were stellar, however, so I didnt complain. Then, one day, my Dr. said to me "you know glenn, if you lose some weight, your numbers are already so good that we can start taking you off these meds." It was then that I decided to pay a great deal more attention to me eating habits.
That was 4-5 weeks ago when I joined CK. I am slowly beginning to realize the reasons why biking has not helped me lose weight. I burn an ENOURMOUS amount of calories on days that I bike. However, my intake increases on those days as well, this is to be expected. However, My intake doesnt decrease very much on days that I don't bike. The additional calories burned on days that I bike does not make up for the excess on the days I don't excersize.
Because of this I am setting the following goals:
1) To Bike more often - if it's the excersize I will do, then I should do it.
2) To pay more attention to the foods I eat and learn how to lower my intake on days I am not excercizing
3) To get involved in some other excercize program on a semi-regular basis
4) To perform some physical activity every day.
Hopefully this will help close the gap between my good days and bad days.
A few years back I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes and began to realize that I would share the same fate if I did not at least make some efforts to get into shape. I bought a bike with a sign-on bonus when I got hired at a company and absolutely fell in love with that mode of excersize but never really changed my lifestyle fully to see any weight loss. My condition was not getting any worse but it wasnt getting any better either.
Much of that changed when I moved from the suburbs into the city of chicago - something I had wanted to do for years but could only afford when I changed jobs yet again. I was working in the burbs still and hating it. My commute was an hour sitting in traffic every day. When I quit, I gave several reasons for leaving at my exit interview but they all were minor. The real problem was the commute.
I took a job downtown and found my stress level lowered by several magnitudes. My commute time was really no different but sitting there in a car for an hour can really get your stress levels going in a way that sitting on a train doesn't.
On a lark one summer, I decided to bike in. From that moment on I knew that I had found my preferred method of exercise. Since then, I am not just a biker but an advocate of cycling as a method of transportation. It's great excersize, It is great for the environment, it helps to create a more civil society. Everyone should bike more often, in my humble opinion. But more on that later.
Biking helped me to lose a little weight but not nearly as much as I had hoped. My diabetes numbers were stellar, however, so I didnt complain. Then, one day, my Dr. said to me "you know glenn, if you lose some weight, your numbers are already so good that we can start taking you off these meds." It was then that I decided to pay a great deal more attention to me eating habits.
That was 4-5 weeks ago when I joined CK. I am slowly beginning to realize the reasons why biking has not helped me lose weight. I burn an ENOURMOUS amount of calories on days that I bike. However, my intake increases on those days as well, this is to be expected. However, My intake doesnt decrease very much on days that I don't bike. The additional calories burned on days that I bike does not make up for the excess on the days I don't excersize.
Because of this I am setting the following goals:
1) To Bike more often - if it's the excersize I will do, then I should do it.
2) To pay more attention to the foods I eat and learn how to lower my intake on days I am not excercizing
3) To get involved in some other excercize program on a semi-regular basis
4) To perform some physical activity every day.
Hopefully this will help close the gap between my good days and bad days.
0 comments so far.