Just 4 Today, I’ll drink my fiber twice (YES. done), drink 2 liters of water (about 1/2), walk 5 miles (3415 — I’ve been walking 5.5 ), NOT eat between meals & NOT take seconds.
I decided to pretend I’m going in The Big Brother House (that show where they put a bunch of people in a house for the summer and they fight over what order they have to leave.) My plan is that I’ll spend this month losing as much weight as I can in preparation for my (imaginary) entry to the house. And then I’ll spend the summer losing weight with the houseguests.
The shows over in mid-September, so my target date for this diet plan is September 17. That’s the date I’ve plugged into my Hacker’s Diet Plan and Nutribase to estimate the calories I should eat and the miles I should walk each day.
I got the Nutribase software a week ago — and so far I’ve lost 5 pounds. I know, I know — it’s not real fat-loss. Still – It’s great to see the scale move off that 165 mark for the first time in months!
The Nutribase package included digital fat-calipers & a cool body-tape-measure. The tape measure has a way to self-anchor so a person can accurately measure themself. But it’s the calipers that have been the most interesting.
I’ve always known that I have small bones. And that I seem to be made up mostly of skin, fat and hair. But there wasn’t any way to prove it to an outsider before (I once had a doctor tell me that I didn’t have to worry about bone-density because I obviously had gigantic farm-wife bones. In a twist on the whole Cartman thing, I told him I was fat, not big boned. But I don’t think he believed me.) Anyway, I’ve weighed 115 pounds as an adult and I could identify another 10 pounds of fat. So I know for a fact you have to go down pretty far to hit bone.
Anyway, the calipers. The charts all say that my BMI is 27.5. But the calipers say that it’s closer to 41 (on average — you take it in three places.) It’s going to be fun to see if I can get this to improve by mid-September too.
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Good morning KB.
J4T I’ll drink 2 liters of water and do the usual working around the house.
Your idea sounds good. Hope you enjoy your time at the virtual house.
Good Morning FamilyMan! I’ve got my work-liter sitting right next to me. I go to the dentist this afternoon — so this one’s going down this morning.
I wonder what possessed me to type the word (?), themself? I’m letting it stand, because it amuses me, in a sick way.
Hey KB, I usually read something and think I have read the writing pretty well. But, I read through this post three times before I found themself. I’ve got to slow down and start reading better.
It’s not just you FamilyMan — I can’t see it at all this morning. I guess I’m not the morning person I thought I was….
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[...] I’m pretty sure it was this Friday/Saturday night french fry habit that was really keeping me on that plateau (and worse) all those months. Anyway, I’m in training now (for my virtual Big Brother House) and I’m not messing around. So there wasn’t any of that last night. I looked, I smelled but I kept my hands to myself! [...]