[quote name='phinsup' date='Mar 16 2005, 02:21 PM']Nope, I have been riding my bike to work and home every day and I have been eating a lot better, I just want to feel better and I dont want the fact that I may have ost only 3 lbs or some **** to kill my motivation.


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Sure, but I go up or down 3 lbs day-to-day. If you get on the scale every day, you can get a long term trend, and you stop worrying about a pound or two between days.



If I get some time in the next couple of days, I'll chart my weightloss. It'll show how the day to day variation can be ignored over the long run.

 

[quote name='Sinful7' date='Mar 16 2005, 01:29 PM']Go grab a 3 pound flank steak.. That's quite a bit of volume, and a flank steak is mostly muscle! Just imagine how much that'll be in fat volume.


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Yeah, I always thought it would be good motivation (and an eye-opener) to carry as much weight as you have lost with you occasionally. To give you an idea of how much extra work you were doing just lugging useless weight around.

 

This thread inspired me to go weigh myself. I'm down 5 lbs from yesterday. That's what food poisening will do for you.

 

The best diet, is the "too broke to eat out diet." I noticed when I cut fast food and restaurant food out of my diet, i lost a lot of weight.

 

I've been eating about half as much, but twice as often. Five 200 calorie meals seems good. and I'm eating often enough that I feel like I'm eating more.

 

A lot of it's mental. I've gone from 140 down to 115, settled at 124 for about a year, then down to 118, back up to 138 then settled around 130 for a while. Today, I'm down to 125. I haven't been there in two years.

 

Um, I just found a fun site for caloric consumption based on weight..

http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc

Told me I burn 859 cals/hr biking at a medium-fast (12-14 mph) pace. I figure that's about right, although it might be more in my area due to topography and wind.

 

Meh, I just got done with my daily bike ride.. 11.94 miles in 55'36". I noticed that when I'm on nearly flat, or even slightly uphill, it's pretty easy to ride 15MPH. Too bad there's all kinds of hills around here, and my route leads me uphill into the wind. On the lighter side, the slight downhill areas (where you have to pedal to maintain speed) I can hit 21 pretty easily. I figure I moved about 900-950 calories on this ride - thats about 1/6 lb of fat. Time for dinner - 2 hardboiled eggs, which is about 150 calories.. 100 fat calories, but lotsa protien. That should put me at about 750 cals for the day.. So I've got a little room on the end for something else.. 1000 cals is my goal, 2200 should be what I consume if I were sedentary.



So, 2200 cals if I weren't active,

1000 cals consumed

900 cals burned working out

leaves 100 calories used for the rest of the day from food, which means I potentially burned 2100 calories of fat today.. which is 0.6 lbs. Hell, I just might see how long I can keep this up.. looks like I'll be able to lose a pound of fat every two or three days.



If I can keep it to just 750 calories consumed, then I can add that back into the fat I've burned off making it a total of almost .7lbs.

 

Cut breads and sugar and save that calorie counting crap for Richard Simmons and old ladys



by the way, he asked me to give you this:

 

I did cut breads and sugar to a minimum in addition to calories.

Atkins does the same type of thing.. bottom line is to burn way more calories than I consume.



BTW, tonight's weigh in has me at 219.2, with about a half-gallon of water that I'm still storing.