Finally Starting To Get Somewhere!
#21
[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.
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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.
#22
[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.
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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.
#27
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.
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.
#28
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.
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.
#30
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.
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.