If there was talk about me fading away, that does not seem to be the current problem. Lately I have been overdoing it on snacking, overdoing it on some portions and overdoing a bit with some drinking at a couple of back-to-back trade shows. My thing now is to make sure that all my results don't fade away. I think I may need to return to a 1000 calories per day to correct the recent direction of my weight changes.
224.4 lbs
I weigh 224.4 lbs.
I gained 6.4 lbs this week.
I lost 84.6 lbs in 157 days. Today begins Day 158.
I have lost 14 inches from my waist.
I will always be at the beginning of a journey that never ends.
I weigh 224.4 lbs. (157 days ago I weighed 309 lbs)
I have lost 27.4% of my weight since Dec 24.
Considering how different my calorie count has been - eating much larger portions of still mostly nutritious foods - I am not shocked at the recent weight gain - but this trend must stop...soon.
I have a BMI, body mass index of 30.02 (far away from obesity!)
I had a 42.0 BMI on 12.24.14 just 150 days ago (Class III obesity)
I wonder about achieving a 'normal weight' - the charts say 186.8 lbs - I'm not too sure about that...
I know this, regardless of what the BMI charts show - Marc Jacobs is no longer a fat man!
I have four words to describe how I feel right now - time to course correct
...I know how to begin this week...
32 minutes ELLIPTICAL
It would be great to ascribe recent weight gain to muscle building. And the truth is, there may be a small degree of that... I can feel my body hardening. I can physically do things now that I would not have dared dream of doing just a few weeks ago.... for example....
RIDDLE:
When is a 12 story hotel equal to 72 story skyscraper?
When you climb its stairs beginning at the sub-basement level and continue all the way to the rooftop level and you repeat this exercise four times as I did at the Hilton Hotel yesterday. I counted steps. Each floor was 16 steps. The number of steps from top to bottom was 289. I walked 1156 steps total. That works out to the equivalent of one 72 story climb. Unlike at home where I have simply gone up 25 flights of stairs, worked out on the elliptical machine and walked down the same staircase 25 flights, at the Hilton Hotel, I climbed the equivalent of of up 18 stories, and back down 18 stories, and repeated this four times. I was not racing, nor was I resting between ascents and descents. The whole event took 37 minutes. Although I have loosely calculated that I might have burned nearly 400 calories - that is not the point. I have a mountain facing me in the not-too-distant future, and I think that I am going to need two things to be successful. I believe these two things to be stamina and confidence. My confidence is building each day, in direct proportion to increased stamina. I no longer fear this adventure. I embrace it.
On the same day that I did this, I had my best workout on an elliptical machine....ever. I got into a groove and I kept up upping the time until my workout was exactly one hour. The specific elliptical machine (PRECOR AMT ADAPTIVE MOTION TRAINER) requires much more energy of its user and many more calories are allegedly burned on this machine than a standard elliptical machine.
And one more thing I did yesterday, after working out on the elliptical machine was begin to learn how to use dumb bells for muscle building in the upper body.
My physical strength and stamina have never been stronger.
This of course, makes it a bit ironic that I am seeing a gastroenterologist to determine the source of anemia. Anemia does not outwardly appear to be anything that I am suffering from!
Yesterday, I received a phone call from the Gastroenterologist office advising me that all the biopsies of tissue sampled from my colonoscopy and endoscopy were negative. Although the source of my anemia remains a mystery, pending the results of still more additional testing, some of my worst fears have been erased.
Yesterday, was quite a momentous day....
72 story stair climb, massively exhilarating accomplishment...
1 hour on the treadmill, massively exhilarating workout...
Call from Gastroenterologist, massively exhilarating news...
and one more interesting thing....
Last night in the Hilton Bar around 12:30AM I had the opportunity to meet the musical director of The Rolling Stones who are in Columbus getting ready for a concert tonight at Ohio Stadium. Chuck Leavell has recorded and toured with The Rolling Stones for 33 years. On stage he plays keyboards and as musical director he is said to be charged with creating set lists for each show (with the input and approval of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards) I asked Chuck if it was really true that setlist creation was his responsibility and he confirmed that it really was. The guy was extremely gracious and happy to pose for a photo with me. (Just look at the photo, he looks at least as happy I do!)
FRIDAY MENU
breakfast two bowls oatmeal, two apples, eggs, bacon, fruit 1036 calories
lunch Ahi Tuna Tacos, two apples, granola 960 calories
dinner lamb with noodles, beet salad 536 calories
snacks (drinking) 5 double Glenlivet's on the rocks 690 calories
caloric consumption 3223 calories
calories burned
stair climbing (72 stories) up and down 384 calories
ellipical, 60 minutes 1222 calories
total calories burned 1606 calories
FRIDAY NET CALORIES 1617 CALORIES
When is a 12 story hotel equal to 72 story skyscraper?
When you climb its stairs beginning at the sub-basement level and continue all the way to the rooftop level and you repeat this exercise four times as I did at the Hilton Hotel yesterday. I counted steps. Each floor was 16 steps. The number of steps from top to bottom was 289. I walked 1156 steps total. That works out to the equivalent of one 72 story climb. Unlike at home where I have simply gone up 25 flights of stairs, worked out on the elliptical machine and walked down the same staircase 25 flights, at the Hilton Hotel, I climbed the equivalent of of up 18 stories, and back down 18 stories, and repeated this four times. I was not racing, nor was I resting between ascents and descents. The whole event took 37 minutes. Although I have loosely calculated that I might have burned nearly 400 calories - that is not the point. I have a mountain facing me in the not-too-distant future, and I think that I am going to need two things to be successful. I believe these two things to be stamina and confidence. My confidence is building each day, in direct proportion to increased stamina. I no longer fear this adventure. I embrace it.
On the same day that I did this, I had my best workout on an elliptical machine....ever. I got into a groove and I kept up upping the time until my workout was exactly one hour. The specific elliptical machine (PRECOR AMT ADAPTIVE MOTION TRAINER) requires much more energy of its user and many more calories are allegedly burned on this machine than a standard elliptical machine.
And one more thing I did yesterday, after working out on the elliptical machine was begin to learn how to use dumb bells for muscle building in the upper body.
My physical strength and stamina have never been stronger.
This of course, makes it a bit ironic that I am seeing a gastroenterologist to determine the source of anemia. Anemia does not outwardly appear to be anything that I am suffering from!
Yesterday, I received a phone call from the Gastroenterologist office advising me that all the biopsies of tissue sampled from my colonoscopy and endoscopy were negative. Although the source of my anemia remains a mystery, pending the results of still more additional testing, some of my worst fears have been erased.
Yesterday, was quite a momentous day....
72 story stair climb, massively exhilarating accomplishment...
1 hour on the treadmill, massively exhilarating workout...
Call from Gastroenterologist, massively exhilarating news...
and one more interesting thing....
Last night in the Hilton Bar around 12:30AM I had the opportunity to meet the musical director of The Rolling Stones who are in Columbus getting ready for a concert tonight at Ohio Stadium. Chuck Leavell has recorded and toured with The Rolling Stones for 33 years. On stage he plays keyboards and as musical director he is said to be charged with creating set lists for each show (with the input and approval of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards) I asked Chuck if it was really true that setlist creation was his responsibility and he confirmed that it really was. The guy was extremely gracious and happy to pose for a photo with me. (Just look at the photo, he looks at least as happy I do!)
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| Chuck Leavell graciously poses for a photo with me at 12:30 AM (Saturday morning) About 21 hours after this photo was taken, Leavell will be onstage with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood in front of approximately 60,000 fans at Ohio Stadium as one more stop on the Rolling Stones 'ZipCode Tour' |
FRIDAY MENU
breakfast two bowls oatmeal, two apples, eggs, bacon, fruit 1036 calories
lunch Ahi Tuna Tacos, two apples, granola 960 calories
dinner lamb with noodles, beet salad 536 calories
snacks (drinking) 5 double Glenlivet's on the rocks 690 calories
caloric consumption 3223 calories
calories burned
stair climbing (72 stories) up and down 384 calories
ellipical, 60 minutes 1222 calories
total calories burned 1606 calories
FRIDAY NET CALORIES 1617 CALORIES
2 comments:
Don't get too upset at the weight. Don't forget all scales are different and you are not using your usual scale
Your comment is both kind and reassuring. I will try not to get to upset about going in the wrong direction this week - but sadly I am unable to blame the scale - I brought my home scale with me on this trip! Marc
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