Day 4!!!!!!
Why the exclamation marks???? Cause I'm so stupid I need them. I have just deleted my blog post before submitting it so bear with my frustration as I try to recall all the elegant prose I had dished out. It was Pulitzer material, the kind that only comes out of a person once in a lifetime, and you, my audience, now will never read it!!!! Well, you'll just have to read the following instead.
So, day 4 was a great weight loss day until 8pm and then all went horribly wrong when my brother took out a bottle of wine he got as a present and opened it up and the rest, as they say, is history. So I broke the wine comandment which limits me to 1 glass but I took 3 glasses and I also snacked on crisps and salted nuts. That took the day from a weight loss day to a maintenance day, I don't think it was so bad as to make it a weight gain day. This is the evaluation terminology that I'm going to use from now on:
weight loss day - a day when I have taken in less calories than my body needs and so, I hope, my body fed off some of the fat to survive.
maintenance day - a day when, given all I've eaten and the exercise I did, it sort of all balanced out to my body's needs.
weight gain day - a day when all caution has been thrown out - I have eaten everything in sight, probably characterized by a full-blown binge or I've eaten out and taken in all the bread and butter on the table, a lot of wine, dessert (and probably tasted/finished someone elses as well) and finished off with cheese and liquers. See, even the text is longer in a weight gain day.
I did all the exercise though no stretching cause I was going to do that after that I had returned from my brother's but stretching was the last thing I wanted to do when I got home. Had no maltese bread, butter, chocolate bars or desserts, unless you count to crisps and peanuts thing as dessert. Did the walking and sit-ups. Today, I'm determined to make it a weight loss day. I'm off to my walk in about 15 minutes if I manage not to be doubly stupid and delete this post too before submitting it. Then I should be going to buy walking sports shoes as the place I want to buy them from has 50% sale and I really do need a new shiny pair. I have to finish my JAVA Assignment today so that will probably see me at the computer for 3-4 hours. I have to hand it in next week. Otherwise not much else on the agenda. Still debating whether to go out or not this evening. I have decided to go out more often but a night in maybe would not be a bad idea today. We'll see.
Here is something I want to share with you called How Fast Will You Lose? as read on Prevention magazine. It shows how much you will lose per week if you eat 1,800 calories according to your weight. It also tells you how many calories you need to maintain. So if you eat 1,800 calories and you weigh:
400lbs, you will lose 7lbs a week and you need 5,200 calories to maintain.
350lbs, you will lose 5.5lbs a week and you need 4,550 cals to maintain.
300lbs, you will lose 4.25lbs a week and you need 3,900 cals to maintain.
250lbs, you will lose 3lbs a week and you need 3,250 cals to maintain.
200lbs, you will lose 1.5lbs a week and you need 2,600 cals to maintain.
180lbs, you will lose 1 lb a week and you need 2,340 cals to maintain.
155lbs, you will lose 0.5lbs a week and you need 2,015 cals to maintain.
145lbs, you will lose less than 0.25lbs a week and you need 1,885cals
To be honest at first I thought they were too generous but as it goes down you see how drastically the rate diminishes so I think it does make a lot of sense. And the ppl from The Biggest Loser put this on so I guess it does have validity.
Well, see you all tomorrow and have a great weekend.
