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still gaining back. Trying to stem the tide.

Gaining back the losses

Gaining back the loss

In some ways it feels like the tide. You can only swim against it so long before it drags you back into shore.

I weigh 245 pounds. About what I weighed in January 05. . . about 20 pounds heavier than my moving average in August-05.

Moreover, one of my original posts set a deadline for becoming a “healthy” weight by 2-2.5 years from May-04. Thus, the “dropping 100 pounds” deadline appears to be between May-06 and 11-06. It seems unattainable at this point. I’d need to lose 70-80 pounds in barely 2 to 8 months (8 to 32 weeks) – at 32 weeks, that would be about 2.7 pounds per week.

I did read my old notes. At failure, so goes the idea, then it is time to consider bariatric bypass surgery (stomach stapling).

I pulled the old data and measured new circumferences

New:

N: 17
B: 14
C: 45.5;
UW: 44.5;
LW: 41.0;
T: 23.5

Old:

N: 18.0
B: 17.0
C: 53.0
UPW: 48.0
LW: 43.0
T: 27.5

From ~09-2006

N: 15.8
B: 13.3
C: 43.3
UPW: 41.0
LW: 38.0
T: 22.3

More bad news: I weight 247 tonight. I had a body fat last night of 25.60% (measured with calipers). 33% via the tanita scale. In June of 05 I was ~25%; 07-05: 24%; 08-05: 22-23%; 08 (late) -05: 21.57%.

So I’ve increased about 4 caliper percentage points in body fat. This is a significant increase.

SOLUTIONS

There seem to be two straightforward solutions:
Increase caloric burn (exercise) and decrease calories (caloric control). The result should be weight loss and reduced body fat percentages.

I also need to formulate a plan for this. Unfortunately I just spent several hours in the most ridiculous surfing on the net: Looking for long lost friends from 3rd grade through high school. . .

my weight chart for period 12-05 to 03-2005 -- roughly :-).  

CALIPER BODY FAT: 25.61%

Caliper body fat -- the day after my 36th birthday: 25.61%. I still hope to get it below 10%. But right now I think I'm on the losing side of the battle.

It's pretty consistent: I get a girlfriend and the weight and body fat percentage rise. Although with finals and a licensing exam inbetween. . . the newfound gain sort of makes sense. I suppose by "making sense" I suspect it means I acknowledge that I have some issues with food -- I eat to make myself feel better, rather than pure sustenance. . .

anyhow. . . more to come I hope. . .

kc.

caliper body fat: 24.21%

My licensing exam is kicking my ass. Due to the stress I'm eating too much.
I weigh about 236-238 these days -- 24.21% body fat too. I think I was in the 21% range before. . .

oh well.

Ocean Rowing

Interesting ocean rowing site here. It seems there's a race from Europe to NOrth America via rowboat. Antigua and some other place.

It's interesting. Lots of satellite/tech communication while people are in the middle of the ocean.

k

Marathon Row on Concept 2

I completed my first marathon row on Christmas. It was pretty long. Pretty tiring. Probably too much for this particular phase of my life as it left me completely worn out yesterday.

oh well. I have some photos I'll post later. . .

k

Holiday Challenge

I successfully (mindlessly?) completed the Holiday Challenge this AM. I rowed a 10k in the AM, which brought me just over 200,000 meters since TGiving. I'll probably add some cycling, swimming and running to the mix again.

Pretty stressed out with finals done and my licensing exam fast approaching. I'm just betting everything, that's all :-).

Caliper body fat: 23.169%

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rowing totals

I'm now at about 145,000 meters for the holiday challenge. I figure 15k x 4 days will put me over the top. I'm contemplating rowing a marathon on christmas though. . .

k

Visitors

I notice via a blogcounter that my visitors now average about 17 per day -- so I've roughly doubled my daily visitors over probably the past 6 months or so. That's interesting. What's interesting is how few of you actually comment (or even leave anything on the tagboard I have up).

I suppose, in the end, this blog is much more of a way for me to keep track of things. To the extent it offers something to someone in the outside world great. It's a complete secret to everyone -- in fact, I've told my closest friend that I have a blog but I've completely refused to identify what particular blog. Indeed, that's why some of my details are rather sketchy -- because I would (for whatever reason) like to avoid detection.

So, hey, drop a comment or two!

kc

Holiday Challenge - C2

I now have 129,000 meters in the Holiday Challenge for Concept2, so it looks like I'll make the 200,000 meters as listed in their challenge. I am going to spend the $20 bucks on the sweatshirt, even though it's a bit dorky :-).

Basically, I have 8 workout days that remain to get the additional 70,000 meters in. Realistically, that is about 5 days of 15,000 meters. Perhaps even the next 5 days. Nonetheless, I think I may try my first rowing marathon next weekend. Indeed, I may try it on Christmas Day.

The studying of my life begins on Monday.

k

President Taft

It turns out President Taft, in his twilight years, lost about 70 pounds. . . interesting historical reading.

Weight loss from Diabetes site here

Diabetes article here. Interesting quote within it:

In the future, Pugh would like to see a more hands on approach between health care professionals and patients when it comes to weight loss.

One way of doing this, Pugh suggests, is having diabetes educators or dietitians accompany their patients to the grocery store. There they can illustrate the proper healthy and low calorie food items for their patient's diet plan. "More than just telling a patient they need to lose weight - we need to make sure that they understand how to do this," says Pugh.

Pugh also points out that many health care professionals are not immune from society's prejudices when it comes to the obese. "Many are judgmental and they view obese patients as being weak willed," says Pugh. This can erode the patient/doctor relationship even further and increase a patient's frustration over losing weight.

The article then says what I've known for a long time:

Kris Berg, EdD, professor of physical education at the University of Nebraska, goes as far as to advise his patients to stay in the outside aisles of the grocery store where the fresh foods are kept, so that they will avoid the temptation of fattening snacks. This is sound advice considering that ten peanuts can be a hefty 200 calories and a regular potato chip might have as much as 25 calories in it. After a few high-calorie snacks a day, a person may find that they are gaining pounds instead of shedding them.

Holiday Challenge

Concept2 is running a holiday challenge. Basically, you commit to row 100,000 or 200,000 meters between Thanksgiving and New Years. Turns out, I've already rowed about 80,000 meters. I think I could pretty easily make the 200,000 meter number (you get a t-shirt and can buy a sweatshirt for $20 bucks). I think I'd buy the sweatshirt.

So I have 12 days to row 120,000 meters. In fact, this may spur on my first marathon row.

I figure, 4x15,000 = 60,000 meters (running total = 140,000 meters).

42,000 meters for marathon = 182,000 meters.

And then an additional half marathon. . . 21,000 meters would put me over the 200,000 meters number. . .

Well, I think that will be the goal. . .

k

Nice Post on Notorious B.L.O.G.

Hi,

Here's a great post on his battle of the bulge -- he ultimately lost 105 pounds by changing diet and running. His epiphany has an eerie reminiscence to my own epiphany here. [scroll down to HISTORY].

CDC Obesity page

the CDC has a nice obesity page. . . you can find it here.

12.11.2005 food king.  

fruit purchased circa 12.07.2005.