For those too impatient to read my meanderings, the short version is: I tracked some #s and found I didn't know more than before I tracked them. Plus I worked out.
Food stuff: (very technical term
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I'd been tracking calories (no macros, right now just calories is enough to challenge me) for a little over 4 weeks now. The numbers are probably getting slightly more accurate as I tweak the measuring.
I haven't set myself a precise goal (though I've been aiming at or under 2000) because the point of it right now is just to get a handle on where maintenance is and where deficit is.
Also I've been fine with letting the numbers bounce up and down. Part of that is that I have been trying to make sure that I eat enough on workout days to avoid an energy crash.
(I had some horrible crashes shortly before starting this log. I'd get home from working out and be the sort of stupid tired you get from being severely sleep deprived or mildly sick, but I'd be too stupid-feeling to figure out that it was hunger/low blood sugar. I'd just notice dumbly that I couldn't
think and that I was bad at stuff I'm usually good at. Then I'd eat something and suddenly realize I was ravenous. Then I'd eat something more and as I ate my ability to think would gradually return.)
Aug 1 -Aug 7
F: pre-tracking Sa: pre-tracking Su: 1879 M: 1823 T: 2247 W: 2115 Th: 1783
weekly total: not available daily average: 1969.4
Friday AM weight: 204.2 (Aug 8)
Aug 8-Aug 14
F: 2202 Sa: 1845 Su: 1986 M: 1762 T: 1690 W: 1737 Th: 1803
weekly total: 13025 daily average: 1860.71
Friday AM weight: 202 (Aug 15)
Aug 15-Aug 21
F: 1955 Sa: 1768 Su 1434 M: 2002 T: 1622 W: 1831 Th: 2073
weekly total: 12685 daily average: 1812.14
Friday AM weight: 199.8 (Aug 22)
Aug 22nd-Aug 28th
F: 1810 Sa: 1862 Su: 1700 M: 1787 T: 1501 W: 1589 Th: 2050
weekly total: 12299 (daily average:1757)
Friday AM weight: 198.4 (Aug 29)
Aug 29th -Sept 4
F: 1909 Sa: 1600 Su 1930 M: 1317 T: 1819 W: 1896 Th: 1587
weekly total: 12058 (daily average: 1722.57)
Friday AM weight: 199 (Sept 5)
attempts to make some sense of those numbers:
At 3 weeks I started plugging in some of the numbers to see where I was. But then when I plugged in week 4 I saw that I don't really know much, because even a slight weight blip changed the data so much. Oh well.
3 week trends Aug 8-28:
3 weeks calories: 38009
average daily calories: 1809.9523
3 weeks' weight loss: 5.8 =20300 total deficit = 966.666 average deficit per day
4 week trends Aug 8-Sept 4
4 weeks' calories: 50067
average daily calories: 1788.1
4 weeks' weight loss: 5.2 = 18200 total deficit =650 deficit per day
I plan to go over this stuff with the trainer I've been working with every other week, but (for financial reasons) I probably won't be having a session with him until the 17th at which point I can afford to go weekly. He'd probably be willing to discuss it now, but I think that would fairly rude behavior on my part when I haven't scheduled a session in 2 weeks and probably won't for another week or two.
(On another site I saw a trainer complaining about "not knowing what to do with" a woman who was scheduled only once a week and I just laughed. I've been spending hours going over my finances to ferret out the money to afford the luxury of once a week.)
and now an actual workout:
9/5/08, Friday
bosu plank 40 seconds x 6
bosu compressions 200 x 4
bosu crunches 10
bosu step (two rounds of it)
(The numbers are from the numbers on the plates, so not actual pounds; +5 is adding a 5 pound weight.)
3 sets, 10 reps each (unless stated otherwise)
cable cross twist: 25, then accidentally 20 when I meant to go up
, then 30
cable cross shoulder press: 15
low pull: 4+5
triceps pull down: 5+5
biceps curl: 2
leg press: 1st set 9 both legs, then 4+5 one leg at a time, then 9.5 both
hip abductor: one set at 7+5, then 2 sets at 8
hip adductor: one set at 7+5, then 2 sets at 8
shoulder press: 62.5 (10 reps, then 7, then 8)
seated chest press: 65+10 (10 reps, then 10, then 7)