Weight Loss and exercise

I was 157 this morning but I forgot to weigh before my shower. After the shower, I weighed 157.4 and I am calling that 157.

I think I have been over reporting burn by accepting numbers. I turned off Pacer integration this morning.

174 today. I waited too long before running. I had some tasks to do, but forgot the time. I will try to run at 6 or 7 PM today. This late maybe the running track for today. Traffic.

No exercise. My target is 2500 calories. I have consumed 2820. I am over by 320 calories. Four miles of exercise tomorrow should take car of this.

173 pounds. A bit premature, but I may have gained a pound. However, most of the time I was using the watch. Only recently I have been using MET which cones up with noticeably lower values for calories burned. So I will continue to use the MET approach to see what happens. If I continue to gain weight, I will drop my starting callories back to 2300. It is now time for exercise.

I went way over again yesterday and made to rolling surplus worse instead of better. Way worse; I rolled forward 2100. This morning I paddled 13.7 miles, which I edited down to 1710 calories (125 per mile from what I consider an accurate source though I think my board is harder than average tot paddle a given distance). Right now, at ~1:30 in the afternoon, I have 477 calories left if I want to come up even. Might go a little over; the Parmesan panko flounder I am planning for dinner is 330, according to the recipe.

Weighed after paddling; I did eat breakfast before going and stayed reasonably well hydrated. I weighed 155.

I weigh 172 now. An hour earlier before cereal I weighed upper 171. Now two scales are well into 172 pounds, with one just barely there. What is going on here? I did not consume that much milk, only a little over one cup.

Just now I looked up the weight of milk, and from what I had, I consumed a little over a half of a pound. Can this have caused it? I would think that the weight consumed to the body weight increase would not be 1:1. If this is the case, then I still weigh 171 pounds. Lately I have been weighing myself after breakfast. Lazy. Today I weighed before breakfast.

Yes, consumption has an effect that is 1:1 for at least some time. I drank water and coffee not long before I weighed and didn't pee enough to account for it, so I could have weighed over a pound less after paddling but I would have been dehydrated. I still think I was somewhat dehydrated. I expect my next weigh in to be above 155 but not much.

I am rolling forward 400 calories.

I made about 5200 steps. I ran and walked 2.52 miles burning 481 calories. This time I ran 30 seconds and walked 1 minute. I could not meet my previous records yet due to the extra effort. This makes for a target of 2981. I have consumed 2678 calories. I am rolling over 320 calories from yesterday. So that makes for a total of 2998 calories consumed. This meets my target. I may exersize tomorrow. I need to be able to handle the extra running. I have been trying out a new pair of running shoes. Apparently running shoes are a bit on the narrow side for a good snug fit.

I weighed this morning just to check how much I bounced back from the after paddle weight and was surprised to find the answer is none. I actually got a weight just below 154.

EDIT - I have upped my base since I am not letting Pacer do the auto update. I am going to ignore steps unless I walk several miles. I am over 4000 this morning and Pacer would likely have already given me over 200 calories.

I also went ahead and rolled forward 300 of the extra 400 from yesterday into tomorrow. I am trying to break the "high day followed by low day" cycle. I think the low days are contributing to the likelihood of a high day following it. I may just "write off" the 400 calories to help break it.

(My previous post was for yesterday)

I weigh 173. I am trying a new routine where I run for 15 seconds, and only walk 45 seconds per interval. I am running now and I have stopped off at McDonalds for a short rest and water. This first mile I set a new personal record of a 11:45 minute mile. I could of ran a bit faster, but I am happy that I did not. Even though I still have energy left, my heart rate averaged 158. I have had this higher. But my peak was 176 again. When I am getting near my goal, I will watch closely my heart rate and adjust the running part of the interval accordingly. My next goal is a 11:30 mile, but this will take time.

Here are my exercise stats. I walked and ran 2.5 miles. I have burned 289 calories. This gives me a target of 2789 calories. I began pacing myself toward the end by heart rate. On the second leg, my average heart rate was 163, with a peak of 175 bpm. All stats tell me I could of not had a better workout. I had arrived exhausted compared to the first leg.

BTW There is a value on my watch that in one number provides me the aerobic effect of an exercise on my cardio system. It is surprisingly accurate. I can have excellent stats, but if I finish where I feel that I can do more, this value is lower. If I have stats that are not as good, but I arrive completely exhausted, this value shows me that I had a better workout. How does the watch know this? It is measuring the variability of the timing between heart beats. The more the body is stressed, this value increases. Amazing technology. What a toy!

I did it again! I was doing okay and my son brought in some big cinnamon rolls a friend gave him from Panera and I ate one. They are 630 calories each! If I had realized that, I wouldn't have. Now I have a giant deficit again. Should be paddling tomorrow afternoon; maybe I can clear some of it up. I am paddling with a group who likely won't paddle as long or steady as I like to but I can probably stay an extra hour or two. I keep doing this but I still am staying in the mid 150s somehow. Well, I know how; I make the math work eventually by paddling 10 miles or so to erase giant deficits. I need to get ahead of this. My actual consumption today was 2430, but I had rolled 400 forward and didn't exercise. Now I am rolling 1230 forward.

Going way over made me curious and did another weigh in - 155.6. The giant calorie overage was a 6 ounce pastry late at night. The 1300 I have as a deficit to erase would be under 6 ounces if I didn't do anything about it, but I plan to. But I just ate a fairly normal breakfast of nearly 400 calories so I won't actually be hungry this morning. If I only have a 200 calorie protein bar for lunch and paddle this afternoon, I could get off the water close to even.

About to go paddling only 435 calories in the hole. I should clear that and get some room for dinner. I am probably a little further in the hole than that. I tend to miss something on big days when I get into that mode of grabbing things. But my base is a slight deficit and will remain so until I feel secure about being in the low 150s.

I accepted 749 fantasy calories for paddling under 5 miles. It was a more social paddle today. I managed to squander that on dinner and various snacks after I got home so I am still over 400 in the hole. But after eating a turkey wrap and a banana and getting reasonably hydrated, I weighed when I was getting in the shower and I was 155. I may take off a day this week and go paddling or surfing down at the beach with one of the guys I paddled with today. I keep battling this calorie deficit from going over and keep managing to eventually erase it and I am keeping my weight about where I want it, but I really wanted this to be easier and more natural. Oh well, at least I am making it work.

7456 steps. I walked and ran about 3.35 miles, burning a very conservative 223 calories. There was some running that I am only accounting for as walking. So this makes for a target of 2723 calories. I have consumed 2739 calories. Target met. So instead of taking a break for tomorrow, I will have a compulsion to exercise more. Maybe this will be for just a couple miles. I also can slow down and go for duration. However, I will have a problem with this, my going slower. I do need my running to go between different goals, endurance or speed.

BTW what I did find helpful is to have the watch alert me when my heart rate exceeded 720 bpm. When this happened, I tried to back off. I did not even come close to my previous record of 179 bpm. The max today was at or below 172, with only one segement of the run with a max of 174. I find that I have a need to keep pushing myself despite the possible ill effects. I also am still not in good shape. One runner on the Internet was embarrassed by his eight and a half minute mile. Amazing. I do not know if I can ever do this myself, but only in my dreams.

I think you might have had a typo there - 720 bpm? I think you would know long before you reached that.

I was a 10 minute miler. 1 mile, 10 miles, didn't matter. 10 minutes a mile. I couldn't get in that zone unless I kept my steady pace. Slow and steady, but despite the trite old saying I still didn't win the damn race.

I kept snacking on fruit last night. that's one problem with the "big eraser" idea of using exercise to even things out. I come home hungry and for some reason it seems to be carb/sugar hungry. It still works out when I do the long paddles and burn over 1000 calories. But yesterday's 749 (which I probably should have edited back to 600) ended up cancelling out a lot less. I ended up rolling forward 642, but I had 1300 rolled forward from the prior day so I cut that in half. Right now, with breakfast, lunch and a couple of snacks logged I have ~350 left for dinner and night snacks. I am likely to go over that. I will try to go over less than 400 so I am chipping away at the extra deficit.

I weigh 174 pounds. If I get the shoes, I am going to try them out by running a couple miles. Ten minute mile? Slow? You can run half a marathon all that distance without walking to catch your breath? I would end up with tachycardia way before then, and I mean *way* before then. I think I will be able to do this eventually for just a couple miles. Maybe I can do something like this by the end of next year. Then I would be at the end of the line as far as improvements go.

Anyway, I am working on an even pace. This is not that easy for me. I will need to do this both for walking and running, swithching between the two at regular intervals. Maybe periodically looking at my watch can help? One of these days I will try an indoor treadmill when it is raining.

Can someone tell me what’s going on? On the 26th I weighed 158. Today on 3 diffrent scales I was 170. I know I was on vacation and eating more but still. There has got to be something medical going on right? There is no way I gained 12 pounds in 9 days unless there was something happening. I know I missed a period right before I gained this weight. I’m really freaking out though. I set up a doctors appointment for Thursday maybe she has some answers. In the meantime I’m really watching it. I am not taking any more vacations this year.

What has been your calorie intake over the last two week? Have you been gaining day to day? In order to gain a pound a day, you need to eat an increadible amount of calories every day.

I "gained" 10 in ~2.5 days not long ago. I weighed after very long paddle while dehydrated, then ate a bunch and overate the next couple of days including a high sodium meal with pasta. I was swollen up with water and weighed 10 pounds more. Neither weight was really legit. I was down 6.6 pounds within a few days. The low weigh was about 2 pounds lower than I have weighed before.