Rollin' a fatty...

I guess I should explain the title. I rolled out of bed the other day & accidentally stepped on the scale, and it displayed 'Oy! One at a time, you Meshugehs!' So, after a bit of tweaking, sweet talking and finally changing the battery it gave me my weight - too much. So I joined the 2old4fitness group and was added to the Waterborn group.

As mentioned on the 'Introduce Yourself' topic, I plan on lossing the weight in a couple phases of 20 pounds each. I'm hoping this will help keep me motivated to meeting the goals, and 20 pounds really isn't that much, so it should be fairly easy.

First up was tweaking the diet. It seems some eating had gotten out of hand from the maintenance diet I was trying to keep. Eating 90-100 cal diet bars - good, eating four 90-100 cal diet bars every two hours - not so good. So I got rid of the tasty diet bars and put the remaining ones in a cabinet (Out of Sight, Out of Mind). I still keep a couple at work and in my work bags in case my metabolism goes screwy and my brain starts to crash, but still OoS-OoM.

The rest of the diet tweaks are buying the 35-45 cal rice cakes for the occasional hunger pang that water doesn't cover, dropping the Cystal Light mixes for plain (filtered) tap water and limiting the Healthy Choice meals to 250 cals or less for my main or dinner meals. I'm still going to be eating a daily banana, apple and fruit cups & cans (low-/no-sugar added if possible).

I figure I'll get my body used to less than 1500 cals (2000 max) per day. Then I'll shock it by adding exercise.

I'll slowly ramp up the exercise from my three day 'weekend' to all seven days (or as close as reasonable). I love getting out on the MTB, even if it is only on-road riding, so 10-20 miles per day should use around 500-1150 cals (I'll work on accuracy after I get times and speeds). On poor weather days I'll use the ellictical trainer for as long as I can, but hopefully matching the cals doing bicycling.

I've gone into the PC and dusted-off the FitDay diet & exercise monitoring application. With Fitday I can track the important aspects of my diet and exercise program - calories, fats, sodium & cards. Plus keep track of weight, exercise, mood and a few other odd items. It isn't perfect by any measure, but it works better than most competitors at the time that I bought it.

There is also a somewhat more limited online web-app version if you move between online PCs/Macs a lot.

Now, you may ask 'what doesn't that mean for gaming because, you know, this is a gaming site and...' and it that when I move to exercising everyday, that I will only have time for gaming on my three day 'weekend'. Yeah, I know, 'join the real world', but still, I like getting my daily gaming fix.