Day14 Feedback Habits
A quiet Sunday. Didn’t get out of bed until about 10am, and then spent most of the day in front of the computer, programming. Debs brought me all my meals, so she made my choices for me today (hence habit 4 being a “didn’t get a chance” one).
Weigh-in this morning’s looking good – total loss of 2.6kg since the first measurement 2 weeks ago. Happy that there’s little error in the weight measurements, but the other statistics from those scales seem to be all over the place. For those, and the Blood Pressure measurements, I think I’ll take the first 2 weeks average as my starting point, but since the weight has shown very very steady progress throughout, I’ll stick with the measurements I’ve taken as being accurate enough.
Habit 0: Blog on JustBigBoned.com every day
This (and updated Habits & Body Statistics).
Habit 3: Pause before eating. Take your time and enjoy
Every meal. I’m getting into this a little more now, in that it’s becoming a bit more automatic.
No opportunity for the following though:
Habit 1: Take a different walk through the train station
Habit 2: When I’m feeling poorly I deserve as much fruit to eat as I want
Habit 4: Always choose one of the top 2 healthiest option
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Dave has taken very sensible steps toward weight loss. There is NO quick fix. It is more complex than calories out exceeding calories in. The more overweight an individual, the SLOWER the BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate-ie, the rate at which food gets burned into energy). Also, the more sedentary the individual, the slower the BMR. This somehow goes against logic, but that’s nature for you!
In Dave’s case, he is trying to create sustainable HABIT- this is the key to longterm weight loss. All of us can lose weight quickly- remember the last time you had gastroenteritis?Weight loss of 2 lb per week or so is about right to allow the body and metabolism time to adjust. You can’t help your genes, so exercise is the only reliable way to boost one’s BMR ( amphetamines will too, but they are illegal and created a load of nutcases back in the 60’s when diet pills were popular).