Weight Loss and exercise

16396 steps. Between logged walking and mowing I got 521 calories out of that.

2119 calories. I suspect that's about right for an even day.

I will weigh in the morning.

I made a total of 10,613 steps. I walked 4.32 miles burning about 455 calories. Not counting calories from todays activities, the adjustment MFP makes, my target comes to 2,545 calories. I ended up consuming 2,673 calories. I miscalculated my calories that I would burn for the day. Next time I will wait until all the exersizing is done before deciding how to fonish the day off with respect to food. Today I just exersized too late in the evening. So this means I am over by 128 calories. I will carry this over to tomorrow. I just cannot exersize anymore today to burn the rest of this off. I may take another less strenuous day off tomorrow like this one. I do not know yet. I am very tired.

PS I went up another TWO points on the fitness scale! I began at 28 and I am now at 32. It still says I have “poor” fitness, that of a 73 year old. How both stingy and insulting! However, I think UpDownAround is correct in attributing these rather belated increases to my every day exersize. I need to keep this up. People in good shape who exersize every day are in the 50s.

I weigh 159.4 this morning. Planning kind of a light day (probably under 10k steps) with no exercise logged. I don't want to lose more too aggressively but it would be nice to have weigh ins stay below 160; that would feel like progress. Mid 150s seems like a good range for me to maintain. It's far enough below the top end that I won't be afraid to over eat for a few days if I dip down too low.

My weight is now 177. Probably means nothing beyond the day to day wiggle. I suspected my weight was going up too quickly for the amount of calories I was consuming. So my weight being a pound less today should not surprise me. I want to maintain my weight around 180 at the very most. I think my weight at 174 was just a bit too low for me. I had purchased a new wardrobe in celebration of my very low weight. However, I now cannot gain much weight in order to continue to fit into my new clothes. My current BMI is just fine with me anyways, being somewhere in the middle. So my new clothes are giving me incentive to not gain much more weight. This may turn out to be a good thing.

Still, as I exersize, my muscle mass will increase. Muscle weighs more than fat. So I will eventually gain weight, but for a good reason. Fortunately I will be able to go back to EBay to purchase good quality dress clothes at a fraction of their original price. Clothes like jeans, pullovers, including tea shirts, should not be that expensive to replace. I only need about a couple pairs of pants and their associated shirts anyways.

I wondered if I bought clothes too soon. My shorts aren't baggy, but without a belt I would be tugging them up all day. But the last time I tried the next size down (30), they fit but looked like I was getting too big for them. The last thing I want to do after losing so much weight is look like I am outgrowing clothes.

MFP calories 1,310. Apple Watch steps 4,629
Water intake 50.7oz

8741 steps today. Didn't log any.

1500 calories; a little low. I wasn't really aiming low today. It just sort of worked out that way.

10,699 steps for today. I walked 4.1 miles, burning 439 calories. I have not included a small part of the walk. I outdid myself by running briefly four times. My average speed was 4.0 mph for the first two miles, which turned out to be 15 minute miles. My average heart rate was 141 with a peak of 160. Good cardio workout. However, my average heart rate for the last two miles was in the low 130s. This is still good exersize. So I did much better than I expect I would since I was very tired and all worn out last night.

With the 439 calories burned, excluding calories burned during the day, my target comes to about 2,529 calories. I have consumed 2444. So this leaves me 85 calories short. Big deal. I was carrying over 128 calories from yesterday anyways. So all my goals both in performance and calories have been achieved. This makes me more happy. I have been really depressed during significant periods of the day. I am very interested in seeing what I will weigh over the next couple days. I want to get this right in order to both exersize, and maintain my weight at the same time. I do not have the powerful voodoo magic that UpDownAround skillfully practices.

The voodoo will be easier the next few weeks or maybe couple of months, since I decided to shoot for stabilizing in the mid 150s instead of around 160, which I have somehow managed to do quite well for a couple of months. When trying to be in deficit, being off on a few days will just slow or accelerate the loss instead of bumping weight past or under where I want it.

I weigh 177 today. Interesting. I have been following MFP and the calories burned from exersize. My weight is basically staying the same or longer sing pounds so far. I will see over the short term what happens. According to a study, the fitness watches tested overestinated California dies burned by quite a margin. Only two were better at 20% over. I will see if my watch is different. Probably not.

I got a McDouble and a small fry from McDonald’s. Then I had 3 eggs and a hasbrown patty for dinner. I am going to have a prepackaged Cesar salad in a little bit.

Today was only 1,200 surprisingly

11407 steps. I didn't log any of it.

1582 calories; 18 under goal. EDIT - had a few grapes instead of water to wash down my benadryl for sleep. Total is now 1598.

I will weigh in the morning.

MFP calories 1,120. Apple Watch steps 2,701
Water intake 84.5oz

10,481 steps today. I walked 4 miles burning 415 calories. The performance stats are weak but I did not push myself much. The calories burned during exercise when added to my base calories of 2090 provides me a target of 2505 calories. I have consumed 2515 calories. So I met my target. Tomorrow I will do my much more strenuous exercise and see if I can meet my performance goals.

PS I was very lazy and made myself just a peanut butter sandwich for dinner. No calories left to get hot chocolate at IHOP. It is real good.

157.0 this morning. I think the drop is mostly from having less food and water in the guy from eating less the last couple of days. I didn't really lose 2 pounds.

Weather permitting (no thunder), I will paddle SUP tonight and it should be a high calorie burn day. I may end up river paddling tomorrow afternoon for another good burn. Paddling has really helped bring back chest and shoulder muscles.

My weight is 177. Later this morning I will walk four miles. Let’s see if I can have the same performance stats as I did a couple days ago.

My scale read 157.2

I had some Mac and cheese for lunch which I didn’t finish. It had 310 calories but I don’t know how many I actually ate.

I had a bowl of ramen for a snack which was 380 calories.

I had a salad for dinner. It had 320 calories in it but I didn’t like the dressing. I ate most of it but there’s still some lettuce left.

I plan on having a piece of bread with butter on it for a snack. That will be 200 calories.

So I calculated 1,210. But I’m probably more like 1,150. I’m just not in the mood today.

My watch says 7473 steps, but a lot were paddle strokes. I paddled 4.55 miles. Strava gave me 615 calories for that, but I edited down to 400 and then didn't eat all of them.

1858 calories consumed. Protein short of mfp generated goal, but well over minimum for my weight. Carbs and sugar high as usual.

Tonight was my daughters high school graduation. I was “elected” to take everyone out to dinner afterwards. I cannot imagine the calories I have ate this evening. I will be walking it off the rest of this week. I was doing fine with my calorie intake until this happened. One seasoned ribeye steak, one sweet potatoe with the trimmings, Caesar salad, and 1.5 slices of cake.

12,243 steps today. I walked 4.29 miles burning 470 calories. I not only walked up that long hill, but after coming down from it, I also walked an additional mile. My performance stats are not worth mentioning. This gives me a target of 2,564 calories. I have consumed approximately 3,700 calories. I probably am overestimating here. Still this is allot of calories. This makes me over by 1,136 calories. So let’s say 100 calories a mile walked. We are talking about taking me over 11 miles to walk this off. Not good. I will start tomorrow.

Carrying this over lets say three days, this means walking about my usual 4 miles a day, but maintaining a calorie count let’s say one hundred over baseline of just about 2200 calories a day. Normally this would be over 2500 calories a day for this total exercise. So in three days I will make up over 900 calories of this overage of 1,136. I imagine at the end of this being a couple hundred short will not cause the ground to shake here. All of this will make my “make up for the day I was a pig” goal more doable. No more dessert for the time being. I can always help fill myself up with tastey antipasto salads which are only 344 calories each.

I lost a couple of more pounds. I've had very little appetite lately. Also, I've not done much in the way or preparing foods. Eating has become a hassle. Today I will see if I can prepare something nice. It will probably be protein and veggies.

@Tucson you don't have to do it so quick. You can adjust your goal 110 a day for 10 days and barely notice. It amounts to less than a half pound gain anyway.

Ok, not so quick. 100 calories a day to make up yesterday’s overage. I weighed 178, almost 179 pounds. Today I exercised over four miles breaking all personal records, like one of the four miles in 14 min 17 seconds, peak heart rate 176, and average heart rate into the 150s. I still have not given it all of my effort since I still had a distance to walk. One of these days I will run as far as I possibly can. My heart rate goal is now 180, with 14 minute miles, and at the same time keeping the average heart rate into the 150s. Oh yes, I ran four or five times for brief intervals. In the past two runs was the max for me. My watch is being very stingy with the calories burned assessment. I guess this is better than significantly overestimating this. It looks like periodically walking up that long hill has been helping me. I will walk up that hill more frequently.

PS This was all done in 96 degree weather, which is not too bad. I can handle exercising up to a temperature of 100 degrees. Then I will walk earlier in the morning.

@UpDownAround: I will catch up to you in time. You are on my radar. Still, I have not been exersizing my upper body. I will have to figure this out.

I weighed 156.8 this morning. I fasted for 15 hours from 8PM to 11AM. then I had a small adult lunchable at 290 calories and half a bottle of European Fanta which was around 100 calories. I had some White Castle sliders at 3:30 which was 330 calories for the burgers and another 100 for the rest of the soda. For dinner I had half a burrito from Chipotle’s. Which was about 340 calories. I might have some steamed zucchini for a snack which would be about 33 calories.

Total it was around 1,230 calories today.

MFP calories 640. Apple Watch steps 5,067
Water intake 33.8oz

@Bozdickens It takes allot of discapline to eat that little, like putting the burrito down when only half finished. I was eating 1,200 calories at one time in the past. Looking back, I do not know how I did it. BTW good to see you here!