Weight Loss and exercise

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.

My first and only half marathon about 5 years ago was 2:08:25, so I actually averaged a little under 10 minutes a mile. My fastest 3 miles were the last 3.

I am making my deficit to roll over way worse today. If the weather is okay, I may have long paddles tomorrow and Thursday, though.

I had 645 roll into today and right now I have over 1100 to roll into tomorrow.

I was eating maybe 2,500-3,000. Maybe it’s a thyroid issue? It just seems weird that it would happen around the same time as the missed period. Which is often a hormone thing.

I rolled 1339 into today! A big breakfast (yogurt, fruit and cereal) and I am already over for today. I hope to paddle today and tomorrow, but today is iffy due to AC repair.

@UpDownAround:

I think you are being too hard on yourself. IMHO I see you substantially cutting back in calories and exercising more to shed all of those calories. Would it be nice to get away from this? Would your weight change allot due to you eating these accumulated calories instead of rolling *all* of the extra calories that you have accumulated? This goes on and on. I think you may have many different foods there to snack on. This also would be too tempting to me.

I suggest that you make menus for all the meals that you can realistically eat. Use this as a master plan. Then every day you can select your meals for the day from that list. I think it would be a good idea to do this on the previous day. Some days you can limit your calories for a nice desert. Make another list of food that each menu requires and only purchase those foods. I understand that the purchase of groceries is probably for your entire family. However, you can still stick to this plan. This is what I had been doing. I do purchase snack size candy bars anyway. The real temptation to me is the apple pie that I have purchased to increase my calorie intake on those days I have come short. Ths is what Intell myself. The taste if the pie is really good. So instead of eating after dinner, I can find myself eating it first thing up in the morning.

I suggest you start with a clean slate. You owe this to yourself. You are getting paranoid which is not a good place to be, even if you think this is justified. I believe this may in itself increase your calorie intake. This reminds me of times where my spending was beginning to get out of control. I felt bad that I was doing this to myself. For some strange reason. I become compelled to spend more money. I realize that I should not do this, that I may end up in allot of debt. Yet again I become compelled to spend more money. I get satisfaction from the purchase of interesting things that I still may never use. I think this is a way of me taking my attention off of what is actually happening. Does this sound like this is what may be happening to you?

Anyway, I believe you can do this. You certainly have the discapline. For instance, training for a half marathon takes allot of discapline. I do not think I have this kind of discapline myself.

@Tucson
I have thought about doing that, but I think I am within 3 pounds of where I would like to be before I start tinkering. The other thing is that I keep having the next opportunity to burn major calories within a couple of days.

Loss of discipline worries me a lot. It is bizarre how I get in that state of mind where I will go ahead and crank up even further instead of shutting it down. When I was losing I was good at putting the brakes on. I think I have let the long paddles affect my thinking too much. It's interesting you mention training for the half; I did the same thing back then. I started eating a lot because I could; it would all get erased. But I wasn't tracking, just watching the scale. Then I tore up my knees and ballooned back up because I was conditioned to eating a lot again and wasn't burning it off.

What I really want to do is exercise some discipline, wipe out the excess and get a deficit of 1000 or so as a cushion to start tinkering.

And yes, I am paranoid because of the fear of getting back in the "don't care" mindset and gaining. I wish I could remain rational all the time. EDIT - I am doing a bit of that justification now; carb loading for a long afternoon paddle that is almost certain to happen at this point. I already logged a protein bar I will eat on the water for dinner and I am going way over, but may cancel the whole thing out.

Actually, probably very paranoid. I was surprised to see how well I seem to be doing in a candid photo taken on a paddling outing a few days ago. At first glance, it looks like I am doing very well. If you look closer, some loose skin with a little fat is spilling over the front. Just a little, but it's there.

@Tucson
I just read something that made me think of you. "A man with one watch always knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."

The usual...

Got back to no deficit paddling 12.5 miles; actually had room for a snack. I had some baked chicken; filling protein. that should have been enough. But one of my kids had made too many vegetarian nachos and they looked, smelled and yes, tasted, so good. The another one of my kids gets home from his job at Dunkin with a box of left over apple cinnamon filled donuts and I had to have one. And for some reason a mini ice cream sandwich. All of a sudden I am 733 calories over. Not going to worry about it yet.

I showered after eating the chicken and nachos and was a little below 156. I had hydrated pretty well. So I am still hanging out in the desired range. I might paddle a little tomorrow afternoon and will go surfing all day on Friday.

One thing I figured out makes me feel better. When I was more disciplined losing the weight, I was not doing any exercise that was anywhere close to being as intense as what I have been doing this summer.

6596 steps. I did not have the energy to burn much calories at all. I should of taken this as a rest day. I will take tomorrow off. Today I have walked and ran 2.38 miles. I have burned 189 calories. This gives me a target of 2689. I have consumed 2753 calories. This makes for an overage of 64 calories. My weight has been moving up and down, but recently staying around 173. A few weeks earlier, this value was 172. So I may have gained a pound. I need another week to confirm this. I have only recently changed my approach to totaling calories burned.

Still kicking the can on down the road...

I did go ahead and roll a bunch forward, will paddle this afternoon and surf all day tomorrow.

EDIT - I am making a firm commitment to roll nothing over tomorrow night; if I get back even, have a deficit or a surplus it doesn't matter. I will try to make it come out out even at worst but I am going to quit constantly rolling things forward.