Friday, the last day of the diet week! I have found my body responds on a daily and a weekly scale to persistent weight control living. I tried weighing myself every day for a week last year, and every day I weighed about 0.4 pounds less. By the end of the week I had lost just over 2.5 pounds. But there are sometimes swings, and I have found it best for myself to weigh in once per week. It’s a more dramatic change, every even days. The nice part about that is that while a bad diet day can affect you for a few days, each new week is a chance to have a good diet week. If you have a good week and balance your food intake and make that worthwhile, you will enjoy it and your body will lose weight.
This week I am not expecting any miracles. I had a bad diet day on the first day of the week, and while I have had a good week after that, the bad day will color the result. No worries. Next week can be perfect.
My food intake and calorie count
Breakfast – Bratwurst (260); 1/4 wheat wrap (25)
- 285 calories
Lunch – 1/6 lasagna (640);
- 640 calories
Dinner – Aldi pizza half (570); bread and pulled pork appetizer (200);
- 770 calories
Snacking – tea with half and half (80); chicken pieces and cheese (200)
- 80 calories
Total for the day: 1990 calories (limit 1800 + 500 bonus from swimming, total 2300)
The pace has slowed
This year, my calorie average per week has generally crept up around 1950 per day, up from 1850 per day last year. I still should lose weight, but not at the quick pace I managed last year. Also, the fact that I had a bad day at the beginning of the week, and then had nearly 2000 calories today, will probably minimize any real loss I had this week as far as my weighing tomorrow. But that’s ok – any inflation of my weight tomorrow means the loss I have during the next perfect week will look larger.
Even if the pace of weight loss slows a bit, I can probably increase that pace over time. A small success – a pound per week, say, is the basis for a larger success. This is a long term affair.
I am typing on a different keyboard from usual, a very cheap one (my backup wired keyboard). You have to really thump each key pretty hard to get reliable keystrokes, and that increases errors. So it’s a lot of effort AND creates a huge number of spelling errors I have to go back and fix. I can’t stand it, I am getting a different keyboard. Amazingly there is a project going along to recreate the old original IBM keyboard from the 1980s with their buckling springs, what I always used to call the “spring-click” keyboards. It turns out those keyboards were very quality items and were originally designed and built for mainframe computers that cost big bucks. Anyway it is nearly $400 for one of these recreated ones, no thanks. A company called UniComp still makes a watered down version of the IBM keyboard and I ordered one of those instead, much less expensive. I am looking forward to using a spring-click again to write some blog posts.
-The Doctor