Yes, it’s a day without pictures. My camera didn’t break, I just had other things on my mind. Interestingly, there have been some good comments from reader CPhil about exercise and diet. I like to read about that because it introduces me to things I don’t know about the relationship between weight loss and exercise.
My food intake and calorie count
Breakfast – sausage (250); potatoes (80);
- 330 calories
Lunch – Italian sweet sausage link (250); 1/4 wrap (35); pretzels (120);
- 405 calories
Dinner – 7oz ham (300); baked beans (130); tomato (25); Brussels sprouts, roasted (25);
- 480 calories
Snacking – 97g ice cream (200);
- 200 calories
Total for the day: 1415 calories (limit 1750)
Diet and exercise
It’s an old and familiar pairing. Looking at my own body, there has been a real fall-off in weight loss since I gave up swimming. Based on reader advice, lowering my calorie intake may not help much. Plus, my body misses a bit of exercise. I liked swimming because it works so many systems at once: arms, legs, back, neck, and breathing discipline too. But some walking won’t hurt anything and it is starting to get cooler outside, finally. Morning walking, then. I can probably do that every day. I’ve been looking for a bike, too.
Taking care of your body is a long term business. Once you are doing it, you realize you should be doing it and should have been doing it before!
Stay with it!
-The Doctor
I also appreciated the comments by CPhil on yesterday’s post. His observations about taking in too few calories are spot on, I think, although long term, you can lose a lot of weight when you aren’t eating because you’re going through a stressful time in your life, for example. However, that isn’t a healthy way to shed pounds and when the stress decreases, you go back to your old habits and the weight creeps back on. I like the idea of core exercise, but I hate doing the work. He is motivational, though, so I’m going to give it a “go.”