Ok, take 2.

I have eaten 5 hardboiled eggs, 60 oz coffee, 1 tbls 1/2&1/2, 2 tbls sugar-free creamer, & < 1 cup shredded cheddar/mozzarella.

2010.05.02 Sun
185.4 lb

2010.05.02 Sun
Cals: 2,419 Fat (g): 150.1 Carbs (g): 73.1 Prot (g): 190.1

Ok, time to get back to it!

2010.03.24 Wed

Cals: 3,000	Fat (g): 227.7	Carbs (g): 88.0	Prot (g): 175.7

2010.03.23 Tue

Cals: 2,281	Fat (g): 166.3	Carbs (g): 33.4	Prot (g): 172.9

2010.03.22 Mon

Cals: 2,266	Fat (g): 109.9	Carbs (g): 34.3	Prot (g): 274.1

2010.03.22 Mon

184.6 lb.

2010.03.21 Sun

Cals: 2,482 Fat (g): 121.9 Carbs (g): 52.9 Prot (g): 262.7

So Ends Spring Break

Back to school tomorrow, which means back to running or "ellipticizing".  I'm going to try to do some actual running twice a week, on the actual street, twice a week with a friend of mine.  My last weight entry was 185 lb on the Friday before break and I haven't weighed myself since.  I await the mounting of the scale tomorrow with some trepidation, vacation is hell on diets.  Over break I tried jumping rope... that's rough!  It will take some time and practice to condition myself to be able to jump effectively.  I found an interesting site discussing jump rope training at www.RossBoxing.com, the site is all about boxing, but mostly about training and conditioning.  At this point conditioning myself for jumping rope involves me doing homework with the tv on and every time there is a commercial break I go out and jump rope until my legs start tripping up.  At this point that is about a minute I think.  Baby steps...

Spring Break

I'm on Spring break now which means I'll not be going to the gym as the gym is at university.  I will continue on with my yoga and my more calisthenic exercise and, weather permitting, I may do a little running outside.

2010.03.12 Fri

185 lb.

2010.03.11 Thu

Cal: 1,362  Fat (g): 74.8  Carbs (g): 35.2  Prot (g): 137.7

PS: The run ended up not happening :(

2010.03.10 Wed

Cals: 2,490  Fat (g): 121.0  Carbs (g): 66.3  Prot (g): 287.0

Whoah!  Way overboard today.  Stressful test day etc.  Didn't even get to go for a run.

A New Book For Tracking Cals/Carbs

Yesterday I picked up a little book called The Calorie King Calorie Fat & Carbohydrate Counter, at Borders they were practically giving it away. I also picked up a book of 500 cookie recipes. Since I began dieting I have started really enjoying baking things I cannot even sample for my family... I don't know how much more helpful this will be than the information on FitDay.com, I use that all the time.

Sigh... Real Life Rears Its Ugly Head

It's midterm week and there was stuff to do around the house. Way too much stuff. The end result being that I slept late last night and got up late this morning, so I did not run. I did do yoga, however. My weight this morning was the same as it was yesterday, 187.8 lb. After concern over my caloric intake this morning I made sure to eat more calories. I may have even overdone it slightly.

2010.03.09 Tue

cals: 2,202 fat (g): 102.8 carbs (g): 31.7 prot (g): 280.

I am concerned that I have reduced my caloric intake too much.
Three possible problems:

1 I may not be able to sustain this, I'll get hungry enough after a few days of this to compulsively eat foods which will ruin all my work.

2 Without enough caloric intake I could begin to lose lean body mass.

3 My body could react to the large drop in calories by slowing my metabolism and thereby reducing weight loss.

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Testing... testing... posting blog from cellphone, through google voice, to blag.

2010.03.08 Mon

cals: 1,474 fat (g): 63.6 carbs (g): 30.5 prot (g): 192.1
2.7 miles 187.8 lb.

Current Reading I

Right now I am reading up on the Atkins diet and perusing a book called The Ketogenic Diet by Lyle McDonald. The Atkins diet is a ketogenic diet, which I will explain in a later post. The focus of these is, of course, weight loss through affecting the biochemistry. Body builders seem to be the experts on this... yes... I have been trolling body building forums. Body builders need to lose weight quickly for competitions without compromising lean muscle mass, ketogenic diets are apparently the method of choice in the body building community.

My Goals I

This post is numbered because I realize that my goals will change over time and I will post regarding new goals or reevaluation of goals as things come up.

At my last weighing (2010.03.05 Fri) I was 190.4

lbs. As of now, my weight goal is 160 lbs. That may be overreaching somewhat but I have given myself a tentative deadline of (2010.07.09 Fri). We'll see how things go and adjust accordingly. I began using a website called FitDay.com to help me keep track of things like caloric intake, exercise, weight loss, etc. It also helps with prospective time lines as well. FitDay has been very helpful regarding general caloric goals. With my current weight, projected finishing date, and the calories I burn daily due to my general lifestyle, FitDay has given me this:

Weight Loss per Day	/	Calories per Pound	=	Calorie Restriction per Day
0.28		3500		969

Calories You Burn	-	Calorie Restriction	=	Calorie You Can Eat
3,102		969		2,133

So, in order to lose the weight I desire I must restrict my daily intake to 2133 calories.

How This Began

I started out simply with an interest in losing weight. My OCD tendencies have turned this into a blossoming obsession on which I am spending too much time researching and thinking. I am approximately 5' 11" and I weighed more than 210 pounds. Due to a combination of medical problems and laziness I had not exercised in any regular or serious way for a little over three years. I began monitoring how much I ate and what I was eating, at least in a general sense, and exercising in a somewhat haphazard manner. My weight started going down and I started feeling much better. As time went on (let's say over a period of two months or so) I have decided I want to be much more serious about this. Using various tools I have been monitoring much more precisely my caloric intake and limiting my carbohydrate intake. But I want more. I want to be more serious in my weight loss. I have been speaking to friends regarding dieting and reading books, articles, and websites. My current understanding is that I can maximize my weight loss through hacking my biochemistry. I am now attempting to formulate a more specific weight loss/exercise algorithm by which I can reach my fitness goals. This blog will be me writing about my thoughts and experiences. I welcome constructive input.

Biohacking?

I am not sure if what I am setting out to do is technically called "biohacking". Most of what I have seen written on the subject of biohacking seems to say it refers to "a hobbyist who experiments with DNA and other aspects of genetics (Wikipedia)." I want to tweak my biochemistry in order to reach my fitness goals, and because I want to see just how much control I can have over this meat suit and to what level. The subject has begun to fascinate me. If anybody has any thoughts on whether or not I can really call this biohacking please comment.