Buddy’s Fitness News

I had a snack free day!  I can hardly believe it.  I walked back and forth past a pile of halloween candy all day long at work, and though tempted, I didn’t give in.  The water seems to going down easier too.  I still fall short of the 19 cups, though.  That’s a lot of water!  I did get in 16 cups.  I also balanced out my nutrients.  I ended my day not hungry while consuming only 1405 calories with 50.45% carbs, 26.43% protein, and 23.12% fat.  I do find when I get somewhere between a 50/25/25 and 40/30/30 split, I tend be be fuller on fewer calories.

My goal is to consume 19 cups of water per day on top of everything else I’m doing.  I didn’t fail too miserably as I was able to get down 16 of the 19 cups.  As the day, then evening went… I didn’t want to drink anymore as I was afraid it would interfere too much with my sleep.  The last thing I needed was to be running to the bathroom every other hour all night!  As it was, nature called at 3:30am, well, I woke up with the help of my cat who decided to knock my eye glasses and a few other items off my night stand.

My goal is to get a jump start in the morning before I go to work by drinking at least 2 cups. (Read more…)

Liz, one of the kids on my hockey team (she’s a kid relative to the average age of 40 on my team!) is in college studying to be an athletic trainer or something to that effect.  Anyhoo, she shared with me last night about a little experiment she did for school.

Apparently, the desired normal amount of water intake for a human adult has a formula.  You take your body weight, divide it by 3, and the result is the number of ounces of water per day you should consume.  So in my case that would be 224# /3 = 75oz.  Further divide that by 8oz and I end up with a little over 9 cups of water per day I should consume based on my body weight.  Makes sense.

Liz’s experiment question was: how does water consumption affect weight loss?  So the only variable in the experiment was her water intake.  She made no changes in her eating or exercise habits, but instead doubled her water intake. (Read more…)

I’m playing around with a new blog theme and am in the process of sorting through sizes, colors, fonts, pics, etc.  Things are gonna look a bit goofy until I get things straightened out; it’ll probably be several days at the rate I move.

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Much to my delight, actually, I’ve plateaued in my weight loss.  Why am I so happy?  Well, for one - I haven’t gained any weight since my 25 pound milestone in July, and two - I’ve maintained it with very little effort and a lot of bad eating.  Not that those things are good in themselves, but it shows that my body has adjusted to it’s new weight rather than wanting to regain every pound back and then some.

My past diet successes were very short lived as I would quickly gain back double what I’ve lost in short time.  I think the major difference here was that I lost my 25 pounds with just sensible eating (even upwards of 2000 calories a day!) and physical activity - which I’ve continued until now.

My goal is to lose another 20 pounds during the course of this hockey season which ends the first week in March.  Even though my activity level has gone up with playing hockey 3 days a week, working out at home, and working on my feet 40 hours a week, I will have to face many weekends of nasty restaurant food - the main staple of a travel hockey player’s diet.  So my goal is to carefully monitor what I put in my mouth during the course of the week, and hope that I can counteract the weekends.

What’s interesting is that it seems for many people trying to lose weight, their “diet” is the constant, and exercise is thrown in to make the difference.  For me, my physical activity and exercise seems to be the constant, and my food choices are what’s going to determine if I lose or not.  I suppose it’s not a bad thing.

What’s gone so far are the snacks and lunches from the coffee truck which shows up at my work place at 10:20am every day.  In their place are fruit, a Luna bar, and a bagged lunch.  Also out are my several times weekly chocolate runs!  Okay, well, chocolate isn’t on my forbidden list, but I’m no longer devouring Hershey’s bar 6-packs… 2 bars at a time, of course.  I admit it… I’m a bit of a junkie.  Also changed for the most part are my dinners.  I’m no longer so exhausted after work that my only choice is home delivered pizza.  I’m back to grocery shopping a couple days a week so Jen and I can eat real food.  Breakfast is a given.  I’ve been a breakfast eater for years, so no arm twisting there.