since my last post. I wanted to change some of the settings for this blog and have been so busy at work that I haven't had the energy or inclination to tinker with it. As you can see, my weight has been bouncing around between 182 and 185 pounds for several weeks now. On the weeks that it bounced up to 185 I can pretty much identify the reason. The good news is I have made much progress getting re-acclimated to the Calorie King online food log and am now doing a pretty good job of recording everything I eat. Even better news is I seem to have at least tamed the night time snacking problem. At this point, I am planning ahead and noting a night time snack on my food log prior to going to bed so if I do get up and go foraging in the kitchen, I know what the planned snack is in advance.
I've also done some interesting reading recently about body fat/weight set point theory. The theory being that the body develops or establishes a body weight or % of fat set point and will actually "defend" this set point when we try to reduce it. This is part of what makes lasting weight/fat loss so difficult. I frankly wish my body would do a better job of defending its set point when the darn thing is increasing.!!!
I have had a couple times in the past week or so that I felt "out of gas". This feeling actually caused me to throw in the towel on my weight workout yesterday at the gym. I think this feeling may be a result of actually doing a better job of calorie restriction lately and maybe running low on fuel.
So the battle rages on. I go to the gym to lift weights, I get my cardio, I watch what I eat and try to record every bite. I weigh myself every week and look for interesting articles and books that I think may give me the upper hand on controlling my body weight. Heck, I even blog about it.
I do these things because I've learned these are the things I need to do to maintain a health body weight. When I do encounter people that are morbidly obese I have to think "but for the grace of god go I". I know how difficult it can be to maintain a healthy body weight but my message is that it can be done.
