Day One of Thirty-One

Day One of Thirty-One

"I hear and I forget.  I see and I reminder.  I do and I understand."  Attributed to Confucius, a Chinese Philosopher

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Weight: 187.0 lbs. BMI=29.73

Weight in ounces: 2992

Is it day one or day two?  If I started my March goal yesterday then it's really day two but it doesn't matter much, as long as I keep my goal in mind and stay on track with both my diet and my exercise program.  I learned a lot from Gary Taubes's book "Good Calories, Bad Calories".  Of course, my first exposure to the idea of restricting carbohydrates came from a program by the Doctors Eades called "Protein Power."  I still have the book from that and I read it periodically, but the bulk of knowledge is contained in "Good Calories, Bad Calories."  

Food is nutrition and nutrition is what we take in to fuel our bodies. Nutrition comes in the forms of fat, protein and carbohydrates.  Carbohydrates are organic compounds formed from carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, which tells us chemically what they are but does not tell us much.  Our best examples of carbohydrates are sugars, table sugar, and other products that we don't think of as sugars because  they do not appear as sugar.  Carbohydrates appear in the forms of rice, breads, pastas, potatoes, in fact, carbohydrates are ubiquitous and for many of us, can be addictive.  They can become addictive because a lot of the flavor of foods we like is generated by some form of carbohydrate. Candy bars, soft drinks, rich fruit drinks, all have many grams of carbohydrates present.  Loseit.com reports that a 12-oz. Cocoa-Cola contains 27 grams of sugar (carbohydrates), and it's easy to consume three cans on a hot day, for 81 grams of sugar.  I try to keep my carbohydrate intake less than 20 grams per day for a variety of reasons.

Through experiences, I have learned that carbohydrates cause me to gain weight.  Worse than that, once I begin to gain weight from them, I also have other things begin to happen with my chemical changes and the worst one is that I begin to get depressed, and it gets complicated.

I may be on one of my plateaus.  This is Sunday now, March 3, 2013 and my morning weight was 187.0 lbs.  I ran three miles yesterday and I just finished my run today.  The weather was beautiful, sunny and 61 F degrees.  I ran three miles today, over three, actually, and I burned about 323 calories.  I also took a nose dive as I stubbed a toe, went airborne and was unable to catch myself.  I fell on my knees and skidded, got my knees skinned well and a part of my palms (I was wearing gloves) and put a bump on my left forehead about the eye; but, it was a great run apart from that.

I look forward to tomorrow to see if my plateau stays or if I move on down.

Stephen J. "Red Boots" Payne
Body by Payne

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