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For almost a year I have been in the habit of taking a walk during my lunch break. Recently I went walking on a sunny, but disgustingly humid day. It was a tougher walk than I had experienced in several days. Sadly, the elevators, which were fine when I set out, were out of order by the time I returned. I had no choice but to walk up the two flights of stairs to return to my cubicle.<br>
I can handle one flight of stairs. That has been well within my comfort level for quite a while – long before I started tracking exercise or even caring too much about that kind of thing. The second flight, however, has always been just beyond my reach. I was able to get up there, but it took an embarrassing amount of effort and my legs felt shaky and unreliable by the time I would manage to pull myself to the top.<br>
After walking a mile and a half in the heat, I was not looking forward to the added “exercise” of the stairs.<br>
To my amazement, I took them just fine. I’m not saying I sprinted up the stairs or anything foolish like that. I’m just saying that I took the two flights with a little more speed than I have come to expect from myself and my legs handled that load just fine.<br>
Win for me.<br>
These are the kinds of tangible successes that sustain me when the scale refuses to cooperate.<br>
I’m rapidly approaching five months on FS and I have barely recorded a ten pound drop. I’d be a liar if I didn’t say that was disheartening.<br>
When I first started with FS, I was pretty hung up on macronutrient distributions. I was convinced that a healthy distribution was the elusive secret to weight loss and the miracle of online tracking was going to magically keep my distributions in line and all I would have to do is sit back after an occasional bout of exercise and watch the pounds melt away.<br>
For a couple of weeks, it actually did seem that easy. I didn’t even have to sweat macronutrient ratios – it seemed like the RDI reduction alone was doing the trick. I put my silly little concerns about macronutrient distributions on the back burner and forgot about them.<br>
It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen any success that has been measurable by the scale. It also has been quite a while since I have had a lot of faith in the calories I list in my food diary. In the last two months there has been a lot of takeout in lieu of home cooked meals, which has made it difficult to reliably track calories. When I was allowing myself a large enough RDI that I could more or less count on a 10% margin of error over a month, those kinds of irregularities didn’t seem that important. Now that I am hitting the ceiling of a lower RDI with more regularity, those kinds of untracked errors can mean the success or failure of the day and over time, can impact the results of the month.<br>
The fact is, however, that even where tracking has been reliable, I track a lot of fat. I don’t feel bad about fat from nut sources or olive oil, but there has been a lot of bad fat, for lack of a better term, as well. And if my body is occupied burning the fat I’m eating – even if it’s so-called good fat, then it doesn’t have the time or resources to burn the fat I’m carrying, right?<br>
It might be time to give the whole macronutrient distribution thing another look. The people who are at or near their weight loss goals typically have distribution charts that are greener than the one that appears on my page, so there may be something to it.<br>
But hey, it’s not all gloom and doom and fretting over my RDI. For your listening pleasure, here is a homeboy done good from my neck of the woods:<br>
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Send the robber barons straight to hell!<br>
Bruce Springsteen. Philadelphia. September 2. The spouse and I have tickets.<br>
It’s going to be a great show.
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1688 kcal
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Grasa: 65,04g | Prot: 53,41g | Carbh: 235,91g.
Desayuno: honey, rye bread, 100% Natural Creamy Peanut Butter, coffee, half and half, sugar. Almuerzo: celery, Trail Mix. Cena: cheese fries, Grilled Veggie Sub. más...
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