Lots to talk about this week. First off, I weighed in at 164 lbs today. This means my DCV is 1882 Cal and my BMI is 24.2. This is excellent news. It means that I've successfully completed phase 1 of my fitness goals: Get my weight down.
Phase 2, is where I increase my range of motion/flexibility, and add weight-lifting to my workout. This may result in my weight going back up, but it will be built on a better cardiovascular base and a much more disciplined diet.
Speaking of diets, now that phase 1 is complete, I'm technically done with the diet. This doesn't mean a green light for junk food, but it does mean I'm going to allow a greater tolerance for my caloric totals. I may decide to stop tracking the composition of my diet in the next few weeks. This has been the hardest part in my opinion. Getting accurate information on food items can be really hard. Even more hard when I'm eating many vegan recipes from the web. I've often used the non-vegan numbers when I couldn't find nutritional data on the vegan version as to be conservative with my numbers.
Last week was kind of a bummer. I was honestly not motivated at all to do this blog. I was back-logged on recording my numbers and honestly wasn't caring. It was only over the weekend that I was talking to the motivational speaker and pop-locker extraordinaire, Otis Funkmeyer, that I found the motivation to continue. He said he was impressed at what I had done so far, and made an analogy I thought was worth sharing. He said that no business enterprise is successful without good accounting. I thought about my success so far, and in my fitness and wellness enterprise, I had to admit, it was my nutritional and exercise accounting that had made me successful. It's not time to quit. I may keep new metrics for phase 2, but I will still keep the numbers coming.\
I thought I'd give you some new graphs this week. The old graphs are great, but it's the same thing every week. The first two, examine the relationship of how I spend my time in relation to what type of day I'm on in my schedule.
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The first thing I notice is that, on average, I'm actually pretty much the same on days and mids. I only exercise and sleep a little more on days. The second thing I notice is that I'm using my days off in a good way. As for consistency, well... the standard of deviation for how long I sleep is about 2:21. I'm kind of all over the place. It's interesting to me that even though I get a little more sleep during days, I'm way more consistent on mids.
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I thought I'd offer some data to inspect my previous claim about my attention to fiber being a great way to stay on top of things. While there is some reason to believe a relationship is here, you can see that my data points are all over the place. There appears to be a pretty natural break at around 2,000 Cal where my fiber level seems to vary with a large degree.
click to ole, ole, ole, ole, o-le, ooo-le!
Lastly, I'd like to show you how awful I am at soccer. I shot 10 balls from three places on the field: The left and right corners of the penalty box and the top of the penalty arc. The ones I made in, I assure you would have been very easy to block. It's time for the World Cup, so get excited. I know I am. I will post future attempts to best this terrible performance.
