I had a weekend of enforced social eating. Since Saturday its been hamburgers, ice cream laden deserts, pizza, and luncheon food. That's refined carbs from genetically modified wheat, animal fat from genetically modified corn, and umm.. not much else. That's bad. But the worst thing of all is it leaves me hungry. I could raid the fridge. What's going on?
Well there is a fullness index, see http://nutritiondata.self.com/topics/fullness-factor which includes some consideration for the presence of dietary fibre. It doesn't include my simple model which is that the digestive system wants a certain volume of food, for me I want five cups a day. And air doesn't count. So I would need five hamburgers a day, and that's serious. I could eat a hamburger for breakfast, one for lunch, one later in the afternoon, and two for supper. No problem. A hamburger is about 500 calories, so I think you can do the math.
We all have to indulge once in a while. And I say go for it. Satisfy that desire and move on. If there's anything to the fullness index, I should have had one hamburger with about three paddies.
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So many people wish they could lose weight. This blog is an attempt to put together something to share about my experience. I started January of 2012 at 232 lbs and I had been trying to lose weight, probably shaving 5 lbs off my maximum, which would have been closer to 235. My last measurement showed a mere 160.4 lbs. The means over the last year I would have lost 75 lbs. In the picture from the summer of 2012 I weigh 175. I would love to get down to the 150 to 155 range over the next year. Why so slim? Mostly because if its worth doing its worth doing well. But also because arteriosclerosis runs thick in my family and if I can live at an ideal weight of course I should. I'm also fully content to live life at 160 if that's how it is to be, but I think its worth a try. This blog lets you join the adventure! The main thing was I just decided I'm in charge of my own weight. Policitians and actors do it. Why not me? Do I just did. No hocus-pocus. No hormones or any kind of pill. No extreme behavior, diets or fasting. No worries about mysterious toxins. Just a series of straight-up, science-based strategies. That why I think I have something to share. I can weigh whatever I want. Although I take what I know from science, I don't have access to scholarly libraries or time to do full scholarship on what I put here. I don't claim to have all the science right. If you know something I should know, add in a comment. This blog is a work in progress, I will keep editing the pages as I get ideas, insight and feedback. All my best -- Rob |
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