Extra credit

[bill_schubert]

Having not gone to bed at my usual early hours I really didn't feel like going out today.  So the bike riding in 85 (30) degrees counts as extra credit.  I'm out of the shower and still dripping.  This time of year is truly the worst.

In and out of the neighborhood

I didn't feel up to doing more.  My mind was up to it but my body said it would not be happy.  In my 30's I'd have doubled the distance then added more just because.  But now with the option of overloading my systems and causing a failure I pay more attention to what my body says.  

Comments

[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

*stands up and applauds*

Especially, I want to acknowledge you for working with a daily diet plan which can be daily. Daily, and life-long.

Somewhere, I read that the key to life-long weight management is eating the way people with normal weight eat.
No weird diets, no crash diets, no absolute fasts, nothing extreme.
They just make a transition to normal portions of everything and balanced nutrition at their meals, and sort of like French women do (thanks and a hat tip to Mireille Guiliano, author of "French Women Don't Get Fat," for all that she's rather smug and superior-sounding in that whole, short series), where if they do indulge a bit today, they'll make up for it---not radically---over the next two or three days. They don't feel deprived and they have a healthy relationship with food.
(I know I was brought up to have one, but somehow I got off track, somewhere. )

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Yeah, thanks. I'd not heard of the book but the idea has been around and in my head for a long time. We'll see how it goes. Certainly the Noom people see it that way.

[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

A bajillion years ago, I did something like an ever-so-slightly modified version of the U.S. Olympic Ski Team's "crash" diet for dropping a bit of surplus weight in a hurry --- not that those folks needed any major overhauling, eh? It was known, in one of its iterations, as "the grapefruit diet" and it wasn't all that hard to follow for its week or eight or ten days (whatever; not sure I'm recalling exactly or correctly), but it's definitely a low-carb diet and not for everyone and most importantly, it was meant to husk up to ten pounds from one's frame in that period of time.
It did the job, but there was no provision made for maintenance and no transition to maintenance and if you slipped and ate a cookie or a bit of potato because about two-thirds of the way through you mindlessly went onto former daily intake autopilot, you were screwed. DISASTER!

I like the French/Italian/European approach because that sort of thing might set you back but you don't get that utter, dismal failure feeling and what is better as far as I'm concerned is, all you have to do is get back on the bicycle and keep on riding on track.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

I remember the grapefruit diet. Or remember hearing about it. Yeah, lots of that stuff over the years.