Back At It
The scale problem I mentioned in my last post didn't turn out well.
It seems the new scale is accurate. Meaning the weights that I've been posting have been wrong, and wrong by almost 10 pounds. SHIT! You have no idea how much that frustrates me. People have said "you look like you've lost weight" and I've been replying "almost 35 pounds since Christmas". Now if I'd bought a new scale and found out the old scale was wrong in the other direction, meaning I was 10 pounds lighter than I thought, I'd have been ecstatic. But that's not the case.
A word of warning to those of you who put your trust in a scale with the dial-type reading: if you don't own a very expensive doctor's-office type scale, I'd consider one of the newer digital ones. I checked my weight on a shipping scale, on my mom's scale, and a couple others, and the new digital scale is accurate. Again, though: shit. This really discourages me.
Okay, so on to the diet. I've been taking the ELOO once a day, and I've upped my dose to four tablespoons (yuck on that fourth one) and I've been weight training a bit, so my weight is hard to calibrate (muscle weighs more than fat and all that, yadda yadda).
Today's weight (on the new and Godawfully accurate digital POS scale): 196.8 pounds.
This will have to be the new starting point considering the old scale was inaccurate. Anyone wanna buy a scale? Kidding.
So I'm showing no real loss, although my pants do seem to fit better, and maybe I'm replacing fat with muscle? I had a hell of a workout two weekends in a row. Now if I can just bring myself to weight train every day (or every other day) I might see some real muscle gains. I know I already feel better about my body with the weight lifting.
On the hunger front, I have to say that my hunger seems reduced with the ELOO intake. I eat lunch at work and if I don't think about it too much, I'm full after probably half the food I would have eaten previously. Today I threw out more than half a Chinese lunch special. I didn't eat the egg roll (which I love) and ate less than half the rice and chicken. And it just dawned on me! The lady forgot the fortune cookies (which I love)! I would normally have noticed that immediately; I just thought of it now. Kinda cool.
So I'll continue weight training and taking the ELOO. If you've never really worked out, I can't recommend it enough. Sure, your muscles are sore after a good workout, but that means you've accomplished something. The old "no pain no gain" BS line they feed you, but it's true, and the pain is minor compared to getting yourself in better shape. I'm working out using only dumbells, which is highly recommended by experts. The bonus is it's cheap to get started. I spent just over $100 on a dumbell set and a basic incline bench. Hopefully the combination of this diet and the workouts will further my "get in shape" cause. You know what they say: diet and exercise.
It seems the new scale is accurate. Meaning the weights that I've been posting have been wrong, and wrong by almost 10 pounds. SHIT! You have no idea how much that frustrates me. People have said "you look like you've lost weight" and I've been replying "almost 35 pounds since Christmas". Now if I'd bought a new scale and found out the old scale was wrong in the other direction, meaning I was 10 pounds lighter than I thought, I'd have been ecstatic. But that's not the case.
A word of warning to those of you who put your trust in a scale with the dial-type reading: if you don't own a very expensive doctor's-office type scale, I'd consider one of the newer digital ones. I checked my weight on a shipping scale, on my mom's scale, and a couple others, and the new digital scale is accurate. Again, though: shit. This really discourages me.
Okay, so on to the diet. I've been taking the ELOO once a day, and I've upped my dose to four tablespoons (yuck on that fourth one) and I've been weight training a bit, so my weight is hard to calibrate (muscle weighs more than fat and all that, yadda yadda).
Today's weight (on the new and Godawfully accurate digital POS scale): 196.8 pounds.
This will have to be the new starting point considering the old scale was inaccurate. Anyone wanna buy a scale? Kidding.
So I'm showing no real loss, although my pants do seem to fit better, and maybe I'm replacing fat with muscle? I had a hell of a workout two weekends in a row. Now if I can just bring myself to weight train every day (or every other day) I might see some real muscle gains. I know I already feel better about my body with the weight lifting.
On the hunger front, I have to say that my hunger seems reduced with the ELOO intake. I eat lunch at work and if I don't think about it too much, I'm full after probably half the food I would have eaten previously. Today I threw out more than half a Chinese lunch special. I didn't eat the egg roll (which I love) and ate less than half the rice and chicken. And it just dawned on me! The lady forgot the fortune cookies (which I love)! I would normally have noticed that immediately; I just thought of it now. Kinda cool.
So I'll continue weight training and taking the ELOO. If you've never really worked out, I can't recommend it enough. Sure, your muscles are sore after a good workout, but that means you've accomplished something. The old "no pain no gain" BS line they feed you, but it's true, and the pain is minor compared to getting yourself in better shape. I'm working out using only dumbells, which is highly recommended by experts. The bonus is it's cheap to get started. I spent just over $100 on a dumbell set and a basic incline bench. Hopefully the combination of this diet and the workouts will further my "get in shape" cause. You know what they say: diet and exercise.
posted by The Fat Guy at 5:58 PM
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