Eat more, exercise more

[elfs]

In accordance with my changes, I've been good about eating more food than usual, but none of it white: no flour, potatoes, or rice, and if I must have sugar in my coffee, I can at least pretend it's brown.

Without my scale (they charged me $20 just to return the damn thing, Never Buying From Homedics Again), I'm working with less accurate methods. So here are today's numbers:

• Left bicep: 341mm.
• Right bicep: 353mm.
• Chest: 966mm.
• Waist: 966mm.
• Hips: 990mm.
• Left thigh: 502mm.
• Right thigh: 520mm.

I also managed 31 gluteus medius splits last night. On my way to 50, and then I get to use the weights. Oh, joy.

Comments

[lemur123.livejournal.com]

Another body part measurement, plzkthx!

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[elfs.livejournal.com]

175mm.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Doncha's just love metric? It makes every sound bigger than it is. Sadly, no amount of exercise will help.

[mikstera.livejournal.com]

Could you expand (no pun intended!) on the rationale behind "eating more"? What health goal are you pursuing, and what methodologies are you employing?

I ask because I'm in the midst of a planned weight loss (30 lbs so far), and am always on the lookout for new ideas / method / data.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Here's the skinny: I'm substituting lentils and vegetables for what would usually be a rice, potato, or bread dish in approximately 8 out of the 14 breakfasts and lunches I have throughout the week. I also make a pretty damn good burrito with refried beans and lean meat (no rice, lots of vegetables), and that makes an additional 2 meals per week, so out of 21 meals, 10 are accounted for with some kind of legume or pulse. Other breakfasts include a Denver omelette. I let myself eat whatever the hell I want to on the weekend.

Pulses and legumes have a glycemic index of 25 and a glycemic load of 4: very, very low. (Potatoes have a GI/GL of 60-90/15-25; rice: 70-90/30-45 (!); bread 70-75/9-13.) They're high in protein, and although I was worried I might get bored eating the same thing every day, I'm not.

Also, I've cut all soda pop from my diet, and no desserts on the weekdays.

I'm mostly just trying to lose a few percentage points off my body fat because I've developed a bit of a spare tire. It's working; I've lost 2% so far in just a month.

But, yeah, you have actually have to eat more per meal than you would a basic starch: your body isn't getting the hyper-efficient glucose it once did from starches and sugars. It has to convert them from the complex carbs and proteins, and it takes more energy to do the conversion. Despite a higher over-all volume of food, I'm actually taking in less calories per day, and using the ones I do take in less efficiently.