“Results not typical.” That’s the fine print you’ll see on weight loss program ads and TV commercials when someone sings the praises of this methods or that and how they lost an amazing amount of weight.
My results to date are entirely typical, but your results may vary.
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I tidied up my Dock this past weekend. (For you non-Mac types, it’s a task/status bar.) And today I looked at it and realized: Are these really the only four programs I find important enough to want one click away? And the answer was yes: two web browsers, an e-mail client, and the omnipresent OS X Finder. What has happened to me?
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I’m giving myself 3 years plus 100 days, AT THE OUTSIDE, to get down to a safe and maintainable weight. That’s my 50th birthday. 3 years to undo 30 years of biological damage? Sounds a bit unlikely, when you put it that way. 
The first 90 days of 2012 will be concerted effort: serious activity, tracking and managing of food, controlling stress (of which there will be plenty), and so on. If I can lose 9 to 18 pounds in that time (probably won’t really kick in ’til the second half of the trial), then I can confirm I’m on the right track.
The plan in general:
– controlled calorie intake, 1800-2000 kCal daily. Might need to be adjusted depending on results (might be too low; might be too high).
– 50 minutes moderate aerobic activity or 25 minutes vigorous activity, 6x/week. Might need to be adjusted at intervals to sustain desired results.
– 10 minutes strength/flexibility activity, 6x/week, with progressive increase in reps/difficulty.
– 45 minutes/day of mindfulness meditation, for stress management and focus support.
– Take all prescribed medications and supplements appropriately.
And at the end of the 90 days … it’s my annual check-up with my primary physician. And we decide if I keep on with this plan, or start the process for bariatric surgery, which would cost us several thousand dollars.
I’m still looking for good logging/tracking tools. I’ve got SparkPeople.com, but the site is overcluttered with ads and features I don’t care about. USDA’s SuperTracker is, conversely, too simple.
Happy New Year.
What will you do with yourself, Bob, with all these hobbies dumped by the wayside? Well…
There’re lots of chores around the house and yard to be done.
There’s lots of exercise to be done. Lots and lots.
I do need to get away from the house now and then. Church will probably take care of part of that need. I may have to scrape up a new friend or two and activity or two for the rest.
And I will need something new to do when I want to get away from all of the above. I’m thinking drawing. Well, sketching probably, I have no imagination that it’ll ever be good enough to be called a drawing. Don’t laugh! My grandmother took up oil painting late in life and enjoyed it very much. That’s all I’m after: something simple and easily done in private, to amuse myself.
That’s what my new world looks like. Whatever your world looks like, and whatever holiday you may be observing, celebrating, or avoiding, I wish you all hope, love, and success.
This past spring I scaled back my model rocketry activities in order to favor roleplay gaming (or games in general) as my number one hobby. My thought was that I could maybe share it with my family, or find an outside group to play with.
My thought was unproductive. I have read a few good games, done a lot of research about old good games, redesigned a game of my own twice. Have not played games. This isn’t getting me anywhere.
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