January 25, 2012: Post 25, Day 25 - Fast Day
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Today's Weight: 204.2 lbs
Yesterday's Weight: 204.8 lbs
Net Loss/Gain: - 0.6 lbs
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| Daily weight from December 31, 2011 - first quarter. |
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| Daily weight from December 31, 2011 - year 2012. |
So we have a weight trend I need to reverse, starting today. Luckily, as I pointed out yesterday when the trend (do to recent eating) showed itself.
Daily Comment
The reason diets don't work is that they aren't sustainable. And, when they're not sustained, any success is reversed. This, by the way, is irrespective of exercise habits.
A recent article in the NY TImes pointed out, in a very discouraging way, the mechanisms of diet failure, and how they are rooted in changes in body function after a person becomes fat. Which is to say, getting fat makes a permanent change in how your body works, including hormonal balancee and efficiency and fat cell metabolism. This means that, if you changed your eating pattern (diet) to lose weight (and there is no other way, given that exercise is not, by itself, effective), as soon as you stop eating in the way that helped you lose weight, you will gain weight. If you revert to the way you ate that got you fat in the first place, the weight you lost comes back quickly, and then some. It would seem that, once you've put yourself in a situation where you want to lose weight, you are in that situation forever. The cost of holding on to your gains is, it turns out, eternal vigilance.
Since I may be experiencing this, it is time to un-relax on the diet front.
A recent article in the NY TImes pointed out, in a very discouraging way, the mechanisms of diet failure, and how they are rooted in changes in body function after a person becomes fat. Which is to say, getting fat makes a permanent change in how your body works, including hormonal balancee and efficiency and fat cell metabolism. This means that, if you changed your eating pattern (diet) to lose weight (and there is no other way, given that exercise is not, by itself, effective), as soon as you stop eating in the way that helped you lose weight, you will gain weight. If you revert to the way you ate that got you fat in the first place, the weight you lost comes back quickly, and then some. It would seem that, once you've put yourself in a situation where you want to lose weight, you are in that situation forever. The cost of holding on to your gains is, it turns out, eternal vigilance.
Since I may be experiencing this, it is time to un-relax on the diet front.
Food Log
Breakfast
Skipped.
Skipped.
Lunch
Skipped.
Dinner
Skipped.
Dinner
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| Appetizer: Genoa Salami (not shown). Main: Chicken with feta cheese and spinach sausage with whole grain Dijon Mustard and cauliflower with Gongora Dal (lentil curry). |
Genoa salami, baby carrots and whole seed Dijon mustard.
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