Everyday Systems

Graham

11st 12 3/4lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.8, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 34.2% #

My cold lasted a long time. Last night choir and disorderly eating both before, during and after the pub. I'm under-exercised as well. Winter is coming. I've skipped my last 2 fasts.

Graham

11st 9 1/2lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.3, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 35%

As I have a cold, I've decided not to fast today, but I am missing it. It's not the fast itself but the fast-ending meal that I particularly enjoy, being able to eat a lavish meal with a clear conscience. Oh well, must be sensible.

Graham

11st 7 1/4lb. 40 1/4", BMI 24.9, WHtR 59.6%, Body Fat 34.4% Yesterday was the worst day for my cold, back of nose/throat sore, eyes sore, occasional violent sneezing bouts. I hope I'm still able to practice my songs, and well enough to sing out on Sunday. Suddenly I'm lighter but too ill to much enj...

Graham

11st 10lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.4, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 34.9%

Graham

11st 11lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.5, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 34.6% Fasting # A farewell meal with a visitor, very tasty pizza, overdid it. Tuesday 13th 4:30pm I was 11st 10 1/4lb, too fed up to measure my waist. My cold has evolved from annoying chest stuff to a back of the nose/upper throat thing, worse for ...

Graham

11st 10 3/4lb, 40 1'/2", BMI 25.5, WHtR 60%, Body Fat 34.1%

Chest symptoms discouraged allotment efforts. Didn't rehearse. Still sore today, Tuesday looms.

Graham

11st 10 1/4lb, 40 3/8", BMI 25.4, WHtR 59.8%, Body Fat 33.9%

7am Moderately effective fast against background of gradually climbing weight. I managed not to snack. The cold didn't intrude much, exercise didn't feature.

Graham

11st 10 3/4lb, 40 1/4", BMI 25.5, WHtR 59.6%, Body Fat 33.4% Fasting Up 1 3/4lb: What is going on? Odd day yesterday, coming down with a cold, less solid food, more soup and bread, no bike riding. The cold feels mild, it is my feeling that it will be OK to fast till this evening, eating somewhere fr...

Graham

11st 9lb, 40 9/16", BMI 25.2, WHtR 60.1%, Body Fat 34.7% Fried potatoes twice yesterday, and my 3rd "meal" was biscuits with my tango break tea. If I say that wasn't a snack, then I stuck to No S yesterday. I hope to grow more onions and garlic next year and less potatoes, if I can't come up with a ...

Graham

11st 7lb, 40 1/8", BMI 24.9, WHtR 59.4%, Body Fat 34/1% So, weight/waist coming down again. What was different? Less hunger and less eating probably - so why did I want and eat less? Somewhat more protein though not massively more - I didn't get my 5 a day, couldn't be bothered Only 2 meals, no beer...

Graham

I have very mixed feelings about quackwatch - they have their own axe to grind. I have read that there is a major downside to taking vitamin pills - that they give an exaggerated sense of protection leading to increased risky dietary behaviour. Beyond that though, there is the issue of intelligent u...

Graham

11st 9 1/2lb, 40 1/4", BMI 25.3, WHtR 59.6%, Body Fat 33.8% #

Almost stuck to No S, but a bit of late night snacking happened. A tolerable fast except for too few tasks done.

Graham

11st 12 1/4lb, 40 5/16", BMI 25.7, WHtR 59.7%, Body Fat 33.2% Fasting I have no idea how I have gained 4lb in a weekend. My diet was notably low in protein - is that what it's all about? 8:35pm. This evening's meal had protein: 6oz lean turkey stir-fried with tinned pineapple, onion, mushrooms, garl...

Graham

11st 10 1/4lb, 40 1/4", BMI 25.4, WHtR 59.6%, Body Fat 33.6%

The weight gain figure's a bit of a surprise. Weekend eating has had more starch and less protein than usual. On the other hand, rather more digging than usual. Mystery.

Graham

11st 8 1/2lbs, 40 3/16", BMI 25.1, WHtR 59.5%, Body Fat 33.9% # I was able to do fairly demanding physical labour for 6 hours towards the end of my fast. Eating at SO's meant no help keeping to a No S one plate meal - soup is far too light. It was my choice to accept that invitation, no-one else to ...

Graham

11st 9lb, 40 1/4", BMI 25.2,WHtR 59.6%, Body Fat 33.9% # Fasting

Ate too little last night, then mindless snacking: on nuts and raisins - highly calorific. Slept well, though not quite as long as I'd've wished. Let's see how today turns out.

Graham

11st 8 3/4lb, 40 14", BMI 25.2, WHtR 59.6%, Body Fat 34% I'll exempt yesterday, I got invited to an Eid (the festival at the end of Ramadan) meal, a mini-banquet with spiced meats, pilau rice and rich sweets from Turkey and the Indian subcontinent. No wonder I weigh a bit more. A meal that left my s...

Graham

40 1/8", 11st 7 3/4lb*,, BMI 25, WHtR 59.4%, Body Fat 33.9%

*recent weighing imprecision: I've been weighing dressed and subtracting 1lb recently, but today I actually undressed and found I'd under-compensated for the weight of the clothes I was wearing. Never mind. the ball-park is right.

Graham

11st 8 (or 11st 9 1/4lb), 39 15/16", BMI 25.1, WHtR 59.2%, Body Fat 33.4% # To put a BMI I made an arbitrary decision about which of the two weights my scales suggested. The lower figure is probably right - if my waist measurement is accurate all yesterday's activity compensated for the food I ate. ...

Graham

11st 8 1/4lb, 40 7/16", BMI 25.5, WHtR 59.9%, Body Fat 34.6%

Graham

11st 8 1/4lb, 40 3/4" BMI 25.1, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 35.4% So, weight back down to where it was before I fasted on Friday, but waist increased again! Not so much disappointed as unable to grasp how it is going. Seems like the rules aren't the rules any more, and I can fast twice a week and still get...

Graham

11st 9 1/4lb, 40 1/2", BMI 25.2, WHtR 60%, Body Fat 34.5% # 5:24am. the results of my last fast disappoint in pretty well every way I can think of, save for whatever benefit the occasional rest from digestion may be imagined to confer. I am heavier and fatter ! I went to bed early but slept fitfully...

Graham

11st 8 1/4lb, 39 15/16" BMI 25.1, WHtR 59.2%, Body Fat 33.3% # Fasting Paralysed, indolent. Eyes tired, weather cooler than of late, waiting for something without a name. Changes in general routine and fasting days in particular: exercise issues: My mountain bike is out of action still, so calorie-b...

Graham

11st 8 1/4", 40 1/2", BMI 25.1, WHtR 60%, Body Fat 34.7% # Eating, the good and the bad. The good - I got my whole 5-a-day in my first meal of the day: 2 sausages fried with onion, mushroom and capsicum, plus re-heated cabbage, carrot and apple sauce. All fitted on one plate, no bread with that. The...

Graham

I just noticed today, there's a nice little message which tells me what time it is now, and what time it was last time I visited the site - only it's wrong, weirdly wrong. It is 1 hour and 33 minutes off! Why? Now 9:42 here but the Everyday Systems index page states it's 8:09am. It's the same day an...

Graham

scales say 11st 10lb! tape post 1/2 cup of coffee 40 1/2", up too early* little point in bmi etc. when I'm in such doubt about the scales. And I already had a drink. Allso No S fail yesterday. I was too hungry when I cooked, sampled from the pan as i waited for cabbage to defrost - then belatedly re...

Graham

@11st 8lb, 40", BMI 25.1, WHtR 59.3%, Body Fat 33.5% Fasting

Another Monday, another fast. Note slimmer waist - spent many hours at the allotment yesterday, weeding, lifting potatoes. Ate a KitKat and a Mars bar, but also had potatoes and leaf beet - harvested and cooked in the open air - lovely.

Graham

@11st 8lb, 40 1/4" BMI 25.1, WHtR 59.6%, Body Fat 34.2% Topsy-turvy weekend returning to a semblance of order. Focusing turning out to be producing some profound moments, shifts within, and an impatient urge to get on with all the inner work calling for my attention. It is good to be living with the...

Graham

11st 7 1/4lb, 40 1/4", BMI 24.9, WHtR 59.6%, Body Fat 34.4%

Graham

11st 7 3/4lb, 40 1/2", BMI 25, WHtR 60%, Body Fat 34.9%, I was No S compliant, ate only 2 meals, with no great appetite for more, weight less, but waist increased - I wonder why. And here's a new oddity - this morning I discover I want to focus, but don't want to meditate. Plenty to plan today, a bu...

Graham

11st 8 1/4lb*, 40 1/8", BMI 25.1, WHtR 59.4%, Body Fat 33.8% # So, the waist yesterday was an aberration. The No S fail I indicate above with the # refers to yesterday, not today - I haven't had time to fail yet today, just coffee and a lot of internet study on focusing. Yesterday's fast was fairly ...

Graham

11st 9lb, 41 1/4"!!! BMI 25.2, WHtR 61.1%, Body Fat 36.4% Fasting I weighed after having some coffee, but waist size looks enormous! nearly an inch gained since Friday! I ate some Pakistani food with friends breaking their Ramadan fasts yesterday evening, and starchy snacks too - but it's shocking t...

Graham

11st 8lb, 40 3/8", BMI 25.1, WHtR 59.8%, Body Fat 34.5% Fasting So, all progress mysteriously vanished. Did pasta and port do that? Tasty though it may be, I think port doesn't agree with me - I had some very disturbing sensations in chest/stomach and horrible feelings when I woke today. Well, I hop...

Graham

11st 6 1/4lb, 39 15/16", BMI 24.8, WHtR 59.2%, Body Fat 33.8%

Today my scale behaved well and won back my affection - how can I take it back to Argos now?

Graham

11st 6lb, or 11st 7 1/4lb, 40 1/4" BMI 24.9 WHtR 59.6%, Body Fat 34.4% Scale continues to play odd tricks. I've gone with the higher figure. I might try to get my scale replaced today, lets see what Argos say about the 10 year guarantee. (I still have the box and receipt, but not the actual printed ...

Graham

11st 7 3/4llb, 40 5/16", BMI 25, WHtR 59.7%, Body Fat 34.4% So. That fast seemed to work. The meal at the end was decent, wholesome. The backdrop to my efforts these last few days - 3 nights of "rioting" - or something like it. My personal view is it's part of a deficiency of meaning, the shadow sid...

Graham

11st 8 1/2lb, 40 1/4", BMI 25.1,WHtR 59.6, Body Fat 4% Fasting 5:30pm, Fasting is difficult today, I'm feeling hungry. Ginger tea didn't fix things this time either. I will definitely be eating on the early side tonight, too distracted to do much else. And this struggle appears to be to just stay as...

Graham

Mmmm, must be a UK favorite, beans on toast..do you mind sharing the recipe? What kind of beans, etc. I've seen this type of meal on here by other UK's.. Ah - baked beans, as eaten in the UK, come in a tin, labelled "baked beans in tomato sauce". Most famous brand Heinz baked beans - which I assume...

Graham

11st 8 3/4lb, 40 3/8", BMI 25.2, WHtR 59.8%, Body Fat 34.3% # Unusual fast - I was quite hungry despite limited physical activity. Ended early with poached eggs on beans on toast - and blackberries and cream - but I didn't put things away and did some nibbling, so a No S fail. Not enormous quantity,...

Graham

Yes, I think our childhoods can really impact us. I think I've pretty much come as far as I can go at 54...I've learned to live with it. My food addiction I think came from many reasons, a family of 9 there was deprivation, over the years of emotional neglect food was always the source of pleasure ...

Graham

11st 8lb*, 40 3/8" BMI 5.1, WHtR 59.8%, Body Fat 34.5% # Fasting So, another Friday, another fast. Another sweltering night, fitful sleep. I am slightly slimmer than last Friday, though virtually the same weight. Running on the spot, but with much effort required now to remain stationary. Last night...

Graham

11st 8 1/4lbs, 40 3/8"BMI 25.1, WHtR 59.8%, Body Fat 34.4% # Scale gave 3 different readings. (11st 7 3/4, then 8 3/4, then 8 1/4lbs)Time to find out if that guarantee is worth anything. Will Argos take it back, or is it "post it to the manufacturer? Ate more yesterday. Had lunch. And a little cheat...

Graham

Strange article: I could swear I'd read evidence-based studies detailing the benefits of regular pomegranate juice drinking for furred-up arteries. And some antioxidants are vitamins - and, as their name suggests, supposedly vital for life to continue. Perhaps the author is talking about antioxidant...

Graham

Considering the roots of my struggles with excess weight, I came across this study today. It certainly made me think.

http://www.acestudy.org/files/Gold_into ... Graphs.pdf

Graham

11st 6 3/4lb, 40 1/4", BMI 24.9, WHtR 59.6%, Body Fat 34.5% # Another hot day and night. Slight No S slip - too hot to cook, but eventually I did, inadequately, and then "absent-mindedly" nibbling what remained on the kitchen table, instead of putting it away. It would all have fitted on one plate, ...

Graham

11st 7 1/4lb, 40 1/8", BMI 24.9, WHtR 59.4%, Body Fat 34% It was very hot yesterday, yet I noticed I drank only sparingly. I didn't fix my usual fast-ending mega-meal, heat-induced torpor may have played it's part again. So, I'm lighter and slimmer, hoping it's not all about water. Studied stuff on ...

Graham

A little experiment taught me something (perhaps). I introduced a new habitcal category "TEST" and then filled in data for the month of July, saved the changes, and then deleted the category. I then re-inserted the same category - and voila - the data came back. I still don't know if that data from ...

Graham

10st 8 1/2lb, 40 1/4", BMI 25.1, WHtR 59.6%, Body Fat 34% Fasting

Graham

10st 9lb, 40 1/4", BMI 25.2, WHtR 59.6%, Body Fat 33.9%

Graham

I've used HabitCal for quite a while now, and I'm thinking I'd like to change some of the categories I use. Thing is, I don't know how, particularly, to give a category a new name, or stop using an old category and start a new one, without losing the record of what I did in previous months. For exam...

Graham

11st 8 3/4lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.2, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 35.2% disappointing fast result, gained 1/2lb, despite No S compliance. Silly really - I can't snack but I can have a beer... (and last night I wanted a snack, but instead, I had a beer) It was a tolerable fast, (what does that tell me? Too easy,...

Graham

Forgive me for saying so, but you haven't seemed particularly positive/happy in some of your recent posts about the results of your NoS-fasting combination, or the process of it. If you are unhappy or unsatisfied for a period of time, it's perhaps not surprising that you feel a bit less motivated? ...

Graham

Hi Linguisticsgirl - hadn't considered bartering - can't think of any plot holders who don't also have their own supply of potatoes. Fasting consistently needn't be miserable - it is found in many cultures, isn't considered problematic - the spirit you do it in is crucial to how it feels, also that ...

Graham

Hi milliem. I had guessed my calories in vs calories out was the root of the problem - but that doesn't explain why I now seem driven to consume more calories, why what was once a doable, sustainable strategy no longer is.

Graham

11st 8 1/4lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.1, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 35.4% Fasting The fasting and No S combination doesn't seem enough to curtail weight-gain for me these days. Its like being on a hill with brakes that don't work properly any more. I may be reducing speed, but I don't seem able to stop. Carbs may...

Graham

11st 9lb, 40 9/16", BMI 25.2, WHtR 60.1%, Body Fat 34.7% # Weight and waist a disaster, so is No S. I can't stand to make myself do the one plate thing. Lunch was a bacon and mushroom sandwich plus a bowl of blackberries with cream. The blackberries were an afterthought, I guess that's seconds, and ...

Graham

11st 9lb*, 40 1/8", BMI 25.2, WHtR 59.4%, Body Fat 33.6% # I thought yesterday was going well, then it didn't. No sense of what/how I did derail, broke No S rules first accidentally - then I had a slight case of "what the hell" and chocolate and buttered crumpets featured. Two prominent issues: I di...

Graham

Another thought about bland vs interesting food for me: When I'm eating duller food, I'm asking myself "Must I go on eating?". When I eat interesting food I'm asking myself "Must I stop eating?" I think that is why the "dull food" strategy works for those it works for.

Graham

@Sheepish - clearly being satisfied is a complex matter - many factors contributing to it. I'm thinking of your lovely restaurant meal, and assuming you do in fact savour it? Linger over it? Rather fits what I said about the "French" style of eating. And your reaction to bland food? I'm thinking you...

Graham

I can see the point of this strategy - in my own life, the more tasty the food, the greater my appetite. If I weren't fat, it wouldn't matter. Perhaps the ideal is the "French" approach - we are told they savour their food, giving themselves time to eat, so they get more pleasure out of smaller quan...

Graham

11st 7 3/4lb, 40", BMI 25, WHtR 59.3%, Body Fat 33.6% 7am A new day. Asleep early so I'm not discountenanced to be awake this hour. Weight unchanged. Waist reduced. I broke No S rules, but there was no craziness, I stuck to my other "rule": 5-a-day - though I thought I'd figured out a way round that...

Graham

11st 7 3/4lb, 40 1/2", BMI 25, WHtR 60%, Body Fat 34.9% Fasting My waist is now the same as when I started No S and ESE. Is the current peak a consequence of fried potatoes and indolence? Two fasts a week may be what prevents an even larger version of myself from existing, but this stalemate is a co...

Graham

11st 7lb*, 40 1/16", BMI 24.9, WHtR 59.4%, Body Fat 33.9% Scale leapt about before settling at this value - using this as a guide is feeding greater uncertainty than the body, and that is a source of it's own variations. Looking over the past few weeks, round and round I go. Hmm. Tired, nothing lift...

Graham

11st 7 1/2lb, 40 1/8", BMI 25, WHtR 59.4%, Body Fat 34% A much easier fast. A new element - ginger tea. During the fast I made a pot of ginger and lemon tea, sweetened with stevia. I know it would contain some calories, I'll see if I can find out how many, but do they explain a much greater sense of...

Graham

11st 8 1/4lb, 40 3/16",. BMI 25.1, WHtR 59.5%, Body Fat 33.9% Fasting Last night at SO's I ate post-tango class meal - a plate too small to fill me in one go, and a jar of spiced nibbles on the table. It was one-platable, though not on one plate - it felt like eating them was part of my meal, yet it...

Graham

11st 7lb*, 40 7/16", BMI 24.9, WHtR 59.9%, Body Fat 34.9% *no fractions Waist isn't looking good. Short sleep doesn't help, I know, but I have no control over it. I do try to be sensible, I don't know what interrupts a longer sleep. I don't have caffeine after 6pm - maybe I could avoid late eating t...

Graham

11st 6lb, 40 1/16",BMI 24.7, WHtR 59.4%, Body Fat 34.2% My electronic scales continue to under-perform. They do have a 3 year guarantee, I even kept the receipt - I could, perhaps, exchange them? What else is a 3 year guarantee for? Anyway. I think they are accurate to the nearest lb, usually but I'...

Graham

11st 7lb, 40 1/8", BMI 24.9, WHtR 59.4%, Body Fat 34.1% 5am: Up too early, but I can't sleep more just now. Big post-fast meal is part of the reason for that. Solutions? Eat a bit earlier? Or less? It was theoretically No S compliant - one large, heaped plate. It had 6 of my 5-a-day portions! Proces...

Graham

11st 7 3/4lb, 39 7/8", BMI 25, WHtR 59.1%, Body Fat 33.3% Fasting @ TexArk & Joyofsix thanks for your interest and good wishes. I'm feeling a little strange now that challenging performance is behind me, but I am freer now to address my weight/waist and general health issues. 2:08pm Unpleasant fast ...

Graham

11st 8 1/4lb, 40 5/16", BMI 25.1, WHtR 59.7%, Body Fat 34.3% - after a cup of coffee.. So, the picture s maybe slightly worse than the truth - but not by much. Waist wise I'm now so close to being right back where I started over a year ago. I am interested in how that happened but today I don't much...

Graham

11st 8 1/2lb, 40 1/8", BMI 25.1, WHtR 59.4%, Body Fat 33.7% And a sore throat ! feels like a cold trying to start. But I must sing tonight! I'll take vitamin C all day, I'm may investigate glycerine with honey and lemon. This is the big one - not just choral singing but my first solo too. I get the ...

Graham

11st 6 3/4lb, 40", BMI 24.9, WHtR 59.3%, Body Fat 33.8% # Off the rails No S wise again. Breakfast was sound, but I had a song to rehearse, didn't fit in lunch, then went to the allotment. Demanding physical work, biscuits with tea, later a light meal pre-tango, and more after. It was light stuff li...

Graham

11st 4 3/4lb, 39 5/8", BMI 24.5, WHtR 58.7%, Body Fat 33.4%

Graham

For me it's all about money. This raises a very interesting question: if it is all about the money, might we benefit from applying a No S/Everyday Systems approach to that too? What would being moderate about the getting and spending of money do for us? Moderation in all things - sanity, work/life ...

Graham

I'm shocked to hear so many have no right to a meal break. It sounds so Dickensian - and unproductively mean. Breaks can refresh people, improving their work performance enough to compensate for some of the time lost - but just out of humanity and decent treatment of the less powerful, why not dare ...

Graham

11st 6*lb, 40", BMI 24.7, WHtR 59.3%, Body Fat 34% *no fractions.. # Choir then pub then late soup, cheese and bread and here I am, at my tubbiest for a while. I hope it is transitory. It was a pleasant social gathering, worthwhile. Food supplements - most I use seem to agree with me, I'm pretty con...

Graham

11st 6 3/4lb, 39 7/8", BMI 24.9, WHtR 59.1, Body Fat 33.5% Went to bed early, woke way too early (This message board shows it as 1 hour earlier though - must be showing GMT all year round, it's summer time here, an hour later). I would have slept longer if I hadn't had the second cup of coffee. That...

Graham

11st 7lb, 39 3/4", BMI 24.9, WHtR 58.9%, Body Fat 33.1% Decision? I'm still conflicted. I don't actually want to fast just now - I feel hungry. Also a little frustrated with my digital scale - despite a new battery it is refusing to show fractions of a lb. I tried holding a 1/4lb weight and re-weigh...

Graham

11st 6lb, 39 1/2", BMI 24.7, WHtR 58.5%, Body Fat 32.7% @Tobiasmom. Tips? Mainly that I prioritise fruit and veg over starch. I make sure I have some protein, vegetables and fruit - then, if there's a gap. I fill it with a suitable starch like buttered toast or bread and butter - but I don't eat sta...

Graham

Hi Joyofsix - returning your visit to my Check In. A question I just have to ask - you have 7 kids, but you're Joyofsix - was the last one one too many?

Good luck with No S.

Graham

11st 5 1/2lb, 39 3/4", BMI 24.7, WHtR 58.9%, Body Fat 33.5% I'm wondering about my electronic scales. Their occasional eccentricity undermined my trust. Despite a new battery (not that the low battery indicator had yet requested a change) they indicate a variability I'm not sure I should trust. The ...

Graham

11st 7 1/4lb, 40", BMI 24.9, WHtR 59.3%, Body Fat 33.7% I've decided not to fast again today. If I have a productive day, it will be redeemed. I wonder, last night, had I eaten a salad instead of bread, butter and ham, with later couscous and vegetables, would I be slimmer/lighter today? I have eate...

Graham

11st 6 1/2lb, 39 15/16", BMI 24.8, WHtR 59.2%, Body Fat 33.7% As I was idly licking butter off a knife, feeling peckish and not stirring myself to fix some sort of meal, a sense of awareness about how food might be affecting me arose yesterday. Not only that salad is enlivening, which I've been pret...

Graham

11st 7 3/4lb, 39 5/8", BMI 25, WHtR 58.7%, Body Fat 32.6% Eating didn't seem so urgent, bike ride, window-box salad, protein not so attractive. I haven't got a handle on the processes. Meditation is going better though my mood is sometimes bleak. Anxious over an upcoming high, demanding solo - easy ...

Graham

@Pangelsue2 - if you can't follow your own advice successfully, what makes you think it is worth passing on to me? If you look at my earliest postings you'll see I spent an unproductive month on vanilla No S with near 100% compliance before I began experimenting with fasting. I only tried it, reluct...

Graham

Hi SkyKitty, I've been learning Argentine tango, for about 3 years now. I have also found it slowish going, I'm not particularly gifted, but I love the music. Milongas and classes are available every night of the week here, though I wouldn't want to go to some of them. I was lucky enough to come acr...

Graham

11st 8 1/2lb, 39 7/8" BMI 25.1, WHtR 59.1%, Body Fat 33.1% Yesterday was hot, humid, I didn't fast. Somewhat more purposeful than fasting occasions, eating was moderate. No significant aerobic exercise. Another puncture and a broken spoke, too awkwardly situated for home repair, kept me from riding ...

Graham

Hi SkyKitty - I was just passing by - greetings from a fellow tango fan. There's no dance I know to equal its charm.

Graham

I forgot to mention - the studies I saw on running said that the higher the weekly mileage, the more the runners ate - but the less body fat they carried. It appears that, once exercise is increased beyond a certain point, the body becomes better able to match calories in with calories out. I'm thin...

Graham

@SkyKitty - the details of the "research" this article is based on - particularly the "women on sofa for an hour being better off than the women who exercised" bit - would be very interesting. If you do get the chance to see that article again, and to post the references to the studies it is based o...

Graham

11st 7 3/4lb, 39 7/8" BMI 25, WHtR 59.1%, Body Fat 33.3% As I watered the sweetcorn on my allotment yesterday I recalled Geoffrey Cannon's "Dieting Makes You Fat" - I was thinking about the "Is Exercise Making You Fat? thread elsewhere on the forum at the time. Now, I'm looking at my own predicament...

Graham

Suddenly remembered Geoffrey Cannon's "Dieting Makes You Fat" from the 1980's - remember his book? He went from diet to diet, losing and regaining with a little extra - till he gave up dieting and took up jogging for fitness - and discovered he lost weight that way without the rebound/regain effect....

Graham

11st 6lb, 39 7/8", BMI 24.7, WHtR 59.1%, Body Fat 33.7% Fasting's distraction devoured my day. Restriction ended, I devoured the proceeds. I may comfort myself that I am just where I was yesterday, that I'm no bigger - and half believe it. If I thought that my weight was trying to rise like a balloo...

Graham

11st 6lb, 39 7/8", BMI 24.7, WHtR 59.1%, Body Fat 33.7% #

Here again: a fast, a day to live through, not just marking time.

Graham

In the short term, extra exercise could provoke weight gain, but regular exercise didn't cause me to gain any fat, rather the reverse. If you do more exercise, you'd expect to alter your body composition, gaining some muscle and losing some fat, even if the scales stayed the same or went up a bit. I...

Graham

11st 5 3/4lb, 39 3/4", BMI 24.7, WHtR 58.9%, Body Fat 33.5% # @Pangelsue2: I'm well aware of Ornish - not so well acquainted with Weil or Oz - though I recall hearing his treatment of Gary Taubes was shabby. As for Ornish's claims - a comparative study I read some years ago concluded that any diet t...

Graham

11st 7 1/4lb, 40", BMI 24.9, WHtR 59.2%, Body Fat 33.5% Hi Pangelsue2. Your comments made me laugh - and then a bit later you say you will ask a question - but where did it go? Was it "do you enjoy your food ever?" And then, finally I thought you did seem to have missed some salient points about my ...

Graham

11st 7 1/4l.b, 39 5/8", BMI 24.9, WHtR 58.7%, Body Fat 32.7% Weight UP by 3/4lb That's disappointing! Damn! After all I wrote about 5-a-day I did put all 5 in one meal - plus potatoes and buttered pita bread. I was struggling to finish it, could have stopped a little sooner - yet, later I was consci...

Graham

11st 6 1/2lb, 39 3/4", BMI 24.8, WHtR 58.9%, Body Fat 33.3% #

Graham

11st 6 1/2lbs, 39 5/8â€ BMI 24.8, WHtR 58.7%, Body Fat 32.9% The choir performances went pretty well, then on to the Choir Director's birthday barbecue. I ate plenty. I am not too surprised by a 2lb weight-gain, or 1/4" on my waist. My voice continues to improve, the choir is such a pleasure - I am ...

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