Re: Training Qs: intervals, blowing up, fat...

On May 13, 9:09=A0pm, Ryan Cousineau <rcous...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> =A0Nobody<nob...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Wed, 14 May 2008 01:34:26 GMT, Ryan Cousineau <rcous...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >I'm just
> > >consuming way too many calories, and my theory is the best way to
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> > >that out is to just really work hard on avoiding the behavior that
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> > >me to consume certain types of marginal (as in the extra 10%, not as
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> > >doughnuts) calories.
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> > I would suggest getting a 'good enough' idea of how many calories you
> > are consuming versus how many you consume to not gain any weight.
> > (maintenance)
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> > Theoretically, going only 100 calories over your maintenance every day
> > for a year is going to end up causing a weight gain of 1lb every 6
> > weeks, unless you're young. (all other things being equal).
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> When I was semi-serious about training 3 years ago, I used FitDay for a
> few months to track my caloric intake. It was quite revealing, though I
> was eating pretty well then.
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> I gave up on FitDay because the user interface stank.
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> > It's not much food. Just one extra tblspoon of peanut butter above
> > maintenance, for instance.
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> > That -could- translate to about 10-12lbs weight gain per year, esp if
> > you're over 35-40 and work desk..
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> > If you're young and have an active job, you burn it off. If you go
> > from active job to sedentary, you start gaining.
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> 34 and with a semi-active job. I have to get up and walk around the
> campus to fix things.

Oh good.  I'll send you a list of things to fix on campus.  (There are
some things that can't be fixed.)

> > Also, you can't gorge on weekends, because you blow the week in
> > totals. What's hard is hunger tends to go up and
> > consistency/motivation comes and goes.
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> I have some idea of the triggers of overconsumption, and a big one is
> boredom. I just try to keep busy to not eat.

I had thought you could come down to Sonoma Co to do a wine tour.  But
scratch that.  It is high time for a meth lab tour of Humbolt Co.