Alligatorob's Diary

[alligatorob]

Thanks Cate, I like those, good stuff. Got me to thinking so I looked up beard-second and maybe I didn't invent it, or if I did someone else did also and published:

The beard-second is a unit of length inspired by the light-year, but applicable to extremely short distances such as those in integrated circuits. The beard-second is defined as the length an average beard grows in one second. Kemp Bennett Kolb defines the distance as exactly 100 angstroms (10 nanometers). Nordling and Österman's Physics Handbook. However, Google Calculator supports the beard-second for unit conversions using the value 5 nm.

The beard-second establishes a related unit of time, the beard-inch which is 29.4 days (or 58.8 days according to Google).

So a month is about a beard-inch!

 

[alligatorob]

It was a good day, I ate well, stayed above my 1,000 limit and I feel good. Its cold, probably -10C, and snowing a little, but at this temperature the snow won't amount to much. I think I am done with the units fun, but I will not soon forget Cate's Sheppey, need to find a use for that one.



1048 marked the end of the Viking Age, it ended when the Vikings made one last unsuccessful raid on the Kingdom of England and were driven off to Flanders, never to return. Actually the date is controversial, more historians seem to think it was in 1066, close enough for me. They did leave behind a number of place names, a few words, and a lot of DNA. Beserk is my favorite English Viking word coming from the beserkers Viking warriors who supposedly fought fiercely and with out fear in a kind of trance-like state. The word means bear-shirt.

 

[Petal001]

Rob well done on being down another 2lb . You are now very close to my starting weight you will get down pretty quick.
We used metric and imperial here . It’s all very confusing at times .
ehen im driving I think in miles so I’m always doing mental arithmetic to work out miles on the motorway as everything is written in Km .

 

[liza]

You guys lost me on most of that units talk, but I do like the idea of using "beard-second" It's a good image.
Glad you stayed above the 1000 mark Rob and happy for you about the weight moving down. I'm looking forward to when you get to where you are moving the calorie intake further up

Beserk is my favorite English Viking word coming from the beserkers Viking warriors who supposedly fought fiercely and with out fear in a kind of trance-like state. The word means bear-shirt.

So interesting about beserk!!

 

[Cate]

I had never heard of a Sheppey or a beard second but found them very amusing.
I'm looking forward to seeing those calories come up a bit more too.

 

[aiminglow]

As the others say, it's very good to see you into the second millennium!

Metric and imperial are a bit mixed in Australia, too - I never heard of a horse-race that was in anything other than furlongs, (but then I haven't been to a racecourse in years) and I find it much easier to say people's heights in feet and inches than in centimeters.

 

[alligatorob]

It was a good day, I ate well and feel good. I had to struggle a bit to get over the 1,000 calorie threshold but I made it.

You are now very close to my starting weight you will get down pretty quick.

Thanks for that Petal, it does make that pinprick of light I can see at the end of the tunnel a bit brighter. All I have to do is follow the path you have blazed to get there!

I'm looking forward to when you get to where you are moving the calorie intake further up

So am I, but right now I am thinking it won't be until I get into the just over weight and not obese range. That's a whole lot closer than it was just a short time ago.

I had never heard of a Sheppey or a beard second

I'm surprised, a Sheppey sounds like a good Australian measure.

I never heard of a horse-race that was in anything other than furlongs

Neither have I, but 5 furlongs is 1.00584, so it seems to me the transition should not be so hard for the horse race people. When the Mormon pioneers laid out Salt Lake and other local towns they made all the city blocks 1 furlong by 1 furlong.



It was in 1010 that Eilmer of Malmesbury, a Benedictine monk first attempted to fly in a home made kind of glider. I was reported that he leaped from the top of a tower at Malmesbury Abbey and flew for "more than a furlong". He didn't land well, breaking both legs and became lame ever after. Maybe he should be remembered as the father of hang gliding, but he isn't.

 

[Llama]

Probably because when monks father anything it gets covered up.

 

[Sunflower19]

Down 3 to 222, 7 stone even. Just 2 lbs short of 100 lbs. I feel good!
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WOW well done Rob that’s some achievement!!!! I want to have the weight loss success you have! I cannot imagine how much lighter in your step you must feel! 7 stone is a lot of weight off your body you should be so proud of yourself!!

 

[Petal001]

Rob why not tweak your meals to add more calories and not worry about the snacks .
I had a proper look and you could easily add a banana to breakfast. And some tuna or sardines to lunch . And some carbs to dinner .
Try to make all your meals total 1000 and then snacks up to 200 maybe if you want to .

 

[kittycat1]

Down 3 to 222, 7 stone even. Just 2 lbs short of 100 lbs. I feel good!

OMG, amazing!
Congrats!

Sorry I didn't catch it (it's a very long topic) - but do you have some shorter term goals? Maybe like 200 or something? Or are you looking straight at 160?

 

[aiminglow]

It was in 1010 that Eilmer of Malmesbury, a Benedictine monk first attempted to fly in a home made kind of glider. I was reported that he leaped from the top of a tower at Malmesbury Abbey and flew for "more than a furlong". He didn't land well, breaking both legs and became lame ever after. Maybe he should be remembered as the father of hang gliding, but he isn't.

I love it! What a brilliant bit of history - go, Eilmer, you daredevil! (Not so good about the legs. Back to the scriptorium.)

 

[alligatorob]

It was a good day, I ate well and feel good.

I am starting to get ready for my trip, it will be a kind of test of my diet. At this point I am pretty confident I'll find a way through it, hopefully not over confident. I will be flying to Miami, and doing a big loop visiting relatives and old friend, then flying home from New Orleans ten days later. I know a lot of my relationships with these folks have revolved around food and drink in the past, so a lot of them will be expecting to feed me big. I can get through this I know I can, now I just have to keep saying that. I leave on the redeye Sunday night.

Probably because when monks father anything it gets covered up.

I like that!

I cannot imagine how much lighter in your step you must feel! 7 stone is a lot of weight off your body

It really is, and I am still amazed at it every day, big difference.

why not tweak your meals to add more calories and not worry about the snacks .

Thanks Petal, that's good advice and I did try to follow it today. My meals were bigger and snacks less. The snacks themselves weren't bad so much as saving them to the end of the day and then needing to eat a lot after dinner just to get to the 1,000. I did better today.

do you have some shorter term goals?

Only to eat well today, that really is my only goal. No real weight or weight loss goals, except to lose not gain. The 160 lbs is more a pie in the sky kind of thing. It does get me out of the overweight BMI range, but it is actually based on my 16 year old weight, the last time I was that light. It came after a season of being on the wrestling team and starvation diets to make weight. I am not really sure it's right for me. I'll just see what it feels like if and when I get close.

What a brilliant bit of history - go, Eilmer, you daredevil!

I agree, a kind of midieval Evel Knievel.



1079 on the Muslim calendar is about 1668 on the Gregorian Calendar, and it was in 1668 that Welsh privateer Henry Morgan a Welsh privateer and pirate sacked the Spanish cities of Portobello and Panama City in what is today Panama. He did pretty well in Portobello but came up with little in Panama City, so he burned it. Henry Morgan was one of the most successful pirates, first becoming wealthy and then going straight and eventually becoming the Governor of Jamaica. His stories became the basis for many fictional priate tales, most recently Cpt Jack Sparrow. Of course real pirates, Henry included, were a murderous blood thirsty lot, only to be romanticized after that was forgotten. Kind of like the way we romanticize Mafia characters.

 

[Starlight1]

You lucky duckling I'm hoping I can go to Louisiana this summer but I probably won't. Have fun on your trip though I know what it's like to have family get-togethers centered around food.

 

[Cate]

Rob, I'm sure you have the skills & mental fortitude to enjoy your vacation, without overdoing the food, even with the pressures of family & friends who are used to you eating big. This is the new you xo

 

[Llama]

Maybe it would be helpful to rehearse your explanations/reasons not to accept the "big feeding" before you go so it´ll be easier in the moment.

 

[Petal001]

I would focus on filling your own plate and before you put anything in it pile it with salad stuff . Choose your healthy options when out like steamed fish and salads .keep away from dressings . Lots of fruit . Enjoy it though Rob . Sounds like a really fab trip .

 

[alligatorob]

Just did a bike ride, 60 plus 2 lagniappe laps. 62, way above my previous high of around 44. And it wasn't too hard. I could have kept going but some people came by and I had to stop to talk. Got me thinking so I looked back at my first ride report, less than 5 months ago:

Got the bike today and did a total of 5 laps around our gravel driveway, total distance about 1/2 miles and elevation change of 50 ft. No doubt the shortest bike ride reported on the forum, to date. My legs will take some work to get used to this, but it will happen.

This quote leaves out the fact that I had to rest in the middle of the 5 laps! Today I am about 45 pounds lighter than I was then, and I have been riding of course. With winter here not as regularly as in the fall, but some. And I have been trying longer real mountain bike rides, now I am anxious for spring and some real riding weather. It has been windy and maybe 40 F (5 C), not real comfortable but with the wind enough to melt a lot of the snow and ice. Winter is going!

You lucky duckling I'm hoping I can go to Louisiana this summer

Yeah, I really enjoy getting back to Louisiana, a great place to visit. Although I avoid it in summer.

I'm sure you have the skills & mental fortitude to enjoy your vacation, without overdoing the food, even with the pressures of family & friends who are used to you eating big

Thanks Cate, I appreciate your words, wish I was as confident as that. But I am sure I'll get through it.

Maybe it would be helpful to rehearse your explanations/reasons not to accept the "big feeding" before you go so it´ll be easier in the moment.

Great suggestion! I've already begun.

I would focus on filling your own plate and before you put anything in it pile it with salad stuff . Choose your healthy options when out like steamed fish and salads .keep away from dressings . Lots of fruit .

Thanks Petal, your advice is always right on target, and I do my best always listen.

 

[Llama]

Today I am about 45 pounds lighter than I was then, and I have been riding of course. With winter here not as regularly as in the fall, but some. And I have been trying longer real mountain bike rides, now I am anxious for spring and some real riding weather. It has been windy and maybe 40 F (5 C), not real comfortable but with the wind enough to melt a lot of the snow and ice. Winter is going!

I love that. Amazing progress!

 

[Cate]

Rob, I know I am in awe of the changes you have made. Getting that bike was a real challenge I'm sure & look how far you have come with that. I really am looking forward to hearing what's next.