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That is good to hear Rob
Hey, Rob. I think you know the typical reply here is that you’re only cheating yourself and I do believe it goes for undercounts too. Perhaps it undermines the effectiveness of some support but I certainly do, and I think others do as well, understand how you get here during this process. In my opinion, it’s worth taking a look at what’s going on as it will be relevant in maintenance and I think that involves achieving a balanced, healthy relationship with food and health.
That´s so cool!
Cate
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I feel sure that you know that we care for you & have good intentions. I think many of us recognise the dangers of becoming obsessed with dieting from experience. We want you to be healthy
-Cory-
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I was going to post that I was concerned as well. 1,000 calories can be appropriate for certain people...very short, old, and/or inactive people. Or people who are so large that they need to get weight off NOW. I would generally advise most people to stay at a 1200 minimum and not go as low as 1000 (or below), but I do respect that you are under the care of a medical professional.
alligatorob
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It was a good day, I ate well and feel good. I did up my calories enough not to have to eat an extra snack, or exaggerate my count. I guess I was letting my obsession go to my head a bit. Taking advantage of my new found lack of wanting to eat, but not eating just because you can doesn't make sense. I will continue to lose plenty of weight in the 1,000 to 1,200 range, no sense in going lower.
Thanks Liza, make me feel better knowing people like you are watching.
Thanks Cory, I will stay on the low end for a while, but stop trying to let it go too low.
1093 on the Muslim calendar was approximately 1682 on our Gregorian calendar. In 1682 French explorer Robert de La Salle traveled down the Mississippi River from French Canada to the mouth of the Mississippi, the first know European to do so. Just up river from the Gulf of Mexico he buried an engraved plate and a cross and claimed the territory as La Louisiane for France. New Orleans was established just up river about 20 years later. Thus began my home state of Louisiana. It took another 150 years or so to start LSU and almost 200 before the first LSU football game.
Our lucky day for sure, maybe a new holiday the Deiz y Cinco de Mayo or something.
Thanks Liza, make me feel better knowing people like you are watching.
Yeah, it does, I just needed the wake up call.
Thanks, I hope so, still nothing official yet, but I'm thinking it would be hard to turn down free labor.
Of course I know that, and I really do appreciate it when any of you say anything to me. I always listen and consider, there is a lot more collective wisdom here than I carry alone.
Yes, the are.
Thanks Cory, I will stay on the low end for a while, but stop trying to let it go too low.
1093 on the Muslim calendar was approximately 1682 on our Gregorian calendar. In 1682 French explorer Robert de La Salle traveled down the Mississippi River from French Canada to the mouth of the Mississippi, the first know European to do so. Just up river from the Gulf of Mexico he buried an engraved plate and a cross and claimed the territory as La Louisiane for France. New Orleans was established just up river about 20 years later. Thus began my home state of Louisiana. It took another 150 years or so to start LSU and almost 200 before the first LSU football game.
Love your hometown view of world history! Were the brass plate and cross recovered? Can they be seen today?
alligatorob
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No, they were buried in the very active delta where the ground is subsiding quite rapidly and being replaced by flood sediments regularly. It is also pretty unoccupied and wild for obvious reasons. The plate and cross are deep in the mud, probably 100 ft or more below wild swamp land, somewhere.
alligatorob
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Down 3 to 222, 7 stone even. Just 2 lbs short of 100 lbs. I feel good!
Sorry for the mixed Imperial and Metric units, in the US we are converting to metric on the 100 year plan...
Probably not, the reason the Mississippi discharges in Louisiana is that for the past 100 million years or so the continental plate has been sinking at that location, so about half of the US, the wet half, and part of Canada drains out there. The rock is about 2 km down now, covered with 2 km of mud and that mud is slowly consolidating and subsiding, its only the continued deposit of river sediments that keep south Louisiana kind of above water. Not a great place to try and build cities, evidence what happened to New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina. The brass plate and cross were buried in the most active part, in a few hundred years they will be even deeper in the mud, probably hundreds of feet. In an area only accessible by boat. In the late 1800s there was an attempt to build a town near that location, the roofs of those buildings are now covered by 20 feet of mud and sinking.
Sorry for the mixed Imperial and Metric units, in the US we are converting to metric on the 100 year plan...
Sure there's not a zero missing there?
alligatorob
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Probably so, when I first went off to college and found all the sciences were taught in metric I went home and told my father that now it was just a matter of time. He just laughed and said his courses had also all metric also, but no change...
As an engineer I have had to be able to work in both, and quickly convert, but I still think Imperial. Some how a barrel of oil is easier for me to envision than a cubic meter of oil. One problem with the imperial system is a barrel of oil is 42 gallons, 55 gallons in a barrel of water, and 31.5 gallons in a barrel of beer, go figure. I think a liter of everything is pretty much the same.
The miner's inch is one of my favorite units, it refers to the volume of water that will flow through a miner's gold sluice at a one inch depth. Problem is all gold sluices are not the same, so our Utah miner's inch is not the same as a California or Arizona miner's inch. Fortunately it is a rarely used unit. But the acre-foot, is commonly used for measuring irrigation water. My water-right for the peaches is 7 acre-feet per year, or about 72,000 barrels if it were beer. Too bad it isn't.
I like the acre itself. Historically an acre was used to describe the land area that could be plowed by one team of oxen in one work day*. Somehow that´s less intuitive for me than a hectare.
*A bovate was the area one ox could plow during one plowing season.
A virgate was the area a team of two oxen could plow during one plowing season.
Oh, and a plough described the area of land that a team of eight oxen could plow in one plowing season. Where a plowing season was around two weeks.
*A bovate was the area one ox could plow during one plowing season.
A virgate was the area a team of two oxen could plow during one plowing season.
Oh, and a plough described the area of land that a team of eight oxen could plow in one plowing season. Where a plowing season was around two weeks.
Cate
Long term member
I like the acre too. We mix up our weights & measurements between metric & Imperial a lot. I weigh myself in metric but think of my height in feet & inches. I love your historical snippets, Rob & often get side-tracked looking up things after your posts. It's good for my brain.
alligatorob
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Great units! All new to me.
I have one I made up, the beard-second, the distance a beard will grow in a second. Kind of the other end of the spectrum from the light-year. I doubt the beard-second will ever get much use.
Sorry for the side tracks, folks are welcome to ignore this.
Cate
Long term member
What about the Pyramid inch?- Claimed by pyramidologists to have been used in ancient times, a Pyramid inch was one twenty-fifth of a “sacred cubit”, 1.00106 British inches, or 2.5426924 centimetres.
Or- the Sheppey. A sheppey is defined as the closest distance at which sheep remain picturesque, which is about 7/8 of a mile. I love this one
Or- the Sheppey. A sheppey is defined as the closest distance at which sheep remain picturesque, which is about 7/8 of a mile. I love this one