Fit by 60! - TomO's Pledge

TomO said:
Hi, Beth & Bruce. I'm thinking about doing a century this weekend, and a good part of ti will be at Camp Pendleton. You guys care to join me?
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Tom.. a Century?? You've got to be kidding! I probably need to ride down the block first.. been about 25-30 years since I rode a bike! :rotflmao:

I know we are both chomping on the bit to get out there and start riding again. Really think it'll be a lot of fun. Before we hit Camp Pendleton.. I know we both need to buy a helmut.. since I believe it's a requirement on base, right?

I think we'll pass this weekend.. too much going on in the backyard still but maybe in a few weeks? We still need to do our Saturday gym visits together! And drag Beth with us! :)

Later!

Bruce
 
Hi Tom!
Glad you had a wonderful time. I had Thai food that made me gain as well--damn salt, huh? It almost always makes the scale numbers creep up. Oh why does it taste so good?!?! :doh:
 
brucev1162 said:
I know we are both chomping on the bit to get out there and start riding again. Really think it'll be a lot of fun. Before we hit Camp Pendleton.. I know we both need to buy a helmut.. since I believe it's a requirement on base, right?

I think we'll pass this weekend.. too much going on in the backyard still but maybe in a few weeks? We still need to do our Saturday gym visits together! And drag Beth with us!
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Oh, yeah, I keep forgetting that -- you do need a helmet at CP. The weekend thing is hard for me, though -- typically I take a long ride on Saturday, and then totally rest on Sunday. But we'll work something out. . .

Curvie Girlie said:
Hi Tom!
Glad you had a wonderful time. I had Thai food that made me gain as well--damn salt, huh? It almost always makes the scale numbers creep up. Oh why does it taste so good?!?! :doh:
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Yeah, it must be the salt. I know in my case I can't have a margarita without salt, and I had about 3 of them yesterday!
 
Exercise Log - 7/5/2007

Today was a regular cardio day, so I went biking

Time: 2 hrs, 4 min.
Distance: 30 miles
Calories: 1,679
Avg. Speed: 14.9 mph
Max HR: 153 (91%)
Avg HR: 122 (72%)

As my avg. HR shows, this was a fairly casual ride - no large hills, and no speed intervals. I didn't want to push it too hard, because my quads were still a bit sore from the squats yesterday, and I wanted to give them time to recover.
 
My fat ass broke the spokes (3) on my rear wheel, so during my lunchbreak today I took my bike to the bike doctor to get a new wheel. Will be ready this weekend and I'll try going to Davenport in the early am--everyone told me going against Hwy 1's wind is murder and to do it early. By the way I was kidding about the fat ass comment. But my ass is still pretty big ;)
 
Wierd - here the wind on 1 isn't too bad. Davenport, hmmm. . . How about going a little further to Half Moon Bay? :eek:

Too bad you're not closer -- I need a biking buddy who's as insane as I am.

Looking at that pic you posted, everything looks just the right size to me! :)
 
I think those high days on special occasions or once in a while are good for the metabolism, showing it that it will not starve and can release the fat. Its also good for you in the sense that we should all be able to go to a party once in a while and have a few drinks, some BBQ meat, and a piece of the cake, without feeling badly about it. That's just my view, I dont like to be too strict with myself given that the weight will come off in the end regardless of these "blips".

The century sounds absolutely loco!
 
Blancita said:
I think those high days on special occasions or once in a while are good for the metabolism, showing it that it will not starve and can release the fat. Its also good for you in the sense that we should all be able to go to a party once in a while and have a few drinks, some BBQ meat, and a piece of the cake, without feeling badly about it. That's just my view, I dont like to be too strict with myself given that the weight will come off in the end regardless of these "blips".

The century sounds absolutely loco!
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It's interesting. . . during my first year of this battle, eating like that would really freak me out. I guess I didn't have the confidence yet that it was strictly a one day thing. Now, in my 2nd year, it really didn't bother me at all. I barely gave it a second thought, knowing it really was nothing more than a "blip."

I don't think I can attempt the century this Saturday. My mother in law is having a pacemaker put in on Saturday, and Marlene is going to be with her Saturday and Sunday. I'm a little reluctant to try that long a ride solo without having a "rescuer" available if I need it.
 
[QUOTEI'm a little reluctant to try that long a ride solo without having a "rescuer" available if I need it.[/QUOTE]

:rotflmao:

That is a VERY wise idea Tom. Imagine if you got some cramp or something and had to come all the way home on the bike. Plus I'm sure Marlene would like you around when she's probably stressed about her mom.
 
Friday, July 6, 2007

Weight 228.8 - Round 6, Day 12. Yep, it looks like the next round is setting in. I'm hoping to crack this one over the head in time for my birthday later on this month, though.

Food yesterday came to 2,335 calories:
Fat: 42 gm, 16%; 7 gm saturated, 3%
Carbs: 310 gm, 50%; 43 gm fiber
Protein: 156 gm, 27%
Alcohol: 19 gm, 6% (extra glass of wine)

Quality of food was 5/5 - regular oatmeal w. fruit & nuts for breakfast, cherries for morning snack, trout sandwich for lunch, protein shake for snack, salmon and brown rice and salad and wine for dinner.

With my NARM of 2,326 calories, plus 1,679 calories from exercise, I had a deficit of 1,670 calories, giving me a month to date deficit of 2,481 calories.

Today is Weights 3 day - upper body. I think I'll go very light on the cardio, or not even do it today. Since Marlene will be with her mom tomorrow, I won't attempt a century, but I'll still take a fairly long ride during the day, and that will be enough cardio.
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Blancita Well, she doesn't need me around, because she'll be in south San Diego with her brother. But you're right, the last thing she needs is me calling her in the middle of all that to pick me up! The operation is just to put a pacemaker in, and apparently it's not a major thing at all.
 
8,604 calories. I need between 12,000 and 15,000 to win the Round.

Of course, things are a bit weird right now, with my cycling days. My deficits are all over the map. And to tell you the truth, I'm not sure they are "real". I mean yesterday I biked for 2 hours and 5 minutes, and the HR monitor said I burned 1,600 calories. But it didn't feel like that hard a workout. Time will tell.
 
You're definitely burning lots of calories and this should be continued as long as you're into it, but I think the reason you may need to deduct some calories off the total burned from long rides is because you are probably generally doing moderate activity and yet you are out for several hours, so in a way your double counting. Let me explain that better. If you put on the HRM and sat around watching TV for 5 hours, you would've burned plenty of calories just sitting around. However, those calories really belong to your NARM which you've already included in the calculation. So you're doing moderate intensity for several hours so at some point we're including our NARM. Does that make any sense whatsoever? I'm bad at math as I readily admit so I could be way off on this.
 
I think you're right, Blancita. I think what I'll start doing on bike rides is taking about 2/3 of the calorie total I get from the HR monitor, and using that as the calories expended.
 
TomO said:
Wierd - here the wind on 1 isn't too bad. Davenport, hmmm. . . How about going a little further to Half Moon Bay? :eek:

Too bad you're not closer -- I need a biking buddy who's as insane as I am.

Looking at that pic you posted, everything looks just the right size to me! :)
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If you're bored, check out the coast line--S.C. is in the first curve of Monterey Bay. Davenport is on the straight side, before the curve and the wind is BRUTAL.

I know, I really wish I could work out with you :( San Diego is so far away!!!

Thank you, but it still is a humbling experience to break shit with your body weight! :rotflmao:
 
That's intersting, the talk of deficits. So complicated! Also, remember, your body's getting used to it. You're going to be using less energy to do the same stuff. That sucks!
 
Hey Tom...just want to drop by and say "howdy"...sounds like a fun 4th for you too! I actually like random holidays like that (ya know the 4th, Vet Day, etc.) way more than the long elaborate holiday "season"....it's almost hard not to enjoy a good cook-out and fireworks...with no preconceived notions that it has to be "perfect" in some way, or all the media hype around it.

Hope alls well with your MIL and continued happy biking over the week-end.
 
Saturday, July 7, 2007

Weight: 229.6 - Round 6, Day 13. I've adjusted my calorie expenditures from biking to a very conservative 10 calories per minute, or 600 calories per hour, even though my HR monitor is reading around 800 to 900 calories per hour. This means I have a month to date deficit of 1,903 calories now, and a deficit in this Round of 5,400 calories.

Food yesterday came to 2,255 calories:
Fat: 75 gm, 29%; 13 gm saturated, 5%
Carbs: 302 gm, 51%; 45 gm fiber
Protein: 111 gm, 19%
Alcohol: 3 gm, 1%

With a NARM of 2,326 calories and only 150 calories from exercise, I ended the day with a slight deficit of 221 calories.

Most of the protein came from fish - salmon at lunch, and scallops at night.

I didn't work out yesterday -- my legs were still really, really tired, and I felt like I needed a day off. Today, I'll do my weights 3 workout in the morning, and then go on a fairly decent ride.
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Val - One thing we can't forget is that all this data is to some extent a "game" I play. It's like my old statistics prof used to point out about numbers that were carried out to 3 decimal places, when they reflected something purely subjective, like a opinon poll. The same goes for all these calories in and out. In the end, the numbers themselves are not terribly accurate, I don't care how much time you pour into them. They paint a picture, and the overall picture is what really counts. If the numbers help you visualize that picture, if they help make it a reality, then that's great; that's a method that helps keep me on track.

Cym - For a long time, Christmas was my least favorite holiday of the year. For one thing, it was when all my frustrations about weight, and family issues involved with that, would come to the fore, along with a feeling of helplessness in dealing with those issues. Gradually, I'm starting to enjoy those holidays more, but I still like the "shorter" ones better.
 
TomO said:
I think you're right, Blancita. I think what I'll start doing on bike rides is taking about 2/3 of the calorie total I get from the HR monitor, and using that as the calories expended.
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How about wearing the HRM for one hour just hanging around your house working, eating, sitting etc. Then deduct from your total biking calories burned that number of calories per hour you expended on your standard NARM activities as per the HRM reading (as multiplied by the number of hours you biked obviously).
 
You know, I always wondered about these calorie counting gadgets, whether they're on a machine, or part of an HR monitor. Do they adjust for NARM? Or are you in fact ALWAYS "double counting". In other words, if your NARM is 2,400 calories a day, that's 100 calories an hour. So if your HR monitor says you burned 500 calories in an hour, does that mean you burned 500 calories from exercise, excluding the 100 NARM calories, or does it mean the 500 calories includes the 100 NARM calories?

I have no idea what the answer is, but if you exercise 300 days a year, and each day there's a 100 calorie discrepancy, that comes to 30,000 calories, a difference of 8.6 pounds!

I feel pretty confident the 600 calories per hour figure is on the low side, if anything. While I don't push myself as hard as I would in an interval workout, it's still a pretty good workout.
 
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