I went for a walk tonight, to the track, two miles, 20 bleacher-sets.. Then darkness fell and I came back home. Too cold to ride tonight and I am thinking about warmer weather and warmer places…

Seems Simple to Me

I have thought a great deal recently about the goal and the plan and the way I have gone about my weight loss. It has always seemed so simple to me in concept at least: Eat Less, Move More. I am now calling it the ELMM plan.

I don’t mean to offend anyone here and I will stress again that I am not an expert, I have no training, I do not recommend what I do to anyone except for the Eat Less Move More part…

With that out of the way…

It seems to me that the diets out in the market place try to make the complicated simple by making the simple complicated…

Weight loss is a simple concept: Burn more calories than you take in and you WILL lose weight. The body has no magical ability to stop the weight loss in a lasting way. Even if the weight loss stops for a brief moment, it will start again… This is not going to change, it is a simple thing. The devil of course is in the details. Staying active enough so the body attacks fat, not muscle, getting enough nutrition while reducing the calories… That is the complicated part.

The diets I see out in the world seem to want to reverse this basic fact of life. Make the diet simple while making the weight loss complicated.

Eat Less, Move More. Fruits and vegetables, lean meats including fish and poultry, whole grains…

Simple.

I am losing weight because I am burning 3500 calories a day and consuming 1700. I am burning the calories by walking, hiking, climbing…..

Eat Less, Move More..

Plans

Cycling this weekend… 30 miles come hell or high water…. Need to build the miles. I did 16.5 this past weekend, I want to double that this weekend. I am aiming for a flat ride somewhere… Either Easter Long Island or South Jersey. Then on Sunday I want to hike the trail I hiked a couple of weekends ago with MT. Maybe the snake will stay in hiding this time…. I am trying to build my activity level up. I want to get in 50 miles a week of walking and 30-40 miles of cycling… And I plan to find time to sleep…

I know I will never be 25 again and I have given aging a head start by neglecting myself all these years. That does not mean I have to give up on the idea of being fit and trim again. I know I will never be the rider I was when I was 25. I also know I will be much more than I was at 45.

Pushing myself is the only way I know of to make this happen.

Peace