How do you keep track of your diet/exercise?
07-25-07, 08:12 PM
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It sounds like you work for a pretty good employer. I suggested a wellness program at my office and was laughed at. Do you have any of the guidelines or program details that your company follows? Perhaps if I went in with a firm proposal, they would be more willing to consider it. Feel free to PM or email me (trich(at)tonyrich.org).
The right approach, is that employees who are well will have fewer sick days, and have better productivity, then employees who are not, that saves the company money, often reducing the average number of sick days from 5 per employee to 4 can save the company much more then the cost of a wellness program.
07-25-07, 08:49 PM
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Pants size and what hole my belt is on seems to work pretty good for me.
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07-27-07, 09:16 PM
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I use Calorieking.com it logs exercise (and caloric burn for said exercise) and food with a huge database. It does have a fee, but my gym signed everyone up.
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I use Traingo.com to track my workouts, currently I just jog but I am looking for a bike.
07-28-07, 06:32 AM
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For exercise, my employer is starting a wellness program which gives monetary rewards in the form of gift certificates to local fitness-related businesses. You accrue points by logging any exercise, and participating in health screens and health related seminars. So that forces me to keep a good record of my monthly activity. And since we're coming up towards the end of the year as far as the program is concerned (Aug 31), I'm finding myself busting my butt to work out more so that I can get to the next reward level and get a nicer bike.
07-28-07, 09:23 AM
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You sound like you may be joking, but I'll treat it as serious... so 80% of weight loss is diet. If you work out a lot, but eat more since you're hungrier after exercise, you won't lose weight.
07-28-07, 09:30 AM
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As for me, I've been careful for 18 months. I'm tired of it, so I stopped keeping track. I need to drop 20 more pounds, but I'm worn out from the 142 I've lost. Also, I don't know how much of the extra is loose skin. Tom, any suggestions?
07-28-07, 10:06 AM
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It was a joke, and an ironic observation on cyclists who assume getting on a bike means automatic weight loss. Didn't a poster here recently seem surprised he hadn't lost weight? He'd been riding a lot, and the extra beer couldn't have that many calories...
As for me, I've been careful for 18 months. I'm tired of it, so I stopped keeping track. I need to drop 20 more pounds, but I'm worn out from the 142 I've lost. Also, I don't know how much of the extra is loose skin. Tom, any suggestions?
As for me, I've been careful for 18 months. I'm tired of it, so I stopped keeping track. I need to drop 20 more pounds, but I'm worn out from the 142 I've lost. Also, I don't know how much of the extra is loose skin. Tom, any suggestions?
On a side not, that's why it's so much easier for a shrunken formerly fat person to rebound up on the weight than it is for a person who hasn't been obese, with the same diet and activity.
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07-28-07, 10:12 AM
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I'd have to hazard a guess of around 18-23 pounds of loose skin and deflated fat cells, Neil. We never actually lose the fat cells, they just shrink from depletion of reserves and fluid.
On a side not, that's why it's so much easier for a shrunken formerly fat person to rebound up on the weight than it is for a person who hasn't been obese, with the same diet and activity.
On a side not, that's why it's so much easier for a shrunken formerly fat person to rebound up on the weight than it is for a person who hasn't been obese, with the same diet and activity.
07-28-07, 10:13 AM
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Likely within a couple of pounds +/- omitting the loose skin, yes!
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I'd have to hazard a guess of around 18-23 pounds of loose skin and deflated fat cells, Neil. We never actually lose the fat cells, they just shrink from depletion of reserves and fluid.
On a side not, that's why it's so much easier for a shrunken formerly fat person to rebound up on the weight than it is for a person who hasn't been obese, with the same diet and activity.
On a side not, that's why it's so much easier for a shrunken formerly fat person to rebound up on the weight than it is for a person who hasn't been obese, with the same diet and activity.
07-28-07, 01:19 PM
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Yes, but most insurance plans classify it as elective and cosmetic. The only way it's generally covered is if you start developing skin infections under the pannula (the hang). It's also a very painful surgery. There's a developing movement to use the tissue from Pannulectomies though for donor skin and I'd like to see a trade tissue for the surgery kind of deal happen.
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I use this https://www.weightbydate.com/index.html Weight by date is the coolest program I have ever used it tracks everything and allows to plan ahead your meals to see what your eating. I have been using it since the begining of the year and with it's help and sticking to my 1500 calorie a day diet and then working out each day, I have lost 51 pounds as of today and I should have the 100 off by the end of the year which was my goal and man do I feel good!
