{"id":35,"date":"2005-12-01T16:22:27","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T23:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/?p=35"},"modified":"2005-12-01T16:22:27","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T23:22:27","slug":"one-month-hamlog-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"one month hamlog update"},"content":{"rendered":"

The short version is this: i’m in much better shape, i’m down ten pounds and i have more energy.
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\nThe longer version is that i’ve done a few simple things – <\/p>\n

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  1. i’m discriminating about urge to eat v. hunger<\/strong>. The urge to eat is merely my brain saying stupid things like, “it sure would be nice to chew something up”. In the past i would usually oblige it by walking all the way up to the cafeteria and buying a candy bar…expend four calories and consume 300. if i’m actually hungry<\/strong> i will eat a little something. s-l-o-w-l-y. i find it takes at least ten minutes before i get the “you just ate something” sensation. Too many times in the past i would eat until i felt full, so there was an extra ten minutes of cramming shit in my gaping piehole i shouldn’t have.<\/li>\n
  2. i’m exercising<\/strong>. nothin major – a total of maybe 45 minutes of weightlifting, stretching, some cardiovascular. i’m not one of the meatheads who spends half an hour on his right tricep every tuesday. i like to hit upper body, core muscles (abs\/back) and lower body in that order. bench press, crunches, leg press then cycle back through – dips, back extention, squats. repeat a few times, hit up 10 – 15 minutes on a treadmill or elliptic thing, stretch and hit the showers.<\/li>\n
  3. more vegetables, more cooking<\/strong>. i’ve been watching what i eat and with good reason. If i’m not eating as much stuff (see #1, above), i need to make sure what i am eating is good for me. Plenty of good hearty salads, not eating out, cooking small meals at home, not eating late (or not going to bed within a few hours of dinner) and good filling food all helps. Hell yes, i gorged myself at Thanksgiving. i drank my homebrew cider for two days straight (delicious and alcohol-filled!), didn’t work out for a week and still managed to lose weight overall.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    By using the spreadsheet tools with The Hacker’s Diet<\/a> (a great resource from an engineering perspective), i plotted my weight every day that i took it. There are some noticable gaps, especially around a business trip and thanksgiving, but there is an exponentially smoothed trend line which is going down or flat the entire time.<\/p>\n

    \"november<\/center><\/p>\n

    Looks like progress to me. My clothes fit better, i look better but most importantly, i feel better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The short version is this: i’m in much better shape, i’m down ten pounds and i have more energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}