1. Average calories (as calculated by FitDay) for week and month: 1641, 1547
2. Average cal burned through exercise (as calculated by FitDay): 418, 247
3. Weight trend as calculated by Hacker Diet spreadsheets: 87.8
4. Total lost (starting weight of 89K-weight trend): 1.2
5. Daily deficit (calculated by Hacker Diet): 91 calories
6. Estimated metabolism: 1391

Sigh.  I just don’t burn enough.  I’m trying to build up muscle, but it looks like I need to drop my calories by about 200 a day. Darn it!  I’m going to aim my food intake at 1400, with 20-40 grams of fat.

1. Average calories (as calculated by FitDay) for week and month: 1648, 1505
2. Average cal burned through exercise (as calculated by FitDay): 196, 147
3. Weight trend as calculated by Hacker Diet spreadsheets: 87.8
4. Total lost (starting weight of 89K-weight trend): 1.2
5. Daily deficit (calculated by Hacker Diet): 79 calories

Sigh.  It’s becoming clear to me that my metabolism is pretty low.  I don’t want to drop my calories much lower because I’m already suffering unpleasant effects, but I don’t have time to exercise more than about an hour a day.  Three days a week, that hour is devoted to running and yoga.  That leaves one cardio cross training and two weight workouts (once school starts– right now I can do 4 weight workouts a week.)

I’m kind of bummed.  It just seems that if you eat no fried food, no desserts, no soda, and if you work out, that it should be easy to get to a healthy weight.  I suppose I’m influenced in part by the articles I read every day about how there’s no such thing as low metabolism, about how dieters who aren’t losing weight are lying about what they eat, etc.  I don’t want to get frustrated because I don’t want to turn this into a moral issue– but it is a moral issue when people assume you’re dishonest just because you can’t lose weight.

1. Average calories (as calculated by FitDay) for week and month: 1474, 1500
2. Average cal burned through exercise (as calculated by FitDay): 152, 106
3. Weight trend as calculated by Hacker Diet spreadsheets: 87.7
4. Total lost (starting weight of 89K-weight trend): 1.3
5. Daily deficit (calculated by Hacker Diet): 104 calories

I’m not going to worry too much just yet about the apparent lack of a loss.  It’s entirely possible that there’s a wee bit of water retention going on.  Unfortunately, I also can’t seem to stop eating! The good part is, the working out is going well.  We’ve been running for about a month now, maybe more.  We’re adding two blocks this week.  I did Cathe’s Muscle Max yesterday and Low Impact Step today.

1. Average calories (as calculated by FitDay) for week and month: 1,198
2. Average cal burned through exercise (as calculated by FitDay): 130
3. Weight trend as calculated by Hacker Diet spreadsheets: 87.8
4. Total lost (starting weight of 89K-weight trend): 1.2

I didn’t mean for my calories to be so low.  I just haven’t really been hungry.

I need to start working out on the weekends.  Last week, I worked out four days.  A weekend swim and bike ride would really even things out.

I also noticed new incoming links in my dashboard.  Thanks for linking me, Disappearing Woman and Jake Silver!  I’m getting some ideas for future posts from reading these new (to me) blogs.

I don’t know how well this guy has done with maintenance, but this is a nice writeup.

So, I’m going to make an effort to post at least weekly with this information:

1. Average calories (as calculated by FitDay) for week and month:
2. Average cal burned through exercise (as calculated by FitDay):
3. Weight trend as calculated by Hacker Diet spreadsheets:
4. Total lost (starting weight of 89K-weight trend):

I might also post monthly screenshots of the charts.  The spreadsheet says I will be at my goal (55K) by February.