euheide's Journal, 03 January 2014

I started gaining weight a few months back, not only because I stopped weight training but also because I started to eat a considerably greater number of calories. Now I finally tipped the scale between calories ingested and calories burned.

My intention though was to try to go back to the 1850 calories mark, to determine if I would still lose weight even after ceasing weight training. I think that, today, I will try to stop at 1850 calories and do that for like 2 or 3 days and see what happens. the only objective in this being to determine how much of an impact weight training had on my weight at the time, or on my calorie balance.

Another day without eating sweets. I'm very proud of myself heheh. I still maintain that I don't know for how much longer I will be able to psychologically keep it. No promises lol.

I just realized that the dryness on my hands going away might also be due to the fact that I started drinking more water lol. That could be the reason.

I have to start swimming more. It's great for my back (despite the fact that I haven't had any pain lately) and it's also great for developing my upped body. But usually I don't feel like it, possibly because it's so much more time consuming than indoor cycling. Perhaps it's good to start with doing it once a week and climb from there. :)

edit: I don't know if this apple was different but I haven't tasted a tastier apple in a long time! :)

edit: my latest strategy to cope with the withdrawal of sugar (refined sugar), is to go on Google and look for all the bad things it can do to you lol. I've seen some bad stuff already about how it causes inflammation throughout your body as a result of insulin spikes. It also causes a type of intestinal flora, needed for optimal digestion, to decrease in quantity and a type of yeast (Candida albicans) we have in our intestines to change into a fungus and invade the rest of our body (read excerpt below) it attacks substances needed for the maintenance of your skin. I have also read previously that it would cause inflammation of your brain and memory problems in a study with animals (I don't remember which). This was enough incentive to hold on a little more on this refined sugar cleansing heheh.

"...In a healthy person, Candida albicans numbers in the millions and is controlled by a properly-functioning immune system and "friendly" bacteria. However, if the number of friendly bacteria is decreased, the immune system is weakened, or other conditions for yeast proliferation occur (diet high in sugar, improper pH in the digestive system) Candida albicans will shift from yeast form to mycelial fungal form and start to invade the body..."

Then they list a huge number of potential health effects. Here is the link (below)

http://www.diagnose-me.com/symptoms-of/yeast-candida-infection.html

I also read, on another website that a guy who used to be highly addicted to refined sugar, in just two weeks of removing it from his diet, was completely free of the desire for it. This also motivates me to try and hold, at least, those two weeks. I'm not going to die in two weeks so it's worth a try lol.

edit: it's amazing that I ate so long ago and am still not hungry. I'm not sure but I'm thinking this may be due to having eliminated refined sugar from my diet a few days ago. Usually I would be feeling the need to eat something sweet but, right at this moment I feel ok. This is not to say that I don't feel awfully tempted to eat sweets when I specifically think about them lol. Unfortunately I still crave them from time to time, especially when I see them with my eyes... But I can't remove them from the house or I would panic lol. It helps me knowing that I can backtrack at any minute :)

edit: If I'm not mistaken, this is the 5th day without sweets. My goal is to get to two full weeks to there's 9 days left. I risk saying that, today, it didn't seem as hard as on the last days. I might be wrong but that's my impression :)

132.9 lb Lost so far: 11.2 lb.    Still to go: 9.5 lb.    Diet followed reasonably well.

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1647 kcal

Fat: 99.24g | Prot: 81.92g | Carb: 135.74g.   Breakfast: Whole Milk, cherry tomato, goji berries, Water, Hazelnuts or Filberts Nuts, Almonds, Dried Pumpkin and Squash Seed Kernels, Raisins, Dried Prune, Dried Fig, Dried Apricot, Walnuts. Lunch: Granny Smith Apples, Ramirez Sardinhas em Tomate, Fried Egg. Dinner: Mixed Salad Greens, Olives, Bell Peppers, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Mozzarella Cheese (Whole Milk), Cherry Tomatoes, Radish, Balsamic Vinegar. Snacks/Other: Whole Foods Market Goji Berries, Dried Pumpkin and Squash Seed Kernels, Oranges, Heinz Apple Cider Vinegar, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Broccoli, Queijo Serra da Estrela (DOP) Queijo da Serra (DOP), Dried Fig. more...

1784 kcal

Activities & Exercise: indoor cycling intensity level 6 (light) 10 to 11.5 km/h, 5.2 km (medium level of energy today, I made a conscious effort not to push it) - 30 minutes, Resting - 15 hours and 30 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...