Losing weight has been a sort of
'project' of mine for what has seemed to be forever. Ever since I
turned 50, and I had stopped smoking, my weight had been a medical
issue! Maintaining a proper weight was an up, down, sideways and
around affair. Some things worked while most did not. In all cases,
it was a tough slog, made even more difficult by someone who enjoyed
the taste of beer!
But then, a series of events in late
2018 change the whole diet paradigm, just a tad. Let me set the stage
for you. Back last Christmas Day, I came down with the flu. A really
bad form that threw everything at this poor slob; body aches, sore
throat, lung congestion AND a loss of appetite! A virus that
represented the Golden Grail of illness for anyone who needed to
shed a few pounds. And, for the next solid week, from Christmas Day
to New Years I was very sick and did not have much desire to eat much
at all. And, it showed! I went from 200 to 195 like an express
elevator headed straight to hell! Through bleary red eyes, each
morning, I'd look up from my bathroom scale and smile... The days
went by in sick bliss [sic]...
Inevitably, however, I got over that
bug! And, with my improved state of being, my hunger came back with a
vengeance! I suddenly found myself starving at 4AM! Shit. And, of
course, my weight started to creep back upwards... By the second of
January, I was back to 196... And, I was hungry! AND, it was still four in the f'ing morning!
Lying in bed on that dreary day, I had the following thoughts; 1) one of my big problems,
when dieting, was my tendency to eat most of my calories in the early
part of a given day, so that by the time the afternoon came along, I was
already rationing the rest of the day's food! 2), as I didn't really
like exercising, I would often put it off to the point that the day
was about over and I'd think 'what the heck'! I needed to do
something about that, and that's when I came up with the graphic
pictured here!
In order to understand what you are
looking at, picture the left triangle as meals eaten versus a second
triangle of exercises performed. Note that when I'd begin my day, I would plan
to take on the smallest calorie load while, at the same time, perform
the majority of my exercise routines. Then, in the middle of the day,
I'd have a moderate lunch followed along with moderate exercise.
Finally, toward the afternoon hours, I would still have the bulk of
my allocated calories to chew through and only a very light amount of
work to perform. Such a plan would see me eating about a thousand to
1200 calories per day while exercising off a hundred or so. That
worked out to a .2 to .14 pound loss of weight per day,
theoretically! [As a kicker the two triangles combined formed a
parallelogram. What that meant, I had no clue, but it looked pretty cool].
MY PLAN - Repeat the same menu
day along with doing the same exercises. And, whenever I strayed in
the food consumption department, I would 'square it off' via more
exercise. Note that when you squash the 'box' shown below, you get a
straight line, which is unity. A bit of quantum physics at play here, ya think? Anyway, give this a try. it seemed to be working for me!
The history of how the sandwich came about is rather murky. According to one legend, a cook named Joe
at Floyd Angell's café in Sioux City, Iowa, added tomato sauce to
his “loose meat" sandwiches and the “Sloppy Joe"
sandwich was born.
