Fitgeeks!

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

amywithani  and I have started a new community called fitgeeks!  We're mainly using it for daily/weekly logs of diet and physical activity, but I'd like to use it to solicit ideas for exercise/weight management, ask questions of the group, general cheerleading/boasting (Bragging about reaching a fitness goal is fantastic!), goal setting, and fitness bet/workout partner/diet buddy matchups.

Details:

• amywithani  or I will send out invites.  You can post or lurk as you see fit.
  
• I'll be posting daily intake/physical activity logs.  If you want to do the same, feel free, but please do it behind an lj-cut for brevity's sake.  I'll post once each day with my totals to keep post traffic reasonable.
  
• Weightloss bet-partner solicitation is OK, but PLEASE take any bet smack-talk to your own journal or private email. (Some of the folks I've asked to join are not locals or are not interested in the bet-penalty system of weightloss.)
• Be honest and positive on this community, please, both with yourself and others.  This isn't a forum for being self-critical (OMG I AM FATTY MCBUTTERMEATS) or harshly criticizing other people's fitness goals/decisions (o noez you do atkins? :(  enjoy your ketonuria, dood). 
  

Glad to see you on this community.  I'd like to game, and watch anime, and geek out with you guys for a long time to come, so let's be the exception to the cheeto-stained rule!

How I do calorie control

[mithriltabby]

I weigh about 220 lb right now, and my doctor would like me to get down to about 190. My strategy is to gradually tweak my calorie intake to a level for maintaining the 190 and using exercise to get to the 190 in the first place, rather than dieting down to 190. (Doing Weight Watchers style points counting is a bit too hectic for me; I already have enough details to keep track of in life.)

So I’ve been gradually tweaking my habits to find ways to stay satisfied with my meals while reducing their calorie content. One thing that helps is packing my own lunch, rather than going out to eat with most of my coworkers who are aficionados of the local fast food joints. I’ve also focused on cutting down the calories I bring with me: instead of making my sandwich on a sourdough roll, I use sliced sourdough instead. (But on the principle of maximizing flavor, each week I buy a 2 pound sourdough basket loaf at Le Boulanger, which tastes much better than anything they have at the grocery store.) I use less meat, but I add freshly ground Montreal Steak Seasoning to pep it up. I use a cheese plane to get thin slices of cheese for the sandwich, but it’s Tillamook Sharp Cheddar. The net result is that where, for a week’s lunches, I used to get a pack of sourdough rolls, a pound of roast beast, and half a pound of cheddar cheese at the deli, I now only use ten slices of sourdough bread, half a pound of roast beast, and work my way through a brick of Tillamook quite slowly.

obsessivewoman was surprised when I showed her my technique for keeping lettuce for sandwiches: buy a head of lettuce for the week. Each day, peel off the limp, wilted outer layer and throw it away, then peel off a crisp leaf for the sandwich. Repeat each day, and you’ll work through most of the head by the end of the week. She says that only a bachelor would’ve come up with that.

let's git this wagon train a-movin'!

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