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Exercise review

This week I exercised three days for 1 hr each, for a total of 180 min. I may do some more today, more likely not. This meets my “bare minimum” which is 150, the equivalent of 30 min for 5 days, but doesn’t get to my next goal of 210 min.

I have been a bit careless with both diet and exercise the last couple weeks. Right at this moment I am at 257.6, so that means I have slipped by 5 or 6 pounds. I haven’t been paying a lot of attention to diet, hoping that putting time into exercise would negate the need for it, but I know I really need to do both in order to get to my weight goal. I will keep up the cardio and try to watch portion sizes a little bit for the next couple weeks.

Choosing a diet

I am officially off the low-carb diet, due to the attack of gout and other concerns. It did what it was supposed to do, though… I lost 9 pounds on it in 3 weeks. That rate is probably too aggressive, though.

The directions from my doctor(*) are to follow a low-calorie, low-fat diet. Which sort of leaves the door open to any number of diets. The deciding factor for me is that I want something that’s easy to figure out. That is, I want to be able to eat a sensible breakfast and lunch, and then instantly (or at least quickly) figure out what would be best for dinner in order to balance things out.

So, here are some options I’m thinking about (though if there’s something I’m not considering, please let me know!)

1. Dietary exchanges; 2. WW online; 3. Half-assed diet; and footnote (ha!) regarding gout