Skip to main content

Adaptations

Eleven weeks into my plan to lose weight, I need to assess where I stand. Do I need to change some things? When you make plans, it bumps into reality. You look at your goals and improvise. You adapt.

I haven't eaten rice since Week 1. Haven't changed that. I feel that is the most basic thing to do. It solves the problem of eating too much carbohydrates and helps in lowering my caloric intake. I sought to replace my starch-based breads with home-baked coconut flour made ones. Yes, I made it myself. I had to go back to a skill I haven't used since twenty years ago. Baking.

I am trying to do a 16-hours continuous fast, then break the fast with a solid nutritious low carb high fat, moderate protein meal. Then reset the timer for another 16-hours fast. I watch my electrolytes, I drink water and black coffee. When your urine is growing darker from light yellow to darker, you need to increase water intake. How much protein to eat daily? The rule of thumb is 1 to 1.5 times per kilogram of your ideal or target weight. So if I want to stay at 67.5 kg my daily protein intake should be 67 grams to 101 grams. I am not an athlete and I am not training to run the New York Marathon any time soon. 75 grams of protein daily is about normal for me. 100 grams of protein is the most that target ratio of 20% could take. The 16-hour continuous fast is a rolling fast I try to finish. The operating word here is try. In practice a lot of things break my fast. I have to meet someone out and they offer you coffee and treats. I visit a friend's house, they always have food on the plate for me. Being social animals I prioritize that eating what they offered is more important than keeping my fast.

I have to continue with the fast, reset, stick with my solid well planned meal. The great thing about this diet is it is forgiving. I should also take into account the season I am in. In the Filipino setting, Christmas and New Year are terrible, horrible times to think about dieting. But I try.

tags: health, diet

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

ZFS Unable to System Snapshot, bpool is Full?

I first encountered the problem after a routine update / upgrade of the system. Well there was a kernel upgrade and I have not checked how many old kernels are still left for backups in /boot. Apparently, there was a few and the partition is 85% full. Every software update included a warning because of the restriction in disk space. Also, zfs could not create snapshots. It is also full. This is not very clear to me. Snapshots were suppose to be diff copies so why would it take up a large space. Most of the snapshots are less than 2MB. Or 0MB. Another problem that popped up is the constant freezing of Rhythmbox. I don't know if the config files are corrupted. The CPU cycles from one to the next. Peaks for 5-6 seconds then on to the next CPU. This forced me to download Clementine and Audacious. But both applications do not find the zfs pool or don't show the zfs structure. Why not? My final solution is to reinstall Rhythmbox via snaps. I re-scanned the music libr
Post a Comment
Read more

Renter's ID and Business Licensing 2023

Last year's business permit application involved an undertaking of submitting lessee list to the Barangay in order to get them ID's including one for the lessor himself. I received a letter of notification just before New Year's Day. It informed me that I might be denied renewal of permits because I did not comply with this undertaking. So the Renter's ID is a serious thing now. When I went ahead and applied for a business permit renewal at the local government office everything went well except they want my list of lessee. So I had to backtrack and go to the Barangay and submit the list. They produced the ID's and I provided the photo ID's and of course have it signed by the lessee. After that, they pointed me to the cashier to pay the taxes and permit fees which totaled php15,305.00 ($280.33) During the payment of Fire and Safety department, they reminded me to bring my fire extinguisher official receipts of payment. I can pick up my new pe
Post a Comment
Read more

Check rkhunter warnings For Deleted Files

logfile- /var/log/rkhunter.log starts [partial starts] [19:18:58] Info: Starting test name 'malware' [19:18:58] Performing malware checks [19:18:58] [19:18:58] Info: Starting test name 'deleted_files' [19:19:35]   Checking running processes for deleted files    [ Warning ] [19:19:35] Warning: The following processes are using deleted files: [19:19:35]          Process: /usr/bin/pulseaudio    PID: 784    File: /memfd:pulseaudio [19:19:35]          Process: /usr/bin/gnome-shell    PID: 1151    File: /tmp/mutter-shared-67ER4Y [19:19:35]          Process: /usr/bin/pulseaudio    PID: 1173    File: /memfd:pulseaudio [19:19:35]          Process: /usr/lib/evolution-data-server/evolution-source-registry    PID: 1194    File: /home/donato/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home [19:19:35]          Process: /usr/bin/python2.7    PID: 1472    File: /tmp/vteZY4V4Y [19:19:35]          Process: /usr/bin/megasync    PID: 1484    File: /run/user/1000/wayland-cursor-shared-t6KVCM [19:19:35]    
Post a Comment
Read more