Thanksgiving

No posts for a couple days, as no one noticed. Why not? Well, at a certain point, just posting "Diet's still going fine, went to the gym again" gets a little tedious. Lest you think this is any indication of a lack of commitment to the plan, here are the numbers from Tuesday and Wednesday:

Tuesday
1,663 calories consumed
598 calories burned in exercise
99 grams of carbs

Wednesday
1,833 calories consumed
699 calories burned in exercise
73 grams of carbs

The calorie numbers will always be reasonably rough, but on an average day I'm only consuming about a thousand net calories between diet and exercise, which I expect will be a pretty good weight loss facilitator assuming I can keep it up for another few months.

Today was Thanksgiving, which of course meant it was a cheat day. I didn't actually go nuts on the calories - I kept track of what I was eating in spite of not dieting and came up with 2,254 calories, a pretty sane number. The 348 grams of carbs, on the other hand... you really get a sense for just how ridiculously stuffed with carbohydrates the average American diet is when you go on a diet that restricts them. I had 60 grams of a fairly healthy cereal and half a cup of milk for lunch, and that alone was 54 grams of carbs! While there are certainly things I miss on a very low carb diet, if anything Thanksgiving probably reinforced my goal. I'm definitely glad I burned another 690 calories on the elliptical this afternoon before packing myself with carb-heavy dinner, and I'm looking forward to going to the gym again tomorrow.