Back where we started

228--->230.2

My wife has been saying I "look thinner" in pictures and wot-not, but the scale says gravity has the same effect on me. In the past month I have been consistent with my weight-regimen and have upped my cycling (though not as much as I'd like to), and my body DOES feel different, a bit more toned here, a muscle a little larger there, so maybe the ratio of fat to muscle is shifting. Nothing big, but perhaps a trend that'll pay off in months (years?) ahead.

Read an article this past week about liposuction -- wherever the fat is surgically removed, it comes back in other parts of the body because the body defends it's fat -- it is programmed to keep a steady number of fat cells, and removing is temporary. Starving the fat cells, however....

I saw a guy during Passover, a regular guest, who in all past years was quite rotund, but this year was very trim, practically half the guy he used to be. I overheard a conversation, where he was showing a scar by his bellybutton -- probably a lapband procedure. Realistically, if I'm going to ever drop the 60 lbs to be defined as in a "normal" range by the Health Department's standards, it's going to take something more radical than a healthy diet and some weights and bikes. Which makes me ask: how happy am I? I think....I'm pretty happy. But my dad started having strokes in his early 50s, which in reality I'm not that far from. I think my fitness regime is more involved than his at this age, and my diet is superior to his at this age, too. How much is environmental, how much is inherited? Guess I'm gonna find out.

AM SNACK: 7:30am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 9am, brown rice crispies with organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 12:45pm, 3 slices pizza, 8oz sprite, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5 


PM SNACK: 5pm, green salad, 1 square of Sicilian, small glass of mandorla, 2 pieces of garlic bread, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 11pm, singapore mei fun, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5