I'm Glad I Went to the Gym Yesterday
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Stats
Weight: 193.0
Calorie Deficit from yesterday?: no, -209
Workout Goals for today: a walk, perhaps calisthenics at home if I get around to it
Thoughts: I'm glad I went to the gym yesterday. I almost considered not going because I was going to go to an event later that evening. But I was able to go and get a pretty solid 35-ish minute workout of kettlebell. I love using the kettlebell. The kettlebell is so useful because you can do basically every single muscle group with it. You can do explosive exercises with swings. You can do halos. You can do Turkish get-ups. You can work on your squat form and do rows all with the same device. Kettlebell is to me what climbing is to other software engineers. A multi-way to stay fit, a multi-tool of efficiency, something that just feels cool to swing around.
As for diet, today snuck up on me. I had over a thousand calories left over by the time that I went to my evening event. But then I stopped by Chick-fil-A and had a Sprite and a spicy chicken sandwich and then went home and had a actually really good combo of raspberry sorbet and dark chocolate pretzel bark thins. I basically hit my cap which was pretty interesting how many calories can get consumed so quickly.
I've started to recognize the feeling of what 500-ish calories feels like, and that feels about roughly what I need for a meal for satiation for a few hours.
I just finished Donella Meadows' book "Thinking In Systems" and it makes me think about my weight as a system where the stock is the weight itself that operates on delays of flows of calories in and calories out. We don't have perfect information or foresight about how many calories we're going to consume any given day or how our body is going to process those calories, but we can move the numbers up and down to change the eventual stock. At least that's what I'm hoping for.
Weight: 193.0
Calorie Deficit from yesterday?: no, -209
Workout Goals for today: a walk, perhaps calisthenics at home if I get around to it
Thoughts: I'm glad I went to the gym yesterday. I almost considered not going because I was going to go to an event later that evening. But I was able to go and get a pretty solid 35-ish minute workout of kettlebell. I love using the kettlebell. The kettlebell is so useful because you can do basically every single muscle group with it. You can do explosive exercises with swings. You can do halos. You can do Turkish get-ups. You can work on your squat form and do rows all with the same device. Kettlebell is to me what climbing is to other software engineers. A multi-way to stay fit, a multi-tool of efficiency, something that just feels cool to swing around.
As for diet, today snuck up on me. I had over a thousand calories left over by the time that I went to my evening event. But then I stopped by Chick-fil-A and had a Sprite and a spicy chicken sandwich and then went home and had a actually really good combo of raspberry sorbet and dark chocolate pretzel bark thins. I basically hit my cap which was pretty interesting how many calories can get consumed so quickly.
I've started to recognize the feeling of what 500-ish calories feels like, and that feels about roughly what I need for a meal for satiation for a few hours.
I just finished Donella Meadows' book "Thinking In Systems" and it makes me think about my weight as a system where the stock is the weight itself that operates on delays of flows of calories in and calories out. We don't have perfect information or foresight about how many calories we're going to consume any given day or how our body is going to process those calories, but we can move the numbers up and down to change the eventual stock. At least that's what I'm hoping for.
