Recompositioning

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

The week rolls on.  The rest of it should be fairly quiet with lots of time at the office, hoping to get a lot of work done.

This morning's musing is just ruminating on the idea of body recomposition.  Obviously there are things you do that change your body -- you eat less or exercise and you shrink, you eat right and engage in strength training, you build muscle, etc etc.  But one of the theories that's out there suggests that a properly constructed diet can have an outsized -- i.e. not just part of general weight loss -- impact on visceral fat.  I think that's one reason for me why that theory is attractive, I have a lot of my excess weight concentrated as visceral (abdominal) fat, and reducing it would significantly improve my appearance and quality of life.  If sharply reducing or eliminating seed oils and certain other fats will make a difference, that's something I'm very willing to do.

On that subject, I enjoyed again the fact this morning that my clothes are fitting better.  It's hard to see small changes, but the fit doesn't lie.  I really should measure so that I have something concrete to refer to -- we'll see if I get motivated enough to do that.  For now at least I'll "track" the scale and enjoy the progress in the form of looser fitting clothes.

Breakfast:  Coffee with a little cacao butter (x2)

I should probably report and track these since they do have energy content.  It has seemed so far (after a whole two days) that my body does treat it as eating and that it results in my being hungrier by lunch.  If that continues, I may change to just having regular coffee in the morning and an enhanced decaf after lunch.

Lunch:  Salami, 2 slices extra sharp cheddar, Walmart croissant with an extra knob of butter, Fage vanilla TruBlend yogurt

Better job on the quantities today, I am pleasantly full without any sense of it being too much.  A slice or two less salami -- probably switching to ham tomorrow -- and no avocado.  Feels good.

Dinner:  2 Kiolbassa beef smoked sausages with jalapeno mustard, TCD style mashed potatoes

Good stuff.   I skipped the kraut tonight and the potatoes were a bit smaller.  Still very satisfying.

Exercise:  Yes TBD.  So far I stopped at storage and grabbed four boxes, then walked around Home Depot for 15 minutes or so.  Later, I'll unload the boxes, if I can make myself walk too that would be great.  Edit:  I'm counting it.  Spent nearly a half hour lugging boxes and moving stuff.  Also unpacked the four boxes and mostly have stuff put away (plus two loads in the laundry), which is an accomplishment if not exercise.

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