Day 78

I passed 100,000 points today.  I am now literally over halfway to my goal.  The weigh-in is tomorrow morning, so tomorrow's post is going to take a look at some of the weight loss results from the diet, but I figured I'd just look at some of the data on diet and exercise today.

So of the points scored so far (100,498) exercise accounted for 17,048 (17% of the total) and limiting calories accounted for 83450 (83% of the total).  The worst scoring day on the diet was December 18, when I scored only 350 points, thanks to a holiday brunch and then a holiday dinner.  My average calorie intake per day was 1930 calories per day.  It's pretty obvious that going from a 3000 calorie diet to a 2000 calorie diet has been primarily responsible for my weight loss, though the exercise has obviously helped.

In terms of exercise, during the first 17 days of the diet I only exercised 4 times.  I also went a week without exercising due to illness in the week around Christmas and New Year's.  Otherwise, I only missed points for exercise a total of 10 days.  A lot of that exercise came from my lunchtime walks but not all of it by any stretch.  There were only 10 days out of the 48 days with exercise where I only took a single lunchtime walk.  The remaining days included at least some additional exercise.

What does all this mean?  Absolutely nothing!  Since I have a spreadsheet for all of this I decided to make use of it.  What it does point to though is that the difference between a 3000 calorie diet and a 2000 calorie diet is tremendous and knowing that, I may just be able to keep a lot of this weight off once the active diet is over.

Food today:  egg and cheese sandwich with milk (300 calories), turkey sandwich (500 calories), grilled salmon with noodles and green beans (1000 calories), and a granola bar (100 calories).  Exercise was a lunchtime walk (100 calories).

Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 1900
Exercise:  100
Points Earned:  1200
Total Points Earned:  100498
Points to go:  99502