just a little more

i’ve done the math. i have numbers. i can work with numbers. to that end:

102,500 calories to go. 29 lbs.

it won’t matter if i cut them out of my diet, or burn them on the trail or the bike or in the gym. that’s how many i have left to hit my target.

it works like this:

my resting (basal) metabolic rate is around 2000 calories / day. take that, plus the exercise i do in a given day, and subtract the amount i eat. i’m trying to keep things in line at around 1000-1200 calories a day for food.

so here’s the plan:

1/4 cup of oats for breakfast (150ish calories). been doing that for a while.

either no lunch and dinner, or a late lunch and no dinner. something filling, but not terrible.

(a naked chicken burrito at qdoba with cheese and habañero salsa is 750 calories, it turns out.)

a piece of fruit or something similar if i’m desperate.

no beer. okay, maybe one. (100 cal, or thereabouts)

with no exercise, that’s 102 days. with around 500 cal/day’s worth of exercise, it’s 62 days. (riding my bike to work would yield 500 cal/day.) i intend to count this thing down. at the end of it, i should be at 180 lbs.

next checkpoint: 85000. i should be weighing in at around 200. wish me luck, and i’ll keep you posted.