Mind-Manual

A few quick notes on my health

On Dec 22, I decided to excersize daily barring pain or illness. Since then:

• The same day, I won a fitness DVD from Subway’s Greatest Contest Ever Contest.
• About three days ago, I also won three months free gym membership (I already have a gym membership, so if anyone would like it, you can have it, its with Extreme Fitness all over Southern Ontario).
• Recently, Steve Pavlina‘s also been blogging about going on a 30-day trial eating a fairly strict raw food diet. I don’t really plan on eating a raw food diet, but it has been a fascinating read. The man is really, really self-aware. I found a great link called Calorie King.com which lists nutritional data for a whole variety of foods. The awesome thing is that it lists data for South Asian foods, too, which used to be a problem for me when figuring out my diet.
• I also set the requirement to eat out to a maximum of about 7 dollars once a week. Partially to save money and partially to protect my diet, although I usually just eat at Subway which is fairly healthy.
• I’ve also been keeping a food log since yesterday. For two reasons, one is obviously to figure out what sorts of food I eat how much of, and the other is to figure out how much my food costs are in a day, and how much they would be for a balanced meal.
• I would say I eat less than 15 dollars a day when I eat at home, which is a lot less than I expected. Compared to upto 7 dollars for one meal outside, that makes me rethink buying food from outside. I need a lot of food in a given day, and I’m usually out of the house for most of the day when I do go out, so even though I bring some food, its not enough. I’m going to experiment with more filling options, and taking more food with me.
• Holy crap, I just found out that I need almost 3,000 calories to maintain my body weight, according to this Caloric Need Calculator. Recommendation is to cut intake to 2,500 calories a day to lose a pound of food a week.
• I’m trying to figure out my ideal weight, which is surprisingly more complicated than you might imagine, with a larger range than useful. My current weight is 160, at 6 feet. I think I’ll just set 155 as a goal and see how things go. Perhaps I shall go visit my doctor to find out information about this.

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