Hi all...
Just responding to a couple of comments made to this blog regarding transfats...
I actually don't eat much in the way of processed foods. I have a serious problem with gluten and this means I'm actually eating more of a paleo-diet (meat, nuts, seeds, veggies, rice, etc). It's making it harder to gain (no pizza, no beer, no donuts or cookies, not much in the way of pre-packaged snack foods) but I think I'm holding my own.
That being said, even though my goal is to get fat (which most would say is inherently unhealthy), I'm trying to do it in a healthy way. So...not much in the way of transfats. Very little high fructose corn syrup (pop is kind of gross anyway)...
Almonds, rice, chocolate (yaaay chocolate), a weakness for Doritos...I think these things will be my ticket to roundness...
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
2 October 2009
So I went away and then I came back. Actually, to be more specific, I went out of town on business for four days and then came back and worked like crazy the next four days.
Here's the update (and I admit I'm a little confused by the results).
While I was away for the four days I ate a lot of extra calories. According to the spreadsheet I should weigh at least 192 lbs now. But I don't. Oddly enough I appear to have lost weight. The day I got back the scale said I was actually one pound lighter then when I left. Trust me on this - I ate an incredible amount of food when I was gone. And I kept track of it down to the calorie (the business part of the trip was short and easy and left me lots of time for other things like refining the spreadsheet).
But...and this is where it's weird...although I appear to be lighter in a numbers sense, my belly *is* bigger. This isn't wishful thinking. Shirts that fit me before I went do not fit me anymore. My pants *are* tighter. I can feel the skin on my stomach stretching when I move and that tells me my belly got bigger.
And I do appear to be expanding. I've been eating relatively normally since I got back (well, heavy/normally) and I'm getting a little bigger each day. I haven't had time to update the spreadsheet since I got back but I'm hoping to get back on it. I found it very helpful when I was wondering just how much more I needed to consume in a day.
That being said, I guess it takes longer than I thought to actually put on the weight in any meaningful way.
I'm baffled, a bit, but not beaten.
So my strategy for the next little while is to keep up
Here's the update (and I admit I'm a little confused by the results).
While I was away for the four days I ate a lot of extra calories. According to the spreadsheet I should weigh at least 192 lbs now. But I don't. Oddly enough I appear to have lost weight. The day I got back the scale said I was actually one pound lighter then when I left. Trust me on this - I ate an incredible amount of food when I was gone. And I kept track of it down to the calorie (the business part of the trip was short and easy and left me lots of time for other things like refining the spreadsheet).
But...and this is where it's weird...although I appear to be lighter in a numbers sense, my belly *is* bigger. This isn't wishful thinking. Shirts that fit me before I went do not fit me anymore. My pants *are* tighter. I can feel the skin on my stomach stretching when I move and that tells me my belly got bigger.
And I do appear to be expanding. I've been eating relatively normally since I got back (well, heavy/normally) and I'm getting a little bigger each day. I haven't had time to update the spreadsheet since I got back but I'm hoping to get back on it. I found it very helpful when I was wondering just how much more I needed to consume in a day.
That being said, I guess it takes longer than I thought to actually put on the weight in any meaningful way.
I'm baffled, a bit, but not beaten.
So my strategy for the next little while is to keep up
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