seriously? fawking australia?? no g'day for you.
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seriously? fawking australia?? no g'day for you.
That would be cool, but it won't be done before then.
Update:
June 26, 2009
19:49
Brisbane - Australia
Departed from DHL facility in Brisbane - Australia
So less than 24 hours after I order and it's been picked up by DHL and is on its way here.
Nope, just a decent eBay price. The guy had a 100% seller rating so it seemed a safe bet. The last guy was in NY, NY and that turned out to be of no help when all was said and done, except for that fact that PayPal took $1.03 from the refund he gave me.
Isn't NZ just like a US state or something anyway? Kinda like Canada.
Isn't NZ just like a US state or something anyway? Kinda like Canada.
I am fairly patient. I'm not a "must have it now" kinda guy. When it gets here I may or may not use it right away. I may wait until the new road bike is together and put the cadence sensor on that. Same deal with the last eBay guy. If he said it was going to be another 2 weeks, I would have said fine, let me know. But him being dishonest was what made me want to cancel that and move on.
Easy day today:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/8523442
Go hard when it's a hard day, easy when it's an easy day. Today was easy. Shocker, I got rained on again.
1:56
14.8 mph
28.56 miles
2696 vertical
117 HRavg
GPS on the way. Road frame on the way. Jake seems to have been drinking last night and maybe again this morning. Tomorrow just a relatively short ride because I'm still on-call. Sunday looks like a road ride out of Fred's house.
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/8523442
Go hard when it's a hard day, easy when it's an easy day. Today was easy. Shocker, I got rained on again.
1:56
14.8 mph
28.56 miles
2696 vertical
117 HRavg
GPS on the way. Road frame on the way. Jake seems to have been drinking last night and maybe again this morning. Tomorrow just a relatively short ride because I'm still on-call. Sunday looks like a road ride out of Fred's house.
The Kalmyk
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GPS deliver flop will be a memory a month from now...
I have a calorie count question and what better place to have it answered than Norms thread...
How do you count calories on foods that do not have nutritional info (i.e A slice of pizza)
I have a calorie count question and what better place to have it answered than Norms thread...
How do you count calories on foods that do not have nutritional info (i.e A slice of pizza)
I got my $$ back so I could care less about the GPS flop.
Google "calories cheese pizza". First result brings you here:
CalorieKing
It says 1 slice is 272, which seems low to me. So I click "pie" and it says about 2400, which gives you 300 per slice. Maybe still low, but close enough.
Ok, but here's the rub. It's "close enough" if you have 1. Is there really a huge difference between 300 and 400? No. But 900 and 1200...well, aside from the fact that would be far too big of a meal, you're 300 calories in error which almost wipes your whole 500 calorie deficit out for the day.
The more you do it, the more you get a feel for how many calories things have. This comes in more handy when you go out to eat and it's impossible to really know what you're eating.
Google "calories cheese pizza". First result brings you here:
CalorieKing
It says 1 slice is 272, which seems low to me. So I click "pie" and it says about 2400, which gives you 300 per slice. Maybe still low, but close enough.
Ok, but here's the rub. It's "close enough" if you have 1. Is there really a huge difference between 300 and 400? No. But 900 and 1200...well, aside from the fact that would be far too big of a meal, you're 300 calories in error which almost wipes your whole 500 calorie deficit out for the day.
The more you do it, the more you get a feel for how many calories things have. This comes in more handy when you go out to eat and it's impossible to really know what you're eating.
kush
Active Member
You didn't ask me but I'll give you an online tool that works fairly well -
http://www.thedailyplate.com/
Calories 270 Calories from Fat 0
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 10.4g 16%
Saturated Fat 5g 25%
Cholesterol 25mg 8%
Sodium 510mg 21%
Total Carbohydrate 31g 10%
Dietary Fiber 3g 12%
Sugars 4g
Protein 13g 26%
Est. Percent of Calories from:
Fat 34.7% Carbs 45.9%
Protein 19.3%
The Kalmyk
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So, of the foods you consume in a week, what percentage is accurately counted and what percentage is estimated??
Vast majority is "fairly" accurately counted. I don't eat out very often. I say "fairly" because I don't weigh my foods, so I'll say, "yeah, seems about 6 ounces of chicken" or whatever.
ellbiddy
Active Member
Speaking of cutting weight....I just changed to eating when I was /physically/ hungry in small portions which corresponds to about 2-4 hours between meals. I just did it to test and now I'm a solid 7 pounds lighter on a full stomach than I was ~3ish weeks ago in the morning after I take my morning leak. It was an unnoticeable change for me as every time I've cut weight before I took drastic measures to get dramatic results. My end goal is to be a mid 170 to a low 180, time will tell if this happens.
My new problem is that my legs are perpetually mush, I can still push hard, but it's always a low ache. I think I fell into a lull in terms of effort on my rides and never go easy enough (which consequently won't let me go hard enough) so I was going to do a nice light romp today.
My new problem is that my legs are perpetually mush, I can still push hard, but it's always a low ache. I think I fell into a lull in terms of effort on my rides and never go easy enough (which consequently won't let me go hard enough) so I was going to do a nice light romp today.
The Kalmyk
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If I don't know what I'm consuming now, how would I know how much to cut back? Is there a daily number I can use? I'm active and want to lose weight...
The Kalmyk
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Lose weight with out losing my strength...My target weight will take "TIME"...BTW this is not a hijack for Norm is king of losing weight
The Kalmyk
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VERY but for it to sustainable I have to start off slow...I would imagine shocking my system could have an undesired effect?
The serious statement has nothing to do with shocking the system. Losing weight is very easy. Eat less than you burn. The serious part is figuring out what you burn, and being honest and accurate about what you eat. Once you get the numbers down you can start to refine things to the point where you're eating 500 calories a day less than you burn, or 400, or 100, whatever you want.
Most people don't want to bother. Some people don't need to. But you've seen my old pictures. If left to my own devices I tend to overeat. So I need some checks and balances. I also spend a lot of time in front of a computer so it's no big deal to record what I eat.
So this is what I have:
1. A model that calculates what I burn in a day.
2. An application to track calories consumed.
3. A spreadsheet which plots how many calories an hour I should eat.
4. At certain points in the day I compare what I have eaten versus #3.
More Detail
1. I used to use fitday.com. But now I use the Lose It! App on the iPhone. I need to adjust the calories burned in Lose It! because it estimates high. I calculate this number after I exercise that day.
2. I use LoseIt! to track calories on my iPhone and it has made this process easier by a metric shit ton. If you're on the fence about an iPhone I would say do it for this alone.
3. I have a google docs document that I keep various projects and notes in. I have this open all the time on the PC. My food graph is just 1 tab. I enter the number I got from #1 and it adjusts the graph.
4. I record my calories eaten at 6, 10, 1, 4, 7, and before bed. Sometimes it does not work out exactly like that but it's close enough.
Ok, that's enough. I have more advice and tips but for now that's plenty. I can also suggest "required foods" you should be eating every day but 1 thing at a time is a better idea.
The Kalmyk
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Thanks...I will check out fitday.com...