Weight loss and perseverance

Oh yeah, I also wanted to share the calorie intake thing.

Caloric burn changes with weight like I have said before. By constantly adjusting my intake level to my new weight and holding a consistent 300 calorie difference, my body has never resisted the change. My concept has always been a sort of geological approach, time and pressure. Kinda like carving the Grand Canyon. It doesn’t happen quickly, but it will give to constant pressure.

When I started, my burn rate and intake rate were very different than they are now and I adjusted as I progressed.

At 315 lbs, burn rate was 3300 cals per day and I held to 3000 cals per day intake.

At 275 lbs, burn rate was 2900 cals per day and I held intake to 2600 cals per day.

At 240 lbs, burn rate was 2700 cals per day and I held intake to 2400 cals per day.

Now I am at 231 lbs and holding at just under 2300 cals per day.

I now consume 1000 cals per day than I did before I started. If I had tried to cut out 1000 cals per day back then, I would have failed miserably and given up in short order. But by keeping a moderate pressure on all the time and adjusting as I went, my body adapted and I never felt deprived. 300 calories less each day isn’t much, especially when you spread it out across everything you eat each day. A bite here, a bite there...it all adds up.

My current intake level is 100 cals per day less than my burn rate will be once I get to my target weight of 185 lbs. That means that one I get there, I will be have to eat more than I do now just to stay even.

Interesting thing is that I have become so tuned to just eating what I feel like that some days I check my intake and have to tell myself to eat something more...I’m too low on intake and don’t want to screw up the balance. Drop too low and I might trigger a push back from my metabolism.

Time and steady pressure is the plan and path!