Been pretty careful about maintaining my weight.  I'm still doing a little over an hour each morning on my bike, sticking tightly to 2000 calories per day, and trying to eat filling foods so I'm not interested in going past that.  For me filling means large calorie vegetables.  Not vegetables with added calories from oil or dressings, but ( Read more... )

So my favorite sushi / sashimi buffet closed and reopened under the name Saku.  Some things are the same, but the price and selection both seem to be lowered for me.  There is no sashimi for lunch, which is when I went there, so that limited me a lot.  I did not get the glorious low-calorie victory meal celebration I had intended.  The cost is now ( Read more... )

Fixed some bibliography issues and looked at my paper a bit today.  Lots of decisions need to be made, things like which way to present something, which way to phrase something.  Hard to make these calls for me, but at least I'm back on the case a little ( Read more... )

 Woke up with a nightmare 10 minutes ago, solved a math (contest) problem before I got out of bed and then weighed in at my record low.  I can deal with a day like that.

So in December I decided to begin a diet after being inspired by this guy.  I don't think I've ever tried a pure calorie approach before, and I have to say this has worked better than anything else for me. I weighed in today at 201 which means I've lost 15 pounds in a month and a half. That's a little faster than I wanted to, because 10 pounds ( Read more... )