The very deep did rot: O Christ!
I’m a fat dude. Have been for a long time. It never really bothered me much, and while I made plans to start a “real diet” after my 30th birthday, that never really happened. About 8 months after that date, however, I started experiencing some fairly painful gastrointestinal issues (the details of which I won’t go into here.) My doctor told me that the best way to fix these things was to lose weight and said that all I needed to do to accomplish that was to eat 2000 calories a day, stay between 20% and 30% calories from fat, and get some exercise every day. This seemed simple enough, so I started doing it. Counting all those calories was a real pain, though, and so I wrote some software to help me keep track.
This first shot is the daily summary screen for a day back in August. I wanted to show a typical day of eating for me, and it turns out I have very few of those. On this day, I had a bowl of cereal in the morning, went to Subway for lunch, had a burger, french fries and broccoli for dinner, then had a waffle with peanut butter and figs for a snack later. Figs are really good. Even later, I seem to have eaten a curry bao.
Here are three screens, showing various edit features of the software. The first two show parts of the process to add a “food event”, essentially one of the line items in the first screenshot. The third shows the screen for adding a new food item. This process is not very interesting.
And here’s a graph of my weight progression. For a while the average was 0.33 lbs per day, but I seem to have slowed down somewhat. I hope I’m not decelerating. The hump in the middle of the graph is where I got a cold and couldn’t really work out for about 4 days, and also decided not to count calories those days. I was a little bit disappointed that I gained so much weight in such a short period of indolence, but I was able to take it back off fairly quickly.
Anyhow, that’s just a little peek in my insane anal-retentive nerdiness.