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Originally Posted by corbes
Most impressive to me, Ben, is that you've done all this with an infant. That is no small additional detail!
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Credit for that goes primarily to my wife for sacrificing some of her free time to make sure I have time to exercise, and secondarily to my daughters--the infant for having an absurdly predictable sleep schedule, and the 4-year-old for her flexibility in the mornings with not seeming to care if Mommy or Daddy is going to prep her breakfast. (I do it if she gets up before I leave; the wife does it if after.) The infant is so predictable in the mornings that I can pretty much always time the return of my run to feed and dress her if my wife is needing some help on any particular morning.
On another note, I'm glad I'm not high strung, or I'd be freaking out this morning. Some of you are aware that
I had hernia surgery yesterday morning. Well,
my one-day weight gain from that is so high that my Withings scale does not recognize the person who weighed as being me! (It can track up to eight different people, and I assume it does so by per-day weight fluctuation.) I was 185.1 on it yesterday morning, 191.7 on it this morning, a 6.6-pound increase despite being under budget for the week and more than 400 calories under budget per day for Thursday and Friday, and the scale gave the "new user" message.
I'm assuming some massive water retention due to the swelling and all.
For perspective on that weight gain, since starting to use LoseIt 8 months ago and weighing virtually every day, only once have I shown a one-day gain of more than 1.5 pounds, and that was the day after I ate about probably 3-4 pounds of ribs at a party I catered. It was a Saturday afternoon/evening event, I cook killer ribs, and I had a 13.1-mile run scheduled for Sunday morning, so I decided to throw down, knowing I'd lose the weight back quickly with that long run. I showed a 4.8-pound gain on Sunday morning, a 4.0 loss on Monday morning, and by Wednesday of that week I was back to my pre-ribs weight. So, yeah, 6.8 pounds given that I wasn't allowed to eat or drink anything until around 1pm yesterday--and all I had was two lighter-than-average meals because I didn't feel very hungry--is kinda epic.