Fattoids

It takes 15 calories per day to maintain one pound of weight. So, if I eat 1500 calories per day for, say, a really long time, I would weigh 100 pounds. I would also probably be sick as a goose (an odd turn of phrase).

To maintain my weight at 420 pounds I had to keep eating 6300 calories per day more than I was using.

The unfair thing is that it really takes more than 15 calories to burn up a pound of weight. I have to expend (burn) 3500 calories to lose a pound of fat. And burning the fat isn't automatic. The body has some strange rules about where and how much fat is used up.

It's all very confusing.

Nonetheless I am content, for the moment, to leave all the math to the experts and just keep plugging away at my food plan. I really have only had two days when I was uncomfortably hungry or shaky. I've learned not to ignore those signals, and not to give in to them. I just deal with them.

Of almost 2000 lap-band surgeries one surgeon in Little Rock performed, 2 people died, which is about the national average for major surgery mortality. Hmmmm. I don't want to be so special that I qualify for that one percent!

Monday evening I went to the hospital while Linda was conducting her class at the Women's Crisis Center. I walked the halls looking for a digital scale sitting out somewhere where I could sneak up and weigh myself. No luck. So I still don't know how I am doing. I do know that my belts are not doing me much good now--I need to get new holes punched in them to get them tighter. I suspect punching holes is less expensive than buying new belts. Oh well. More later.