Lessons Learned & Learning 15: 450 Days of Maintenance

Ejourneys

Prior maintenance updates: 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 120 days, 150 days, 180 days, 210 days, 240 days, 270 days, 300 days, 330 days, 360 days, 390 days, 420 days.

My fifteenth 30 days looked like this:


Here's how the fifteen 30-day periods compare:


Weight: I had reached my goal weight of 150 lbs. on Dec. 17, 2013. According to MFP, that would place my net calories at 1600 for maintenance.

Between days 421 and 450 inclusive my weight averaged 148.7 and ranged from 147 (Feb. 24) to 150 (Mar. 4).

Exercise Calories Burned:
I took 3 rest days (0 calories burned) during maintenance days 421-450, compared with 2 rest days during maintenance days 391-420, 1 rest day during maintenance days 361-390, 0 rest days during maintenance days 331-360, 1 rest day during maintenance days 301-330, 1 rest day during maintenance days 271-300, 2 rest days during maintenance days 241-270, 1 rest day during maintenance days 211-240, 2 rest days during maintenance days 181-210, 1 rest day over days 151-180, 3 rest days over days 121-150, 5 rest days over days 91-120, 3 rest days over days 61-90, 4 rest days over days 31-60, and 2 rest days over days 1-30.

Two of the three rest days occurred on the day before and the day of my colonoscopy. (Barring any changes, I don't have to do that again for ten years!)

My average exercise calories burned for this period equaled 392/day, with the highest burn being 652 on Mar. 5 (representing both stationary cycling and yard work). On Feb. 28 I passed the 12,000-mile mark (since Sept. 1, 2012). That put me at Pangkal Pinang, Indonesia, in my Virtual Ride Around the Equator.

Total and Net Calories Consumed:
Total calories for maintenance days 421-450 averaged 1849/day and ranged from 543 (Feb. 19, day of colonoscopy prep) to 2286 (Feb. 24). Net calories (total calories minus exercise calories burned) averaged 1457/day (91% of maintenance) and ranged from 543 (Feb. 19) to 1980 (Feb. 20, day of colonoscopy).

Cancer Update:
After having had to sit out last summer and fall for yard work, it felt great to return to that kind of activity. I still have a touch of chemo-induced vertigo from time to time, but I felt much surer on my step stool changing my kitchen clock to Daylight Saving Time than I had felt changing it to Standard Time last November.

From here on, I'm dropping the cancer update section unless I have anything new to report. I blog about my experience over at Cancer Survivors Network.

Art for the Creativity Heals group I facilitate; the prompt was "Sunshine":


On March 13 I will present a slide show, "The Art of My Coping," at my breast cancer support group. I continue to participate in the Tinkerlab Tinkersketch Sketchbook Challenge, producing artwork to prompts for each day in March. Those pieces can be seen here.

MargueriteMuguet

Thank you for this! I am always very happy and pleased to see such precision. In away it is calming and assuring to see a stability in your numbers.

I am on my first week of maintenance and all your updates have really given me a sense of how to look at the bigger picture.

Again, thank you, congrats on the slideshow you'll present tomorrow and hope everything goes well and people get out of there more educated/with more information :-)