Lessons Learned & Learning 29: 870 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, 450 days, 480 days, 510 days, 540 days, 570 days, 600 days, 630 days, 660 days, 690 days, 720 days, 750 days, 780 days, 810 days, 840 days.

The vertical red lines on my chart for average weight indicate the day that I had started taking anastrazole, the drug I'm on to try to prevent cancer recurrence (day 355) and the days of my bout with what was likely E. coli (days 580-581). More on the shifts in my weight trends around those events is in my 630-day update.

Here's how my 29 30-day maintenance periods compare:



My twenty-ninth 30 days looked like this:


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 841 and 870 inclusive my weight averaged 148.4 and ranged from 147 to 150.

Exercise Calories Burned: I took 1 rest day (0 calories burned) during maintenance days 841-870. My average exercise calories burned for this period equaled 371/day. My highest burn was 435 on April 27, representing 70 minutes on the DeskCycle.

Total and Net Calories Consumed: Total calories for maintenance days 841-870 averaged 1894/day and ranged from 1231 (Apr 23) to 2254 (Apr 12). Net calories (total calories minus exercise calories burned) averaged 1523/day (95% of maintenance) and ranged from 797 to 1869 (same dates as total calorie endpoints).

I have now completed my course of blood thinner for a chemo port-induced blood clot. Healing is progressing well so far.

Starting in April I gave myself the goal of taking a daily photo with my new tablet and doing a "quickie" art piece with it using ArtRage for Android. I'm used to the desktop ArtRage, so this lets me learn the mobile version better.

This uses a photo of a single daisy that grows by my front hedge and took about 45 minutes:



This uses a photo of my kitchen floor and took about 20 minutes:

llbrixon

Awesome graphs! Is this an app that you used?

Ejourneys

Thanks! No app, just number-crunching on Excel. Then I screen-capped the graphs and created .jpg files in Paint.