Lessons Learned & Learning 30: 900 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, 870 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 30 30-day maintenance periods compare:



My thirtieth 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 871 and 900 inclusive my weight averaged 149.6 and ranged from 148.5 to 150.5.

Exercise Calories Burned: I took 1 rest day (0 calories burned) during maintenance days 871-900. My average exercise calories burned for this period equaled 369/day. My highest burn was 716 on May 15, representing 2.25 hours of weed-whacking.

On May 10 I crossed the 20,000-mile mark (since Sept. 1, 2012) in my Virtual Ride Around the Equator, placing me at the longitude of River Cess, Liberia. Am 80 percent of the way home! :-)

Total and Net Calories Consumed: Total calories for maintenance days 871-900 averaged 1961/day and ranged from 1562 (May 20) to 2231 (weed-whacking day). Net calories (total calories minus exercise calories burned) averaged 1592/day (99.5% of maintenance) and ranged from 1207 (May 20) to 2012 (May 19, a rest day).

My "quickie" art pieces (daily riffs on a photo taken with my tablet, using ArtRage for Android) continue. Here I've spent about an hour playing with my shot of a bowl from which I had eaten prunes:



Here I've spent about 45 minutes with a shot of my sneaker sole:

jalynwatson21

This is very interesting on seeing someone else's tracked progress. I am also on maintenance and am debating bulking in the near future, as I am underweight. I think I may take my tracking more seriously now.