Lessons Learned & Learning 31: 930 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, 900 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 31 30-day maintenance periods compare:



My thirty-first 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 901 and 930 inclusive my weight averaged 149.6 (same as the previous 30-day period) and ranged from 147.5 to 151.

Exercise Calories Burned: I took 3 rest days (0 calories burned) during maintenance days 901-930. My average exercise calories burned for this period equaled 355/day. My highest burn was 955 on May 15, representing 3 hours of weed-whacking.

Total and Net Calories Consumed: Total calories for maintenance days 901-930 averaged 1882/day and ranged from 1430 (June 30) to 2429 (weed-whacking day). Net calories (total calories minus exercise calories burned) averaged 1527/day (95% of maintenance) and ranged from 1082 (June 30) to 2124 (June 299, 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 a half hour playing with my shot of a Giant Leopard Moth:



Here I've spent about an hour with a shot of a penny:

llbrixon

Awesome!

MaryB781

Thanks for the update. Also, I really like the piece with the penny.