I need to report and record these events and the Internet is nice for
this. Lastweek of Wednesday I went to the doctor for an examination
and was told my bloodpressure was too high at 156 and my weight was
registered at 157 lbs. So I decided to do something about it for I am
scheduled for another visit tomorrow and I wanted to get my weight to
its status for most of my life of between 137-140 lbs or 61-64 kg. I
have high metabolism and for most of my life I could eat anything
anytime and in any quantity and I seemed to never gain weight. For
example, I could eat 2 pints of Ben & Jerrys with added whip cream and
banana slices every night for desert and I usually did. I could eat
twice the amount of daily recommended calories and still never gain
weight. I was a runner and could run a 10K under 30 minutes but I did
not need to run to keep my weight in range for it seemed to burn off
automatically by my high metabolism. But in the last five years my
metabolism has begun to fail me for last Wednesday I weighed in at 157
lbs.

So I decided to eliminate those 17 lbs and be 140 lbs for tomorrows
revisit to the doctors office. Trouble is that I have a crumby weight
scale of a Taylor professional model which I bought at Sams 2 years
ago. It should be accurate but it is lousy for the dial seems to never
come back to 0 even when I adjust it and it comes back slowly so I
doubt the accuracy is meritorious. And which points up an interesting
engineering problem of designing a accurate weight scale that relies
not on springs but on gravity-balance. Inaccuracy aside, I have put
Fasting to the test in the past 3 days. On Sunday I ate lightly. On
Monday I ate one light meal for the whole day of a bowl of puffed rice
and one banana and then went running and did 50 pushups and 50 situps
and I recorded my weight before I went to bed and it was a fantastic
141 lbs for a loss of 16 lbs in one day of a almost-total-Fast
combined with rigourous exercise. So I need to confirm with others
whether in one day they can lose 16 lbs or 7 kg. Then today I ate
nothing and went for a run and then did 50 pushups and 50 situps and
went on the scale and it read 131 lbs or 60 kg for a loss of 10 more
lbs or 4.5kg.

I can honesty say that I can see my ribs visibly again and that my
belt on the pants slip down so that is tangible evidence even if the
scales are blithering inaccurate.

So the question I put is whether that is reasonable loss of weight
when mixing Fasting for a day combined with a rigorous one day
workout. Is it normal to lose 16 lbs first day and the second day to
lose another 10 lbs?

Also, I would have thought that the loss would be rather more steady
and would be increasing instead of decreasing as the days wore on. In
other words to lose 16 lbs the first day and then lose more than 16
the second day when repeated.

Perhaps my Taylor scale is so flawed with its spring mechanism that it
is so inaccurate.

Tomorrow at the doctors office I will confirm my weight on a better
scale.

And if I am truly back to 131 lbs. I intend to stay in the 130s range
for the rest of my life. I need not have to Fast for I just watch the
amount I eat. And if it happens to sneak up on me I can always resort
to Fasting + Exercise for 1 or 2 days to regain my range.

Archimedes Plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

(www.iw.net/~a_plutonium) website of the science of AP under revision.