I got a really good night's sleep on Saturday night, although it wasn't without incident. My parents were gone and I was down the basement. They had turned the heat down and I pretty much don't touch the heat because if they were going to be gone, I'm not spending their money to heat the house. Anyhow, I was in the chair down the basement watching TV and I turned a space heater on by me. Close by me, apparently. I fell asleep and woke up about an hour later and went to bed. When I woke up in the morning, I found that my left arm was blistered. Apparently, when asleep, my arm got too close to the heater and got burned. Oy vey.

Anyhow, last night, I rode the Air Dyne again. This time, I felt a lot stronger than the night before and I burned 498 calories in 30 minutes, up from 432 the night before. Definitely, though, I felt it in the shoulders. About the time I think, yep, I'm doing pretty well, I realize that there's so much more to do. Certainly, I'm in a much better place than I was four months ago, and I expect to look back four months from now and be able to say the same thing.

I happened to stumble onto this list of tips for diet strategies. I would agree with almost all of this. I have used a plan that works for me, but it might not work for you. Even still, I have amended the plan to suit my own tastes. I have still made additional adjustments along the way. My amended plan works for me because I basically do not have access to a kitchen (i.e. a stove) much of the time and I am willing to eat the same thing or the same collection of food every day for expediency's sake. Ultimately, though, most people need variety. I think a diet of a few staples (bread, a small amount of meat, various fruits and vegetables and snacks on the margin) plus some use of herbs, seasonings, and spices will lead to a satisfying enough diet during a weight loss period. The transition to a full time diet will, in my opinion, keep those same staples.

Day 132
Weight: 224
Total Loss: 60.5