Calorie Ladder, day 21

[poxpower]

So 21 days ago I started an experiment whereby, starting at 2000, I would reduce my calorie intake by 100 each day until I reach 0 ( today ) and then I would climb back up to 2000.

So yeah, I'm halfway there!
http://www.thepoxbox.com/what.php?id=cal orieladderupdate

You can read about what I have learned and ask questions.

In short: it sucks but it's fun to learn counting calories.
Also I lost 14 pounds...hmmm that's sort of scary.

[Legionnaire-X]

14 pounds in 20 days? What?!

[STEM]

That is an impressive feat. You should make yourself a plaque to put on your wall of the logs, unless you can coax your friends to do it

[ChocEliteBar]

Are you going to go on an eating binge after that? Seems like you should.

[Uchumaru08]

Hmmm, remember drinking water curbs your hunger

also did you exercise through-out these painstaking days???

[chainsawmurderer53]

You should make loads of money by making people pay to hear how to lose 14 pounds in 21 days.

[quagmire690]

dude... unhealthy... u gona die... please dont die... we need mroe level 50s .... so dont die

[Sizzlebuzz]

I remember in highschool when I stopped eating. I lost 7 pounds in 2 days. I did that a lot.

But anyway, this is a neat experiment. Although, you are going to gain back more that you lose.

[matrix5565]

Approximately what was your calorie intake before you started? I'm having trouble grasping that you would start losing weight so quickly unless you were ingesting monstrous amounts of food beforehand. Either way these are very interesting results.

[AlphaCentauri]

Ah, I meant to check your site to see how this was coming along, for some reason I assumed you decided against it halfway through.

The comments were pretty funny, you know, to actually be able to hear what a man thinks about slowly dying.

I imagine the climb is also going to be difficult trying to restrain yourself from eating too much.

[poxpower]

At 10/14/09 04:34 PM, Legionnaire-X wrote: 14 pounds in 20 days? What?!

I'm as surprised as anyone :O
I did the calculations and since a pound of fat is 3500 calories and I need around 2200 a day, I counted that I'd have lost 14 pounds after the full 41 days.
Kinda scary but my body can handle it.

At 10/14/09 04:42 PM, ChocEliteBar wrote: Are you going to go on an eating binge after that?

Well I would tomorrow if this ended tomorrow haha.
But since i'm slowly climbing back up to 2000, I'll probably not be that hungry at that point.

At 10/14/09 04:45 PM, Uchumaru08 wrote: Hmmm, remember drinking water curbs your hunger

Yes I'm sucking down the green tea and the Coca-Cola 0.
Being tired curbs your hunger more...

also did you exercise through-out these painstaking days???

Nope

At 10/14/09 04:49 PM, Sizzlebuzz wrote: I remember in highschool when I stopped eating. I lost 7 pounds in 2 days. I did that a lot.

Yeah 2 day measures are pretty worthless.
What happens is that you weigh yourself one day when you're full of food, shit and water, then starve for the next day or two, thereby emptying your bowels, digesting your food and losing water/salt.
Which usually creates a sharp 3-5 pound drop within a day. But you'll just gain it back one day after when you eat something.

At 10/14/09 04:51 PM, matrix5565 wrote: Approximately what was your calorie intake before you started?

I dunno. It varies. But I was at my parent's place for like a month and they feed me a lot. Probably in the 2500s range if not more during that time. I gained a good 10 pounds haha.

I'm having trouble grasping that you would start losing weight so quickly unless you were ingesting monstrous amounts of food beforehand.

Well it's possible that the starting amount of 180 was too high by perhaps 2 pounds. I.e. it was an inflated weight based on the food I ate the previous day etc. The first sudden drop is also caused by starting to lose weight. That usually gives you a steep decrease in the first few days.

But even accounting for all that, the drop is still going just as fast 3 weeks later : O

And It's not because I'm not drinking anything. I probably drink 2 liters of water a day.

At 10/14/09 05:01 PM, AlphaCentauri wrote:

The comments were pretty funny, you know, to actually be able to hear what a man thinks about slowly dying.

Yeah, do you know how sad it is to eat ONE CUP of spaghetti?
You just drop that tiny handful at the bottom of a bowl, knowing that's like 2/3rd of your food for that day.

Haha.

[TheSilverGuitar]

You know, ever since I saw this on your site I've wanted to try it.

[poxpower]

At 10/14/09 05:25 PM, TheSilverGuitar wrote: You know, ever since I saw this on your site I've wanted to try it.

Well let me know how that works out for you.

[Timmy]

I can see doing this with a group of friends, as an endurance competition between one another, but simply choosing to starve yourself on your own - the reasoning behind it still eludes me.

But anyway - glad to see this hasn't killed you.

yet...

[megakill]

you should write a book about your experiments dude, its cool stuff. just make sure your not doing yourself too much harm

[Jerich0]

Zero calories? Are you eating Celery and Carrots all day???

[matrix5565]

At 10/14/09 08:15 PM, Jerich0 wrote: Zero calories? Are you eating Celery and Carrots all day???

I would say he probably isn't eating anything.

Except Coke Zero apparently.

[DarkRedFlame]

How does it feel, that tomorrow you can finally eat grapes again?

[Tykwa]

I've lost 24 pounds, I however, weigh much more than you do pox, I'm a day behind you, I get to drink that yummy water and eat "almost" nothing!

YAY

[Chime]

Except Coke Zero apparently.

Stupid Tongues.

[theshadowwolf]

Pox, you are my favorite mod. you do all of those crazy ass experiments with yourself, and then you tell us about it. your website is great too.

[poxpower]

At 10/14/09 08:15 PM, Jerich0 wrote: Zero calories? Are you eating Celery and Carrots all day???

Nope those have calories.

At 10/14/09 08:27 PM, DarkRedFlame wrote: How does it feel, that tomorrow you can finally eat grapes again?

I'm eating my cup of salad now, which is 70% of my calories for today. YUMMY.
Anyway, when you starve yourself long enough, your body enters the "I don't give a shit anymore" stage where it'll nag you about being hungry maybe once or twice per day and then just give up.

Basically you get as hungry eating normally but skipping one meal as you get starving yourself like a retard. Which is why people get fat normally since hunger is not proportional to how much you're not eating. So they eat 1800 calories at dinner when they're used to 2200 and then have to eat some sort of snack in front of the tv later in the night. That snack being an entire bag of chips or that sort of thing.

At 10/14/09 08:37 PM, Tykwa wrote: I've lost 24 pounds, I however, weigh much more than you do pox, I'm a day behind you, I get to drink that yummy water and eat "almost" nothing!

YAY

Haha wow that's awesome.
Hey, do you mind keeping a log of this for me? Like from now on, write how much you weight each day if you haven't started doing that already.
I'd like to put your experience with this on my website too when this is over in like 20 days.

Yay.

[Sekhem]

This is almost inspiring. Seriously, good job.

I'm gonna stick with my unhealthy eating though.

[Gagsy]

Why are you always messing with your intake of food?

[poxpower]

At 10/15/09 04:07 AM, Gagsy wrote: Why are you always messing with your intake of food?

Why aren't YOU?
:O
:O
:D

[Fleshlight]

you should make a downloadable file with the graphs, charts and rules for this challenge so other people would try it.

[Jerich0]

Well if you do happen to eat calories make sure you have lots of celery sticks its Negative calories. Because the power it takes to chew it burns some and celery sticks are zero calories.

[Gagsy]

At 10/15/09 09:42 AM, poxpower wrote:

Why aren't YOU?

O
O
D

:(

Lack of discipline.

[zrick]

Is this just for fun pox or a serious attempt to lose weight? Because it probably isn't the best way to lose the weight and keep it off.

I've lost over 40 pounds since last September but have also kept it off by changing my lifestyle and eating habits.

[poxpower]

At 10/15/09 11:27 AM, Jerich0 wrote: Well if you do happen to eat calories make sure you have lots of celery sticks its Negative calories. Because the power it takes to chew it burns some and celery sticks are zero calories.

Yeah but that's stupid since by that logic I could eat anything I want and then burn it off on a treadmill and pretend it was also negative calories.
And it's not the chewing of celery that costs you the most calories but the digesting of it.
Celery has calories.

What really has negative calories are things like ice cubes and CoCa-Cola 0.

At 10/15/09 12:32 PM, zrick wrote: Is this just for fun pox or a serious attempt to lose weight? Because it probably isn't the best way to lose the weight and keep it off.

Mainly for fun and also because I was kind of got fat at my parent's house for that month in the summer and didn't feel like waiting 6-7 months to lose the weight.

It's hard to change my lifestyle because every 3-4 months I go back to my parent's place for anywhere from 1 to 4 weeks during which time they actively feed me as much as they can.

It's not like I can complain but it's hard to keep a balanced diet when you're not in charge of making your food and whatnot.