Easter Ham and SF.
Been thinking about making the new balance in Tony’s life more efficient, and came upon the following thoughts.
1. Duo-Tenancy for SF, with an interest payment only mortgage for a new high rise apartment in the 2 bed, 1050 square feet range is probable more realistic.
2. When buying food, look for Cal/ serving and / price. No reason to pay a high amount for fatty and high cal food, when all you want is the taste sometimes. A bag of chips is 700 cals. I spent 1.2 hours at the gym today, and I am pretty damn sure that I only burned about 400 cals. I been adding cals up for all the food I eat because 2200 cals/day is just too easy to surpass.
3. We usually burn 90 cals just for being alive. So when an exercise burns 300 cals/ hours, really the net change there was only 240 cals used extra.
4. Decrease time to healthy percentage of fat/ total body mass by gaining muscle. The trainer specifically said that the loss of muscle will result directly in the gaining of weight/ year because, the more muscle lost, the less calories burned/day, if total cal intake is not decreased. It looks like the fastest way to get to the 8-15% body fat is by gaining 15lbs in muscle. This could be done in between 8-2 month. 2 month if I was on human growth hormones. At 31 years old, my testostrone has been lowering 5% every year since the age of 23. However, I will still need to be @ 205lbs-221 lbs even with a 15 lbs of extra muscle which is a change of about 30-15 lbs.
| Tony | start | Gain 15 lbs muscle/8% fat | Gain 15 lbs muscle/15% fat |
| Non fat mass | 160 | 175 | 175 |
| Fat | 76 | 30 | 46 |
| Total mass lbs | 236 | 205 | 221 |
| Total mass kgs | 107 | 93 | 100 |
| Change Lbs | 0 | 31 | 15 |
| Change Kgs | 0 | 14 | 7 |
| Months needed | Months needed | ||
| 1 lbs/week | 0 | 8 | 4 |
| 2/lbs/week | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Looks like I am hitting the iron in the next 3 weeks.
5. I actually like the smaller gym with less people. Tried the super sports 24 hours gym today, and realized, that bigger is not better. The bigger gym was in a building that used to be a super market, and the machines looks like rows and rows of aisles. Except now, you have the meat and vegetables all mixed into one sweaty bunch. The smaller gym seem to provide less pressure, and so easier work out. I wonder if this is because I have yet to lose the self-conscious insecurities from my adolesence? or is it just because there were less people/ machine and more young pretty ladies? We will see…. the conclusion of this, may push me to move my gym membership in Shanghai to a completely different location for a better work out.
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On a completely different subject.
I bought half of a smoked ham, and will be making Easter Ham tomorrow.
God it’s so easy to eat good, and healthy without breaking a budget.
Be going up to SF, seems the city has 6-10 prolific party promotors. I thought Shanghai was busy.
Tony
