Work, Sugar and Weight Loss.

Long time readers will know of my intestinal health problems and how that combined with my sports history has made me very conscious of my weight. I weigh myself about 3 times a day on average. Thankfully gone are the days where I had a chart on the wall near the scale to record data when I weighed myself like 8 times a day. I'd record the time, weight, time to recent food or exercise or bathroom visit. Make a huge graph and plot it all out. Those days are thankfully gone.

But the number on the scale still interests me, so I still do it. I mean, if I lose a bunch of weight and don't feel well it could give me a tip off my Crohns is acting up.

Two facts long time readers will know is that I love sugar and I don't work a regular job. Well how do these all go together????

I've been working a full time job for a week and a half now. This requires much more critical thinking in a day than I've had to do for years. Previously my thoughts were limited to things like "how fast should I be going right now?", "what's for lunch?", "I wonder if I can make that?" and so on.

Now I have all sorts of serious things to think of, under a time pressure and with little to no margin for error. Where does all this thinking happen? My main brain in my cranium. What you probably don't know is what makes my brain runs so strongly. Not just mine, but everyone's brains.

Sugar. Yep, it's science. Your brain runs on sugar. Wanna do a PET scan to look at a person's brain? Then give 'em a shot of fancy radioactive glucose. Sugar. Normal brains use it for fuel. Everything you eat gets converted into sugar for your body to use. (hopefully otherwise it might be fat later)Glucose is the ONLY fuel that runs your brain.

So here I am, working like crazy for at least 8 hours a day, thinking. Lots of thinking. Just pouring that sugar into my brain for it to work right. Then coming home, lazy and tired of thinking so I slam some poorly choiced comfort food down. And dessert. I mean, breakfast and lunch are healthy by anyone's standard but my dinners are not, not lately.

Day 1 of job, 145.5 pounds.
Day 7 of job, 141.2 pounds.

In seven work days I've lost 4 pounds even with out doing any of my regular exercise. But I have been sleeping for sure 7 hours a night, drinking 1 liter of water at work a day and probably eating 1,000 calorie dinners each of those seven nights. Easily getting in a thousand calories when I get home at night.....

What am I gonna be by my last day February 8th? 137lbs?? (which is my self proclaimed ideal weight btw)