Status

Well, keeping track of every single thing I eat every day, and finding just the calorie information for it is just too big a pain in the ass.  I don't know how some people can do it.  I wasn't even putting the food into Dr. Walfords program, much less measuring everything out.  I'm not saying it's weird or anything, I just don't have the time or motivation for it.   I find it much easier to just get on the bathroom scale and see what I weigh (70 kilos, about 155 lbs at 185 cm or 6'1").  If my weight is up, I cut back a little that day, if it's down, I just maintain (I would still like to weight a bit less than I do now, but going any lower in calories is difficult, and I end up getting hungry at night, the perfectly wrong time to eat).  I guess to each their own on how much and how well they want to do CR.  I'm just not the hard-core type.  Hopefully I'll still live long enough to hit escape velocity.  I think I am still getting some of the benefits of CR, my body temp is low (97.3), and I haven't been sick in a over a year, which is quite a feat in a house with 6 kids 10 and under in it.  I suppose I'll still update this blog periodically on my progress overall, as I think it's your calorie intake over time that really matters, not exactly what you eat every day.  I agree with April that everyone is different, and anyone that practices CR has already been labeled as strange by society in general, we don't need to go calling our own weird.  I think I'll start putting links to interesting life extension articles and any CR info I find intersting in here as well.  I think in the long run that nanotechnology is going to play a big role in extending our lives as well, but that is somewhat off the topic of CR.