Overweight to Raceweight goal

[DrPatrickBarry]

they seem a bit wrong.

A bit more that a bit! The empty field got me a bit confused, easily happens

[Finbarr]

Hi All,

Weighted myself this morning and clocked in at 82.9 :-) [ Last Wednesday 84.3. - so a weight loss of ~3lbs]

My simple plan I've been using for the last few days is carefully monitoring what I eat and keeping an eye on the calorie in take.

From last Wednesday:
Wed : 1200 Calories
Thurs: 1554 Calories
Friday: 1550 Calories
Saturday: 1750 Calories (Wife trying to make me fat)
Sunday: 1900 Calories (Wife again :-( )
Monday: 1400 Calories
Tuesday: 1600 Calories

In the last week I've had very little sweet food. I'm nibbling a good bit on baby carrots. Don't know what the people in work are thinking with all the crunching from me.

On top of that I try to do some sort of exercise every day like:
[1] Cycle to Work (10 mile round trip)
[2] Jog / Train
[3] Walk

I'm not monitoring the calories burned. Just monitoring the calories in.

The Summer season of evening hill running in Dublin starts tonight with a charity relay race and the league proper starts next week. All excited. Weather is awful in Dublin perfect for the hills!!!!

Finbarr

[plodding bear]

Gfood luck with the hills. I have found that losing wweight makes a massive difference to the ability to get up hills. Not really rocket science, I know, but I've just come back from a trot up Pen-y-Ghent; even with a bad leg and not really much specific hill training behind me, I did it faster than I used to, when I thought I was reasonably fit!

[Finbarr]

.. faster than I used to, ..

"plodding bear" you hit it on the head there. The faster bit will be a real bonus but I'm hoping it will make it easier on my very dodgy knee..

[DrPatrickBarry]

I have been running with Pennine two and a half years now. I still clearly remember a decent when I was not with them long. I was last (as usual) and one of the experienced blokes stayed back with me. He commented to me that in a couple of years I would be up there with the leaders! I was taken back a bit by that. But here I am a couple of years later and I would be a comfortable mid-packer on the club training runs. Experience/confidence on the rough ground and the drive to get the body in better condition over the past 9 months has been the main driving forces. The weight issue especially has made a massive difference to my climbing ability. I held a Kg of sugar the other day and thought to myself I used to carry 10 of those, I was horrified by the thought!

I suppose there are many people out there who could echo the same comments.

[Big Compass]

Good morning Pat, 77.4kg, slow but in the right direction

[silentrunner]

Dr Pat

I believe today is weigh in day. Mine is 82.2kg. It'll be good to see everyone going in the right direction.

Thanks

[Finbarr]

G'Day Pat,

Clocked in at 81.9 this morning. So down a kilo in the last seven days. Slow but delighted I'm consistent in the right direction. Made a big effort yesterday to get below the 82Kg
1/ Walked to Work - 5 miles
2/ Cycled home
3/ Had a 6 mile real slow and easy jog last night

[DrPatrickBarry]

I was 70.5 when I got up this morning then went for a flat 6.2 mile run at 7:16 min/mile (750 KCal according to RunKeeper). At this minute I am probably below the 70 Kg but I have to stay with the 70.5 measure which means no change now for about 6 weeks.

[Dynamo Dan]

I've broken my rule and weighed myself, I've lost about 4-5kgs since February and I need to lose 3.5kgs to reach my Stillman target of 67kgs. Looking at myself I think I could lose a bit more than that and not look unhealthy....