Overweight to Raceweight goal

I got a tray of baby carrots at lunchtime instead. Not bad indeed.

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Originally Posted by Dynamo Dan

It's taken me two years to lose almost three stone and I reckon it'll take another year to lose the rest, but I know it'll stay off when I do and I'll be a lot faster!

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Pretty much echoes my sentiments.

Have spent 18 years with a hectic demanding job getting to a permanent place of work, getting married, raising 3 kids (so far so good). It hasn't quite taken me that long to lose 2 stone (about 9 months), but it'll be staying off for sure. I promised myself I would never let it slip again!!

I was going back through the old posts like what "The doc" suggested.. Good he did..

I came across SilentRunners..

http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/if-you-want-to-win-more-races-lose-some-weight-550

That was really interesting..

It has an " non-active man" of my height at 70.3Kg. Considering I'm 86/85Kg I have a way to go. My target is 75 which I shall leave for the time being.

I'll set a long term goals of :
[1] <70Kg
[2] Top Half of the field for the Wednesday night IMRA Leinster League races in around Dublin & Wicklow mountains.
[3] A 3' 45" marathon (current PB 3' 56" when I was 86Kg on the start line.)

Not many updates came in this week what has happened to everybody? I think I will ease off a bit now I was actually slightly under my 70 kg target yesterday morning, albeit after an easy 5 mile run the previous evening. The calculation by SilentRunner suggests 10 1/2 stone for a person of my height whatever that is in kg (67 Kg ish i suppose). But I have no real drive to get that low. If I slowly loose weight over a long period of time - good. There are guys on the Thursday night club runs who are considerably heavier that me but would blow me away on a run, so weight is not everything.

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Originally Posted by DrPatrickBarry

Not many updates came in this week what has happened to everybody?

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Patrick I thought we were weighing every 2 weeks (wasn't it only last week, or have I lost a week in a black hole?)

maybe it is me that is wrong:o

I was planning to post my new weigh in next Wednesday.

ive no weighing scales on the look out for some
any recomendations?

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Originally Posted by plodding bear

Well done, Betty. How long before you're running again? Frustrating, isn't it? I did my hamstring last year and lost quite a lot of fitness due to it (and put some weight on!) so finding an alternative was a good idea - wish I'd done that!

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I hope it won't be long but doubt I'll be doing the Dambuster on the 21st :thunbdown:

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Originally Posted by woodzy

ive no weighing scales on the look out for some
any recomendations?

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salter, end of!