Been injured for 2 months so ballooned to 69kg. Hoping to start running shortly and counting calories to get back to 63kg by end of May.
Now it is public it will happen (no excuses).
Dave
Edinburgh AC
Been injured for 2 months so ballooned to 69kg. Hoping to start running shortly and counting calories to get back to 63kg by end of May.
Now it is public it will happen (no excuses).
Dave
Edinburgh AC
Hi Dave,
The "counting calories" is a real pain but it does work. I have my little diary on my desk in work which is studied in close detail. This morning I had my Weetabix and a drop on milk (200 calories) and a pear (100) to get me going for the day. Calorie counting gets easier as one's diary progresses and you just need to reference back to the same food you had previously.
The major advantage of calorie counting is if you do have your bar of chocolate etc it hurts having to write in 500 calories into the diary:thunbdown:. I'm calorie counting for the last week now and surviving on 1500 calories a day Mon to-Fri and a little higher at the weekend (can't be a miser the whole time).
I will add the new people at lunch time.
Finbarr,
depending on how hard training likely to need > 3000 calories per day
surviving on 1500 calories per day, means short by > 1500 calories i.e. should be loosing about 1500/7700 = 200g per day or 1.4 kg per week (?)
i think that is too severe - you must feel permanently tired?
personally i am allowing myself the normal man's 2300 calories per day + a little (o/w fall asleep at work!) i.e. 2500
hence the weight loss comes essentially from the training - i'm starving myself by about 500 calories per day which equates to loosing about 1/2 kg per week
i think that is about the quickest someone in training (and trying to stay awake after lunchtime training...) shd be aiming for
171lbs, target, hmm 164lbsI will add the new people at lunch time.
Dave,
As you say 2300 per day for a normal man, if you are consuming over 3000 that is a lot to burn off. Runkeeper on my phone reckons I burn about 800 in a one hour hill run. It is probably in the right area. Just to burn off 1000 a day through exercise is a hell of a lot.
Dave,
You have a point up to a certain point. Stories of Michael Phelps consuming 10,000+ calories a day abound the place but when one is training 5+ hours a day one needs it. Me on the other hand is hardly doing 5 hours a week so I don't need a huge calorie intake. My first sub four marathon a couple of years back I was indeed consuming 3000+ calories a day but then I was running 50+ miles a week. In the 18 week training program (600 miles) I lost 3lbs which was pathetic and I was well overweight on the start line (13.5 st when I should have been closer to 12st).
Exercise and weight loss are two different things. To loose weight one has to reduce calorie intake. The exercise helps on the 'net' between consumed and burned.
OK added those new ones. People should check my maths, there are 14 lbs in a stone aren't there?
About measurements some of the comments on this thread are quite funny.
Petition for metric in the USA requiring response from the white house
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/1...house?sbsrc=md
Last edited by DrPatrickBarry; 08-01-2013 at 01:39 PM.
167 lbs to 157 lbs for me Pat. Plenty of long races coming up should help.
Can I join in? I haven't exactly ballooned, but with not having been able to train for weeks now, I have gotten well above race weight... even with a reduced calorie intake :w00t:
I am hoping to be able to start riding again next week and training again the week after.
Current weight 64 kgs target race weight 58 kgs.
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