Weight Loss
One side effect of something that I’ve been doing has been some pretty nice weight loss. For a while I’d been hovering in the low 170s - I check my weight out of habit every morning, but I don’t log it or do anything different because of it - and now I’m in the 166-169 range. This, even though I haven’t been doing much running over the last couple of weeks and I’ve been eating like a pig.
Seriously. One evening while I was working I nibbled my way through close on a quarter pound of fudge (orange cream, from Rustlin’ Robs in Fredricksburg). Worse, I went there last week - they carry all sorts of goodies, and everything’s open for sampling; you can easily eat a full meal while browsing. I’ve been eating full meals lunch and dinner, often past the point where I should stop, eating until I was more than full. Hey, ’tis the season to be eating, right?
Hmm. Eat yourself thin. New weight loss book idea?
Its probably just my running catching up to me. Whatever it is - I like it! Unlike many folk I don’t really have a goal weight, but I know that I could still stand to lose some body fat. Now I just need to get my ass into the gym and make sure that I’m not losing lean tissue as well.
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Dec 2nd 2004
9:39 AM
And didn’t you just log 100 miles last month? I’m thinking that had something to do with it. Watch that fudge though…evil stuff. :)
Dec 2nd 2004
11:41 AM
Oh, yeah, the amount of working out that you’re doing is probably the key here. That’s great though. I wish I had your metabolism!
Dec 2nd 2004
11:43 AM
Oh, and I was reading that a lot of times, the reason why diets fail is that the user/dieter eats too little. So yes, there may well be a book there. (Though, without the fudge, it sounds like the Abs Diet). Fudge Your Way Thin? The Miracle Fudge Diet?
Dec 2nd 2004
12:42 PM
Well look at you Mr. Skinny pants!
Dec 2nd 2004
1:12 PM
Nice work on the weight loss! My weight loss has stalled at about 165; I’d like to get a little below 160. I’ve been eating pretty good (not great) but I thought my level of activity would burn more calories. Oh well, I’ll just take it as it comes.
While I’m commenting here, I wanted to respond to a comment you left on my blog (I can’t find your e-mail address or I’d e-mail you). I don’t get down to Corpus too often, only about once a year. My wife’s aunt and uncle live there so she goes more often than I (she’s a stay at home mom so she and my daughter sometimes go when their schedules allow). I’d love to do the Beach to Bay relay but I don’t know if I can find enough interested parties. I wish the relay legs were longer so you could recruit fewer people. I might ask some of my wife’s lazy, good-for-nothing relatives if they want to train and race with me. We’ll see!
Take care and nice work on your training and weight loss.
Dec 2nd 2004
3:00 PM
I know what you mean about gaining weight. I have been highly concious of it since being sidelined!!
Dec 2nd 2004
5:28 PM
dude, slow it down or you’ll catch up to me, weightwise. Speedwise, you’d blast by in about two seconds!
I’m barely out of Clydesdale/Athena weight class; in some races, I still qualify. My weight has very slowly inched upward (maybe 4 pounds total) in the 8 months I’ve been actively training for White Rock, but I’ve gotten smaller. Except for this week. I feel YOOOGE! this week, probably because I’ve cut mileage down. That and the cheesecake. Yep, the cheesecake. I’m going to be ROLLING down Swiss Avenue if this keeps up.
Dec 2nd 2004
9:24 PM
It’s okay to reward yourself with some fudge sometimes. I mean, one reason why you run is so you can eat the good stuff, right?! At least, that’s the way it is for me. I eat chocolate every day - just a small two-bite size portion - but I do not deprive myself.