Greetings everyone. I've been lurking around for a month or so. Thought I would post.
First, I'll tell you a bit of history of my fitness fight.
Several years ago I found myself topping out at 300 pounds. I knew I was in trouble when I was in Japan and my fit and skinny Japanese host was taking me hiking up into the mountains. I could barely manage to climb 100 feet. I knew I had to change my life. I made a commitment to change my eating habits and I started to lose. After losing about half of that weight by good diet, walking and biking I started running. I dropped about 85 pounds in total and became a marathon runner. I started running 5K then 10K races and finally my first half marathon in 2005 and first full marathon in 2006. I have run 5 more marathons since then. But sometime last year I started to slide. My activity dropped precipitously, I injured my back, and I put on more than half of the weight I lost. I blew back up to 265 pounds!
One month ago I recommitted myself. I started back to dutifully tracking my calories and started ramping up my activity level. I have managed to maintain about a 1300 calorie per day deficit and, true to the math, I have lost over 12 pounds in four weeks. You can definitely see the results in the pictures. I have a ways to go but it is so great to be back on track!
Here's my Calorie Balance Chart:
And my weight loss graph:
And some one-month progress photos:
http://i43.tinypic.com/29ftv2d.jpg
First, I'll tell you a bit of history of my fitness fight.
Several years ago I found myself topping out at 300 pounds. I knew I was in trouble when I was in Japan and my fit and skinny Japanese host was taking me hiking up into the mountains. I could barely manage to climb 100 feet. I knew I had to change my life. I made a commitment to change my eating habits and I started to lose. After losing about half of that weight by good diet, walking and biking I started running. I dropped about 85 pounds in total and became a marathon runner. I started running 5K then 10K races and finally my first half marathon in 2005 and first full marathon in 2006. I have run 5 more marathons since then. But sometime last year I started to slide. My activity dropped precipitously, I injured my back, and I put on more than half of the weight I lost. I blew back up to 265 pounds!
One month ago I recommitted myself. I started back to dutifully tracking my calories and started ramping up my activity level. I have managed to maintain about a 1300 calorie per day deficit and, true to the math, I have lost over 12 pounds in four weeks. You can definitely see the results in the pictures. I have a ways to go but it is so great to be back on track!
Here's my Calorie Balance Chart:
And my weight loss graph:
And some one-month progress photos:
http://i43.tinypic.com/29ftv2d.jpg