Weight Loss Journey for Feeling Gooder

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Hey Feelinggooder,

The 1/2 marathons or marathons are both great goals. For me, it took about 6 months of training up to do the marathon...it was not easy and my husband knew that it was one of those lifetime goals for me and he was very supportive...it took an incredible amount of time, especially on the weekends on the "long runs". But I must say, as I finished in Paris running under the Arch de Triomphe and through the finishline in 4h32 minutes (I don't think I'll ever forget my time!), I was so proud and astonished that I actually did it! In some way, it's almost why I havn't signed up for another one because the feeling at the 1st one would be impossible to beat.


Enjoy your Easter lunch/dinner and have some goodies for me! There is a big luncheon at one of the hotels today for a big easter meal, but we opted out..something about just eating for eating's sake just doesn't sound right to me at this point in my plan...so i'm just staying away from it because I have the choice.


Sarah
 
Thanks again Sarah, my distance is starting to build and I can complete my 4 mile loop with little trouble so adding distance seems like a good next step. Time to start building towards some longer runs.


Had a few drinks last night so woke up a little dehydrated for weigh in day. Didn't go overboard on snacking or eating so the weigh in was a few pounds lighter than last week and showed up at 234.2 lbs and 27% body fat. Expecting a little bounce back next week but for now I've hit my goal from January. Time to regroup and sign up for some new goals over the next couple days.


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Awesome Feeling gooder!!:smilielol5:

You are the rock...27% body fat, at your goal weight...wow, what a man!


I know I shouldn't be jealous, but I am...sometimes I feel like I've been on this journey forever...of course 10 I have to remind myself that 10 months is nothing compared to the time it took to put it all on (I'm about at the weight in 2012 I was in 1997)...so I know it's a drop in the bucket...but sometimes it just feels like forever...and I really do look forward to the day when I can post that I'm at my goal weight, BMI, % bodyfat...you name it! Didn't mean to hijack your thread...just got on a roll...I'm back now!


I look forward to seeing your next goals and your maintenance plan!


Sarah
 
Thanks Sarah and Brawny,


Although I've hit my arbitrary weight goal I still have a ways to go on the body fat percentage and overall health and fitness to be able to achieve other fitness goals. Was great to hit the arbitrary goal (even temporarily - more on that in a minute) but getting into even better shape is definitely in the next phase of the journey.


Brawny: I have more decency than to scar the entire world by frollicking about in a banana-hammock and calling it triathlon training. I'll save that for after my first Calvin Klein photo shoot :)


So, on a positive note I will get to hit my goal weight another time... On a less positive note, I kind of over indulged/enjoyed the Easter weekend. Will see in a day or two as the salt/sodium stabilizes and I get back into my weekly routine of better eating and exercise but as of this morning I was back up three pounds.


So the new plan is to get back on the old plan...


Also have yet to commit to a longer distance run or triathlon but leaning towards an olympic distance triathlon. Individually, I know I could be ready for a 10k run and 40k bike ride and I think the 1500m swim is also doable with a few weeks practice but when combined I'm not sure how well I'll fare but getting pretty excited to give it a shot.
 
Into every life a few indulgences must come or else you would go nuts. No sweat...well actually yes sweat...just run it off.


I walked on the track while my 16 year old son ran. He did 2 and a half miles or whatever 10 laps is in 18:40 and didnt even bust it......sigh
 
Hey FG,

Thanks for stopping by my diary..I'm betting you are right about the metabolism...I'm not up on all the episodes yet on Fat2fit but it make sense that it will take some time to stabilize. I'm not getting discouraged though..I've come too far to give up now!


Don't sweat the small stuff on your "indulgences" over Easter...just get back on track and like we all know..one meal doesn't hurt you...we just don't let it turn into a day or a week or longer!


Enjoy your weekend and looking forward to hearing about your next awesome goals and achievements!


Sarah
 
Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend and thanks Sarah and Brawny for dropping by. Agree with both your advice about getting past the holiday weekend indulgences and happy to report that I got a nice long run in on Saturday so think the Easter weekend is behind me. Overshot my goal of a 10k run and ended up doing 11.9km and was still able to walk on both Sunday and Monday as well so quite grateful for that. My pace wasn't spectacular and slow by 16 yr old standards but still great for me at 10:20/mile. Definitely not ready to double the distance to make it a half marathon yet but it's huge progress.


Also did my weekly weigh in and updated the first post again. Managed to lose another pound but my body fat percentage crept back up a tick to 28% which might have been caused by a lower than usual reading the week before where I had lost 1.9% but it's the first week that registered a percentage gain so need to pay attention and make sure I'm getting enough strength training and food intake to balance the extended cardio sessions.


Last remaining goal on my original list is now to get under 25% body fat so it's time to focus more on strength training.


Spent the rest of the weekend building a play structure for my daughter which had me outside and enjoying the sun and also getting some additional exercise.


During last week I also managed to break my previous time for a mile run and moved down to a 7:26 from the previous 7:48. Not too shabby considering it took the first 15-20 seconds to build up to the 8.2 miles/hr on the treadmill that I ran the majority of the mile at. The last 30 seconds I finished it at 8.4. Considering how much I still weigh and have never been a runner, I'm quite happy to with that time. At my peak condition, the best I ever managed on a mile was around a 6 minute mile of wheezing, puffing, blurred vision and nearly collapsing.
 
Good job on the weight loss FeelingGooder


I would suggest you start weight training and make sure that skin will be tight rather than loose, because one thing that would put me of losing weight would be lose skin. Therefore, I do a lot of weight training, and with this i mix it with cardio. Haven't posted in a while because of hectic university schedule but it's nice to catch up with you and see your progress.


Zak
 
Wow Feelinggooder! Congratulations on being an overachiever on the run..sounds like you were ready for it! What is it with all these 6 minute mile people? I've seen some other people really hitting a fast (for me) 6 minute mile pace...I havn't done that since highschool (and even then I was pushing it!). I don't know if the strength training will "tighten up" the loose skin...but I'm sure if you add muscle mass it's sure to take up some of the space that fat use to takeup. You go man..on your way to "hunkdome"!


Sarah
 
Thanks both... luckily my skin has been pretty elastic to date so no issues with excess skin yet.


The weight training is a definite must so dusting off the set of weights in the basement and looking at installing a pull up bar now that I can actually do unassisted pull ups again.
 
Overshot my goal of a 10k run and ended up doing 11.9km and was still able to walk on both Sunday and Monday
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Ok you are starting to have more and more "fit moments" I don't think I have ever in my life accidentally run too far.


You are the new role model of the month!
 
Overshooting the goal was one of those point of no return situations. I left my house and starting running my regular loop and attempted to add an additional 3k to round it out to 10... plan was mostly working but my halfway point of 5K ended up being nearly 7K away on the way back....


Had a different fit moment today... was at work and couldn't concentrate and was getting very annoyed and then I realized it was because I hadn't worked out in a few days and for some strange reason I think my body was reminding me to get back out there. Left work early and went for a 50 minute run and ended up feeling a whole bunch better...
 
Registered my first weight gain since January and am up 1.2 lbs this week but my body fat percentage has dipped again so seem to be levelling out.


Still haven't signed up for a triathlon or longer run but need to commit to an event to train for because levelling off is too close to slipping back into bad habits.


Picked up a used bike over the weekend to start training for longer events. Trying to figure out whether to sign up for a duathlon or two as part of the triathlon training...
 
Decision has been made. Signed up for a triathlon consisting of a 500m swim 35km bike and a 5k run in May. Should be an interesting event and entry into being a "clydesdale" triathlete.


To do:

Make sure I can swim 500m without needing water wings/floaties

Make sure my "Frankenbike" will run and hold together for the 35k distance

Do some training days with multiple events

Not lose 35 lbs in the next month and fall out of the "Clydesdale" category.... (this is the easiest one)
 
Hey FG, just sniffing around here - only bad thing I have to say is that if I had started when you started, and kept the same loss rate (which is pretty realistic), I'd be down to your starting weight! Then again, I'd be 20 pounds heavier today if I started today.


Keep up the good work!
 
Have taken one of the Frankenbike's out for a short 15 minute run and it seems like a possibility for next month's event. Also got out for another 5 mile run after work yesterday and felt like I could have gone on for another few miles without much problem.


Latest crazy thought has been to sign up for a half Ironman at the end of the season. Found a training plan outline and suggested base level of fitness and I've started to map out my training calendar with the other events I'm already signed up for and it seems like it might make a great end of year event to cap off the 2012 journey. Going to start using the training plan for a few weeks and also wait until after I finish the May short triathlon/10k road race the following weekend/5k Spartan race the week after that. If I survive all three events and can follow the first five weeks of the half ironman training I will go ahead and sign up.


Updated the first post in this diary with a new listed of interim goals. Crazy... I've now slotted one of my "long term" goals in as a training event for the half ironman.
 
Wow,

congratulations on the triathelon decision...you go man!

I think I've finally figured out how to incorporate a "real" interval training day in to my workout...the time in France doing "brisk walks" was a good break from the elliptical and I used the time to listen to some more fat2fit podcasts and got the one where they explain the interval training concept...I guess I really never did take the time to understand it...so thanks for that tip!

Looks like all is going well with you!

Sarah
 
Did my first "Brick" session today. I've never done a triathlon before so brick session was a new term to me. It involves doing two training sessions back to back to simulate what you can expect to encounter during an actual race. My session today involved an 11 mile bike session followed by a 5k run.


Definitely a different experience trying to convince the legs to get out of cycling mode and into running mode without a break and by the end of the session even managing to walk the rest of the loop was a bit of a challenge.


Weight is back down again this week but got a bit of a jump on the body fat. The solution would be to tighten up the diet and hit a couple more strength training sessions. The eating and nutrition part should be doable, finding time to get strength sessions in while working on a triathlon training program is going to take more rearranging of my schedule.


Weekly challenge to kick start some strength training is to do 500 pushups and 300 lunges during the week.
 
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