Peak: 435lb
Previous: 233.2lb
Current: 227.4b
Loss: 5.8lb (2 weeks)
Total Loss: 207.6lb
Last week I was away in San Francisco so couldn’t weigh in. It’s nice to see a loss now that I’m back; that’s a new low weight! The trip was to attend this conference: hhttp://quantifiedself.com/conference/. I’ve got lots to say about it another time, but if you’re trying to lose weight and tracking other variables in your life, you need to check this community out.
Have a great week!
Peak: 435lb
Previous: 229.2lb
Current: 233.2b
Gain: 4lb
Total Loss: 201.8lb
Yea right, 4lb gain.
Food wasn’t great; I feel myself starting to slip with my meals and snacks and it’s a little scary. Ugggggh!
Refocus. Keep it simple. Find my motivation.
Peak: 435lb
Previous: 231.0lb
Current: 229.2b
Loss: 1.8lb
Total Loss: 205.8lb
I eyed the scale suspiciously this morning, my midweek peeks had suggested much worse.
220s!
Exercise was mixed this week: 3 runs, a swim and a trip to the gym. Not great but not bad, and considering it was the come-down week from my race I’m ok with how it went. Diet was fairly bad – too many bad choices. It’s a little bit messed up when you know eating something sweet will be a short-term pleasure and you’ll almost immediately regret it, yet you do it anyway.
I have a feeling this will be a strong week.
I’ve always been skeptical when people have reported “plateaus”. To me it sounds like a bit of bullshit that you magically stop losing weight through no fault of your own. But it’s happening to me I swear!
I’ve just run a half marathon and put in a shit-ton of effort to get around the course – easily the most exhausted I’ve ever been. The three weeks leading up to it were all 20+ mile weeks and this week probably will be too. My diet (I think) is sound. It could always be a little tighter, but right now I feel like I’m eating well, drinking no alcohol but lots of water, sleeping 8hrs a day and doing everything right. So why does the number on the scale seems to disagree?
I know there are loads of variables, I know the scale might not be a good reflection of my progress, yet after 19 months of consistent weekly losses it’s frustrating that the game seems to have changed. I’m thinking of ditching my beloved for a month or so. If the number isn’t going to behave, then I need it out of my mind. I can deal with it so long as my expectations have been adjusted: stick to the same nutritional values, train hard, trust the “science”.
Diet is the slightly grey area. I can’t show you a food log with everything I’ve eaten, so I can’t say that it isn’t a problem. This week there would have been a few bad entries, not major things but the odd extra slice of bread here and a biscuit there. I said it before, but I need to really nail that before I worry too much.
Everything else is going great.
Peak: 435lb
Previous: 230.8lb
Current: 231.0b
Gain: 0.2lb
Total Loss: 204lb
An odd week because of the race: I ate more in the days before it and stuffed myself after it, so this number is more meaningless than they usually are.
I’m feeling great though and confident we’ll see the 220s on the scale next week.
Time was 2:08. I’m a little gutted I didn’t break 2-hours but overall I’m so happy. I was totally fucked at the end, I couldn’t have given any more effort than I did.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/84227732. Miles 10+11 were tough, then I totally blew up and 12+13 were walk/runs. Running a full marathon looks a loooooong way away at the moment 
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Peak: 435lb
Previous: 236.8lb
Current: 230.8lb
Loss: 6lb
Total Loss: 204.2lb
Last week’s number might have been a little heavy and today I might be a little dehydrated, but that’s the lowest number I’ve seen on the scale yet and it makes me happy 
. I cut out all the crap from my diet and lived a clean week (with the exception of Sunday, when I had some naughty food to balance out my long run!). No crisps, chocolate, booze or takeaways… funny that I magically lost weight eh?
This week was another ~24 miles or so. The long run had to be done blind as my bloody Garmin decided to die on me (I charged it up, it says 100% full, but then it shuts down). Without knowing the pace, I changed my tactic to run deliberately slow. It was kinda surreal to run 10 miles but not actually be exhausted; my legs ached but I wasn’t breathing hard and my HR must have been in the 150s (I normally finish my runs absolutely screwed with a HR of 170+).
Six more sleeps!
Did a good 5.5 miles this evening. I set my virtual partner at 8:50 pace and kicked his ass. I had to work on the hills but this morning’s post was constantly in the back of my mind: if it doesn’t feel like I’m working hard, then I’m probably not!
The next two runs are going to be really interesting. Tomorrow I’ll do the “hilly” middle 6 miles of the half-marathon course, I want to find out how they feel before the big day. My training route is a lap where half of the loop is uphill so I should be ok, but I don’t want any surprises. (When I say “hill” I mean any gradient at all! The course is regarded as flat and PB-friendly.)
For my last long run I’m going to try and do 4 laps of my loop (11 miles) against my 8:50 training partner. It’s a big if, but if I can nail that then I’ll have 23 minutes in which to limp home and still crack 2hrs. I’m feeling confident.
Peak: 435lb
Previous: 235.0lb
Current: 236.8b
Gain: 1.8lb
Total Loss: 198.2lb
Stupid scale. That was a week of 23 miles worth of running! How can I gain? 
It probably had something to do with Easter weekend and chocolate. Or the beers I had whilst catching up with friends and family. Or maybe being at home in my parents’ house, the scene of my obesity-crime for many years (where opening the fridge and grazing is the norm).
Ugh. Man-up FFS! No self-indulgent crap please. Notes to self:-
1) Sort your diet out. It’s no wonder you’re not losing weight when you put shit in your body. No excuses. Have you ever posted a gain when you have a full and honest food-log for the week, where you’ve eaten 100% the right stuff? No. And There’s a reason for that.
2) Keep the exercise up. You’re doing great with the running, so that’s good. But you need to jump all over the weights/swimming/cycling/yoga/physio stuff.
3) Compare how hard you’re working on this now, to how hard you used to work. It’s great that running 4-times a week is “easy”, but it needs to feel a little bit more like hard work. Do you really want it or not? Focus.
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Putting my stalling aside, it was a good week for the running. My long run was 10.1 miles in 1:34. The last 3 miles of the race are going to be tough, but that’s awfully close to 2hr pace. I believe!
Peak: 435lb
Previous: 232.6lb
Current: 235.0lb
Gain: 2.4lb
Total Loss: 200lb
Hello! It’s been a while.
Let’s address the weight first: I’m up from 4-weeks ago, but not by much, and it’s not something I’m worried about. The reason for missing the first weigh-in was that I was away snowboarding, where our drinking/partying wasn’t entirely offset by the exercise; when I came back I was up with booze-weight, so I figured I’d give myself another week to let it drop off first. That week turned into a bit of an excess in itself. Last week was good, but then last night I ate a ton of food, so I think 235lb is actually a little on the heavy side of things. Bottom line: not a great few weeks but I’m back on plan with renewed determination.
All snowboard activity has now been paused whilst I focus on my running. My race is on 8th May, 3 weeks from now. Last week was 21-miles in total, with a 9-miler on Sunday. It was nice to bang out a decent long run because it’s been a while. The pace was under 10:00 and I think a sub 2:10:00 finish should be on the cards, although I’m hoping my training in the next 3 weeks will magically put me in line for closer to 2hrs, with a 1:59 being my “shh, don’t tell anyone, dream time”.
Generally I’m feeling great and am happy. Perhaps too happy? Maybe too comfortable at least, I think part of my slackness has been caused by waning motivation: I’m at a weight where I can do pretty much everything I want, so why keep going? Everything is still pretty much on course for the big picture though. I’ll be stepping things up again over the next 4 months, training hard and tightening the diet again, before heading out to New Zealand and starting my travels.