I am about to do my second oly this weekend. The first was one was a little short and the bike was downhill quite a bit. I did well because of that until the run. I had not run at all since the half marathon and my stress fracture.
The good news is that it healed and I have run a bit since, but my overall training has dropped off a bit. I am fearful I won’t finish this real oly in under 3 hours.
wish me luck
According to my spreadsheet I have now avoided eating and burned with exercise 100,000 calories. I am happy but my equations for weight loss do not work. I hit 80,000 quite a while back and then had my little break which I did not accurately measure my food. According to my estimates I ate about 2800 calories a day, there were a couple of days I tracked them and then when I filled it in then I estimated back a few days. The 3 week period I worked out just enough to balance out my extra eating to stick right around 80,000 according to how I tracked it all. But I gained about 7 pounds for the two month period of my low to the high after I got back into it. I think I was not burning as many calories a day as I estimate, 2540, because even if I ate 3200 a day for those three untracked weeks that would only be an extra 8000 calories. Which results in two pounds. The bottom line is that the calculations will only work as you get into a groove and keep doing the same thing. If you have a shock to the system in one form or another that lasts for several weeks, things may not be as expected. I had expected to gain about 3-4 pounds and after getting back to it for 2 weeks to be back making new lows again. Not quite.
I have gotten back into the swing of it and the lack of results for the 20,000 calories is basically a confirmation that I need to hit 240,000 for sure, maybe more if I take any more time off from the new me. So I still have 140,000 to go. I hit 193.2 and my low before was 190.6 so I still got another week and a half of doing well before I hit a new low more likely two weeks.
On the working out front I swam over 8000 yards two weeks in a row now. I have only been running twice a week with the cold weather the days outside are a little rougher on me so I can’t do the two days in a row like before. As it gets into the mid 30’s to low 40’s I should be able to get back to the 3 times a week. I still have not done much bike. I am thinking about doing a spinning class on saturday instead of the run to go along with my swim which I don’t think I want to give up.
Not next week as I will be out of town for work. Cross your fingers for me that it all goes well.
…does no good if you then eat poorly. I worked out 10 times the last 2 weeks for an average of 50 minutes each, all of this on 3 days where I did two workouts each day and 4 days where I did 1. But I also left my diet a bit to chance and did not lose any weight over the last two weeks.
I did not think it would be so hard to get back in the groove, I need to do something drastic. I will force myself to succeed this week if I have to stop eating before I run out of day. I will likely sleep more if this happens but at this point I don’t care; I have got to stop eating so much. The following weeks should then get easier.
My main problem when I screw up is that I go out for lunch. So I need to keep it to 600 or 700 calories if I do and then eat at home for dinner. I also need to eat a nice well rounded dinner that has veggetables so that I get a feeling of full that lasts till bedtime. I will not eat out for lunch on Tue and Wed since I go running and I did well this Mon, so Thur and Fri are my only troubled spots to eat well at lunch and that will get me though this week. Last week I worked out hard and ate well during the Tue-Wed-Thur to the point that I was not saving any calories these days and the trend continued into the days where I do not work out.
The main point is that if you want to lose weight you cannot eat at taco bell on the way back from a 4 mile run or you should have just stayed home and ate well for the exact same result.
I did my morning swim today and burned an estimated 1010 calories in 91 minutes swimming 2.05 miles. This is the farthest I have gone and for the longest time which is very cool. After I eat my morning snack I will have consumed 510 calories so I need to be careful today after the run at lunch I will burn over 500 calories running and will have a deficit for the day of so many I will be very hungry. I pass 3 Taco Bells and 3 McDonalds on the way back to work (the evil centers of empty addictive calories).
cross your fingers for me…
