Front Office Football Central - View Single Post

hoopsguy · 09-29-2014, 09:44 PM

Great work month-over-month, Radii. Very cool to see that kind of measureable improvement.

Subby, fancy running into you here as well as on Strava ... I know one of things that helps me focus on not eating the third slice of deep dish pizza is lamenting what a fat ass will do to my running times. I've got to believe you deal with some of those same struggles/internal monologues given how active you've been with biking over the past six months.

OK, onto the stats ... I believe I mentioned deep dish pizza above?

6/14: 175.7
7/5: 175.1
8/2: 171.6

8/30: 171.0
9/7: 169.4
9/13: 167.8
9/20: 168.4
9/27: 168.6

Had a bad weigh-in on 9/26, and got pretty upset about it. Because I had practiced pretty good habits most of the week, and felt liked I deserved a more equitable result. So I showed the scale that day at lunch, by deciding that a personal deep dish pizza was the best meal I could have the day before a weigh-in. Throw in a couple of extra beers that evening, and I was basically giving the finger to my weigh-in.

Except the scale still came down about 1.5 pounds the next day. So if I had just followed the routine I would likely have had pretty standard week-over-week weight loss. Despite still not committing to meaningful exercise outside of running.

Anyway, will take measurements next week at the start of the month to see if there was any improvement. A couple of pretty good running achievements took place over the last ten days, for what it is worth:
- reduced my 10k personal record time by about two minutes, now running that in <8 min/mile pace
- ran my first 1/2 marathon ever (previous best was 10mi), in just over 9min/mile pace

I'm likely going to sneak in one last 5k race next month and then a 15k the first weekend in November. That will make 10 races on the year for me, which seems like an appealing round number. But as the weather gets colder here, I had better buckle down and commit to some non-running fitness activities if I want to sustain my weight loss. Because my diet activities still aren't particularly good, beyond average portion control.

09-29-2014, 09:44 PM	#2117
hoopsguy General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chicago	Great work month-over-month, Radii. Very cool to see that kind of measureable improvement. Subby, fancy running into you here as well as on Strava ... I know one of things that helps me focus on not eating the third slice of deep dish pizza is lamenting what a fat ass will do to my running times. I've got to believe you deal with some of those same struggles/internal monologues given how active you've been with biking over the past six months. OK, onto the stats ... I believe I mentioned deep dish pizza above? 6/14: 175.7 7/5: 175.1 8/2: 171.6 8/30: 171.0 9/7: 169.4 9/13: 167.8 9/20: 168.4 9/27: 168.6 Had a bad weigh-in on 9/26, and got pretty upset about it. Because I had practiced pretty good habits most of the week, and felt liked I deserved a more equitable result. So I showed the scale that day at lunch, by deciding that a personal deep dish pizza was the best meal I could have the day before a weigh-in. Throw in a couple of extra beers that evening, and I was basically giving the finger to my weigh-in. Except the scale still came down about 1.5 pounds the next day. So if I had just followed the routine I would likely have had pretty standard week-over-week weight loss. Despite still not committing to meaningful exercise outside of running. Anyway, will take measurements next week at the start of the month to see if there was any improvement. A couple of pretty good running achievements took place over the last ten days, for what it is worth: - reduced my 10k personal record time by about two minutes, now running that in <8 min/mile pace - ran my first 1/2 marathon ever (previous best was 10mi), in just over 9min/mile pace I'm likely going to sneak in one last 5k race next month and then a 15k the first weekend in November. That will make 10 races on the year for me, which seems like an appealing round number. But as the weather gets colder here, I had better buckle down and commit to some non-running fitness activities if I want to sustain my weight loss. Because my diet activities still aren't particularly good, beyond average portion control.