devashish_paul wrote:
h2ofun wrote:
dprocket wrote:
I clicked on this thread because I thought this may be one of those challenges that I actually jump into. LOL. As it turns out, it's just a bunch of skinny guys making fun of another skinny guy for talking about a challenge. I guess I need to find a Jenny Craig forum. Ha ha.
You can look at it half empty if you want.
Off season is the perfect time to focus on weight lose, control, with the holidays. No need to play the games with the new years resolutions, start now. I sure am
keeping my focus. In a lot of ways, it might be harder to get and stay "skinny", than be fat. Most "skinny" folks have to work at it to get, and stay that way.
I agree with Dave that off season is the time to stay focused on body composition, since you may not have to devote as much mental energy to training anyway. The good thing is if you can maintain reasonable composition, it provides a good starting point for more heavy training since you are carrying less weight while running and not trying to lose weight while doing higher volume.
Dave, thanks for starting this thread. It seems since it got going (coupled with the watts per kilo thread), I've brought things consistently down 2-3 lbs. I figure I have 2-3 lbs more to go by New Year's to get back into a reasonable range for the rest of the off season. Even if I can't quite get there, moving close will be in the right direction. I was just going in the wrong direction with recent negative stress. I just find when I have negative stress, my entire metabolism drops if I am in a negative mindset and even though I might train as much, outside of training, I'm just burning less being "down" rather than "up"...plus what goes in becomes "low octane" fuel mucking around with blood insulin levels etc resulting in more storage of fat.
Great job.
This was why I started the thread. As you and I said, off season seems to be the time to at least consider is one at the weight they want to be for racing. If not, with the holidays, maybe this is more important to focus on than 100 day runs, or swims, or, ....
And as I said, rather than a competition, lets just keep this need visible and support each other as we try different things to achieve this goal. With me eating out with my Dad 2 to 3 days a week now for over a year since my Mom died, I have had to really really focus on what the scale says. So easy to eat too much at these dinners.
Just got off a 90 minute powercrank spin. Now time to do my 90 minute run in the hills since not raining this morning. This stuff allows me to eat this crappy stuff at Dinner,
and not gain too much weight. Moving pea gravel at my lake front for 5 hours a day also really helps burn the energy.
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