In My Future: Running - then Speed Dating perhaps

RUNNING

I haven't been running recently to save my knee(s) from unnecessary pounding and figuring I can get longer more high quality aerobic workouts from swimming and cycling. I've been getting in pretty good mileage on the bike, and also a swim a week; in addition, I've managed to really corall my caloric consumption to between 1,800 to 2,200 calories per day. As a result, I've dropped from something like 265-275 to 254 pounds as of today. That feels good losing between ten and twenty pounds.

I think I will begin to run when I weigh between 245 and 250. Ideally, I'd simply add it to what I'm already doing. More than anything, I think the most important thing is to control calories, as that seems to produce the most weight loss results.

IDEA:
It may be useful to start with walking up long steep hills rather than running willy nilly to begin with; in particular, I think it might be valuable to hike up a canyon or two.

SPEED DATING.

I promised myself in an earlier blog that when I reached 230 pounds I'd return to speed dating. My best guess is that I'm actually losing ~3 pounds per week, so over the past 4-5 weeks, I've lost ~12-15 pounds. At that rate, to lose another 25 pounds will take 8 weeks; so by end of August, roughly, I'd hope to be down in the 230 range.

I do want to be careful and state it's not a goal. I think my "goal" is to simply try to keep the calories at less than 2,000 per day on average; and continue with high quality multi-hour workouts. I may want to sit down and draft a "real" plan/goal, but for now my caloric control systems seems to be working effectively, so I don't want to tweak it too much.