Workouts / food week ending 01-09-05

I had a surprisingly good week, both exercise wise and foodwise.

My caloric range was pretty low all week -- I really stuck to my guns, and ate heavily in the fruit and veggie category, which always causes the caloric intake to drop. Additionally, I managed some two a day workouts, within my new paradigm of 8 workouts per week. In fact, here are the numbers

Tue: 1742
Wed: 1540
Thu: 1490
Fri: 1350
Sat: 1580
Sun: 1370

An average for the week of 1512 calories. That's pretty low for me. I suspect it also explains a dramatic drop from 263 to ~255. . . The 263 reading could easily have been an aberration though.

For whatever reason, I feel quite motivated now.

Some of the workouts were definitely hampered due to outdoor rain, but given that I own a computrainer cycling system, I can ride indoors pretty easily (indeed, I watched Mean Girls (I give it 2 stars) while I rode 20 miles tonight).

In the end, I ran 7.6 miles this week and rode 83.0 miles. I completed 7 workouts today as well. I wanted to swim today, but C came over instead (we recently broke up. . . ).

I hope to swim Tuesdays and Fridays after my office externship at my usual outdoor pool. If it continues to rain in the next couple weeks, I'll either run more or find an indoor city pool in which to swim.

I went through and created a potential triathlon schedule. The first race is in March and I intend to do it. I'm going out of town (to be a godparent) to a child in two weeks. . . that'll be fun. I'll probably mostly run that weekend.

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IF I FAIL IN THE FUTURE

In the back of my mind I've always toyed with the idea that maybe I should just get surgery. I'm right on the edge of being eligible from what I understand. About 100 pounds overweight will get you there. I'm probably a good 70 pounds overweight, and perhaps as much as 100 pounds. However, in the past I have had some success with losing weight.

I'm starting to think that if I can't make significant process by, say, May or June of this year, or perhaps as late as Dec 05 or Jan-06, then once I get a job as a professional, it may in fact be time to consider surgical intervention. In the end, it's more healthy to have the surgery, then to spend my life trying to get down to fighting weight.

But, I feel empowered in it now, and feel like I can definitely make it happen.

Oh yea, I also stopped drinking Dr. Pepper.

I realize it's a bit aggressive to set a goal of losing 2.5 pounds per week for the first several weeks, and then 2.0, 1.5 and 1.0/wk. But I know if I continue running and riding and swimming and keeping the calories low, the weight will simply come off. At least it always did in wrestling.