Subject: RE: Tell me a little about your experience Hi Laura, and welcome to BT! The difficulty with training for triathlon and losing weight is that they are two separate issues (highly compatible, but still separate). The training programs will prepare you very well to complete a triathlon, but they're not designed to make you lose weight. I know you said you're not doing triathlons to lose weight, but your post seems to indicate otherwise. You're also right that three weeks isn't very long. Looking at your weight trend over several months will give you some useful (and probably encouraging) data. My personal experience is that it was really the long steady distance (a.k.a. LSD) training that helped me lose the most weight ... unfortunately, because of the nature of training for sprints, you don't do a lot of LSD (huh, that sounded wrong). I lost a huge amount of weight this tri season, my first (40 lbs. in 6 mos.), but I was doing a very high volume of training at steady paces. As for diet--I could be wrong, you could be a registered dietitian or nutritionist--everyone has a different idea of "pretty healthy," and almost nobody actually eats ideally. I suggest reading the nutrition articles here on BT. Good luck--there's a lot of good information in the articles, and also in the Nutrition and Clyde/Athena forums on triathlon and weight loss. |