Me. Then, xmas 2005 and Now August 2007.

Great job!! So what type of regimen were you on? Nutrition, training? I am in a very similar situation as you where. Just can seem to find what to do exactly even during IM training I did not lose much at all. Again awesome!!

Wow...congrats on making big changes and making huge strides in improvement!

Great job - congrats. Wow - 7% BF! Very low.

Thanks guys/gals

I have a bit more time now than when i started the thread to expand a touch.

Firstly, my favourite part of the photo is that I am sitting on a bike not at a table sucking down beers But seriously, it is my waist size. I had to go and buy all new clothes. I had a 40+ inch waist and it is now 31.5. I had a reunion with workmates from an old job and went and purchased a new pair of pants. I can remember when buying a pair of pants way back when I was 15(I am 33 next month) and they were size 36. I grabbed a pair that size and ended up with size 32. Now THAT was cool. Plus I actually have a for real six pack now

Process wise, I got my kick start via the internet actually. I am Australian and the Aussie triathlon website, Transitions ran a Biggest Loser competition. A guy who is a bit of a local legend and coach put up a whole heap of tips every week. I followed those to the letter and did quite well over the 3 months. I was so impressed, he is actually my coach now as we live in the same city He is such an impressive man and I owe quite a bit to him and his guidance in sport and day to day life.

The general bones of what i did are quite simple. I got a free www.fitday.com account set up and ran at defecit. I aimed for a 50% carb, 25% protein and 25% fat (minimal saturated) each day. I found that a 700 (basal+lifestyle = 2100 + 800 = 2900 calories) daily defecit worked best. I ate, and still do eat, lots of fish and other seafoods, chicken breast, lamb etc. The main things I cut out were the little extras on things. For example, I would not put butter on anything, no cheese on a sandwich, no sugar in a coffee, etc etc.

For the first few months, I was mainly diet focused and the training was in the 10-12 hours per week area. the weight was falling off. At this time a sample day of food would be

breakfast
1 piece rye toast with 2x eggs scrambled on 30ml skim milk

lunch
Salad - tom, lettuce, cucumber, olives and a tin of tuna thrown in

Dinner
Salmon steak with pasta (1.5-2 ounces pasta)

For snacks
Apple
Banana
Rice crackers

At this time, i would still drink alcohol at times. As my fit day charting continued, it became obvious that alcoholic drinks are massively high in calories and i would be more satisfied if I ate those instead of drink. I stopped drinking entitely 4 months ago (I will still have a drink at a special event but not just for the sake of it). i dropped a quick 2 kilos/5lbs straight away.

Now, I am training more like 20 hours a week on average (18-24) and still eat the same general things just lots of them. Yesterday for example i did a 95km bike 20km run brick. That gave me a 7200 calorie day. i managed to eat 5200 all up including training fuel. 7000 is a whole heap to eat. Tip : Go long.

Thanks for the details

Man, thats awesome! What a change! Congratulations on your efforts - and Hi from accross the ditch! (NZ)

Other than you look great the part of the after picture you should like best is the expression on your face. You look much happier in the after photo than you do in the before. Big smile!!!

Yee-ow!

I'm not much for cat-calling, but whoa! I couldn't help myself. Great job!

Edit to say: Thanks for the kick in the rear to start logging on Fitday.com again. I've been slacking.

Edited by kaitlinrose 2007-08-15 4:44 PM

Now THAT is cool!!!!!!!!!!!!      Congratulations!

Great transformation...congrats to you!!!! You are an inspiration for many!

fantastic! you're a real inspiration. i especially need to take on board your advice about the little things that we kid ourselves don't matter.
thanks for taking the time to share
bg

i have a question about your cal calculation - how did you figure out your basal rate? i looked on fitday, but couldn't find any info
thanks a lot,
bg

Super-duper. Really inspiring. x2 thanks on posting the details.

Fit day does it for you when you enter all your details. It shows it in the activities section.

thanks, you're the best. i've been inspired to get a membership to BT and fully commit to my 1st goal of a marathon in the spring

Hey all

The story continues

The clock on the left is the Pro time as they got a 15 minute start. the clock on the right is my finish time!!!!!! WOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!



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Absolutely incredible transformation and race. What an inspirational story. The one comment I will never forget is you saying giving in to temptation and justifying it to be OK but the only thing it was doing was pushing back your goal.

WTG!!

Good job man! You must be a tall guy to be 190 and 7% body fat. Im 6'3" and tip the scales at about 200 these days and I'm about 20% fat. What size tri bike do you ride? Im on a 63 cm cannondale road bike for now.

That's a phenomenal transformation, very inspiring especially the differences in your IM times. Busselton was such an amazing day day.

I ride a 550 Top Tube. I am 6'3" as well. Tri bike fit is a very specific science and one close to my heart. Most people ride TT bike way too big.

We obviously have very different body compostions. I have quite a bit of muscle in the legs as can be seen here from the run leg at IMWA but carry very little surface fat

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