Dream Chaser's 'Set a Goal and Capture it!' Mentor Group - CLOSED (Page 10)

That's awesome.  My wife and 8YO daughter go for a family walk once in a while on the weekend mornings.  It's great family time.

In the Spring and Summer my seven-year-old runs with me.  We've been running together since he was five.  Anyways, Santa bough him a motorized scooter for Christmas that does 10mph, and twice we took it out during Christmas break and I couldn't keep up with him!  It was fun though.  But come Spring I'm gonna make him start running again! 

January Evaluation

Unfortunately, but as expected we totally lost four or five people, but I think we have a nice core of around 10 people.  I like the mix of goals and different distances.  Overall, after looking at everyone's logs, (and considering it's January!!) everyone is moving in the right direction.  For me personally, I lost right around 3 pounds for January, started eating healthier, and (very luckily) hit all my training goals.  And again, I truly think everyone who has been active in this thread is "moving" in the right direction.  Sweeping changes do not come overnight.  From my experience, it takes many days, weeks and months of focusing and re-focusing and making small changes in the right direction.  And I truly believe everyone is moving in a very positive direction.  So for February - let's keep on keeping on!!!  For us in the cold, snow parts, we got one more month to suck it up!  Then March we should be getting more outdoor training in, which will make training so much easier - and the days we'll be getting longer.  SO LET'S FORWARD MARCH TOWARD OUR GOALS OF CONSISTENTLY EATING HEALTHIER AND CONSISTENTLY STAYING TRAINING!!!

Goal for February is to incrase times/distances across the board.  Actually January looks pretty good when comparing it to December.  Here are my January #s:

Yeah, me too.  December was almost "zero" across the board. 

Hi Jeff.  Couple of things help me not feel famished all the time. 

1.) Don't be afraid to eat a decent breakfast.  You'll burn off the calories throughout the day anyway; plus you need the calories early in the day to fuel for workouts later on. 

2.) Drink Water.  ICE COLD tall glasses of water.  When you look at planet earth, it's Blue!  We are the water people   Over half our bodies is water.  Lots of time when we think we're hungy, we're really dehydrated.  To fight cravings drink a tall glass of cold water.  The reason I say cold is because a.) it satisfies more and quenches and b.) your body has to warm the water once it gets into the body which requires energy, which burns calorie.  So, believe it or not, cold water is a negative calorie food - in other words - you burn calories by just drinking cold water.  And from my experience, cold water just melts the fat off me.  Really works. 

3.) Try and up your protein a little bit.  Having a protein shake for lunch with a piece of fruit, lean meats at dinner -- when you up your protein it speeds up your metabolism and curbs your appetite. 

4.) Like Rene says, start making healthier food decisions One Decision at a Time and it gets easier.  When you resist that carb snack, it gets easier each time to resist.  Plus, once you give in to that sugary carb treat and eat one - your body gets that sugar spike and it screams More! More! More!  By resisting one sugary carb treat, we're often really saying no to the next three or four that tend to follow. 

5.) Eat filling good foods.  Bananas, large apples, large oranges (just bought four!), almonds, raisins, bowl of baby carrots -- there are lots of healthy, nutrient-packed foods that will fill us up as a snack, taste great, and will give us energy. 

6.) Take your vitamins.  This is probably strictly placebo to be honest but:  I started taking a multi-vitamin, vitamin b complex and vitamin c supplement since I started my Ironman Training Program.  I feel like just taking my vitamins helps curb my appetitie because my body is getting the much needed vitamins and minerals so my cravings to get this stuff from food are diminished.  Again, this may just be placebo ...but hey, placebo works!  Try consistently taking a multi-vitamin (if you don't already) and see.

7.) My friend Mike Hall has a bumper sticker that reads:  WWLD?  This stands for What Would Lance do?  Lance Armstrong is a beast.  Yes he has amazing genetics, but despite great genes the guy has amazing discipline.  When not training this guy gets up to 185 lbs without batting an eyelash.  He's a big guy by nature, however he knows that to race at a world class level he's gotta be whip thin.  One of Lance's cardinal rules when getting down to race weight is: No Eating After 7 o'clock.  When I follow this rule, the pounds just drop off.  Eat dinner and then that's it.  Have dessert once a week, on a weekend, the night before a long bike or run, but the other 6 days Do Not eat after 7!!  The first few nights will be HELL.  But then amazingly your body adjusts, as the human body does so well   Not eating after 7 till the morning is an amazingly simple little rule that will drop pounds off you so fast.  And if it's 8:30 or 9:30 and you're hungry - drink a tall glass of ice cold water

Feel better about ourselves?  First of all, you would wipe the tennis court with me! Secondly, you ran very consistently. 

Just remember, it's all relative.  There's a girl on my Lake Placid Training Board that biked 658 miles!! I was embaressed to post my numbers.  Again, it's all relative.

WHATS MOST IMPORTANT IS THAT *YOU* BUILD ON THESE NUMBERS FOR FEBRUARY.  You can put up Personal Best Numbers for January, but if you don't back it up in February - then what's the point? 

Great Job Everyone.  Keep Building and Moving Forward.  February is a very short month.  For February I'm going to give myself and all of you the same assignment:  FOCUS ON DISCIPLINE.  Whatever that means to you, discipline in diet, running, biking, staying positive Moving Toward Our Goals ... just do it.  Again, February has only 3 full weeks!!  It's a great month to dial in Discipline and Consistency and quickly feel great about it come March 1st.  Let's Rock! Spring is riiight around the corner

tntexpres - 2011-01-31 10:07 PM Great - ya'll had to go & post totals for the month really?

Embarrasing.....but fuel for motivation just the same.....


January Totals
Bike 2hrs 15 min 29 miles
Run  2hrs 22 min 11 miles
Core training 15 min ?
CrossFit 10 hrs 49min
Rowing 23min 37sec


Why can I not copy & past anything in BT? I can't copy/paste from my CrossFit site, I just tried to copy from my logs and past here but no go? Am I missing something simple?"

Copy the numbers, then when you go into the "Post Screen" look at the tool bar up above.  See the scissors, then a little paper icon, then is a yellow clipboard.  Click on the yellow clickboard and a dialog box will pop up that reads: "Allow access"  Click yes.