DOWN for the Holidays! (Page 31)

Congrats to those who are down!  I'm at 134 today!  ONe pound less than when I started, but since I had been up last week.....YAY!

I know we all are dreading a Friday weigh-in next week.  I personally will be out of town and will weigh in on Thursday morning before heading to the airport.  Everyone has the option to do the same.

Better late than never I suppose.  I will play along as well.

Name:  Don Sanders

Goal: sub 200

Current Weight 214

Eating:  Clean eating, and calorie counting.  Try and stick with a lot of fruits, veggies, and lean proteins.  I do consume carbs when my calorie log for day is really in my favor or I know I have a killer calorie burning workout coming

Cardio:  S/B/R training

Strength:  Fixing to take up P90X over the next 30 days to see what kind of progress I can make.

Backstory:  Joined the world of cardio and triathlon training January 1 this year.  Someone took a side profile picture of me at a Christmas event and I wasn't aware so I couldn't suck in my stomach.  The picture was like a punch in the chest.  I weighed 260 and though I knew it was a lot I never saw it until that picture.  So I changed my workout habits and my eating.  I hit training really hard and quickly got down to under 210, eventually touching 201.

Lately though my training has waned and my dietary discipline has slipped and the lbs. are starting to climb back on.  I am determined not to let that happen.  Therefore I take any advice or help I can get.

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Down 2 pounds this week; feeling great and heading out to pick up an indoor trainer this afternoon so I can keep riding in the morning and not have to think about approaching black ice...been logging my meals and cut out the red wine. 

Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate!

Friday weigh in!

I think it’s an anomaly, but according to the scale I’m down 6.9 lbs from last Friday.  I weighed in at 184.3lbs.  Last Friday I weighed in at 191.2. 

I’ve been weighing myself multiple times/wk.  The weekly average dropped about 1.5 lbs, so that’s probably my real weight loss. (…and yes, I over-analyze things)

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Heh! Nice chart! And good job, even if it were half that amount of loss, that is great!

Challenge accepted!  Now, does that mean you're gonna be making a trip to NC?!?

Thanks!

My Friday weigh in... in uniform again... 243.6lbs.  DOWN MORE!!!

Would love to race Beach to Battleship! 

Welcome to get DOWN!

Quick Bio

Name : Shawn

Location: Salem, Illinois (east of St. Louis, MO)

Bio:  A wife and two kids (16) (11) and I work in Law Enforcement.

I started tri-ing three years ago with a begining weight of 246. I then got down to 185 and felt great racing at that weight.  We decided to build a new house and the building began this past sping. My FIL also passed away this spring and I then decided to take the season off from tri's and spend more time with my wife and kids.  I then S/B/R when I felt the need to relieve some stress.  Now my weight is 200 and I dont like the feeling and have Planned to compete in a HIM (Rev 3 Wisconsin) next year.  

Well that enough...time to roll!!!    

Welcome Don and Shawn to the Holiday Downers.

I'm still too nervous to get on the scale.. I am such a wuss.

Tomorrow I guess. 

Ran and swam and cleaned today. Time to relax. Glad to hear everyone is feeling good/better. :=)

Hope you are all having a great weekend.

LOL it is a quiet Sunday!

Well, the tough week begins. My first challenge of the week: trying to adjust my workouts around travelling out of town for the holidays. Found a gym to swim at, checked the weather for the week and have routes planned out.

Next challenge: consumption.

Good luck everyone!